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- Dash for the finish
- Aggie Helpline faces budget cuts
- Aggie, former NASA leader Cohen dies
- Power outage affects more than 6K Bryan homes
- Bryan man jailed on assault charges
- Police arrest 5 on suspicion of DWI
- Dick Elliott Road to close this week
- Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Commerce
- Airman with shotgun disarmed at Sheppard AFB
- Front-runners rule at predictable Oscars
- Brooke Burke joins Tom Bergeron on 'Dancing'
- New database can help crack cases
- Man accused in deaths of children found competent
- Economy frozen in standoff
- JFK condolence letters published for 1st time
- Chile looters give back stolen goods
- Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists
- Swiss voters reject lawyers for abused animals
- 'Hurt Locker' takes top awards
- Immunotherapy to Fight Mesothelioma?
- Heart Failure: Beta Blockers Underused
- The 10 funniest tweets during the Oscars broadcast
- Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning 'Cove'
- 'Alice' opening a 3-D record
- Calendar
| Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST College Station residents (left to right) Allison Benedict, Brandon Rapp and Kaetlyn Finch celebrate as they cross the finish line at the end of the half-marathon race during The Armidillo Dash in College Station on Sunday. Officials said 1,540 runne ... |
| Aggie Helpline faces budget cuts Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:18 PM PST Past midnight each morning, a pair of Texas A&M students wait in an apartment-like space with a kitchen of mismatched pots and pans. When it's quiet, they play board games such as Scrabble or do homework to pass time. But when the phone rings, th ... |
| Aggie, former NASA leader Cohen dies Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:20 PM PST Aaron Cohen, an emeritus professor at Texas A&M University and the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.A 1952 graduate o ... |
| Power outage affects more than 6K Bryan homes Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:16 AM PST Officials said blown fuses or an equipment failure likely caused a power outage that affected more than 6,000 customers in Bryan early Monday.BTU spokesman Bob Wheeler said a power outage around 2:30 a.m. affected 6,423 meters in the area of Carson S ... |
| Bryan man jailed on assault charges Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA Bryan man remained in police custody Sunday, accused of threatening a police officer with a knife. The Bryan Police Department officer used a Taser on the man, causing him to be briefly hospitalized. According to an arrest affidav ... |
| Police arrest 5 on suspicion of DWI Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:26 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportAuthorities in Brazos County took five people to jail Saturday night and Sunday morning on separate driving while intoxicated charges. The Bryan Police Department, College Station Police Department, A&M University Police Departm ... |
| Dick Elliott Road to close this week Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:25 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportA portion of Dick Elliott Road will be closed beginning this week while Brazos County road crews install a new bridge about 500 feet south of OSR.Construction is expected to begin Tuesday and will take six to eight weeks.A detour wi ... |
| Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Commerce Posted: 07 Mar 2010 11:31 PM PST COMMERCE, Texas -- A man walked into a Walmart carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured.The ... |
| Airman with shotgun disarmed at Sheppard AFB Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:56 PM PST WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- A shotgun-toting airman in training at Sheppard Air Force Base is in custody after being confronted outside a dormitory.Spokesman George Woodward says no shots were fired, nobody was hurt and the base "wouldn't issue a weapo ... |
| Front-runners rule at predictable Oscars Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:39 AM PST LOS ANGELES -- On a night when so many changes were intended to shake up the Oscar ceremony, the winners themselves were pretty predictable, with "The Hurt Locker" taking six awards including best picture."Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow won th ... |
| Brooke Burke joins Tom Bergeron on 'Dancing' Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:35 AM PST NEW YORK -- Tom Bergeron will have his own partner when "Dancing With the Stars" returns later this month. Former series winner Brooke Burke will be his co-host.Bergeron announced the change on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.As a contestant, ... |
| New database can help crack cases Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST MINNEAPOLIS -- A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.The clearinghouse, dubbed NamUs (Name Us ... |
| Man accused in deaths of children found competent Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:57 PM PST BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- A man accused of beheading three children has been found competent to stand trial.A jury on Friday found 29-year-old John Allen Rubio competent to stand trial in the 2003 deaths in Brownsville.The Brownsville Herald reports that ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST To understand why jobs are so scarce, consider John McFarland and Nicole Rosen. The two share something in common: They're reluctant to spend freely.McFarland is CEO of Baldor Electric Co. in Fort Smith, Ark.; Rosen is a consumer in Washington state. ... |
| JFK condolence letters published for 1st time Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:56 PM PST CONCORD, N.H. -- Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his 1963 assassination in Dallas were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week fo ... |
| Chile looters give back stolen goods Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST CONCEPCION, Chile -- The officers came with bullhorns to impoverished neighborhoods near the epicenter of Chile's devastating earthquake, warning looters to return what they stole or face police raids.And so they did, depositing everything from mattr ... |
| Ground zero hotel wants to attract 9/11 tourists Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- Looking down into the construction site covering the 16 acres where the World Trade Center once stood, some might see a place shadowed by death.But Cheryl Palmer sees a rebirth -- and a business opportunity. She's vice president of Club Q ... |
| Swiss voters reject lawyers for abused animals Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PST GENEVA -- The result was emphatic: Swiss voters don't think abused animals need to have their own lawyers.It's a proposal that would never even come near a referendum in other countries, but the measure's defeat Sunday disappointed animal rights advo ... |
| 'Hurt Locker' takes top awards Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- The Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollyw ... |
| Immunotherapy to Fight Mesothelioma? Posted: 07 Mar 2010 05:49 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A vaccine that uses a patient's own cells may be able to fight a rare cancer and increase length of survival. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer associated with asbestos exposure. Asbestos has been banned in the U.S. for decades, ... |
| Heart Failure: Beta Blockers Underused Posted: 07 Mar 2010 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Heart failure patients may be putting their health at a disadvantage by not taking meds that could potentially take them off the surgery list. New research shows one-third of heart failure patients on the list to receive a hear ... |
| The 10 funniest tweets during the Oscars broadcast Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:40 AM PST The commentary on social media during the Academy Awards broadcast was often more entertaining than the show itself.Here are 10 of the funniest Oscar tweets. Think of them as notes from the peanut gallery.--"Shhhh. I'm live tweeting from directly und ... |
| Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning 'Cove' Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:36 AM PST TAIJI, Japan -- The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition.The movie, which mixes stunning underwater shots of gliding d ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST NEW YORK -- Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's trip down the rabbit hole drew huge crowds, as Alice in Wonderland earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend -- a record for a 3-D film.The surprisingly huge total easily surpassed all other film ... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST MondayCLUBSAmerican Association of Individual Investors (AAII), 9:30 a.m. second-floor meeting room, Bryan Public Library, 201 E. 26th St. Roundtable-style meetings featuring various topics and speakers. Guests are welcome. 846-0551. Arts-Culture-Edu ... |
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