Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Test your strength

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

Andy Kopel of Highland Park hangs motionless while competing in the rings at a gymnastics meet at Rudder High School on Friday.

Jury sequestered in murder trial

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


After deliberating for six hours Friday, the jury in the capital murder trial of 27-year-old Artis Lee Pollard had not reached a verdict and was ordered sequestered until Monday morning, when it will resume deliberations.
Phil Banks, one of Pollar ...

Gas prices to continue rise

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

Gasoline prices probably will continue ratcheting upward, as unrest persists in the Middle East and demand grows. And while the rising costs will likely cause some people to adjust their driving habits, many just can't afford to do that. Take Kevin M ...

New, old faces set up at home, garden show

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:40 PM PST


Organizers of this year's Home, Garden and Recreation Expo said attendees should expect a show with several new vendors and seminars.
"About half the vendors from last year are back, the others are all new," said Stacy Dent, chairwoman of the Exp ...

Flores talks with residents in B-CS

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

U.S. Rep. Bill Flores fielded questions ranging from how to address the budget deficit to his position on gay marriage at his first town hall meeting in Bryan-College Station on Friday night. About 250 constituents gathered at Sam Rayburn Middle Scho ...

Police: Man charged with felony after discarding marijuana blunt

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:52 AM PST

A 36-year-old man faces a felony charge after being accused of discarding a marijuana cigar in a College Station creek.
Roderick Devonne Merchant of College Station was charged Thursday with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. Merchant ...

Activities aim to dispel engineering stereotype

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


Who knew that free pizza, a beach volleyball tournament and a free concert had anything to do with engineering?
National Engineers Week will run Monday through Friday at Texas A&M. The goal of the event is to increase awareness of engineering ...

Pet of the week: Bobby

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:53 AM PST


Man faces another charge after outburst

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

Eage Staff Report
A 28-year-old Bryan man who had been jailed since Feb. 7 on outstanding warrants now faces an additional charge of criminal mischief for allegedly damaging video-conferencing equipment while he was waiting for magistrate's court to ...

Church meeting at the movies

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


The smell of popcorn is in the air. People file in and sit in large, comfortable chairs. The video begins to play on a large screen. And it's time for ... church.
Sunday morning will bring a first for Bryan-College Station churches when Connectin ...

Church meeting at the movies

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


The smell of popcorn is in the air. People file in and sit in large, comfortable chairs. The video begins to play on a large screen. And it's time for ... church.
Sunday morning will bring a first for Bryan-College Station churches when Connectin ...

Alleged terrorist appears in court

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

LUBBOCK -- The world is watching to see how the justice system treats a college student from Saudi Arabia who is accused of buying chemicals online as part of a plan to blow up key U.S. targets, his attorney said Friday. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari appear ...

Deadly fire at day care investigated

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


HOUSTON -- A state agency was investigating Friday whether a woman left seven preschoolers alone in her home day care center before a fire broke out, killing three of the youngsters and injuring the others.
The Texas Department of Family and Prot ...

Consumers eagerly await launch date of safety complaint website

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- Parents who have tragically lost children, and consumer advocates are eagerly awaiting March 11, the formal launch date for the government database SaferProducts.gov, where people can share complaints of injury or worse from everyday pr ...

Family mourns loss of 4

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

MAYFIELD, Ky. -- A horse-drawn buggy carrying an Amish family home from dinner and using a community telephone toppled in a rain-swollen creek in rural Kentucky, killing four children who were swept away in the swift-moving water, authorities said Fr ...

Obama picks gay man as social secretary

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- The Obama White House broke decades of tradition Friday, naming the first man to ever serve as social secretary in the female-dominated East Wing.
Jeremy Bernard, a senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to France, will soon trade Par ...

18-year-old has eyes on mayor's seat

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

By ALLEN ESSEX
Valley Morning Star
LYFORD -- Jorge Isaac Torres not only runs in the Lyford High School Bulldogs track team, the 18-year-old also is running for mayor of his hometown.
A very serious young man, Torres plans to build a career of pub ...

'Gasland' gets its chance at an Oscar

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST


ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The natural gas industry has spent months attacking the documentary Gasland as a deeply flawed piece of propaganda. After it was nominated for an Oscar, an industry-sponsored PR group asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

Saturday
* The Dallas/Jarvis Christian College Alumni Association will host its Thirteenth Annual Heritage Scholarship Banquet at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport Hotel in Irving. Ruby Hines Henry, who was born in Bryan, will receive the Heritag ...

Uprisings are chances for religious revolutions

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 PM PST

By BRUCE CHABOT
"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the curre ...

Letters for February 26

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST

Thanks to a wonderfully supportive community
On Dec. 24, a wonderful, loving, caring young couple was suddenly taken from the Texas A&M and Bryan-College Station community. Chris Stiegler and his wife Jenny were killed in a tragic automobile acc ...

THIRD & SHORT: Tech hires new AD

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:22 PM PST

COLLEGES
Texas Tech's search for a new athletic director to replace the retiring Gerald Myers is over.
Texas Tech announced Friday that Miami (Fla.) athletic director Kirby Hocutt will leave his post with the Hurricanes to take the same position at ...

Calendar

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:06 PM PST

Mark your calendar
Voices for Children's 8th Annual Art of Helping Children Auction and Dinner will be from 6 to 9 p.m. March 5 at the Brazos County Expo Complex. Tickets are $65 per person. A raffle is also being held. For more information, visit ...

Wisconsin Assembly passes bill taking away union rights

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:35 PM PST


MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Demo ...

SPORTS IN BRIEF

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST

Rangers 3B Beltre out with calf strain
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- New Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre will miss at least the first week of spring training games, and likely more after that, because of a bothersome right calf strain.
The team said ...

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