Aggies rolled at Reed Arena Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:46 PM PST Texas A&M forward Marshall Carrell pulls his warm-up jacket over his head in frustration after watching his teammates lose the ball to Texas late in the second half of the Longhorns' 69-49 drubbing of the Aggies in Reed Arena on Monday night. |
Cold weather heads for Brazos Valley Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST Don't start putting away those winter clothes yet. National Weather Service officials said a cold front is expected to hit the Brazos Valley early- to mid-morning Tuesday with northwest winds anticipated to be between 20 and 30 mph. Before tempera ... |
Pursuit policies based on officers' judgment Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST Three chases in three nights isn't the norm in the Brazos Valley, area law enforcement officials said. But that's what happened over the weekend. Officers said they don't take the decision to engage in vehicle pursuits lightly, and a lot is consid ... |
Navarro Elementary students being sent home Posted: 01 Feb 2011 01:00 AM PST Parents of Navarro Elementary School students in Bryan are being asked to pick up their kids as soon as possible. The school has no power or phone service. There are emergency lights but there is no heat. Students remaining at the school after 11 a. ... |
A&M offers VP spot to former Gates staffer Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST Robert Gates' chief of staff while he served as Texas A&M president likely will fill a top spot in current president R. Bowen Loftin's administration as well. Rodney McClendon has been offered the $270,000-a-year post of vice president for admi ... |
Messina Hof plans to expand into Hill Country Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST Messina Hof Winery plans to expand to a Hill Country location by the end of the year. Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo, the winery's owners, said the 10-acre resort will be in Gillespie County off of U.S. 290 East, between Fredericksburg and Stonewall. Th ... |
Man charged with burglarizing vehicles at church lot Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:56 AM PST A 17-year-old man remained jailed Monday, accused of breaking into five vehicles at a Bryan church parking lot and stealing electronics. The Bryan man was charged Sunday with five counts of burglary of a vehicle and unlawful use of a criminal instrum ... |
Texan cited as world's oldest person dead at 114 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 11:10 PM PST JACKSONVILLE, Texas -- An East Texas woman cited as the world's oldest person has died at the age of 114. Eunice G. Sanborn of Jacksonville died Monday morning at her home, according to Patricia Ellis of Boren-Conner Funeral Home of Jacksonville. Sa ... |
Tuesday Silver Taps set for 4 students Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportFour Texas A&M students who died recently will be honored at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at the university's Silver Taps ceremony. The campus will be darkened at 10:20 p.m. while family, friends and students gather in silence on the Acad ... |
Superintendents seek to save schools budgets Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:16 AM PST AUSTIN, Texas -- Dozens of school superintendents with thousands of letters from across Texas have a message for legislators: Make education a priority. The administrators met Monday in Austin to urge the Legislature not to make public schools bear ... |
Event delving into global energy needs Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST Eagle Staff ReportThe Texas A&M System's Energy Engineering Institute will host a two-day event in which experts will address global challenges regarding energy security and sustainability. The event Tuesday and Wednesday will be at the Hilton Ho ... |
Egyptian protesters have love, hate for the U.S. Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST CAIRO -- One of the insults flung at President Hosni Mubarak by Egyptian protesters seeking his ouster was: "Mubarak, you coward! You American collaborator!" Hostility toward the United States is widespread among the crowds in Cairo's streets, who f ... |
Budget draft cuts funds to disabled children Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST AUSTIN -- The state will cut assistance to half the autistic children currently receiving help and a third of blind children from state programs under the Texas Senate's current budget proposal, officials said Monday. State senators on the finance ... |
Judge rules health care overhaul is unconstitutional Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:40 PM PST PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance. Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed ... |
Texas law libraries feeling squeeze Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:42 PM PST By JOHN W. GONZALEZ San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- The writing is on the wall. "The time is coming when there won't be anything but computers in libraries," Bexar County Law Library administrator Jimmy Allison said last week. In the meantime ... |
Government wants salt shaken from American diets Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST WASHINGTON -- The government is telling half of the U.S. population to drastically cut their daily salt intake. For the first time, the Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments are telling people who are 51 and older, all African-Amer ... |
GM stakes millions on Super Bowl ads Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST NEW YORK -- General Motors Co. is back in the Super Bowl in a big way.The automaker will air five Chevrolet commercials during the Feb. 6 game on Fox, the company said Monday, along with two ads in the pregame show and one in the post-game show, whic ... |
Massive storm begins trek across Midwest Posted: 31 Jan 2011 11:42 PM PST ST. LOUIS -- Midwesterners accustomed to dealing with snow, sleet and ice have prepared for a monster winter storm that could be bigger than many cities in the nation's midsection have seen in years. Some people even seem a little excited at the pro ... |
Arthritis Patients Not Getting Recommended Drugs Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling disease that eats away at the joints and causes severe pain and swelling, aren't receiving their much-needed, low-cost drugs that prevent deformity. Despite medical guidelines re ... |
Repeat MRI Scanning More Effective For Breast Cancer Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- MRI screening for breast cancer shows consistent rate of cancer detection and fewer false positives if repeated over time, according to a new study.While MRI can be more effective than mammography at identifying suspicious area ... |
Cancer Drug + Other Therapies = Higher Death Risk Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:46 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) A breakdown of previous studies shows that compared with chemotherapy alone, use of the cancer drug bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy or biological therapy is associated with an increased risk of treatment-related deat ... |
Super Bowl Loss: A Health Risk for Fans? Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:47 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Attention sports fans: If your team loses, your heart may be at risk. Researchers assessed how often emotional stress translates to cardiac death in men, women and older people when their team lost a big game. They ran regressi ... |
Safety Checklist = Drop in Hospital Deaths Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:48 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study reveals a Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units (ICUs) throughout Michigan also appears to have reduced deaths by 10-percent. " ... |
High Spending Saves Lives? Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:44 PM PST (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Previous research has shown regions spending more on medical care do not have better health outcomes compared to regions that spend relatively less. However, a new study shows that when patients are hospitalized for a major acu ... |
Saving Pets, Saving People: Tackling Tumors Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:43 PM PST LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Diabetes, cancer, leukemia: all very real diseases that not only kill people, but our pets as well. New research is proving if doctors can save our pets from deadly diseases, the same medicine may just save ... |
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