Thursday, July 15, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Ready for roping

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Brad O'Connell ties horn wraps on roping steers Wednesday in preparation for the Bryan Breakfast Lions Club 39th Annual PRCA rodeo at the Brazos County Expo. The rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. ...

Prof, student study oil spill site

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

A Texas A&M atmospheric science researcher was in the Gulf of Mexico this week taking air samples for the National Weather Service at the site of the oil spill.Don Conlee, an instructional associate professor, went to sea on Saturday with senior ...

Bank freezes sites' assets

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

A California bank has frozen the assets of two local hotels and an apartment complex, saying their operators failed to make payments on nearly $10 million worth of loans. District Judge J.D. Langley signed a temporary restraining order against the gr ...

B-CS restaurant industry thrives

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

An upsurge in new restaurants moving into the Bryan-College Station area hasn't gone unnoticed by local officials in charge of keeping an eye on the economy.David Gwin, director of economic and community development for College Station, said he's bee ...

CS police investigate armed robbery

Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Police said they are investigating report by a man who said he was armed at gunpoint early Thursday outside his College Station home.Officers said they responded at about 3:50 a.m. to the 400 block of First Street for an aggravated robbery. A man tol ...

Area fire school brings in visitors

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Hotels book up, restaurants prepare for the extra business and officials at the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau do something atypical."We work on bringing all kinds of groups in normally, but fire school has been around for so lo ...

Dallas-area mayor, teen daughter are shot dead

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:34 AM PDT

COPPELL, Texas -- The mayor of a small city near Dallas and her teenage daughter have been found shot to death at their home, city officials said Wednesday.Police discovered the bodies of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters, 55, and Corrine Peters, 19, around ...

Summer fun for Fido

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Ashley Horan watches as her labrador, Krissy, leaps from the muddy banks of a pond to chase after a ball at University Park and Canine Station in College Station on Wednesday. ...

Council focuses on teamwork at retreat

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Teamwork and open communication will help Bryan's elected leaders make meaningful decisions, members of the City Council agreed Wednesday during the first part of a two-day retreat.Council members are using the retreat to discuss the roles of city o ...

Brazos County home burns

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Brazos County firefighters work to extinguish a mobile home fire around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of F.M. 974 and Texas 21. Brazos County Precinct 2 Fire Chief Merrie Noak said the home was not occupied when the fire started, but it w ...

Atkinson ready for Toyota to move on

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Local Toyota dealer Paul Atkinson said Wednesday that more facts favoring the automotive company's safety record will come out after a national newspaper reported that federal testing blames driver error on unintended acceleration -- not the vehicles ...

Texas Task Force 1 teams head south

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Texas Task Force 1 deployed three swiftwater rescue teams to South Texas on Wednesday ahead of potential flooding along the Rio Grande River. The rescue teams, totaling 15 people, are on standby in Rio Grande City.This is the group's third deployment ...

Fundraiser to benefit woman's cancer fight

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA July 24 fundraiser is set to help a Bryan woman in her fight against cancer.Brenda Currie was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, cancer of the head and neck, late last month and recently had surgery to have the cancer removed ...

Austin High School grads in for reunion

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportIt's reunion time again for the Bryan Stephen F. Austin High School Class of 1970.Class members will be celebrating their 40th reunion Saturday at Downtown 202 on Bryan Street.For more information, call Greg Crow at 777-7565 or Jane ...

Open house at Arctic Wolf set for Sunday

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station will host an open house Sunday, with ice skating, rock wall climbing and snowball fights.The open house will be from noon to 2 p.m., and admission is $1.For more information, contact Marlene Wyatt at ...

Open house at Arctic Wolf set for Sunday

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station will host an open house Sunday, with ice skating, rock wall climbing and snowball fights.The open house will be from noon to 2 p.m., and admission is $1.For more information, contact Marlene Wyatt at ...

Hardin County man indicted in arson

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA former employee of the College Station-based Texas Forest Service was indicted by a grand jury this week on an arson charge. The Hardin County jury decided there was enough evidence to take Jeremy Mansfield, 27, to trial for setti ...

Business summit to aid A&M students

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportRegistration is under way for an annual summit, hosted by the Center for Retailing Studies in Mays Business School at Texas A&M, scheduled for October in Dallas. This year's theme, "The Evolving Customer: Emerging Issues and Fut ...

Shipwreck Grill to host video contest

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:33 PM PDT

The Shipwreck Grill in Bryan is hosting its first summer video contest to benefit Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. An independent panel of judges will review all submitted videos and the top three entries will be played at a p ...

Feds give the OK to start choking off leak

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

NEW ORLEANS -- BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, in the hope of finally stopping the leak.Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen ...

Business summit to aid A&M students

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportRegistration is under way for an annual summit, hosted by the Center for Retailing Studies in Mays Business School at Texas A&M, scheduled for October in Dallas. This year's theme, "The Evolving Customer: Emerging Issues and Fut ...

Shipwreck Grill to host video contest

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:33 PM PDT

The Shipwreck Grill in Bryan is hosting its first summer video contest to benefit Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse. An independent panel of judges will review all submitted videos and the top three entries will be played at a p ...

Bryan man honored for ed contributions

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:34 PM PDT

Tom Hanson, a Farmers Insurance agent in Bryan, recently was recognized for his contributions to education. Hanson, who has been with Farmers Insurance for more than 26 years, sponsored ABC resource programs in Bryan schools through EducationApp ...

Diet pill shows promise, little risk

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:16 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- An experimental diet pill helped about half the people who tried it lose some weight and keep it off a year later, without the heart problems that some earlier drugs caused, a study found.Arena Pharmaceuticals' lorcaserin is one of three d ...

Bryan man honored for ed contributions

Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:34 PM PDT

Tom Hanson, a Farmers Insurance agent in Bryan, recently was recognized for his contributions to education. Hanson, who has been with Farmers Insurance for more than 26 years, sponsored ABC resource programs in Bryan schools through EducationApp ...

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