Friday, January 28, 2011

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Pre-game preparation

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

Bryan High goalkeeper Ana Meyer warms up in goal before her team takes on Stephen F. Austin in the opening round of the 2011 Brazos Valley Cup at Merrill Green Stadium Thursday.

CS Council wants shelter kept open

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

The College Station City Council indicated Thursday that it wants the Brazos Animal Shelter to continue caring for its stray animals -- even if the shelter loses its contract with Bryan and is forced to vacate its current headquarters on Bryan prope ...

Mayor Berry to defend her seat

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and at least one City Council member will attempt to keep their elected seats after recall petitions seeking their removal from office were officially certified Thursday. The third target for recall, Dave Ruesink, ...

Mayor Berry to defend her seat

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and at least one City Council member will attempt to keep their elected seats after recall petitions seeking their removal from office were officially certified Thursday. The third target for recall, Dave Ruesink, ...

CS student earns national award

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

A 17-year-old College Station student "ready to improve the world" was recently named a semifinalist in a prestigious national science competition. A&M Consolidated High School senior Zachary Wu was awarded $1,000 from the national Intel Science ...

Group calls for post-grad reform

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

The head of an organization dedicated to advancing graduate education told a group of academics Thursday that there are specific steps the United States can take to improve post-baccalaureate opportunities -- including relieving the debt burden borne ...

Scratch-off lands man $1 million

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:04 PM PST

A College Station man recently became a millionaire in the time it took him to scratch-off a lottery ticket. On a recommendation from a clerk at D&D Express Mart at 600 Graham Road in College Station, Steve Muller purchased two of the same $10 t ...

Slain missionary had worried about Mexico violence

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:21 PM PST

MONTE ALTO, Texas -- Sam and Nancy Davis had taken their missionary work to Mexico for 30 years, but relatives say the Texas couple recently put off trips because of spiraling drug cartel violence. Nancy even stopped making some of those trips becaus ...

Husband: US missionary shot by gunman in Mexico

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:55 AM PST

DALLAS -- A U.S. missionary working in Mexico who brought his mortally wounded wife to the border told authorities in the United States that gunmen in a pickup truck shot her in the head, police in Texas say. Nancy Davis, 59, died in a South Texas h ...

Woodwind quintet to perform at A&M

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

The Mexico City Woodwind Quintet is scheduled to perform at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 in Rudder Theatre.The concert is presented by the Texas A&M Department of Performance Studies. Admission will be $10 or $5 for students. The group will be on campus t ...

Property taxes due Monday

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:04 PM PST

A timely reminder: Monday is the deadline for 2010 property-tax payments. Beginning Tuesday, penalties and interest will be added to late payments. The Brazos County Tax Office is expecting a flood of phone calls Friday and Monday, so don't be surp ...

Taco Bell fights back on beef lawsuit with ad push

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 01:11 AM PST

Taco Bell is launching an advertising campaign Friday to fight back against a lawsuit charging its taco filling isn't beef. The fast-food chain placed full-page print ads in Friday's editions of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times a ...

Dallas woman jailed after child accidentally shot

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:24 PM PST

DALLAS -- A 30-year-old Dallas woman is jailed on firearms charges after an 11-year-old boy got a shotgun from her closet and shot an 8-year-old playmate fatally in the face. Stacy Maloney was booked into a Dallas County jail Wednesday with bonds to ...

Prison for man who shot at Dallas-area motorists

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:57 AM PST

DALLAS -- A judge in Dallas has ordered 90 years in prison for a man who shot at motorists. Two people were slightly hurt in the 2008 gunfire blamed on 24-year-old Thai-An Huu Nguyen. Investigators say Nguyen targeted random Asians and Hispanics in ...

48 killed in blast; Iraq death toll rises to 200

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST

BAGHDAD -- A car bomb exploded outside a funeral tent Thursday in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing at least 48 people -- the latest in a wave of attacks that has triggered fury over the government's inability to stop the bloodshed. As ambula ...

Shuttle crash still stirs nation after 25 years

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:03 PM PST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- For many, no single word evokes as much pain. Challenger. A quarter-century later, images of the exploding space shuttle still signify all that can go wrong with technology and the sharpest minds. The accident on Jan. 28, 198 ...

Investors fear debt-limit debate

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

The world's largest bond investor says the fight over raising the country's borrowing limit threatens to throw the debt market into a tailspin."It's the wrong way to do it," says Bill Gross, manager of the $241 billion Pimco Total Return Fund, the la ...

NATO: Afghan war not Vietnam

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:01 PM PST

BRUSSELS -- The Afghan army will not collapse when international troops end their combat role, in the way that South Vietnam's did in the 1970s, NATO's top officer said Thursday.Italian Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola said the international community intends ...

Driving through the flu season

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

Kayla Stracener, a Blinn nursing student, injects Chris Garwood with the flu vaccine at a Free Flu Vaccine Drive-thru Clinic on Thursday. The event provided a chance to test the county's ability to provide medication quickly to a large number of peop ...

Two local businesses given grant checks

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:08 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report Navasota Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors presented two sales tax grant checks to local businesses. Patty Tokoly, owner of Tokoly Event Center, was presented a NEDC Grant check for a $2,000 façade improvem ...

Organization names Green as director

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:08 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report A College Station businessman has been named to the board of directors for Mystery Shopping Providers Association. Mike Green, president of Customer Impact, will serve as secretary for the trade group dedicated to improving service ...

On-the-go banking app debuts on iPad

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:08 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report Branch Banking and Trust Company has launched a free iPad application. The application allows for banking access on-the-go and is now available for download on the iTunes App Store. "We are pleased to be able to offer our clients a ...

Woman honored for 10 years of service

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:01 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report A College Station woman recently received recognition for her dedication and years of service with Catholic Life Insurance. Linda Holubec was given a 10-year service award for her work with the insurance company that offers life in ...

Business After Hours social set for Feb. 10

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:59 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report The next Business After Hours social will be Feb. 10 at Kent Moore Cabinets. The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce event will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 1460 Fountain Ave., in Bryan. The free event will feature food, drinks ...

Early Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer: Medicine's Next Big Thing?

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:49 PM PST

CHAPEL HILL, NC (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You don't hear nearly as much about it as other kinds of cancers like lung cancer or breast cancer. But pancreatic cancer is the nation's fourth leading cause of cancer related death. By the time most patients a ...

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