Friday, September 23, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Police: 'If anyone is man enough ... bring it on,' Kimbrough tells attorneys before pulling out small knife

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:34 AM PDT

A&M System lawyers terminated Jay Kimbrough, then asked him to hand over his keys and entry card to the building. He countered by brandishing a knife, saying: “If anyone is man enough to take them ... bring it on,” according to a poli ...

Mock abduction exercise a success

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


After three years of attending training courses, filling out paperwork, conducting kidnapping exercises and developing protocols and guidelines ready to be used in a moment's notice, the Brazos Valley Child Abduction Response Team soon will become ...

Jay Kimbrough: It was a joke

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Gov. Rick Perry's former chief of staff brandished a knife in a non-threatening way and told A&M System lawyers to "bring it on," according to a police report released Thursday.
Jay Kimbrough, the A&M System's former deputy chancellor, wa ...

Area teachers receive grants

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


Fifth-grade math teacher Joni Bailey was so engrossed in teaching Thursday morning she didn't notice the crowd lining up along the back of the classroom.
It wasn't until a Bryan School District Education Foundation member called her attention away ...

College Station lowers property tax

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


The College Station City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a slight decrease in the city's property tax rate for the 2012 fiscal year.
The new rate will be 43.7995 cents per $100 valuation of property, down from 44.7543 cents in 2011. That ...

Accident shuts down Woodville Road between Old Hearne Road and Texas 6

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:20 AM PDT

Bryan police are asking drivers to avoid the area of Woodville Road between Old Hearne Road and Texas 6 while they work to reconstruct a traffic accident that happened there just after 2 p.m.
Assistant Chief Peter Scheets said a motorcyclist was tr ...

Speaker urges women to let go

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Believe it, be it.
That's the message Ali Vincent, the first woman to win The Biggest Loser, wanted to impart to women Thursday who attended a luncheon organized by the Healthy Woman program at College Station Medical Center.
More than 100 wome ...

Drunk driver rear ends police car

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A College Station police officer was taken to the hospital Thursday night after a drunk driver rear-ended his car, police said.
Mason Micah Jones, 22, of Bryan, struck a patrol cruiser that had stopped an F-350 on University Dri ...

Police: Passenger tossed PCP-laced cig during traffic stop

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:34 AM PDT

A 29-year-old man faces two felony charges after an officer reported he threw a cigarette dipped in PCP out a vehicle window early Thursday.
Bryan resident Tommy Ray Johnson was charged with tampering with physical evidence and possession of less th ...

Moving day for church

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

House mover Sam Morgan heads for his truck Thursday while moving the old Trinity Holy Temple church in downtown Bryan. The vacant building was moved across the street to become part of the Centro Cristiano Church.

Motorcyclist struck by SUV on Thursday

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A motorcyclist who was struck by an SUV on Woodville Road Thursday afternoon remained in serious condition at Scott & White in Temple, where he was taken via helicopter.
Assistant Bryan Chief Peter Scheets said the motorcycli ...

Experts inspecting child seat safety

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportParents of small children are encouraged to attend a free child-safety seat check Saturday at the College Station Medical Center. The event is being organized by the hospital, Daniel Stark Law Firm and the Texas AgriLife Extension A ...

Church event boasts pet blessings, exams

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe St. Francis Church's Blessing of the Animals and St. Francis Festival on Oct. 1 will include free food, activities, pets for adoption and free pet exams and blessings.The church, at 1101 Rock Prairie Road in College Station, wil ...

Energy bill irks Senate Dems

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- With the economy sputtering, the warring factions of Congress headed toward gridlock late Thursday over the usually noncontroversial process of approving disaster aid or even keeping the government from shutting down. GOP leaders planne ...

Texas prisons cancel last meals

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dr ...

Tea partiers tackle Perry

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry's run for president is putting a national spotlight on a culture of "crony capitalism" he and the Republican-dominated state Legislature built in Texas, a small group of tea party activists charged Thursday.
Perry, the fr ...

Romney, Perry target each other in GOP debate

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Side by side in confrontational debate, Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Perry sarcastically accused each other Thursday night of flip-flopping on Social Security and health care, flashpoints in their intense s ...

Palestinians back push for official statehood

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT


RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Thousands of flag-waving Palestinians rallied Wednesday in towns across the West Bank to show support for their president's bid to win U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state.
The gatherings were carefully orchestrated, with ...

Dow falls as recession fears rise

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:00 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Investors on Wall Street and around the world sold stocks with abandon Thursday, more convinced than ever that a global recession is under way. The Dow Jones industrial average lost almost 400 points.The sell-off began in Asia, intensifie ...

Fired A&M executive says showing knife was a joke

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:33 AM PDT


SAN ANTONIO -- A longtime adviser to Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday he was joking when he pulled out a pocketknife and said, "What are they going to do, shoot me?" while being told he was fired as deputy chancellor of the Texas A&M University Sy ...

Easing Arthritis With Food

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:03 AM PDT


(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- 50 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of arthritis --including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus and fibromyalgia. For many, medication is not enough. Pain relief can also be found in the foods you eat. "It ...

Garden calendar

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Saturday
* Brazos Valley Farmers Market, 8 a.m. to noon. Texas Avenue and William Joel Bryan Parkway in Bryan. Locally grown fresh produce and other items. hpw@tconline.net, www.brazosvalleyfarmersmarket.com or 229-5503.
* Tenth Street Farmers Ma ...

Plant garden peas for the sweetest fresh vegetables

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:51 PM PDT

Garden peas are considered the sweetest fresh vegetables to grow in your Brazos Valley home garden. Peas are legume-type plants that have nodules on their roots, which take nitrogen from the air in the soil and develop an organic nitrogen powdered fe ...

April best time to replant St. Augustine

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:50 PM PDT

Dear Neil: I had St. Augustine planted and my sprinkler system was supposed to have watered it. I had set it to run every other day for 12 minutes per zone. When I returned home from a 2-week vacation, I saw the grass was beginning to wilt. The syste ...

More Kids Poised by Medicine

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:08 AM PDT


(Ivanhoe Newswire) -   Your child's medication could be making them sick! A new study shows the rise in exposure to prescription products has been so striking it's making children across the country sick.The study by Cincinnati Children's ...

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