Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Hospital breaks ground in CS

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT


Scott & White Healthcare broke ground Wednesday on a 320,000-square-foot hospital that company leaders said will make Brazos County's people and economy healthier.
The five-story, 143-bed hospital is expected to be completed by the summer of 2 ...

Brazos Valley museum celebrates 50 years

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT


The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is celebrating its past and future on Saturday with a 1950s-themed party.
Organizers are inviting the public to join them from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Brazos Center Ballroom, 3232 Briarcrest Drive, in Bryan ...

Case highlights court delays

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT


Brazos County court officials agree that keeping someone jailed for two years so that a jury can find him not guilty of charges isn't acceptable, but they also acknowledge that finding a solution to moving cases forward faster and more efficiently ...

A&M adds Fox to list of speakers

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT


Mexico's former president is scheduled to be at Texas A&M next week to speak about economics and corruption in Central and South America, sandwiched between visits to Aggieland by two other big names.
Vicente Fox, who led Mexico from 2000 to ...

CS school district to outline budget

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT


Bryan and College Station school-district administrators are struggling to deal with the expected consequences of state budget cuts to public education, without resorting to some of the drastic measures being taken by other Texas districts, such as ...

CS school district to outline budget

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT


Bryan and College Station school-district administrators are struggling to deal with the expected consequences of state budget cuts to public education, without resorting to some of the drastic measures being taken by other Texas districts, such as ...

Working past retirement

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT


Emilio and Gloria Lopez would be bored if they didn't work at their family laundry cleaning business in Bryan.
Emilio Lopez Sr., 78, and his 80-year-old wife spend a few hours each day at West 25th Cleaners, which they opened at 502 W. William Joe ...

Working past retirement

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT


Emilio and Gloria Lopez would be bored if they didn't work at their family laundry cleaning business in Bryan.
Emilio Lopez Sr., 78, and his 80-year-old wife spend a few hours each day at West 25th Cleaners, which they opened at 502 W. William Joe ...

Police: Man kicked in woman's door

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:08 AM PDT

A 27-year-old man faces a felony burglary charge after his girlfriend reported that he forced his way into her home.
Bennie Ray Campbell of College Station was charged Tuesday with burglary of a habitation.
An officer said he responded at 8:45 a.m. ...

Local student earns perfect score on ACT

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA College Station student recently achieved a perfect composite score on the ACT test.Junior Kyle Campbell, 17, scored a 36 on the test. School officials said this may be the first time someone in the district has scored this high o ...

Bryan officer vying for chief position

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:12 PM PDT


Peter Scheets, an assistant chief of police in Bryan, is one of five finalists for the job of chief in Richland, Washington.
If selected to be chief in Richland, Scheets would be moving about 2,000 miles away from Bryan, to a town with about 27,0 ...

Senate passes bill to ban synthetic pot

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT

Associated Press
AUSTIN -- Several new forms of synthetic marijuana would be banned in Texas, with penalties for possessing, selling or making the drugs ranging from a misdemeanor to felony, under a bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate.
The dr ...

Libya rebels losing ground

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT


AJDABIYA, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's ground forces recaptured a strategic oil town Wednesday and moved within striking distance of another major eastern city, nearly reversing the gains rebels made since international airstrikes began. Rebels plead ...

Losses couldn't shake Blair

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT

By ROBERT CESSNA
robert.cessna@theeagle.com
Teams that lose 12-point leads in conference championship games typically are devastated, especially when it's the eighth straight gut-wrenching loss to a rival and the third of the season.
Yet when the ...

CS film festival to show Fishbone history

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT

This weekend, the Texas Film Festival returns to College Station -- bringing with it a strong sampling of independent films from across the country.
Programmed by the Aggie SWAMP (Screenwriting, Acting and Movie Production) Club and sponsored by MSC ...

Oil hikes helping Texas

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- Higher oil prices may make consumers miserable, but unrest in the Middle East could mean billions of dollars in tax revenue for Texas' tight budget. The money is coming from Texas oil producers who have increased their rig counts to take ad ...

CS film festival to show Fishbone history

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT

This weekend, the Texas Film Festival returns to College Station -- bringing with it a strong sampling of independent films from across the country.
Programmed by the Aggie SWAMP (Screenwriting, Acting and Movie Production) Club and sponsored by MSC ...

U.S. lacks a border plan

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The federal government hasn't come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, even as an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigr ...

Developing world leads recovery

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The world's biggest economies are recovering from the Great Recession at troublesome speeds: too fast or too slow.
China, India and other major developing countries quickly returned to breakneck rates of growth after escaping the wor ...

U.S. doubts rebel success in Libya

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Fresh battlefield setbacks by rebels seeking to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are hardening a U.S. view that the poorly equipped opposition is probably incapable of prevailing without decisive Western intervention -- either an al ...

Fears of tainted seafood spread

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT

TOKYO -- Fears about contaminated seafood spread Wednesday despite reassurances that radiation in the waters off Japan's troubled atomic plant pose no health risk, as the country's respected emperor consoled evacuees from the tsunami and nuclear emer ...

Medicare to cover pricey prostate drug

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Medicare officials said Wednesday that the program will pay the $93,000 cost of prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that typically gives men suffering from the disease an extra four months to live.
The Centers for Me ...

Is streaming music the next big thing?

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- The founders of Skype are betting that a musical era is ending -- that chapter where people stored their music in digital files on a computer, an era that began in 2001 with Apple's iTunes.
Instead, they see a time where digital music stre ...

Facebook team brings culture to Austin office

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:10 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the planet, it is relying on a key tool to extend its unique culture -- the Landing Team.
A year ago, Facebook had no one in Aus ...

Crooks taking schemes online

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Among the growing ranks of consumers, business owners and others being lured by the convenience of online banking are legions of cybercrooks who have found the technology a convenient way to steal from unsuspecting victims.
More ...

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