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Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Ready for the game

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:58 AM PDT

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush salutes members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets as they march into Kyle Field before the football game between Texas Tech and A&M on Saturday.

Texas A&M keeps it fun for fans

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Halloween falling on the same weekend as one of the biggest home games of the year for Texas A&M University could have resulted in a busy few days for local law enforcement officers. But it was a mostly smooth day at Kyle Field, where assistan ...

Freedom 'heaven' for Graves

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- Defense attorney Jimmy Phillips Jr. was the first to learn on Wednesday of the development his team was waiting to hear, working toward, hoping for, daily. But he left it to his co-counsel, Nicole Casarez, to share the news with their clie ...

No hurry to find city managers

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Bryan and College Station are both in the market for a new city manager, but neither is in such a hurry that it can't wait to find the right candidate.In Bryan, the city council is pleased with the performance of interim city manager Kean Register, a ...

No need to live like zombies

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

Is free will an illusion? Although many modern philosophers and neuroscientists have answered that question in the affirmative, a Texas A&M University professor says he's proved otherwise. Dr. W. R. Klemm, professor of neuroscience and veteri ...

Toyotas get 'Consumer' seal of approval

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report Consumer Reports recently announced that it is reinstating the recommendations for eight Toyota models that were recalled in January. "We believe that Toyota has adequately addressed the problem of unintended acceleration and th ...

CS to hold memorial for fallen firefighters

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

The College Station Fire Department is scheduled to host a local Fallen Firefighters Memorial Ceremony Monday. Five firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2009 in Texas will be honored at the ceremony. The event comes almost one month after th ...

Woman arrested in terror attempt

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT

SAN'A, Yemen -- Yemeni police arrested a woman on suspicion of mailing a pair of bombs powerful enough to take down airplanes, officials said Saturday as details emerged about a terrorist plot aimed at the U.S. that exploited security gaps in the w ...

Shuttle launch delayed further

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Last-minute leak repairs have again pushed back space shuttle Discovery's final launch, this time until Wednesday. NASA delayed Discovery's flight to the International Space Station yet another day because more work was nee ...

Drought stokes fire at lake bed

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

A blaze touched off by a trash fire has been smoldering for two months -- with occasional flareups -- in the bed of a twisting, narrow lake drawn down as part of northwestern Louisiana's fight against an invasive water fern. It started during the ...

Final election appeals flood voters' mailboxes

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is "an illegal alien's best friend." His opponent let insurance companies "refuse to cover colon cancer tests." In New Hampshire, the governor freed a man who "sexually molested a 7 year old." Oh, that campaign ...

Teen testifies about his torture

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

STOCKTON, Calif. -- A teenage boy who stumbled into a Northern California health club nearly two years ago almost naked with a chain shackled to his ankle testified Friday that a neighbor cut him with a knife, lit his pants on fire and beat him uncon ...

Texas man, 41, excels in semipro football league

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:07 PM PDT

BAYTOWN -- The truck drivers he oversees at his day job may not agree. Ditto for the basketball coaches whose games he refs during the winter, and the football coaches he interviews in his job as sports editor of the weekly Liberty Vindicator newspa ...

Jury urged to be tough in Guantanamo

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A prosecutor urged a military jury to send a message to the world Saturday with a 25-year sentence for a former teenage al-Qaida fighter convicted of war crimes -- but it would be largely symbolic since a plea dea ...

As election looms, rally draws laughs, activism

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a "sanity" rally poking fun at the nation's ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers."We live now i ...

Dems, GOP blast China

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- In these angry political times, Democrats and Republicans agree on next to nothing. China is one exception. Democrats and Republicans alike are accusing each other of cozying up to Beijing and backing policies that send U.S. jobs and IO ...

Preserving Aggie history

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Michael Early loads a time capsule into the top of the Aggie Ring Replica at the Haynes Ring Plaza at the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni Center on Saturday. Early, the grandson of the plaza's namesake Harold "Bill" Haynes, climbed atop the ring to ...

Red dresses bring a little extra heart to Bush Museum

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Put it on display at the Bush Library and, somehow, even the mundane becomes special. They pulled it off with wine barrels for a year and now, for the next 10 months, they'll do it with red dresses. Of course, these are not just any red dresses, but ...

Klum aims for 'cool mom' in new line

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Heidi Klum has a closet full of stylish clothes for her public life on TV, red carpets and the party scene. It was harder to find things to pull off the "cool mom" look, though, so she decided she'd start designing them herself. Klum a ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

NEEDS A HOME Shayleigh is a super peppy, super spunky 1-year-old female black mouth cur/boxer mix who loves attention! She loves to go on walks and runs, and she loves to play. She also loves to curl up in your lap and give kisses. She is crate-tr ...

Calendar

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Monday * Beginning bridge class. 9:30-11:30 a.m. College Station teen center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. $35. 764-6371. * Star Duplicate Bridge Club. 9:45 a.m. College Station Conference Center. For partnerships, call 690-2901. * Robert Henry Chapter ...

Student of the week

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Students of the week receive a T-shirt courtesy of The Eagle and C.C. Creations. Carmen Malave Facts: 12-year-old sixth-grader at Cypress Grove Intermediate in College Station. Parents/ guardian: Cesar and Gina Malave Favorite subject: Math Fa ...

School menus

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included. Allen Academy Monday: Fish strips, broccoli, carrots, rolls, yogurt. Tuesday: Chicken fajitas, charro beans, fruit, tortillas. Wednesday: Fish tacos, lettuce, tomato, beans, fruit, Spanish ri ...

Welch-Tate

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Audrey Britton Welch and Charles Glen Tate were joyfully united in marriage on the first day of Spring, Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at five o'clock in the afternoon at the Astin Mansion in Bryan, Texas. The Reverend Bruce Chabot officiated the double- ...

Rekieta-Burt

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Miss Jessica Erin Rekieta and Mr. Brian Allen Burt were united in Holy Matrimony on August 28, 2010 at four o'clock in the afteroon at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Bryan. The double ring cerem ...

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