Sunday, May 15, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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College Station mayor, councilmembers beat recall effort

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Voters in College Station overwhelmingly rejected the recall of Mayor Nancy Berry and two city councilmembers on Saturday.
Berry, Place 4 Councilwoman Katy Marie Lyles and Place 6 Councilman Dave Ruesink each kept their seats with more than 70 pe ...

College Station mayor, councilmembers beat recall effort

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Voters in College Station overwhelmingly rejected the recall of Mayor Nancy Berry and two city councilmembers on Saturday.
Berry, Place 4 Councilwoman Katy Marie Lyles and Place 6 Councilman Dave Ruesink each kept their seats with more than 70 pe ...

Coalition loses bid for College Station council

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Candidates of the "conservative coalition" vying for three seats on the College Station City Council were resoundingly defeated Saturday.
Instead, two candidates who ran as more moderate choices but still claimed fiscally responsible bona fides wo ...

Coalition loses bid for College Station council

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Candidates of the "conservative coalition" vying for three seats on the College Station City Council were resoundingly defeated Saturday.
Instead, two candidates who ran as more moderate choices but still claimed fiscally responsible bona fides wo ...

College Station school board will include new, old faces

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


College Station voters decided Saturday to keep an experienced trustee while hiring a new face onto the school board, both candidates winning by a landslide.
Place 7 incumbent Valerie Jochen pulled in 3,399 votes -- 71 percent -- beating political ...

College Station school board will include new, old faces

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


College Station voters decided Saturday to keep an experienced trustee while hiring a new face onto the school board, both candidates winning by a landslide.
Place 7 incumbent Valerie Jochen pulled in 3,399 votes -- 71 percent -- beating political ...

Wellborn residents have their day at the polls

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT


Half of the Wellborn residents eligible to vote in College Station participated in Saturday's municipal elections, indicating that feelings are still running strong about the city's recent annexation of the area.
The turnout for College Station as ...

Flores fails to unseat Bryan trustee Stasny

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT


Longtime Place 6 Bryan school trustee David Stasny was elected to an eighth term Saturday over Roy Flores, a local business owner who was running his first political race.
The 21-year incumbent received 617 votes, or 68.6 percent, while 282 voter ...

Flores fails to unseat Bryan trustee Stasny

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT


Longtime Place 6 Bryan school trustee David Stasny was elected to an eighth term Saturday over Roy Flores, a local business owner who was running his first political race.
The 21-year incumbent received 617 votes, or 68.6 percent, while 282 voter ...

Faculty prefer an academic for chancellor

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Faculty leadership wants the A&M System's new chancellor to have "the appropriate academic background" and be selected through an "extensive national search" with adequate constituent representation.
The executive committee of the Faculty Sen ...

Faculty prefer an academic for chancellor

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Faculty leadership wants the A&M System's new chancellor to have "the appropriate academic background" and be selected through an "extensive national search" with adequate constituent representation.
The executive committee of the Faculty Sen ...

7 votes secure city sales tax increase

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Seven votes is all it took.
Wixon Valley voters approved a half-cent sales tax increase Saturday, bringing the rate up to 8.25 percent from 7.75 percent.
Ten people voted in the Proposition 1 election: Seven in favor of the inc ...

San Antonio mayor wins second term

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

FORT WORTH -- San Antonio's mayor was re-elected in a landslide Saturday, while Dallas and Fort Worth were headed into runoff mayoral elections next month.In Amarillo, a former city commissioner was elected the new mayor in the conservative Panhandle ...

GOP agenda rolling through Texas Legislature

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Republicans in the Texas Legislature haven't let rules, traditions or complaints from Democrats get in their way.
From the cut-and-slash state budget to abortion rules requiring some women to have a sonogram, Republicans have pushed thr ...

Mississippi floodgates opened to save big cities

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


MORGANZA, La. — Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the Cajun countryside, threatening to slowly submerge ...

One final march together

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:10 PM PDT

George Gagnon, a senior in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, shares a kiss with his girlfriend, Katelynn Roggow, before stepping off for Final Review on Saturday. Final Review is the last activity for Corps members before being dismissed for summer. ...

Huckabee says he won't run for president

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:11 PM PDT


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio personality over a race that would be both costly and ca ...

Syrians fleeing to Lebanon to avoid violence

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


BEIRUT -- Hundreds of Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon on Saturday to escape a violent crackdown against an anti-government uprising that has claimed the lives of more than 800 civilians, Lebanese security officials and a leading human rights gr ...

Bin Laden lived very differently than first thought

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT


Surrounded by the din of his multiple families within walls that were both his sanctuary and prison, Osama bin Laden pecked endlessly at a computer, issuing directives to his scattered and troubled terrorist empire. It's not clear who really listen ...

Pakistan may cut U.S. supply line

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Still angry over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to American missile strikes against Islamist militants on their soil Saturday, and warned that Pakistan may cut NATO's supply line to Afghani ...

IMF head questioned in hotel assault

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with the sexual ass ...

Time capsule gives glimpse of A&M's past

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT


A construction crew recently stumbled across a nearly 100-year-old time capsule at Texas A&M University that revealed pieces of campus history from the early 20th century.
Those artifacts, now on display in the Mayo-Thomas Room at the Cushing ...

Less is more: Ultra-lightweight camping catching on

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Whether you're an experienced camper or are just starting out, you might be weighing yourself down with extra baggage. Instead of carrying a traditional pack that weighs 50 or 60 pounds, ultra-lightweight and super ultra-lightweight campers are car ...

Arts Watch: Special Olympics exhibit a can't-miss event

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

"Special" is an overused word, don't you think?
Seems that so much is described as special these days that its impact is diluted. I think special should be reserved for things that are, well, actually special -- like Special Olympics.
In my 27 ye ...

'The Cat's Meow' profiles Hollywood scandal

Posted: 14 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Love old or unusual movies but never know when they're on? Here are several I recommend:
The Cat's Meow (2001): Revisit a notorious scandal of Old Hollywood. It's 1924, and William Randolph Hearst (Edward Hermann) is having a big party on his yacht. ...

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