Saturday, July 23, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Still a ways away

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Construction work continues Friday on the new College Station High School in south College Station. The new school, a 485,000-square-foot building which can serve 1,800 students, is scheduled to open in fall 2012.

Still a ways away

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Construction work continues Friday on the new College Station High School in south College Station. The new school, a 485,000-square-foot building which can serve 1,800 students, is scheduled to open in fall 2012.

Texas A&M regents approve Northside Residence Hall project

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


Texas A&M proceeded Friday with plans for a 250,000-square-foot building that would be the first new residence hall since 1989 and replace three others.
The A&M System Board of Regents appropriated $68 million for the Northside Residence ...

Stuff the Bus drive to benefit kids

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT


A women's organization is gearing up to provide more than 16,000 needy students in the Bryan-College Station area with school supplies for the upcoming school year.
The BCS Junior League will host its second annual Stuff the Bus school supply driv ...

Texas A&M football coach Mike Sherman gets raise, extension

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT


Texas A&M rewarded football coach Mike Sherman with a raise and a year's extension, but also gave itself the option of adding two years to the contract and added a sliding buyout.
Sherman, who is 19-19 in three seasons, will be paid $2.2 milli ...

Grimes County man charged with indecency with child

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:53 AM PDT

A 72-year-old Iola man remained in the Grimes County Jail Friday on two counts of indecency with a child.The man was arrested Thursday on charges of indecency with a child by exposure and indecency with a child by contact.Sheriff's office authorities ...

Police investigate armed robbery

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:18 AM PDT

Bryan police on Friday were investigating a report by two men that they were robbed in their apartment at gunpoint the day before.
Police responded at 5:47 p.m. Thursday to the Reveille Ranch apartment complex on Wellborn Road for a report of an agg ...

Police: Bryan man bit Walmart employee

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:06 AM PDT

A 19-year-old man faces a robbery charge after police said he bit a College Station store employee while trying to get away with stolen cell phones.
Joe Angel Alvarado of Bryan was charged Friday with robbery and possession of less than two ounces o ...

Brazos County suspects indicted

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:27 PM PDT

A Grimes County man who was arrested in early June on charges of kidnapping and assaulting his wife was among the dozens indicted this week by a Brazos County grand jury. Westley Neal Harper, 23, of Anderson, is accused of persuading his estranged wi ...

Woman accused of using company credit card without permission

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT

A 46-year-old woman remained in jail Friday, accused of making more than $5,000 in unauthorized charges on her former employer's credit card.Wendell S. Brown of Iola was charged Friday with credit card or debit card abuse.A Brazos County sheriff's de ...

12 Bryan students to get shopping spree

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
As part of a nationwide collaboration between Target and The Salvation Army, 12 low-income Bryan students will go on an $80 back-to-school gift-card shopping spree on Tuesday.
About 500 Target stores across the country will host ...

Pet of the week video: More kittens

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:20 AM PDT

Prosecutors: Jailer snuck inmate hacksaw in tacos

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:05 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- Prosecutors say a Texas jail guard tried helping a convicted murderer and two others escape by smuggling them tacos stuffed with hacksaw blades.Alfred Casas began testifying Friday at his criminal trial in San Antonio. The 31-year-old ...

Texas man with 8 DWIs gets 55 years in prison

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:32 AM PDT

CONROE -- A Houston-area man will be 100 years old before he's eligible for parole after his eighth drunken-driving conviction. A Montgomery County jury convicted 73-year-old Gliddon William Davis of Conroe, then sentenced him to 55 years in prison o ...

Attacks disrupt Norway peace

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:19 PM PDT

OSLO, Norway -- A homegrown terrorist set off an explosion that ripped open buildings in the heart of Norway's government Friday, then went to a summer camp dressed as a police officer and gunned down youths as they ran and even swam for their lives, ...

Science experts declare victory

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- The Texas State Board of Education delivered a blow to social conservatives Friday, giving final approval to supplemental high school science materials after a brief flare-up over some lessons teaching the principles of evolution.The lesson ...

Crowd welcomes back shuttle crew

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


HOUSTON -- It may have been the final big official event of the last space shuttle mission, but a welcome-home and thank-you party for the crew of Atlantis on Friday wasn't dwelling on any sad ending.
Despite pending layoffs and triple-digit tempe ...

Hot Texas days spoil summer fun

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


NEW BRAUNFELS -- Boat ramps lay on dry ground. Float trippers drag their tubes around massive river rocks. Raft company workers go home for the summer with the season only a month old.
One hundred degree temperatures can be the norm in Texas t ...

Advice from Earth's heat experts

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:09 PM PDT


There are places in the world where no one would think of frying an egg on the sidewalk -- if only because there are few sidewalks, and eggs can be in short supply as well.
But heat? They've got plenty of that.
And they have plenty of advice for ...

President Barack Obama ends ban on gays in military

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military, doing away with a policy that's been controversial from the day it was enacted and making good on his 2008 campaign promise ...

Partisan dispute closes Federal Aviation Administration

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that at midnight nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out ...

Sweet treats from the animal center

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Texas A&M Animal Science student Ariel Sklar on Wednesday offers a fruit "popsicle" to Heath and Buck, two white-tailed deer that reside at the Winnie Carter Exotic Animal Center on the Texas A&M campus. The frozen treat presents the animals ...

Sweet treats from the animal center

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Texas A&M Animal Science student Ariel Sklar on Wednesday offers a fruit "popsicle" to Heath and Buck, two white-tailed deer that reside at the Winnie Carter Exotic Animal Center on the Texas A&M campus. The frozen treat presents the animals ...

B-17 bomber available today for tours and rides

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 10:03 AM PDT

A restored World War II aircraft will be at the Brenham Municipal Airport this weekend.
Texas Raiders, a B-17 bomber, is one of only 12 air-worthy World War II-era B-17's existing today.
Walk-through tours will be offered for $5 for adults and $3 f ...

Pop culture can teach valuable life lessons

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

The nice boy with glasses defeats the evil sorcerer and teaches the world valuable lessons about love and sacrifice.
Harry Potter is secular pop art, yes, and it isn't religious, but it gets folks to enjoy using their imaginations, as many forms of ...

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