Sunday, November 28, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Tigers knocked out

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

A&M Consolidated's Joey McGinnis (84) and his teammates gather for the national anthem before their playoff match-up against Stoney Point in Waco on Saturday. For more photos, go to http://www.theeagle.com/slideshows/view/Tigers-knocked-out-of-p ...

Former DA Sebesta still certain freed inmate was guilty

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

Former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta knows how his detractors feel about him. He read a columnist for the Houston Chronicle fantasize that he be put on trial. He knows that one of the most prominent prosecutors in the state sa ...

Brazos Animal Shelter preps bid for city of Bryan

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

Amid uncertainty over its future, the Brazos Animal Shelter is trying to win a contract to service the city of Bryan's animal-control needs -- the very same service that the city recently put up for bid after city officials expressed displeasure wi ...

Heart surgeon shares talents with B-CS hospital

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

In 1998, a 20-year-old student at Texas A&M was the first person in the world to successfully undergo a heart autotransplant. The surgery involves a doctor removing the heart from the body, setting up a blood-pumping machine to regulate blood ...

Eight achieve rank of Eagle Scout

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

They've camped together, gone whitewater rafting together, grown up together and, Saturday, eight young men joined together and ascended to the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America -- Eagle Scout. "I can't tell you I knew which ones would be ...

Man crashes while fleeing from police

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA man was hurt late Friday night after he sped away from police, rolled his vehicle and was ejected, Bryan police reported. The 50-year-old man, who remained hospitalized Saturday, was stopped by police in the 1100 block of Turkey C ...

FBI foils Oregon bomb plot

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Somali-born teenager plotted "a spectacular show" of terrorism for months, saying he didn't mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, according to a law-enforcement official and court do ...

Black Friday retail sales edge up; web sales spike

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Shoppers crowded stores on Black Friday but spent just a little more than last year on the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, according to data released Saturday by a research firm. Retail spending rose a slight 0.3 perc ...

U.S. and S. Korea push ahead with war games

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea -- The United States and South Korea prepared for war games Sunday as South Koreans demanded vengeance over a deadly North Korean artillery bombardment that has raised fears of more clashes between the bitter rivals. ...

Troops buck historical trend by saying gays OK

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- When a majority of troops told the Pentagon this summer they didn't care if gays were allowed to serve openly in the military, it was in sharp contrast to the time when America's fighting forces voiced bitter opposition to accepting r ...

Congress faces 3 tax cut options

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- On this, economists agree: Extending tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush for low- and middle-income people would strengthen the weak economy. The question is what to do about the highest-paid 3 percent of taxpayers. Should ...

Rio facing drug gang backlash

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The drug gang leader jabs the muzzle of his 5.56-mm Sig Sauer assault rifle around as he talks. Yes, Jogador says emphatically, Rio's drug gangs are feeling threatened by the biggest police push against them in the city's history ...

Project trying to save battleship

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:08 PM PST

LA PORTE -- Retirement hasn't been kind to the Battleship Texas, the only remaining U.S. battleship to survive World Wars I and II. Once touted as the most powerful weapon on the planet, the nearly century-old battlewagon has endured some 60 years ...

Tijuana's top cop let go

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

TIJUANA, Mexico -- Julian Leyzaola tried with unprecedented zeal to end the grip of drug cartels on one of Mexico's most notoriously corrupt police forces: In two years as top cop, he blanketed key parts of Tijuana with vetted officers, new patrol ca ...

Did man kill off wooly animals?

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

CHERSKY, Russia -- During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago -- in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years -- the last of them disappeared.Many ...

Scientist recreating the ice age

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

CHERSKY, Russia -- Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and ...

Parents find support as they prepare for loss of a child

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

Maria Cazares and Michelle Zuniga share a bond that extends beyond the connection mothers often feel to one another, beyond their common experiences as mothers of teenage daughters and infant sons, even beyond the sense of being blessed to spend ti ...

Unwrap a festive new pattern this season

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

The first Christmas wrapping papers were a happy accident. The Hall Brothers of Kansas City, Mo., ran out of their usual supply of Christmas tissue paper just a few days before the holiday in 1917. Rollie Hall quickly set out a stack of decorativ ...

Irish tenor Tynan ready to inspire

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

The first time I noticed Ronan Tynan was on my television set about nine years ago. While channel surfing one evening, I came across a PBS show called The Irish Tenors -- Ellis Island. It was hosted by Martin Sheen and I recall his fine job of not ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

NEEDS A HOME Rhinestone Cowboy is a 2-year-old male Chihuahua mix. It's one heck of a name for one heck of a dog. Cowboy made his TV debut last week to help him find a new friend to spend the rest of his life with, but still needs a home. This pup ...

Calendar

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

Monday * Star Duplicate Bridge Club. 9:45 a.m. College Station Conference Center. For partnerships, call 690-2901. * College Station Senior Advisory Committee meeting. 10 a.m. Exit Teen Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. Visitors welcome. 764-6371. * ...

Students of the week

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:05 PM PST

Students of the week receive a T-shirt courtesy of The Eagle and C.C. Creations. Sam Ramirez Facts: 12-year-old sixth-grader at Oakwood Intermediate School. Parents/ guardian: Trey and Marla Ramirez Favorite subject: Math Favorite teacher: All ...

Beamon 25th

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Buddy and Toni Beamon of Bryan, Texas, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on October 16, 2010 with a reception in their honor, given by their parents at their home. They were married October 18, 1985 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church by Monsign ...

Phillips 50th

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

William and Helen Phillips, of College Station, were married on November 26, 1960 at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Kerrville, Texas.  They began their married life in Austin and moved to Bryan in 1968.  Bill was a local banker for many yea ...

Dannenbaum-Hetrick

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

Joe and Martha Dannenbaum of College Station are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Carolyn Rose Dannenbaum to Robert Paul Hetrick III, son of Robert and Anne Hetrick of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Carolyn is the gran ...

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