Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Hot shot on the ice

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Nathan Banks, 22, a senior member of the A&M hockey team, hones his lift-shot skills prior to team practice Monday at Arctic Wolf Ice Center in College Station. The Aggies on the club team play many of their games in Northwest and West Coast stat ...

Singing new QB's praises

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

IRVING -- Texas A&M's Ryan Tannehill is one of the best stories of this college football season, going from part-time wide receiver to an unbeaten starting quarterback. "I always knew he was going to be good," said A&M senior assistant/quart ...

Madison County sheriff resigns

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

Two years into his fourth term as Madison County sheriff, Dan Douget turned in his badge New Year's Eve due to health complications. Madison County Judge Art Henson said Paul Cannon, who was serving as chief deputy, has been named interim sheriff. C ...

A&M to soon fill VP spot

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

A new vice president for administration at Texas A&M is expected to be confirmed at the Board of Regents meeting in early February, a university spokesman said. A 15-person advisory committee chaired by Jerry Strawser, dean of the Mays Business S ...

Man reports being shot in hand during robbery

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:51 AM PST

Bryan police on Monday were investigating a report by a man who said he was shot in his hand during a robbery a day earlier. Police responded about 2:45 a.m. to St. Joseph Regional Health Center for a report of an aggravated robbery, Officer Jon Agne ...

Calvert getting new chief of police

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

Residents in Calvert will likely have a new police chief by next week after nearly a month without any local law enforcement. Calvert Mayor Marcus Greaves said the candidate pool has been narrowed to six people who will be interviewed by the City Cou ...

3 charged with felony pot possession in CS traffic stop

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:49 AM PST

Three men face a felony marijuana charge each after a College Station officer reported finding pot during a traffic stop. Natividad Robert Gonzales, 18, and Scotty Raul Mendez, 20, both of Bryan, and Rafael Romero, 17, each were charged with possessi ...

Health care tops GOP target list

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Eager to show who's now in charge, the House's new Republican majority plans to vote to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul before he even shows up in their chamber to give his State of the Union address. Thou ...

Value of Facebook put at $50B

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

NEW YORK -- An injection of cash that values Facebook at $50 billion will help it delay going public for at least another year, giving the company breathing room to focus on long-term ambition rather than short-term profit. The infusion -- $500 mill ...

3,000 birds' deaths a mystery

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

BEEBE, Ark. -- New Year's revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds tumbling out of the darkness to the ground. The red-winged ...

DNA clears Texas man who spent 30 years in prison

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:56 AM PST

DALLAS -- A 51-year-old Texas man who spent 30 years in prison for aggravated robbery will likely have his conviction set aside after DNA testing proved his innocence.An exoneration hearing for Cornelius Dupree Jr. is scheduled for Tuesday in Dallas. ...

China says it's able to reprocess nuclear fuel

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have mastered the technology for reprocessing fuel from nuclear power plants, potentially boosting the supplies of carbon-free electricity to keep the country's economy booming, state television reported Monday. The bre ...

Some in the Navy defend racy video

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

NORFOLK, Va. -- Raunchy comedy videos made by a high-ranking Navy commander and shown to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago have suddenly proved an embarrassment to the Pentagon that could blight the officer's career.The videos, ...

Fort Worth hunter charged after man's death

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST

HENDERSON, Texas -- A Fort Worth hunter who allegedly thought he bagged a deer faces a weapons charge over the fatal shooting of an Overton man. The Rusk County Sheriff's Office on Monday announced 54-year-old Rodney Connally has been arraigned o ...

Labs seek clues after 3,000 birds die in Arkansas

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:35 AM PST

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Wildlife experts are trying to solve a mystery that evoked images of the apocalypse: Why did more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds tumble from the Arkansas sky shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve? Scientists are investigat ...

Pythons begin wedded blisssss

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

SVAY ROLUM, Cambodia -- Hundreds of villagers flocked to a wedding ceremony Monday between a 16-foot, 200-pound female python and her slightly smaller mate -- both believed to be magic snakes that bring prosperity and peace. The two-hour ceremony in ...

Brains sabotage new year success

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break -- they get ...

Burial Tuesday for slain Houston boy, 12

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:58 AM PST

HOUSTON -- A 12-year-old Houston boy whose burned body turned up in a ditch will be laid to rest in a family plot.Burial was planned Tuesday in Pearland for Jonathan Foster.A 44-year-old woman charged with capital murder in the Christmas Eve abductio ...

Iran invites EU, others to nuke sites

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

VIENNA -- Iran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites, in an apparent move to gain support ahead of a new round of talks with six world powers.In a letter made availa ...

DNA clears Texas man who spent 30 years in prison

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

DALLAS -- Prosecutors declared a Texas man innocent Monday of a rape and robbery that put him in prison for 30 years, more than any other DNA exoneree in Texas.DNA test results that came back barely a week after Cornelius Dupree Jr. was paroled in Ju ...

Jerry Brown returns to lead a troubled California

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:35 AM PST

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California's 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the one he led then. The man who once was Califor ...

Greece considers fence on part of Turkish border

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:41 AM PST

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece is considering building a fence along a section of its border with Turkey that is the busiest transit point for illegal immigration in Europe, the country's public order minister said in an interview posted on his website Mo ...

Report: Facebook nets $500 million investment

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:37 AM PST

NEW YORK -- A reported investment by Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor of $500 million in Facebook is a further sign that the social networking behemoth is becoming a powerful force even outside tech circles, even as the company tries to push off ...

David Arquette's rep says the actor is in rehab

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:39 AM PST

NEW YORK -- David Arquette's publicist says the actor has entered rehab. In an e-mail Monday to The Associated Press, Cindy Guagenti says she has "no further information at this time." Arquette and Courteney Cox announced their separation in October ...

Chuck Berry returns home after health scare

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:38 AM PST

ST. LOUIS -- Rock-and-roll legend Chuck Berry has returned home to suburban St. Louis after falling ill with exhaustion during a concert in Chicago.Berry's longtime friend Joe Edwards said Monday that the 84-year-old singer returned to his Wentzville ...

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