Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Work in progress

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

A worker Monday attaches metal to the frame of a new building, called Bryan Gateway, at William Joel Bryan Parkway and Texas Avenue. The center will replace a dilapidated gas station along with other run-down structures at the downtown intersection. ...

Sheriff recalls horror of tragic crash

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

Despite his 35 years of experience in law enforcement, Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said nothing could have prepared him for responding to the four-person fatality accident on Christmas Eve that took the lives of a College Station couple wh ...

Bryan native helps decorate the White House

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

A Bryan native who lives in Austin recently got to go to the White House to help a team of volunteers decorate for the holidays. Theresa Wright, a 1977 graduate from Bryan High School, was part of a group of 96 people chosen for the task out of a p ...

Amber Alert issued for 12-year-old boy

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report An Amber Alert was issued Monday for a 12-year-old boy from Houston who has been missing since Christmas Eve. Johnathan Foster was last seen in his apartment complex around 1:45 p.m. Friday wearing blue jeans, a tan shirt with a p ...

Expert: Some may be eligible for tax cuts

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

By BLAIR FANNIN and PAUL SCHATTENBERG AgriLife Communications Year-end tax planning must be done by "what is known" regarding current federal tax code, even though there's uncertainty about extending some tax breaks, according to Texas AgriLife Exten ...

CS police look for help in robbery investigation

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 08:30 AM PST

College Station police said Monday they were investigating a woman's report that she was assaulted by two people before they took her belongings. The robbery occurred Sunday around 7 p.m. in the 2400 block of Texas Avenue, and the report was made Mon ...

Shoppers spend big over holidays

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Forget the returns line. Americans hit the stores after Christmas to buy stuff, indulging the rediscovered retail appetite that may have made 2010's holiday shopping season the biggest ever. Revenue for the holiday season is on track to ...

Kitna to start for Cowboys if OK; McGee preparing

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:58 AM PST

IRVING -- Jon Kitna will be the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys in their finale Sunday if his strained abdominal muscle heals enough. It probably won't, though, so second-year reserve Stephen McGee is likely to make his first career star ...

Flights resume after blizzard

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Planes began landing again Monday at two of the nation's busiest airports after a blizzard that clobbered the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow grounded flights in the New York metropolitan area, stranding thousands of travelers tr ...

Scientists test if implant can block sleep apnea

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Loud snoring may do more than irritate your spouse: It can signal sleep apnea, depriving you of enough zzzz's to trigger a car crash, even a heart attack.Now scientists are beginning to test if an implanted pacemaker-like device might h ...

Teena Marie dies at 54

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

LOS ANGELES -- Teena Marie's last album, Congo Square, was named after a historical meeting place for slaves in New Orleans, featured a tribute to Martin Luther King's widow and also the song Black Cool, written for President Barack Obama. No matter ...

2011 a good year to rethink goals, resolutions

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

Lori Biancofiori has been looking forward to 2011 for a long time. That's when she hopes to leave 2009 behind for good.Her husband was laid off, her salary shrank, the transmission blew on their car and they racked up $17,000 in credit card debt. Now ...

For many in Japan, 2010 is a year that's best forgotten

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

TOKYO -- Japan has been overtaken by China as the world's No. 2 economy. Its flagship company, Toyota, recalled more than 10 million vehicles in an embarrassing safety crisis. Its fourth prime minister resigned in three years, and the government rema ...

GOP hopefuls already find some issues a hazard

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- This month's early, under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than it looks, and Obama ultimately will stan ...

2 mutilated bodies found in southern Mexico

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Police in the Mexican resort of Acapulco found the decapitated bodies of two men in front of a bar where 11 men were reportedly abducted earlier this month, officials said Monday.Shell casings from assault rifles and two handwritt ...

El Salvador reports 9 migrants abducted in Mexico

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Witnesses have reported the kidnapping of nine more Central American migrants in a southern Mexican state where 50 disappeared last week, El Salvador's Foreign Ministry announced Monday.The witnesses -- five migrants who ...

Along coast, storm's stranded tell their stories

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:59 AM PST

The winter storm that has been slogging up the East Coast for three days is leaving some travelers in desperate straits.Some are stranded in airports with food supplies, not just flights, running low. Others are stuck a little more happily with old f ...

Gene Mutations Associated with Adrenal Gland Tumors

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Variations of a gene are associated with a type of tumor that forms within the adrenal gland, and were found in an age group uncommon for these types of tumors. Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas are types of tumors. Pheochromo ...

Smoking and Hospital Stays

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Using medicine to stop smoking may lead to lower hospital admissions for heart attacks and for coronary atherosclerosis patients within two years after use, according to this study. In July 2006, the Massachusetts Medicaid p ...

Poor Food Supply for Children With Diabetes

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Managing diabetes in children can be financially stressful, and families can be forced to get food from food banks or with food stamps. Eating such foods only increases a child's risk of being hospitalized due to complications fr ...

New Genes Just as Important as Ancient One

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:55 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) New genes that evolved a mere one million years ago- a blink in evolutionary history- can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, according to this study. Evolutionary biologists have always believed that the gene most i ...

Cat Scratch Fever: Hidden Killer - Research Summary

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:36 PM PST

BACKGROUND: Cat Scratch Disease (CSD) can occur after one comes in contact with the dangerous bacteria Bartonella Henselae, which is transmitted from the lick, bite or scratch of an infected cat.  Kittens are more likely to carry the bacterium, ...

Cat Scratch Fever: Hidden Killer

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:36 PM PST

RALEIGH, NC (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You probably thought cat scratch fever was no big deal, but it turns out that a simple claw mark from the family feline can send you to the hospital, or worse. The neighbor's dog, your kid's cat, the fleas in the f ...

Calendar

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

Tuesday CLUBS Brazos County Senior Citizens Association members potluck luncheon, noon. 1402 Bristol St., Bryan. 822-6873. College Station Kiwanis Club, noon, Hilton Hotel. 846-2778. HEALTH & WELLNESS Brazos Ladies Golf Association Playday, 8 a.m ...

Gene Discovered that Suppresses Inflammation

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 05:55 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) A protein identified at the University of Central Florida lab has the power to suppress inflammation, a discovery that could help get to the root causes of disorders like arthritis and heart diseases. A research team led by Pappa ...

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