Sunday, September 26, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Couple shares struggle of losing posts at A&M

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Lesley Tomaszewski has lived a quintessential local life: She attended A&M Consolidated, earned three degrees from Texas A&M and now teaches there. She's married to a faculty member, and the couple have twin 3-year-old girls, three dogs and ...

Edwards, Flores tout abilities to create jobs

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

In commercials and campaign events, Republican Bill Flores has pushed job creation more than any other issue in his race to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards. That's no surprise. In a recent New York Times/CBS poll, 60 percent of voters lis ...

Perry, White weigh in on energy industry's future

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one in a series examining important issues to Texans as they prepare to elect their next governor this fall. The seven-part package is a cooperative effort between The Eagle, four other Texas newspapers and the Texas Trib ...

A&M clears résumés of 465 officials

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

A review of 465 Texas A&M University administrators has found that all have the degrees, certificates, licenses and military experience they reported. The examination was launched after it was revealed in June that a top-level administrator w ...

Service held for slain CS woman

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

MADISONVILLE -- Jennifer Marie Hailey loved puppies and music, but nothing more than her 9-year-old son, family remembered Saturday. The community said good-bye to the 29-year-old College Station woman at a funeral in Madisonville, five days afte ...

TxDOT faces fight on Plantersville overpass

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

A preliminary plan to build an overpass at F.M. 1774 and Texas 105 has drawn sharp opposition from many Plantersville residents, but state officials say it's necessary to make the intersection safer. Those opposed to the $11 million project say it ...

Ministry helps youth turn around lives

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Joe Campos came to Save Our Streets Ministries as a 14-year-old gang member from Houston with five felony convictions on his record. "I'd be one of three things without it," he said. "Dead, locked up, or up to no good." A Houston judge ordered C ...

Music competition looking for entries

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportEntries for the 13th annual Brazos Valley Youth Concerto competition are being accepted through Dec. 10. The competition is presented by the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Friends Association of the Symphony Orchestra.The ...

Demolition Derby to take place Saturday

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe 9th Annual Washington County Demolition Derby is Saturday at the Fairgrounds Arena in Brenham.This year, female drivers can compete for the first time in the Powder Puff Heat. The winner will go up against the men during the fin ...

Poll: Many expected more from health overhaul

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November. But the picture's not that clear cut. A new Associated Press poll finds tha ...

Man arrested on burglary charges

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report Bryan Police said they've arrested and charged a man they believe to be involved in a number of business burglaries that have occurred in recent weeks. Oran Taylor Isaiah, 24, was charged with three counts of theft and three cou ...

Texas schools could lose millions in state budget crunch

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:33 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- As the single biggest consumer of state money, the Texas public education system stands to lose millions of dollars as the state grapples with a looming budget shortfall that could exceed $18 billion. Education Commissioner Robert Scott ...

Racist messages a problem for mainstream sites

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there's a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet's most popular websites, today's virtual Main Street. I ...

China rises and rises, yet still receives foreign aid

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:08 PM PDT

BEIJING -- China spent tens of billions of dollars on a dazzling 2008 Olympics. It has sent astronauts into space. It recently became the world's second largest economy. Yet it gets more than $2.5 billion a year in foreign government aid -- and tax ...

Pope orders probe of group's cult-like conditions

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY -- It's a life regimented in excruciating detail, down to the way they eat an orange. Silence is the norm, information is limited, e-mail is screened, close friendships are discouraged and family members are kept at bay -- all in the n ...

Bomb scare on jet may have been hoax

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:06 PM PDT

STOCKHOLM -- Canadian police are investigating whether a phoned-in hoax caused a Pakistani jet to be diverted to Stockholm for several hours Saturday for fear that one of its passengers was carrying explosives.Police evacuated 273 people from the jet ...

Banish boring bare walls by making your own affordable art

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Our walls beg for art, but we don't have to. With a little ingenuity, do-it-yourselfers can have chic artwork covering nearly any bare wall space. And not just any slapped-together art, mind you, but pieces that guests will coo over. It can be d ...

BV actors ready to take the stage

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

September is such a happenin' month for so much in our towns. The Aggies have already played (and won!) three football games, most high school football teams have already started district play, fall officially began just as I was typing this lead par ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

FOOD DRIVE Eric Fisher, case manager for supportive housing for Twin City Missions, and Steven Bethea, program director for homeless and housing services at Twin City Missions, recently accepted more than 100 pounds of food donated by the local Natu ...

Calendar

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Sunday * AquinasFest. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 2541 Earl Rudder Freeway S., College Station. Tickets are 50 cents each, with varied amounts redeemable for games, kiddie rides and food. www.aquinasfest.org. Monday * Sta ...

School menus

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included. Allen Academy Monday: Enchiladas, Spanish rice, fruit salad. Tuesday: Tuna salad, sandwiches, cucumbers and tomatoes, apples. Wednesday: Pork stir-fry, steamed brown rice. Thursday: Hamburger, ...

Willson 40th

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Victor L. Willson and Carol A. Truman Willson celebrated their 40th anniversary on August 14, 2010. They were married in Warwick, Rhode Island and have lived in College Station for 31 years. Victor is Department Head and Professor in Educational Psyc ...

Luttbeg 50th

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Norman and Alice Luttbeg of College Station and Angel Fire, New Mexico, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. They met as students in Chicago and were married there on September 3, 1960. They have lived in various parts of the country and m ...

Kovacevich-Cangelose

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Saysha Kovacevich and Marty Cangelose were united in marriage on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at half past seven in the evening at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in College Station, Texas. The candlelight Nuptial Mass was officiated by The Very Reve ...

Carrillo-Ortega

Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Holly Christine Carrillo and Kristopher Marcus Ortega were united in marriage at 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 25, 2010, followed by a reception and dance at Lakeview Hall in Bryan. The Matron of Honor was Alicia Lara, cousin of the bride, of Brya ...

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