Friday, February 4, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Storm brings snow to Brazos Valley

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

The recent cold weather in Bryan-College Station hasn't broken any records, but it has caused a few trees to snap, some barns to collapse and now will bring a few inches of snow to the Brazos Valley, meteorologists predict. "Closer to midnight and ...

Efforts to conserve energy prevent more rolling outages

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

Thanks to power conservation by Texans Wednesday night and Thursday morning, state utility officials said they didn't have to implement another round of rolling outages. Officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas had predicted that ...

Brazos Valley area under winter storm warning

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:34 AM PST

Forcasters were correct: The Brazos Valley area is being hit with freezing rain, sleet and snow Friday, and driving conditions are dangerous. The National Weather Service early Friday issued a winter storm warning through noon Friday for all of south ...

CS water needs are under scrutiny

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

College Station city staff worry that they may lose access to water needed for future growth because of disagreements among the Brazos Valley Groundwater Conservation District board over whether the city is asking for more than it needs. All of the c ...

A&M, B-CS classes to start late on Friday

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 06:50 AM PST

Texas A&M University and the Bryan and College Station school districts will have delayed start times on Friday due to the expectation of bad weather. Blinn College classes will begin at 10 a.m. Friday. Thursday night classes will go on as schedu ...

TxDOT: Driving conditions dangerous in Brazos Valley

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:55 PM PST

The Texas Department of Transportation early Friday urged Brazos Valley area residents to stay home and don’t drive unless necessary. TxDOT spokesman Bob Colwell said most roads have ice on the bridges and roadways throughout the Bryan District ...

Most BV schools closed because of snow

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:36 PM PST

Brazos Valley area schools and businesses are closed or opening late today because of the weather. School closures: • College Station ISD • Bryan ISD • Anderson-Shiro ISD. District officials said all extracurricular events on Friday ha ...

VP post focus of regent's meeting

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

The Texas A&M System Board of Regents will meet Friday in College Station, where it will consider approving a vice president for administration at the flagship campus. Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin and System Chancellor Mike McKinne ...

Contintental cancels Easterwood flights tonight and Friday morning

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 08:14 AM PST

Officials with Easterwood Airport in College Station said Continental Airplanes is canceling flights scheduled for Thursday night and Friday morning, anticipating freezing rain. It wasn’t immediately clear how many flights to and from Houston w ...

Winter storm cancels some area events, classes

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 06:05 AM PST

• Parent orientation meetings scheduled for 6 p.m. today at Bryan High School and Rudder High School have been canceled. The meetings will be rescheduled at a later date. Parent orientation and PTO meetings at Fannin, Johnson and Henderson eleme ...

Barbara Bush encourages kids to hone reading skills

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

Eleven-year-old Samuel Smith said Barbara Bush told good jokes. Smith joined about 600 students from College Station and Bryan schools on Thursday at the annual Reading Discovery Distance Learning Program with the former first lady. More than 30,0 ...

Police: CS couple sold pot, prescription pills

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:06 AM PST

A College Station couple faces felony drug charges after police reported finding marijuana and prescription pills at their home. Ashley Taylor Newman, 18, and Aaron Anthony Amador, 19, were each jailed Wednesday on charges of possession of less than ...

Cancellations in your area

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

Texas A&M University, Blinn College and area school districts will have delayed start times on Friday due to the expectation of bad weather. * All Bryan and College Station schools will start two hours later. In Bryan, that includes campuses with ...

Texas cancels emergency

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:02 PM PST

HOUSTON -- Frozen valves, control equipment and transducers at Texas' largest power plants caused emergency rolling outages on some of the coldest days of the year, and it remains unclear whether plant operators properly prepared and maintained their ...

Police: Drugs found during traffic stop

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportA 41-year-old Bryan man remained in the Brazos County Jail Thursday on three drug charges, including felony possession of cocaine and ecstasy. According to the police report, an officer on patrol near the intersection of College Mai ...

Super Bowl ads go beyond game

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:00 PM PST

NEW YORK -- The Super Bowl commercial blitz is extending beyond the usual talking babies and office chimps to engage viewers online and get more for advertisers' $3 million-plus investment.Marketers are using every trick in the playbook to dominate t ...

Winter driving tips

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

WINTER DRIVING TIPS * Remove snow and ice from car windows, headlights and taillights before driving. * Increase following distances, and accelerate slowly. * Break gently, using slow and steady strokes in order to judge how much traction you ha ...

Alleged beating of Houston teen suspect on tape

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:06 AM PST

HOUSTON -- Surveillance video of the March arrest of a burglary suspect appears to show Houston police officers kicking and stomping on him. KTRK-TV obtained the surveillance video and aired it Wednesday night. The 16-year-old boy, Chad Holley, was c ...

Chaos spreading throughout Egypt

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:01 PM PST

CAIRO -- Protesters and government supporters fought in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while more lawlessness spread around the city. New looting and arson erupted, and gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubara ...

Senate: Ft. Hood tragedy avoidable

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:03 PM PST

A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting is sharply critical of the FBI's failure to recognize warning signs that an Army psychiatrist had become an Islamist extremist and amounted to a "ticking time bomb." The report concluded that both the Def ...

Bill would cut school electricity rates

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:01 PM PST

Associated Press AUSTIN -- A state senator has proposed legislation that would give Texas school districts the same 20 percent reduction in base electricity rates that colleges and universities currently receive. State Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Wort ...

Drafts won't trim execs' pay

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:01 PM PST

AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry, statewide elected officials and appointed agency leaders -- many of whom are paid $150,000 or more -- may not personally share the financial pain that teachers, disabled care workers and other state employees are expected t ...

GOP trying to cut agency budgets

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:00 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Republicans now controlling the House promised Thursday to slash domestic agencies' budgets by almost 20 percent for the coming year, the first salvo in what's sure to be a bruising battle over their drive to cut federal spending to w ...

I-Spy Cancer Killer

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST

SAN DIEGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women with advanced breast cancer are often faced with difficult choices. Treatments come with dangerous side effects and poor outcomes. But a new course provides more personalized care for patients, giving them the m ...

Predicting the Spread of Liver Cancer

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:47 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with cancer typically don't die as a result of their initially diagnosed tumor.  Conversely, many do so as a result of metastatic disease the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent or ...

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