Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Chain gang

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Boys connected by Hula-Hoops parade around Tuesday in front of the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History at recess time during the museum's Spring Mini-Camp 2011 in Bryan. Physics, chemistry and inventions are the focus of this year's camp, which u ...

Energy efforts might suffer

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT


The American nuclear power industry could see progression slowed or even halted for a period as a result of what's been transpiring at a Japanese nuclear power plant since Friday's earthquake and tsunami, according to Texas A&M nuclear engineer ...

Police: Robber was masked and armed

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Authorities on Tuesday continued to search for an armed man who late Monday robbed a Bryan convenience store wearing a mask.
Police responded at 9:32 p.m. to the Ready 2 Go convenience store, at 1600 South College Ave., for a report of an aggravated ...

Leaders reach agreement on tapping Rainy Day Fund

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:28 AM PDT


AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry and House leaders have reached an agreement to use $3.2 billion from the state's reserve fund to close a deficit in the current budget.
The announcement Tuesday clears the way for an end to a stalemate, in which Rep. Jim ...

BISD interviews pair of candidates

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT


The Bryan school board on Tuesday interviewed two superintendent candidates while over in Austin, state representatives are pushing a bill to allow for more transparency in districts' searches for the top post.
Two men spent about 90 minutes each ...

Japan prepares to restart work at nuclear plant

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:18 AM PDT


FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Emergency workers forced to retreat from a tsunami-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant when radiation levels soared prepared to return Wednesday night after emissions dropped to safer levels.
The pullback cost precious time i ...

Courthouse renovation plans taking shape

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:07 PM PDT


The next phase of renovations to the Brazos County Courthouse will likely begin in May.
Brazos County commissioners were updated on the courthouse renovations at their regular meeting on Tuesday as Fred Patterson, vice president of Patterson Arch ...

Police probe two robberies

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

It was unclear late Tuesday if two robberies that happened within two hours at Bryan and College Station convenience stores were connected, police said. Officer Jon Agnew, a spokesman for Bryan police, said the Bryan robbery may have been captured on ...

Authorities: Man fled home during arrest

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Brazos County sheriff's deputies responded to a call for assistance just before 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Wixon Valley area after a man fled his home when officers attempted to arrest him on a felony warrant related to theft charges.
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Japanese plant not a threat to U.S. -- for now

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT


It's a big ocean between northeastern Japan and the United States and thousands of miles from the crippled nuclear power plant to much of Asia.
That means there's little chance -- at least for now -- that radiation from the shattered reactors coul ...

Broad gag order issued in Texas sex assault case

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 12:54 AM PDT

LIBERTY -- A Texas judge has issued a sweeping gag order barring anyone who could be called to testify at the trial of 18 men and boys accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl from talking to the news media.Liberty County District Judge Mar ...

Choose Life plate on way to approval

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Texans may soon be able to flaunt "Choose Life" specialty license plates to show their opposition to abortion rights, after the state Senate gave its initial approval Tuesday to a bill that would add the plates to a list of about 200 othe ...

Radiation pills in demand after crisis

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:07 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Japan's nuclear crisis is spiking demand in the U.S. and a few other places for a cheap drug that can protect against one type of radiation damage -- even though the risk is only in Japan.Health agencies in California and western Canada ...

Prison for Texas bank robber, showed 2 forms of ID

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:25 AM PDT


DALLAS -- A Dallas bank robber who abided by a teller's request to provide two forms of identification before she could give him money is going to prison.
A federal judge Tuesday sentenced 49-year-old Nathan Wayne Pugh of Sachse to more than ei ...

New border technology slow to be deployed

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 04:54 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Technology to replace a now defunct virtual fence project at the Mexican border likely won't be fully in place for at least another decade, maybe longer, according to the Government Accountability Office.Richard Stana, director of homel ...

Toddler treated for alcoholism in UK

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:14 AM PDT

Hospital authorities say they have treated a 3-year-old child for alcoholism.The Heart of England NHS Trust that runs three hospitals in central England confirmed Tuesday that a child had been treated by medical staff after being given alcohol regula ...

House OKs 3-week stopgap budget bill

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:07 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday passed a measure blending $6 billion in budget cuts with enough money to keep the government running for an additional three weeks. The measure would buy additional time for talks between Capitol Hill Republicans an ...

Bus driver has troubling past

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Investigators looking into a weekend tour bus crash in New York City that killed 15 people are focusing on the driver, a man with a decades-old manslaughter conviction who was not supposed to be driving because he never resolved sever ...

A look back at the Holocaust

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

A portrait of William and Herta Drucker, a Jewish couple who lived during the Nazi occupation in Austria in 1938, hangs next to a placard of their own words describing the experience of fleeing the regime to the Dominican Republic. It's one of many s ...

Dion returns to Vegas with new show

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:06 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS -- On the stage that French-Canadian power ballads built, Celine Dion rolls her body, drops her hips and shimmies in a gold sparkly mini-dress that looks like it was swiped from Beyonci's closet.This is Dion as Tina Turner, her robust voice ...

Eva Longoria talks divorce with Allure magazine

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:29 AM PDT

Eva Longoria is opening up about her divorce from basketball player Tony Parker in the April issue of Allure magazine.The "Desperate Housewives" star says talking about the breakup from the San Antonio Spurs player makes her "want to cry" but she's t ...

Restaurant Monitor, March 3-10

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT

The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department.
Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A ...

Health and fitness calendar

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT

CLINIC
Thursday
* Shots for Tots and Teens. 3-5:30 p.m. St. Joseph Education Annex, corner of East 29th Street and Broadmoor. $5 immunizations for kids 2 months to 18 years old provided by the Brazos County Health Department. Bring shot record. 731 ...

State budget cuts hit mental health services

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT


DENVER -- State budget writers looking for cash to balance the books have stripped a cumulative $1.8 billion from mental health services over the last 2 1/2 years, putting the public at risk as the mentally ill crowd emergency rooms and prisons, ac ...

Adolescent medicine: A specialty for teen patients

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Laurel Carignan was filling out some insurance paperwork in her pediatrician's office recently when she overheard a conversation between her 12-year-old daughter, who was chatting with a toddler in the waiting room, and a nurse who had just walked ...

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