Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Back to work

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Texas A&M offensive lineman Lucas Patterson participates in spring drills with his teammates at the Texas A&M football practice fields in College Station during the first day of spring practice on Tuesday. ...

County to exhume body

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Robertson County investigators plan to exhume the body of a 27-year-old power plant worker from his Houston grave Wednesday in an effort to learn more about the Pasadena man's 2008 death, officials confirmed Tuesday. The decision comes after Hank Joh ...

Police: Teen killed in wreck failed to stop

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:22 AM PDT

Police said Tuesday that a 16-year-old girl who was killed in a College Station wreck last week failed to stop at a stop sign.Police said after interviewing witnesses and investigating the wreck that killed Lauren Landmark of Bryan Wednesday as she w ...

CS outlines rezoning rules

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT

College Station school trustees on Tuesday outlined parameters for a committee to follow when drafting plans to rezone the district.Board members said when it comes to moving forward with the rezoning process, keeping the demographics and number of l ...

Group to revitalize Grandview Cemetery

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Colored Cemetery Association will be cleaning the Grandview Cemetery on Saturday. The association has been re-formed as a 501(c) nonprofit organization to revitalize and restore the cemetery, at Texas 21 and Texas 6.The group we ...

Man accused of breaking into ex-girlfriend's home

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:55 AM PDT

A 22-year-old College Station man remained jailed Tuesday after he was accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and waving a gun.John Alexander Rosales was arrested Monday on a charge of burglary of a habitation.College Station police s ...

Community lauds couple's service

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

A couple known for donating time and resources toward improving the community was honored during a luncheon Tuesday hosted by the Community Foundation of the Brazos Valley.Gene and Kathy Joyce were joined by family, friends and local leaders who comm ...

Bryan trustee calling it quits

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A 12-year veteran of the Bryan school board recently withdrew his name from his re-election bid and said he's ready to hand over the reins. Carl Hasan was elected as a trustee in 1998 and filed for re-election for the Single Member District 1 seat a ...

Applicants needed for June cook-off

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportTeams have until April 30 to sign up for the fourth annual Texas Reds steak cook-off.Applications for the cook-off, to be held in conjunction with the Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival in downtown Bryan on June 19, can be download ...

Fountain of youth

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Kendall Goebel, 4, of New Braunfels stretches out to touch a spout of water in the fountain in front of the Clayton W. Williams Jr. Alumni Center on the Texas A&M Campus on Tuesday. ...

Obama signs health bill

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A beaming President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen's life, presiding over the biggest shift in ...

Judge won't force Miss. district to hold prom

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:31 AM PDT

JACKSON, Miss. -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Mississippi school district violated a lesbian student's rights by refusing to allow her to bring her girlfriend to the prom, but he said he would not force the school to hold the event.The Ameri ...

Woman allegedly tossed baby into SUV to block repo

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

DALLAS -- A woman is accused of throwing her year-old son into her SUV in a failed attempt to stop the vehicle from being repossessed in Dallas.Krystal Gardner of Tool was jailed Wednesday on bail of nearly $3,800 on charges including child endange ...

Appeals court rejects 2008 English-language order

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:00 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas -- An appeals court has overturned a 2008 ruling that said Texas failed to properly educate middle and high school students with limited English.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling Monday, found insufficient evidence th ...

Study gives women workout advice

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- Rev up the treadmill: Sobering new research spells out just how much exercise women need to keep the flab off as they age -- and it's a lot.At least an hour of moderate activity a day is needed for older women at a healthy weight who aren' ...

U.S. cautious over nuke power issue

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is being noncommittal about how it will respond to Pakistan's desire to be recognized as a nuclear weapons power and forge an atomic energy deal as the two countries prepare for high-level strategic talks this ...

13 states sue over health care

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Attorneys general from 13 states sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming the landmark health care overhaul is unconstitutional just seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed it into law.The lawsuit was filed in Pens ...

Bailed-out firms' top earners face cuts

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The administration's pay czar said Tuesday that the top 25 earners at five companies still receiving extraordinary aid from the government's bailout fund will be paid an average 15 percent less in 2010 than in 2009 under his restriction ...

Tip helps thaw 1978 cold case

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

NEWARK, N.J. -- One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.Thirty-two years later, prosecutors announced the arrests of two ...

China thwarts Google's move to Hong Kong

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google's attempted detour around China's Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics a ...

Painkillers Prevent Cancer?

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Regular use of painkillers may do more than ease the pain -- it could reduce your risk of cancer. An American Association for Cancer Research study suggests postmenopausal women who regularly take aspirin, non-steroidal anti-in ...

O'Donnell plans return to TV

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Rosie O'Donnell plans an "uplifting" new television talk show for launch next year that aims squarely at the audience Oprah Winfrey is leaving behind when her show ends.O'Donnell won six Daytime Emmys in six years as host of an entertainm ...

MONDAY MEATBALLS FROM A16

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:46 PM PDT

These meatballs were originally created as a Monday special by the chefs at A16 restaurant in San Francisco as a way to use scraps left over from butchering whole animals. They pay deference to the rustic cooking of southern Italy, but have taken on ...

Tomatoes shine in sauce made from scratch

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Dear Lisa: I have a question. Do you have a recipe for spaghetti sauce from scratch using fresh tomatoes? -- JeannieDear Jeannie: There are dozens of homemade spaghetti sauce recipes which use fresh tomatoes and any variety of other vegetables. You c ...

Restaurant Monitor

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PDT

The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department.Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A s ...

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