Today's News from TheEagle.com |  |
- Baseball booster
- Health Science Center overbooks Class of 2015
- Road rage claim gets man three charges
- Human medical testing uncovered
- Detroit seeing war of classes
- 'King's Speech' awarded best picture
- About 110,000 acres burn in West Texas wildfires
- Docs: Parents shouldn't fret over fevers
- Last living US WWI vet dies in W. Va. at age 110
- High pump prices rattle drivers and businesses
- Governors challenge Obama legislation
- Charge to be filed in deadly Houston daycare fire
- Calif. pot retailers get huge tax bills
- Dallas-area man, 66, dies in police shooting
- Gadhafi: An 'eccentric' man
- N. Korea threatens to attack, build up arsenal
- Christchurch prays for quake victims
- Afghan gov't: 65 civilians killed in op
- A banner week for our local arts
- Stop robbing Peter to pay Paul
- Inside the Oscars: Moments you didn't see on TV
- Blues legend Eddie Kirkland dies in Fla. wreck
- Divas, rockers, stars flock to Oscar parties
- Sheen says he wants a raise to return to show
- Letters for February 28
| Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST Ellison Sims, 5, gets some extra assistance from the steady hand of her mother, Jillian Sims, as they watch Texas A&M bat in the fifth inning against Gonzaga on Sunday at Olsen Field. The Bulldogs' bats connected for a 6-3 win over the Aggies. |
| Health Science Center overbooks Class of 2015 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST The number of students higher-education institutions accept is a calculated risk: Space is limited, and officials each year make more offers than they can accommodate, with the knowledge that all who are accepted won't agree to attend. This year, ... |
| Road rage claim gets man three charges Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:34 PM PST Eagle Staff Report An apparent case of road rage at Northgate turned into three felony charges for a 27-year-old Fayetteville man early Saturday. According to police documents, Herman Jerome Harris Jr. nearly hit another car in a convenience store ... |
| Human medical testing uncovered Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus u ... |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Three years ago, Lamar Grace left Detroit for the suburb of Southfield. He got a good deal -- a 3,000-square-foot colonial that once was worth $220,000. In foreclosure, he paid $109,000. The neighbors were not pleased. "They ... |
| 'King's Speech' awarded best picture Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- The King's Speech was crowned best picture Sunday at an Academy Awards ceremony as precise as a state coronation, the monarchy drama leading as expected with four Oscars and predictable favorites claiming acting honors. Colin Firth ... |
| About 110,000 acres burn in West Texas wildfires Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:29 PM PST AMARILLO, Texas -- Wildfires have burned more than 110,000 acres and destroyed nearly 70 homes after a dry, windy day in West Texas. Texas Forest Service spokesman Lewis Kearney says the agency's firefighting aircraft, which were grounded Sunday d ... |
| Docs: Parents shouldn't fret over fevers Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST CHICAGO -- Fever phobia is rampant among parents of young children, according to a myth-busting American Academy of Pediatrics report that advises against treatment every time a kid's temperature inches up. "There's a lot of parental anxiety about ... |
| Last living US WWI vet dies in W. Va. at age 110 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:36 PM PST MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at age 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of Wold War I. A family spokesman says Buckles, w ... |
| High pump prices rattle drivers and businesses Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:34 PM PST By JONATHAN FAHEY and SANDY SHORE AP Energy Writers NEW YORK -- High fuel prices are putting the squeeze on drivers' wallets just as they are starting to feel better about the economy. They're also forcing tough choices on small-business owners who ... |
| Governors challenge Obama legislation Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Barack Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign.Some are rejecting federal money fo ... |
| Charge to be filed in deadly Houston daycare fire Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:32 PM PST HOUSTON -- Prosecutors say they plan to file a charge against a woman who ran a Houston home daycare center where a deadly blaze last week killed four children. Harris County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Donna Hawkins said Sunday that Je ... |
| Calif. pot retailers get huge tax bills Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST BERKELEY, Calif. -- In Northern California, few cities have worked as long or as hard as Berkeley and Oakland to nudge medical marijuana into the mainstream. But life in the mainstream brings its own set of mainstream problems. Even as fears of cr ... |
| Dallas-area man, 66, dies in police shooting Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:33 PM PST GARLAND, Texas -- A 66-year-old Dallas-area man is dead after, according to police, he threatened officers with a gun.The incident happened Saturday night in a residential neighborhood of Garland, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. A Garland police sta ... |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST Moammar Gadhafi was many things over many years: a dashing icon of Libyan revolution, a brazen patron of terrorists, the custodian of vast oil wealth, a dictator whose flamboyance masked grit and guile, and a longtime pariah on the road to rehabili ... |
| N. Korea threatens to attack, build up arsenal Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea threatened Sunday to enlarge its nuclear arsenal and "mercilessly" attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared for joint military drills which the North considers a rehearsal for invasion.North K ... |
| Christchurch prays for quake victims Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Parishioners came together Sunday in parks and on the lawns of churches broken in New Zealand's earthquake to pray for the dead and missing. They sought togetherness and an answer to the question on everyone's mind: Why ... |
| Afghan gov't: 65 civilians killed in op Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST KABUL, Afghanistan -- Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in eastern Afghanistan earlier this month, according to findings of an Afghan government investigation released Sunday.Tribal leaders had a ... |
| A banner week for our local arts Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST What a fantastic week last week, for the Borden family, but, more importantly, for the arts community and, indeed, the entire Brazos Valley. For me, it began on Feb. 20 with the world premiere of a composition for jazz quartet and orchestra by the ... |
| Stop robbing Peter to pay Paul Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST By BILLY HAMILTON It's official. With the comptroller's revenue estimate released, the task ahead for Texas lawmakers will be extremely challenging. No one expected anything less. With a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall, it will take some t ... |
| Inside the Oscars: Moments you didn't see on TV Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:42 PM PST LOS ANGELES -- The highest concentration of cameras anywhere in the world Sunday was probably at the 83rd Academy Awards. Besides the hundreds of TV cameras on the red carpet, and a worldwide broadcast beamed to more than 200 countries, there were we ... |
| Blues legend Eddie Kirkland dies in Fla. wreck Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:38 PM PST CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. -- An 88-year-old blues legend known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" was killed in Florida when his car turned into the path of a Greyhound bus. Eddie Kirkland was traveling southeast on U.S. Highway 98 in Crystal River, north of T ... |
| Divas, rockers, stars flock to Oscar parties Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:38 PM PST WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Cee Lo Green, Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler. With pop stars, R&B singers and long-haired rockers galore at parties following the Academy Awards, the glam festivities felt more like the Grammys th ... |
| Sheen says he wants a raise to return to show Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:37 PM PST NEW YORK -- Charlie Sheen says he wants a raise to come back to the CBS show "Two and a Half Men."The troubled star appeared on dueling morning show interviews Monday to continue an attack on CBS and producers of his hit sitcom for shutting down the ... |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST CS wise to promote walking and bicycling As a member of the College Station Bicycle, Pedestrian and Greenways Advisory Board, I volunteer my time to support ongoing bicycling and walking projects and programs sponsored by and funded by the city. ... |
| You are subscribed to email updates from All Stories | The Bryan College Station Eagle To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment