Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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SEC is ready for Texas A&M to join conference

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:26 PM PDT


Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive said on Monday that the conference has already begun planning next year's athletic schedules with Texas A&M among its members.
No official announcement about A&M joining the conference has b ...

Texas A&M System chancellor makes faculty a priority

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:26 PM PDT


The A&M System's newly minted chancellor wants to create a fund somewhere in the range of $200 million to $250 million to woo faculty members from other universities, he said Monday.
"I believe that this depression, or recession, or whatever ...

Texas A&M's VET gives pets a safe haven from wildfires

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


It's normal for doctors to come to the aid of injured people in an emergency response and it's common for trained dogs to help in the search and rescue efforts, but now there's someone looking out for the canines, too.
"Our mission on this deploy ...

Texas A&M's VET gives pets a safe haven from wildfires

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


It's normal for doctors to come to the aid of injured people in an emergency response and it's common for trained dogs to help in the search and rescue efforts, but now there's someone looking out for the canines, too.
"Our mission on this deploy ...

Firefighters respond to report of smoke on A&M campus

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 07:44 AM PDT


Firefighters and Texas A&M police were responding Monday afternoon to a report of smoke in the Heaton Registration Center on campus.
Emergency officials received a report at 2:17 p.m. of smoke coming from the second-floor mechanic room of the ...

Woman killed in wreck near Franklin

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 03:06 AM PDT

A 54-year-old woman was killed and a Bryan man injured in a two-vehicle wreck in Robertson County over the weekend, according to Texas Department of Public Safety officials.
Franklin resident Sharon Dieckman was driving a four-door car on U.S. 79, t ...

Progress made in Grimes, Leon fires

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:26 PM PDT


Progress made by firefighters on the wildfires in Leon and Grimes counties has enabled officials there to shut down temporary command posts.
Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell said most of the Riley Road fire that has been burning in Grimes, Waller ...

All but 2 accounted for in Central Texas fires

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:59 AM PDT

BASTROP -- Authorities say they have accounted for all but two of the residents affected by a massive Central Texas wildfire, and the number of homes destroyed is holding steady for now.Bastrop County Sheriff Terry Pickering said Monday officials are ...

David Hilburn running for Brazos County district attorney

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


In 1996, a local attorney discovered his passion for prosecution while working as a file clerk in the Brazos County District Attorney's Office.
Fifteen years later, David Hilburn, 36, said he's ready to move back into the office, but this time as ...

Boys hit by train while lying on tracks

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Two teenage boys from Milam County remained hospitalized Monday with serious injuries after they were hit by a train while lying on the tracks.
Chief Deputy Chris White with the Milam County Sheriff's Office said a search for th ...

Tickets available for Taste of Home Cooking School

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:26 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Doors will open at 4 p.m. Tuesday for the annual Taste of Home Cooking School.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Brazos County Expo and will feature recipe demonstrations appropriate for all levels of experience. Chef Jami ...

Police: Fire guts Bryan business

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 12:36 AM PDT


Fire officials believe overloaded electrical circuits caused a fire that gutted a Bryan business building late Sunday.
Bryan firefighters responded just before midnight to the fire at the Brazos Valley Furniture gallery building, 712 East Villa Ma ...

Central Texas tries to get back to daily lives

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


BASTROP -- Paying attention in class may never have been so hard for children who started school Monday after the most destructive wildfire in Texas history left hundreds of their families homeless and many with little more than the clothes on thei ...

Prominent Democrat: Texas voting map discriminates

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 08:08 AM PDT


SAN ANTONIO -- Congressional Texas Democrats returned from Washington on Monday to bash newly drawn voting districts, testifying in federal court that the GOP-approved map discriminates by crowding blacks and Hispanics into shared districts despite ...

2 boys slain, alleged attacker kills self in Texas

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT


SPRING -- Authorities say two boys who were stabbed have died and a relative believed responsible has killed himself outside a home near Houston.
Investigators on Monday sought a motive for the attacks in the apparent double murder and a suicide.
...

Brenham death under investigation

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportBrenham Police Chief Rex Phelps said his department was investigating what led to the death of a 67-year-old woman discovered at her home over the weekend. "We responded to an early morning fire on Saturday and discovered a deceased ...

Perry assailed by rivals at GOP debate

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


TAMPA, Fla. -- Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a crackling presidential campaign debate Monday night. He fended off assaults on his record creating ...

Cuts shouldn't hurt Social Security

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Some Social Security advocates fear that President Barack Obama's desire to cut taxes supporting the program will undermine its vaunted stature as a self-financing pension system that provides checks to retirees based on contributions t ...

9/11 NYC memorial brings peace to many

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Exactly 10 years ago, ground zero was a smoking, fire-spitting tomb, a ghastly pile of rubble and human remains. On Monday it was a place of serenity -- an expanse of trees and water in the middle of a bustling city -- as the 9/11 memoria ...

Dementia high on agenda

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- As her mother's Alzheimer's worsened over eight long years, so did Doreen Alfaro's bills: The walker, then the wheelchair, then the hospital bed, then the diapers -- and the caregivers hired for more and more hours a day so Alfaro could ...

Spartacus actor loses battle to cancer

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:13 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.Whitfield died Sunday in Sydney, Australia, 18 months after he was diagnosed with ...

Book shows new side of Jackie O

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:13 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- It's a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting.
In Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy, the former first lady was not yet the jet-setting ce ...

Astronomers discover new planet that may support life

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:25 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Astronomers believe they have found a second planet outside our solar system that seems to be in the right zone for life, just barely.
But it would feel like a steam bath -- hot, sticky and beyond uncomfortable.
European astronomers ...

Commonly Used Drug Could Prevent Arthritis

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 02:16 AM PDT


(Ivanhoe Newswire)--- By the year 2030, an estimated 67 million people will have doctor-diagnosed arthritis. But a commonly used drug may be able to prevent arthritis from happening to you.
Many individuals develop arthritis from severe joint inju ...

Proclaiming principles leading to peace

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Editor's note: This is one of a series of columns dealing with how different faiths seek peace.
A hush fell over our world. A silence impaired our lives, leaving nothing but our own heartbeats of fear, and our focus narrowed to the tragedy of 9/1 ...

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