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Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Strike up the bands

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

A&M Consolidated senior Chad Blanton and other trombone players rehearse during a morning marching band practice Friday.

CS man who had child porn awaits sentence

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT

A punishment hearing is pending for a 24-year-old College Station man found guilty Friday of possessing 25 items of child pornography. A jury of nine women and three men took more than an hour to convict Justin Tyler Davis of the crimes. Davis el ...

Injured boy lifted up by residents

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Less than a month ago, 14-year old Logan Schaefer was having a hard time sitting up in a chair by himself. But Friday he was walking around without assistance, said his father, Vic Schaefer, an associate head coach for the Texas A&M women's b ...

Judge sanctioned for signing subpoena

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Caldwell Municipal Court Judge Margaret Polansky was issued a private sanction this week by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, according to documents obtained by The Eagle. Polansky, according to the complaint, signed a subpoena related to ...

Hispanic festival set for Sept. 19

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Fiestas Patrias Mexicanas officials are preparing for their 19th annual festival and parade in downtown Bryan.Hispanic culture will be featured at the festival, set for Sept. 19, and food and craft vendors will line the street offering their goods. ...

Police say woman hit man with a brick

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA 22-year-old woman has been charged with assault after she threw a brick that hit a man in the face in a Bryan bar in May, resulting in $8,000 in medical costs, authorities said.Bryan police said a man reported on May 17 that he ha ...

Navarro sworn in as associate judge

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportAlbert Navarro has been sworn in as associate judge for the Bryan Municipal Court. Navarro will be called upon to serve as a substitute judge when Judge Latham Boone III is out of the office. He will be paid $225 per day when he is ...

Crises test U.S. ally Pakistan

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Not for the first time, Pakistan appears to be teetering on the edge with a government unable to cope. Floods are ravaging a country at war with al-Qaida and the Taliban. Riots, slayings and arson are gripping the largest city. Sugge ...

EPA pressed for resolution

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- After a lobbying push by oil giants, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators have asked state environmental regulators to quickly solve a permit dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that has left some of the nation's lar ...

Probe to target cause of oil spill

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

NEW ORLEANS -- Now that BP appears to have vanquished its ruptured well, authorities are turning their attention to gathering evidence from what could amount to a crime scene at the bottom of the sea. The wreckage -- including the failed blowout ...

Spot-on training

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Texas A&M Health Science Center nursing student Danielle White treats "patient" Emily Brown for simulated injuries during a mass casualty disaster training exercise in the Simulation Center at the Health Science Center's recently dedicated campus ...

Sect leader to pay $148,000

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

LUBBOCK -- A polygamist leader in West Texas has agreed to pay child support dating to 2003, when his then-wife left the sect with their eight children. Frederick Merril Jessop, the bishop of the Yearning for Zion Ranch, signed the order in court ...

Third month of weak hiring could hurt recovery

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The nation isn't creating nearly enough jobs to reduce persistently high unemployment. For the third straight month, the private sector hired cautiously in July. And those meager gains in the job market were nearly wiped out by tens ...

U.S. joins Hiroshima memorial for first time

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

HIROSHIMA, Japan -- A U.S. representative participated for the first time Friday in Japan's annual commemoration of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in a 65th anniversary event that organizers hope will bolster global efforts toward nuclea ...

Violent Rihanna video under fire

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- It's hard to forget the haunting photo that leaked out early last year: Pop star Rihanna, her elegant face bruised and battered after a violent assault by her then-boyfriend, R&B singer Chris Brown.Now, she's appearing in something el ...

Religion news in brief

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:24 PM PDT

Minority Islamic sect 'prepares for war' as religious tensions flare in Indonesia MANISLOR, Indonesia (AP) -- A minority Islamic sect has told followers to prepare for war after rock-throwing mobs attacked one of their mosques in central Indonesia ...

Honoring 29 years of love

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

By MATT IDOM This month, Kelly and I will celebrate our 29th anniversary. It remains to me the single greatest example of proof that magic exists, miracles happen and that love, on her part, is blind. So if you will indulge me the self-indulgence, ...

Religion notes

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Saturday * St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 2700 W. Villa Maria Road in Bryan, will host a Splash Party and Day of Jubilee from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will include free food, music, games and water activities for children. Wear swimsuits and ...

Representatives for victims want cardinal out

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

ROME -- Groups representing victims of clergy sex abuse in the U.S. are urging Pope Benedict XVI to remove Cardinal Bernard Law as head of a Rome basilica, issuing their appeal shortly before the former Boston archbishop leads an annual high-profil ...

Jewish activists support mosque at ground zero site

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- A group of Jewish activists and community leaders voiced their support for a planned mosque near ground zero and said opponents, including the nation's leading Jewish civil rights group, are perpetuating misunderstandings about Islam. ...

Letters for August 7

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:05 PM PDT

No aid for Palestine Now is the time to demand that Congress and the White House stop sending U.S. tax dollars to the Palestinian Authority, which continues to demonize Israel and incite hatred and continued violence. Now is the time to for Pal ...

Calendar

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:08 PM PDT

MARK YOUR CALENDARSThe second annual Emergency Preparedness Fair will be from 8 a.m. to noon Aug. 28 at the LDS Church at 2500 Barak Lane in Bryan. The free event aims to teach residents how to prepare for emergencies and introduce them to the emerge ...

CIA transfers terrorist prisoners in secret

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A white, unmarked Boeing 737 landed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before dawn on a CIA mission so secretive, many in the nation's war on terrorism were kept in the dark. Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were abo ...

Oregon girl not bitter after lemonade stir

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:38 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After a county inspector squeezed out a kid's lemonade business, so many Oregonians puckered up in disgust that the county chairman had to pour on a little sugar. The apology sweetened up some sour feelings and made 7-year-o ...

Connecticut shooter told 911 he 'handled the problem'

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A black man who went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor calmly told a 911 operator that it was "a racist place" and that he "handled the problem" but wished he had shot more people. Omar Thornton called 911 after s ...

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