Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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A dose of reality

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Twelve-year-old Michel Monsivais, an incoming seventh-grader at Davilla Middle School in Bryan, winces after a third and final immunization shot he received from Joyce Rohrbach at the Brazos County Health Department on Texas Avenue in Bryan on Monday ...

CS trustees OK budget

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

College Station school trustees Tuesday approved a 2010-11 general fund budget that leaves the district with a few extra bucks. After planning for about $74.5 million in spending, district officials said, they calculated expected revenues and pre ...

10-year-old shot, killed by friend

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Dylan Rumfield had picky eating habits but loved chili cheese dogs. His mom made him some Monday night, a friend said, but he never got to eat them. "You never expect a 10-year-old to be there one second and gone the next," family friend Kelly Ga ...

Update: Kidnapper stabbed CS woman while still in Wal-Mart parking lot, police said

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:25 AM PDT

Authorities in Brazos County have formally charged a College Station man with capital murder in the abduction and stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend's mother. Investigators said Stanley Robertson confessed to the crime from John Peter Smith Hospita ...

15 minutes of fame

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Pete Hanegan said he's been called a daredevil many times and a dumb-ass probably a few. "But this will be the first time they'll be together in one sentence," he said in a phone interview two days before a video of him rolling down a Bryan hill i ...

Police: Suspect admits murder

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

A kidnapped woman whose body was found discarded in a Fort Worth parking lot was stabbed in College Station and bled to death while her alleged killer drove her to North Texas, police reports indicate. Stanley Wayne Robertson, 42, told police that ...

2 finalists named for commandant

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report Two finalists have been named for the position of Corps of Cadets commandant, which oversees the roughly 1,800-member group known as the keepers of the Aggie Spirit. A committee chaired by Gen. Hal Hornburg, class of 1968, whitt ...

CS kids to pick colors, mascot

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

There is a lot riding on the shoulders of this year's seventh- and eighth-graders in College Station. Students for generations to come at the new College Station High School are counting on them, as they will be the new school's first students as ...

Police looking for alleged sex offender

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report Bryan police are asking for the public's help in locating a 28-year-old man wanted on a first-degree felony warrant for continuous sexual abuse of a child less than 14 years old. Jose Zavala-Estrada is Hispanic, about 5 feet 9 i ...

Hospital worker charged with DWI

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report A 58-year-old Bryan woman was released from the Brazos County Jail on Tuesday, one day after police arrested her on several misdemeanor charges, including driving while intoxicated and fleeing a police officer. According to the ...

Spots available in CS Citizen Police Academy

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report College Station police are preparing to host the department's 42nd Citizen Police Academy for residents interested in learning more about the department's day-to-day operations. The 10-week program is free and will start Sept. 7 ...

CIA interrogation tapes surface

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh.Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United Stat ...

Shrimpers report clean first day catch after spill

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Commercial shrimpers out for the first season since BP's disastrous spill indicated their catch was plentiful and free of oil, despite a report by scientists that much of the crude remains below the surface of the Gulf.Fishermen s ...

Blagojevich will appeal conviction

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- A federal jury deadlocked Tuesday on all but one of 24 charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, including the most explosive of all -- that he tried to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. Blagojevi ...

29-year-old dies in police shootout

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

McKINNEY -- A 29-year-old man towed a trailer full of explosives into a suburban Dallas police station's parking lot on Tuesday, then set fire to his pickup truck and began shooting at the building in an apparent attempt to lure people outside to ki ...

Music habits may be doing damage

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing -- nearly one in five -- and the problem has increased substantially in recent years, a new national study has found. Some experts are urging teenagers to turn down the ...

Nice swing

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Owen Reid and Brandon Rothermel, both students at Texas A&M, hit golf balls on the driving range at the Texas A&M Golf Course on campus on Tuesday.

Collectors vie for a piece of Hollywood history

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:01 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Marilyn Monroe's chest X-rays. Barbra Streisand's houndstooth cap from the film What's Up, Doc? Elvis Presley's empty prescription bottles. Alfred Hitchcock's driver's license. Who wants all this stuff? And why would they pay thousan ...

Sauce is daunting to tackle

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

Dear Lisa: In this age of uber-gourmet recipes, I have seen numerous references for using demi-glaze. I also know that it is very labor-intensive to make. But for those of us who want to try it, could you provide the process/recipe? -- BenDear Ben: D ...

Restaurant Monitor

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 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 ...

Moist burger made from 4 cuts of meat

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

When Tyler Florence was creating hamburgers for his new restaurant, his goal was simple -- a burger that stays moist no matter how well-done it is cooked.The solution was all a matter of numbers -- one month of experimenting with the percentage of fa ...

Cookbooks offer a dash of fame with dinner

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

As much as Americans love their food, they seem to enjoy it best with a dash of celebrity. Luckily, the celebrity food world loves to keep people well fed. There is a stack of new books by big names to keep you sated through fall. Super chef Mari ...

A couscous salad with BLT leanings

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

To combat lunch bag boredom, you need to straddle that fine line between exciting and familiar, which is just what this Toasted Couscous BLT Salad does. Exotic, large pearl couscous gets dressed up with all the ingredients of that perennial favori ...

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