Sunday, January 30, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Dancing into the Chinese New Year

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

A group of dancers perform the Chinese classical dance "Tage" at the Texas A&M Chinese Students and Scholars annual Spring Festival at Rudder Auditorium on Saturday. The event, which featured dance, martial arts, music and drama,celebrated the Ch ...

Loftin: Cuts can't keep A&M down

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

Texas A&M could face a $61 million reduction in state formula funding for the two-year period that begins in September, in addition to a $13 million cut in the Competitive Knowledge Fund and $12 million in financial aid mostly for the neediest s ...

Bryan mulling shelter decision

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

It is still unclear what the city of Bryan will do concerning its future with the Brazos Animal Shelter after College Station leaders indicated last week that they'd like to remain partnered with the organization. The nonprofit shelter has cared for ...

Economy continues upswing in B-CS

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

The Bryan-College Station economic index for last month was up 2.6 percent over its December 2009 level -- the largest year-over-year improvement since 2008. The index stood at 120.3 in December, down by just 0.1 points from November. The index is p ...

Bryan man stabbed at Northgate

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

College Station police were searching late Saturday for a man who stabbed another man at Logan's bar in Northgate earlier that day. Two other men are also being sought for questioning in the incident. According to police, the suspect is described as ...

Outgoing official praises CS

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

College Station City Manager Glenn Brown is familiar with controversy. His career as the city's top employee began in 2005 after the politically charged firing of Tom Breymer, which landed the City Council in court for violating the Open Meetings A ...

Fair offers info on services for disabled

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report A fair to better acquaint persons with disabilities with available resources is scheduled for 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Brazos Center. The Disability and Transition Resource Fair is sponsored by the Bryan and College S ...

Authorities ID man who died in chase

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA man who died after he was involved in a collision while being chased by state troopers in Burleson County was identified Saturday as Justin Michael Anderson.Anderson, 30, of Leander, died at the scene of the accident along Texas 2 ...

Mubarak's rule at turning point

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

CAIRO -- With protests raging, Egypt's president named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president on Saturday, setting the stage for a successor as chaos engulfed the capital. Soldiers stood by -- a few even joining the demonstrators -- ...

Obama's restructuring may entail Commerce cuts

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- It was a big laugh line in President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech: "The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater. I hear it ...

Acapulco tourism thriving despite drug war

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Acapulco long ago lost the international popularity contest to Cancun. Yet one of Mexico's oldest resort cities endures, despite a ruinous swine-flu outbreak in 2009 and now drug-gang beheadings and massacres. Acapulco, a drug-tr ...

Texas marks 150th anniversary of secession

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

HUNTSVILLE -- Sam Houston tried to tell Texans secession and joining the Confederacy wouldn't work. He warned of "rivers of blood," a generation left dead or crippled by war and ultimate defeat of the South at the hands of the industrial superior No ...

Teen called from slain sister's cell

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

AMHERST, N.Y. -- The teenage sister of one of four prostitutes found slain on Long Island received a half-dozen calls from the victim's cell phone in the six weeks after she disappeared in 2009, her family said on Thursday. Melissa Barthelemy's sis ...

Obama pushing for nationwide broadband access

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

EAST BURKE, Vt. -- Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns -- decades after the rest of America got turned on. These days, it's the digital revolution that remains but a rumor in much of rural America. ...

Big Texas welcome for big game

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

DALLAS -- The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will really know they're in Texas when they get to their hotels and see the handmade saddles waiting for them, made especially to mark their visit."They can go to Miami, they can go to New Orlea ...

Cozying up to the farm animals

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:07 PM PST

Mason Carter, 2, looks to his mother, Misti, (not pictured) as A&M Consolidated student and Future Farmers of America member Mariah Chambers shows him a pig at a free Petting Zoo in College Station on Saturday. Students in the A&M Consolidate ...

Buzz surrounds creator of beehive hairdo

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

ELMHURST, Ill. -- Before Marge Simpson, Amy Winehouse or Audrey Hepburn wore their hair in the famous beehive, there was Margaret Vinci Heldt and her salon on Chicago's ritzy Michigan Avenue. As the 92-year-old retired hairstylist tells it, Modern B ...

Can't decide how to redecorate? You have plenty of company

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Full disclosure: I don't suffer from the indecisive decorator affliction. I take after my mother, who can nail the perfect paint shade from a hundred yards. We know what we like, and we know it when we see it. But for many folks, who are more self-c ...

Crafters find Tyvek can do more than just wrap houses

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

It's used to wrap homes during construction. It's also a sturdy mailing envelope. It can be a tote bag, an identification wristband, a banner, a map. A race bib, a lamp shade, a camping ground cloth or a hoodie. Tyvek is used for all of these things ...

Bryan students 'Crazy' for award-winning musical

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Kudos to the fine arts department at Bryan High School for treading new waters this week. You see, they're putting on a musical and it's not called High School Musical or Grease. I mean, like, dude, any school could do that! Matter of fact, it's a mu ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

BRAZOS VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Music Director and Conductor Marcelo Bussiki and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra musicians recently presented the annual Children's Concerts to 4,059 fourth- and fifth-graders and their teacher escorts in two per ...

Calendar

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 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. Southwood Community Center, 1520 Rock Prairie Road. Visitors welcome. 764- ...

Students of the week

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Students of the week receive a T-shirt courtesy of The Eagle and C.C. Creations. Rebekah Norris Facts: 11-year-old sixth-grader at Cypress Grove Intermediate in College Station. Parents/ guardian: Dennis and Laura Norris Favorite subject: Math Favori ...

School menus

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:05 PM PST

Here are this week's school menus. Milk is included. Allen Academy A menu was not available for this week. Bryan Monday: Crispy steak fingers, pepperoni Hot Pocket, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, toast, fruit. Tuesday: Baked chicken, barbec ...

Rogers-Melin II

Posted: 29 Jan 2011 04:00 PM PST

Sara Evelyn Rogers, of College Station and 2nd Lt. Glen Eric Melin II of Corpus Christi,  were united in holy matrimony on Sunday December 19, 2010 at the Art Center of Corpus Christi. Pastor Glen Melin, father of the groom, officiated the cerem ...

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