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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Anglers honor Bush

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

On a Texas A&M stage with folding camping chairs, fishing poles and pork rinds Tuesday evening, four anglers honored President George H.W. Bush for his love of the outdoors, especially the tranquil water pastime. "He's the first there in the morn ...

Making miracles happen

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Lara Clark got to hold her newborn daughter for about 10 seconds before doctors whisked her away. "She didn't cry when she came out, she just kind of moaned and grunted," Clark said. "I asked 'Why isn't she crying?'"Ava, her daughter, was taken into ...

Habitat victim of identity theft

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Officials with Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humanity said Tuesday that the agency had fallen victim to identity theft but wouldn't let that interfere with its mission.William Steele, who was president of the nonprofit group's board of directors ...

B-CS Habitat for Humanity victim of identity theft, police said

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:22 AM PDT

Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humanity officials are expected to meet with members of the media later this afternoon to discuss how the non-profit organization recently became a victim of identity theft and fraud. According to a letter that Hab ...

Man taken into custody after standoff in Bryan

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Bryan police detained a man after a standoff lasting almost 2 1/2 hours in the 200 block of Scanlan Street. Authorities said that a woman living on that street near Marshall Avenue called police and said a man tried to rob her. That man barricade ...

Have you passed on your random act of kindness today?

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:41 AM PDT

Lauren Landmark died a month before her 17th birthday, but her family and friends still are giving presents. It’s just that those gifts are for other people. They organized a “Lauren’s Random Act of Kindness Day,” today to honor the way the Rudder ...

Man charged with driving stolen vehicle

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Bryan police said they arrested a 24-year-old man Monday on charges of driving a car stolen in Madison County.Stephon Marquinn Craig of Madisonville was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle and driving while license invalid, and was also arrest ...

CS board approves budget for new school

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

College Station school trustees approved Tuesday a maximum price of just more than $82.5 million for the final phase of construction for the district's new high school. The final building phase is the most comprehensive and includes the building itse ...

Selection for jury in murder trial starts

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Potential jurors in the capital murder trial of 26-year-old former Marine John Thuesen have filed in and out of the Brazos County Courthouse over the past nine days to answer questions ranging from their opinion of the death penalty to whether they p ...

No arrests in standoff

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

A two-hour police standoff ended peacefully Tuesday, and no one was arrested, officials said.The Bryan Police Department deployed its Emergency Response Unit and set up a mobile command center after a man refused to come out of his Scanlin Street hom ...

Pataki-led petition drive leads Texas rally

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:32 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas -- Former New York Gov. George Pataki joined about a dozen Texas lawmakers at the state Capitol to protest the federal health care bill.Pataki, who's a Republican, is leading the Revere America petition drive to gather 1 million signatu ...

Free legal clinic planned for May 1

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos County Bar Association will host a free legal clinic on May 1 at Neal Elementary School in Bryan. Organizers said the clinic is open to anyone unable to afford a lawyer. Local attorneys will help participants address lega ...

Program offers help in how to be green

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportBryan officials are offering free training on green living topics.The Be Green In Bryan program will enable volunteers to share their expertise with others.Training for volunteers in the program will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May ...

Pot smokers out, proud for 4/20 high holiday

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 04:04 AM PDT

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Forget Hippie Hill. For thoroughly modern marijuana smokers in the San Francisco Bay area, the hip place to celebrate their movement's high holiday this year was the inside of stretch Hummer parked outside a pot gardening supersto ...

Crane boom crushes Port Arthur refinery contractor

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:30 AM PDT

PORT ARTHUR, Texas -- A crane boom that apparently snapped and fell has crushed to death a man who was working on a $7 billion refinery expansion project in Port Arthur.Authorities declined to identify the man who was killed Monday. The Beaumont Ente ...

Residents are invited to library dedication

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe community is invited to join area officials for the dedication of the newly renamed Clara B. Mounce Public Library in Bryan. The Bryan City Council voted in January to name the Bryan Public Library in honor of Mounce, who served ...

Texas youth prison official's sex trial begins

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 03:30 AM PDT

ODESSA, Texas -- The first of two former Texas youth prison administrators accused of sexually assaulting several young male inmates at a remote West Texas detention center went on trial Tuesday.Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of Ray B ...

Volcano could erupt again

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

AMSTERDAM -- Even as Europe's dormant airports sputter back to life, prudent travelers and businessmen should ask: What if Iceland's volcano erupts again?Because it might. Over and over again, for weeks, perhaps months, scientists say.The last erupt ...

Goldman has huge profits, but troubles mount

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs is still the king of Wall Street -- at least when it comes to making money.Four days after being accused by the government of fraud in the subprime mortgage mess, the big investment bank reported blowout first-quarter profit ...

Lobbyists wary of possible cuts

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- Coffee manufacturers and agriculture interests were among the industries that packed into a legislative hearing Tuesday, hoping to protect their tax carve-outs and getting a preview of lawmakers' belt-tightening mood heading into next year ...

T. Boone Pickens wants agency to nix water plan

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT

LUBBOCK -- Billionaire T. Boone Pickens wants a court to derail state approval of a water management plan that he claims would take $10 million off the value of his groundwater rights in the Texas Panhandle.Pickens' attorney, Marty Jones, said Tuesd ...

SEC chief pledges better oversight

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday pledged better oversight of the nation's largest banks after criticism that the agency failed to spot accounting tricks at investment bank Lehman Brothers before it colla ...

Census: Women equal to men in education, not pay

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Women are now just as likely as men to have completed college and to hold an advanced degree, part of an accelerating trend of educational gains that have shielded women from recent job losses. Yet they continue to lag behind men in pay ...

Stroke Awareness: Victims Uninformed

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 06:47 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Even the obvious needs to be restated once in awhile: If you have a stroke, get to the hospital ASAP. Well over 60 percent of patients in a British-based study had no clue they suffered a minor stroke, and more than one-third f ...

Cirque pays tribute to King of Pop

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:01 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- First the Beatles and Elvis, now Michael Jackson.The acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil announced Tuesday that it will put on a live touring show featuring the songs of the King of Pop starting late next year.That will be followed by a ...

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