Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Area has a winter blast

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST

Three young sisters pushed snowballs larger than themselves through Tanglewood Park in Bryan on Tuesday afternoon. Two or three other sizable lumps lay motionless in the snow, as the children who propelled them momentarily lost interest, distracted b ...

TAMU, Blinn and most area schools start late tomorrow because of snow

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:53 AM PST

Schools across the Brazos Valley are shutting down as heavy snow flurries turn the area into a winter wonderland â€" one that could be dangerous as the flakes mix with the morning rain. Tuesday night classes were canceled at both Texas A&M and Blinn C ...

Road conditions and driving tips

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PST

TxDOT crews spent much of Tuesday sanding bridges and overpasses throughout most of Brazos Valley.Bob Colwell, spokesman for TxDOT, said most of the counties in the region were hit with the snow, but a few, like Leon County, later had to worry about ...

School closures and delays

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:24 PM PST

Texas A&M and Blinn College, along with most Brazos Valley schools, are starting classes two hours late Wednesday to allow for possible problems due to the unusual snow storm.At A&M, officials said the provision doesn't apply to emergency per ...

TxDOT crews keep roads clear

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

While Tuesday's snow may have been fun for many in the Brazos Valley, the winter storm was nothing but business for Texas Department of Transportation road crews and other officials.Up to six inches of snow was predicted for the Brazos Valley by late ...

Road conditions across the Brazos Valley

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:20 AM PST

TxDOT officials cautioned drivers to be careful on roadways as the temperatures drop Tuesday evening and ice forms on bridges. Crews spent the afternoon sanding overpasses in Milam, Robertson, Freestone, Burleson, Brazos, Madison and Leon counties. ...

Child molester sentenced

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

An Indiana man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting a 3-year-old boy almost 20 years ago.Richard High, 59, was arrested in May 1990 and charged with inappropriately touching the son of a co-worker in the co-work ...

Bryan to review ethics, alcohol policies

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

The Bryan City Council on Tuesday opted to review the city's policy on alcohol use after the filing period for the May municipal election ends.The council unanimously approved a motion directing city staff members to complete drafts of the city's pol ...

Man pleads guilty to aggravated assault

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

A Navasota man accused of killing a Navy sailor at the Texas Renaissance Festival in 2004 pleaded guilty to a lesser offense Tuesday, the morning his trial was set to begin. Jonathan Damuth will now face a punishment hearing for aggravated assault, a ...

Police release photo of man in Bryan robbery

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:52 AM PST

Bryan police on Tuesday released surveillance video images of a man who robbed a liquor store in January and hope the public will help to identify him.Just before 9 p.m. Jan. 19, police said they were dispatched to JJ's Liquor at 1219 North Texas Ave ...

Carson Street to close Thursday and Friday

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

Carson Street will be closed from Cavitt to South College avenues in Bryan beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday.The road is expected to be reopened at 6 p.m. Friday after crews install a sewer line on Echols Street.The work is part of a waterline improvement ...

Police: Woman cited after running red light, striking Halo bar

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:51 AM PST

A 42-year-old woman was ticketed after Bryan police said she disregarded a red light, struck another vehicle and then a downtown bar early Tuesday.The woman was driving a Ford Edge SUV east on William J. Bryan Parkway around 8:13 a.m. when she ran a ...

Seventh-grader wins regional spelling bee

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

A seventh-grader from A&M Consolidated Middle School won the Brazos Valley Regional Spelling Bee last week, correctly spelling smorgasbord.Shilpa Saravanan was one of 31 competitors in the Feb. 15 event at Creek View Elementary School.Saravanan w ...

Kickball league opens registration

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:06 PM PST

Registration has begun for College Station's spring adult kickball leagues. The leagues will play Wednesday nights in March, April and May. Games will be at Central Park and Bee Creek Park in College Station.Players can sign up from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ...

Consumer confidence drops

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Americans' confidence in the economy has suffered a sudden relapse, dimming hopes that they will start spending -- and spurring job growth -- any time soon.The Consumer Confidence Index figures released Tuesday were much worse than analys ...

Authorities on the lookout for pit bull

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:05 PM PST

Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a large pit bull that is believed to have bitten a 5-year-old in College Station last week.Police said the child, whose gender was not released, was bitten in the 1100 block of Georgia Street ab ...

Perry slams Hutchison on old case

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:06 PM PST

AUSTIN -- Hit with accusations of spreading "cronyism" throughout state government, Gov. Rick Perry waited until the last week of the primary to swing back.His campaign provided records this week purporting to show that the law firm where U.S. Sen. K ...

Toyota: Recalls not a complete solution

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The president of Toyota's U.S. operations acknowledged to skeptical lawmakers on Tuesday that the company's recalls of millions of its cars may "not totally" solve the problem of sudden and dangerous acceleration."We are vigilant and we ...

Jayson Williams gets minimum 18 months in shooting

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:41 AM PST

SOMERVILLE, N.J. -- Former NBA star Jayson Williams has been sentenced to a minimum 18 months in prison for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey.Williams avoided a retrial on a reckless manslaughter count by ple ...

Life for Dallas man who killed girlfriend over TV

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:39 AM PST

DALLAS -- A Dallas man must serve life in prison for killing his longtime girlfriend, whose television was stolen and pawned.Prosecutors say 49-year-old Danny Hollis pleaded guilty Monday to murder in the Feb. 26, 2009, shooting death of 65-year-ol ...

St. Louis pyrotechnics mishap singes pro wrestler

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:40 AM PST

ST. LOUIS -- The pro wrestler known as The Undertaker has suffered minor burns to the chest but escaped serious injury during a pyrotechnics mishap in St. Louis.World Wrestling Entertainment spokesman Robert Zimmerman says the wrestler, whose real na ...

Haiti hands over six orphans to U.S.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti has handed U.S. officials six orphans its police seized over the weekend as they were about to board a plane for the United States, a top Haitian official said Tuesday.Social Welfare agency chief Jeanne Bernard Pierre w ...

Gates: NATO needs to adapt

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- With the war in Afghanistan as his guide, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday called for sweeping changes in the way NATO prepares for and fights nontraditional conflicts.Citing a "crisis" in the alliance, Gates said Afghan-istan ...

1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at military base

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:42 AM PST

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Authorities say two men were shot by security officers after they drove a stolen car through a gate at an Air Force base outside Phoenix during a police chase.Officials say one of the men died and the other was wounded.The crash oc ...

States look to ban public 911 calls

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Linda Casey dialed 911 and screamed, "Oh, God!" over and over again into the phone after finding her daughter beaten to death in the driveway of their North Carolina home.Later that day, she heard the 911 recording on the local ne ...

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