Monday, October 4, 2010

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Reveille celebrates birthday

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Reveille VII barks during her 10th birthday celebration at the home of her guardians, Paul and Tina Gardner, in College Station on Sunday afternoon. Dozens of Aggies and family friends attended the special event, along with Reveille VIII, the current ...

Professor gets 'avatar' grant

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Texas A&M associate professor Tim McLaughlin saw the Na'vi in Avatar five years before moviegoers did: He was part of a team hired by director James Cameron to check the blue humanoids' technical viability. Now, McLaughlin -- the head of the ...

Police say man was passed out in grass

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report A 21-year-old San Marcos man was arrested after police officers said they found him passed out in the Northgate district with feces down his leg. College Station police officers wrote in court documents that they saw a man aslee ...

Officers: Woman tried to steal clothes

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA 20-year-old Bryan woman remained jailed late Sunday after authorities said she attempted to steal more than $600 worth of merchandise from a College Station store.Police were called to Sears in Post Oak Mall in reference to a thef ...

Basketball team wants senior women

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportWomen between 60 and 81 years old who happen to enjoy playing basketball are in demand.Ag Silvers, a local senior women's basketball team, is practicing for the Senior Olympic State games scheduled for Oct. 24 in Houston, but needs ...

Free law school fair to be held at A&M

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report The 22nd Annual Law School Caravan will be held at Texas A&M on Wednesday. The law fair will be held in Rudder Exhibit Hall from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Representatives from 107 of the top law schools in the country will be present ...

Christmas parade looking for entrants

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe 84th Annual BCS Christmas Parade will be held Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. along Texas Avenue. Entry forms are due by Nov. 19. The forms have been mailed to last year's participants, but they can be downloaded from BCSParade.com or picked u ...

Art gallery features Biblical inspirations

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Arts Council of Brazos Valley soon will open an exhibit featuring inspirations drawn of six women.Iron Apron Strings, by Jill Maxwell, will be up Thursday through Oct. 15 at the Spirit of Texas Bank Gallery at the Arts Center, 2 ...

Texas Emerging Technology Fund under watch

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

DALLAS -- The state of Texas has given more than $16 million to high-tech startups whose investors are big donors to Republican Gov. Rick Perry, according to a published report. Companies with ties to at least eight big donors have received awards ...

3 gubernatorial candidates debate without Perry

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:41 PM PDT

Associated Press HOUSTON -- Gov. Rick Perry was absent from the first gubernatorial debate of the general election campaign Sunday night, and Democrat Bill White used the forum to criticize Perry following reports that companies linked to major dono ...

Authorities: Man guns down ex-wife, kills himself

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:13 AM PDT

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Police say a 31-year-old mother of five has been fatally shot by her ex-husband, who killed himself after wounding one of the woman's three children as they watched the crime.Police told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times the sh ...

Americans not letting alert spoil travel plans

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

MADRID -- A rare advisory for U.S. travelers to beware of potential terrorist threats in Europe drew American shrugs Sunday from Paris to Rome, but tourism officials worried that it could deter would-be visitors from moving ahead with plans to cros ...

Pakistan: Dozens of Europeans in terror training

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be hiding out in the lawless tribal area of northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani and Western intelligence officials say, training for missions that could include terror att ...

Hot laptops may lead to 'toasted skin'

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit. Doing it a lot can lead to "toasted skin syndrome," an unusual-looking mottled skin condition c ...

Slow start for health care centerpiece

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- It's a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable. But the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan started this summ ...

U.S. sex survey largest since 1994

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers. That's just a sampling of the data being unvei ...

Calendar

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

MARK YOUR CALENDARS The next BVSWMA Hazardous Waste Collection Event is 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 9 at the University Services Building located on Harvey Road past Veteran's Park. A complete listing of items that can be recycled at the event can be foun ...

Afghanistan begins closing private security firms

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government said Sunday it has started dissolving private security firms in the country by taking steps to end the operations of eight companies, including the firm formerly known as Blackwater and three other intern ...

NJ student's suicide resonates on campus, beyond

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 12:15 AM PDT

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- "Things will get easier; people's minds will change," Ellen DeGeneres pleads in an Internet video, staring into the camera, her voice breaking. "And you should be alive to see it."Just as the murder of Matthew Shepard galvaniz ...

Authorities trying new ways to stop public suicide

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Eighteen-year-old Tyler Clementi typed his intention to millions on the Internet: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." His body was found days later floating in the Hudson River beneath the George Washington Bridge. In March, Yale Univer ...

Lawmakers turning sights to gray wolves

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:03 PM PDT

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again -- this time to clamp down on the endan ...

Three survive plane crash

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

AVALON, Calif. -- A small plane crashed Sunday near the airport on California's Santa Catalina Island, sparking a small fire and leaving the three people on board with burn injuries.The twin-engine Cessna 310 crashed at about 3:40 p.m. near the islan ...

Comic collector donates books to university

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Jose Alaniz spent about a week sorting and packing each comic book -- carefully, lovingly. There were 12 boxes of them, comics he'd collected since his mother bought him his first one at age 6. He took time to look through them all. The Defenders. ...

Psychiatric experts analyze parental alienation syndrome

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 08:50 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders -- whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent c ...

NFL: McNabb beats old team as Redskins get victory

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA -- Donovan McNabb heard cheers and the home team got all the boos. McNabb threw for 125 yards and one touchdown, leading the Washington Redskins to a 17-12 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in his first game against his f ...

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