Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Beating the bad weather

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Nine-year-old Angel Garza smiles as he hits the water pumping up from the downtown splash pad on the corner of East 29th Street and South College Avenue in Bryan on Monday afternoon, two hours before rain hit the town. More rain is expected Tuesday a ...

Caldwell mayor dies in crash

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Caldwell Mayor Bernard Rychlik died in a two-car accident on Texas 36 late Monday, according to law enforcement officials. The 71-year-old had to be extracted from his vehicle by firefighters using the "Jaws of Life," following the 8:30 p.m. acciden ...

Committee: Go ahead with cuts

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:12 PM PDT

Nix merit pay raises, but still go forward with an internal $21 million reallocation -- that's what a body reviewing reduction plans has recommended to Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin. The group, which includes Interim Provost Karan Watso ...

Survey: Overwhelming number of faculty support giving up merit raises to help reduce the number of professors and staffers let go

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 10:20 AM PDT

An overwhelming number of Texas A&M faculty members said they'd be willing to forego a merit raise for one year if it meant that the money saved would be used to reduce the number of faculty and staff terminated, according to a survey released Mo ...

Caldwell Mayor Rychlik dies in wreck

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Caldwell Mayor Bernard Rychlik died in a two-car accident on Texas 36 late Monday, according to law enforcement officials. The 71-year-old had to be extracted from his vehicle by firefighters using what they call the "Jaws of Life," following the 8: ...

Faculty pick staff, profs over pay raise

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Given the choice between giving up a pay hike or saying goodbye to a colleague, an overwhelming majority of Texas A&M professors and teachers participating in a faculty survey picked foregoing the extra money.About 47 percent of faculty members, ...

Navasota ISD snafu postpones paychecks for employees by 1 day

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 02:30 PM PDT

A clerical error at the Navasota school district resulted in employees not receiving their direct deposit payment as expected Monday, according to officials.  The 425 employees working for the district will receive their payments a day late on ...

No one held in fatal stabbing

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

A 29-year-old woman stabbed to death in a Bryan apartment over the weekend had two brushes with police in the month before she died -- once as a suspect and another as a victim, documents show. She was identified by authorities as Stephanie Moniqu ...

Texas challenges EPA on overturning permit program

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:16 AM PDT

DALLAS -- Texas is appealing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's overturning of a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday he filed the state's petition for reconsideration with the U.S. Court ...

Leaders alarmed by Afghan war information leaks

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The monumental leak of classified Afghan war documents threatened Monday to create deeper doubts about the war at home, cause new friction with Pakistan over allegations about its spy agency and raise questions around the world about ...

Home prices in trouble

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Thought the housing crisis was over? Not quite.Despite four years of falling prices and recent signs that they were finally bottoming out, homes are expected to lose still more value in many metro areas over the next year.Parts of the c ...

Perry defends land deal

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

FORT WORTH -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White on Monday accused Gov. Rick Perry of becoming a millionaire through unethical real estate deals, seizing on a newspaper report that raised questions about Perry's purchase and sale of a pl ...

Man charged in death of pregnant girlfriend

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 03:13 AM PDT

HITCHCOCK, Texas -- Authorities say a southeast Texas man is accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend to death in front of her 10-year-old daughter. Thirty-three-year-old Bernard Stinson Cunningham was charged Sunday with murder in the death of ...

High sales nix need for deals on flights

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Good times are finally back for the nation's airlines. For travelers, that means it's getting harder to find bargains.The summer travel season got off to a roaring start, fares are up, and money is rolling in from fees on things like checked baggage. ...

Jury takes case of man charged with 3 beheadings

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:13 AM PDT

EDINBURG, Texas -- After attorneys spent two hours Monday debating the mental state of a south Texas man charged with beheading his common-law wife's three children, a jury began deliberating his fate. John Allen Rubio, 29, rarely lifted his gaze ...

Immigrant groups fight fingerprinting initiative

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:01 PM PDT

DENVER -- The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet. The p ...

Texas opposes DRT trademarking 'The Alamo'

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:20 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- The state of Texas is opposing an attempt by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas to trademark the phrase "The Alamo." The state argued in a brief filed Friday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that it is the rightful owne ...

Missing man crushed to death in NY trash compactor

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 04:23 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- A maintenance man at a prominent western New York office building was crushed to death after falling into a trash compactor, but no one realized it for weeks as his family and authorities searched for him, police said Sunday. Surveilla ...

BP's Hayward expected to take job in Russia

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT

LONDON -- BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil spill, and will assign him to a key job in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.Hayward ...

New Bratz dolls to hit shelves in August

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:15 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- New Bratz dolls are heading to stores after a federal court overturned a ruling that their maker, MGA Entertainment, had to turn over the brand to Mattel Inc.Two new lines of the doe-eyed dolls should hit stores such as Toys R Us, Target ...

Letters for July 27

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Regulation is not the way to economic health An article (Eagle, July 16) began: "Congress on Thursday passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer ...

THIRD & SHORT

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

NFL BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- An NFL spokesman says there has been no change in Michael Vick's playing status, so the Eagles quarterback reported to training camp on Monday as expected. When asked whether a league investigation of Vick has been completed, ...

SPORTS IN BRIEF

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Rays' Garza gets MLB's fifth no-hitter of season ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Matt Garza pitched the first no-hitter in Tampa Bay Rays history and the fifth in the major leagues this season, beating the Detroit Tigers 5-0 Monday night. Garza faced the m ...

Romo says he's not elite until Cowboys win it all

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Romo finally has a playoff victory for the Dallas Cowboys to go with his three Pro Bowl selections. The former undrafted quarterback is coming off another record-breaking season in which he also had a career-low nine intercepti ...

MLB: Soto, Cubs top Astros

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:02 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- Geovany Soto drove in two runs and Alfonso Soriano had two doubles and an RBI to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros 5-2 on Monday night. Cubs starter Carlos Silva (10-4) yielded five hits and one run with four strikeouts to g ...

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