Friday, September 30, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Looking to hit a bull's eye at A&M competition

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Ashley Strickland, an archer from Alabama, checks her arrows along with other competitors at the U.S. Olympic Archery Team Trials at the Penberthy Rec Sports Complex on the Texas A&M campus.

Flu season draws closer

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

For those who haven't seen the numerous signs posted outside pharmacies across the Twin Cities offering immunization services: Flu season is expected to arrive shortly and vaccinations are in ample supply. Flu shots are recommended for anyone 6 month ...

New at Texas Reds Fest: Cover charge

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Bryan city officials are hoping for another large crowd at this year's Texas Reds Festival on Oct. 7 and 8, even with a new cover charge.
Attendees will be required to buy $5 tickets to enter the fenced-off festival in downtown Bryan. Advance tick ...

Police: Man's vehicle stolen at gunpoint

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:27 AM PDT

Bryan police are looking for the culprit who reportedly brandished a gun while stealing a man's truck from a grocery store parking lot late Wednesday.
Police responded at 10:05 p.m. to H-E-B parking lot, 1905 Old Hearne Road, where a man reported th ...

Man faces 20 years for alleged stabbing

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A 30-year-old Bryan man who was arrested in August after allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old boy repeatedly with a screwdriver was among those indicted Thursday by a Brazos County grand jury.
Jeffery Davis Prado, according to a pol ...

Woman charged with cutting boyfriend's face

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:30 AM PDT

A 50-year-old Bryan woman remained in the Brazos County Jail Thursday after police said she cut her boyfriend's face with a knife late Wednesday.
Officers were called around 10:30 p.m. to an Owens Street home, where a 32-year-old man reported his gi ...

Gas prices drop 11 cents across Texas

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:52 AM PDT

HOUSTON -- Retail gasoline prices across Texas have dropped 11 cents this week.AAA Texas on Thursday reported that the average price at the pump was $3.27 per gallon. The national average was also 11 cents less, at $3.45 per gallon.The association sa ...

Bryan-College Station schools to host free 'College Night'

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Local students will have a chance on Oct. 5 to question representatives of 70 colleges and universities and learn more about higher education opportunities.
A&M Consolidated, Bryan and Rudder high schools are hosting "College ...

Work in progress

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

A worker (bottom right) is sillouetted against a cloudy sky next to the frame of Olsen Field. Construction continued Thursday on the $24 million renovation of the 30-plus-year-old home of the Aggie baseball team. The park, when completed, will be nam ...

Germans move to prop up euro

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT

BERLIN -- Germany kept alive hopes that the 17-nation euro currency can survive the sprawling debt crisis when lawmakers in Europe's largest economy voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of expanding the powers of the eurozone's bailout fund.The ...

Education cutbacks could hurt Rick Perry

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT


SAN ANTONIO -- The $4 billion in cuts to Texas public schools this summer might be starting to hit Gov. Rick Perry where it hurts most -- his record on creating jobs.
Texas lost 900 jobs in local school districts in August, according to the federa ...

$152 million in ag losses to Texas wildfires

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:09 AM PDT

COLLEGE STATION -- Enough fence to cross Texas from east to west nearly seven times, more than 1,500 head of livestock and swaths of pasture nearly twice the area of Delaware have burned in Texas wildfires this year.As if the state's crippling drough ...

Federal agents wary about model plane attacks

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

BOSTON -- Model airplanes are suddenly on the public's radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled mode ...

Cattle imported from drought-stricken states into Nebraska could bring disease

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:21 AM PDT


LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska agriculture officials are concerned that cattle imported into the state from drought-stricken areas of Texas and Oklahoma could bring diseases with them, so they are encouraging ranchers to follow import rules.
State Agri ...

Listeria case prompts food safety reminders

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT

MILWAUKEE -- Avoid foreign produce. Wash and peel your fruit. Keep it refrigerated. None of these common tips would have guaranteed your safety from the deadliest food outbreak in a decade, the one involving cantaloupes from Colorado.Whether it's spr ...

Largest asteroids mapped

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES -- If you're worried about a killer asteroid wiping out Earth, NASA has some good news.
The space agency said Thursday it has identified more than 90 percent of giant, potentially Earth-threatening asteroids, including ones as big as t ...

Syrian regime backers pelt U.S. envoy with eggs

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


BEIRUT -- Angry supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime hurled tomatoes and eggs at the U.S. ambassador to Syria on Thursday as he entered the office of a leading opposition figure and then tried to break into the building, trapping him insid ...

Inmate's confessions draw skepticism

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


HOUSTON -- At age 84, Elmer Pitchford knows time is running out for him to learn who killed his teenage daughter four decades ago in Houston.
"I would like to know before I die, that's for sure," he said.
But the retired dock worker said he's not ...

Soldier on trial for civilian contractor's death

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


FORT HOOD -- A U.S. solider accused of killing a civilian contractor in Iraq who was digging a hole was a paranoid schizophrenic and "not mentally responsible" for the close-range shooting, an Army psychiatrist testified.
The court martial of Pfc. ...

Twitter study finds mornings, weekends happiest

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Twitter confirms it: People tend to wake up in a good mood and are happiest on weekends.The fast-paced forum is offering scientists a peek at real-time, presumably little-filtered human behavior and thoughts. Cornell University research ...

EPA holds public hearing about new 'fracking' regulations

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:02 PM PDT


ARLINGTON -- Environmentalists and advocates for drilling companies faced off Thursday at a public hearing in Arlington on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules aimed at limiting pollution at oil and gas wells.
The agency is propos ...

Full bladders, wasabi alarm earn 2011 Ig Nobels

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:43 PM PDT


BOSTON -- Driving while desperately needing to urinate isn't a crime, but maybe it should be.
Peter Snyder and his colleagues found that having a bladder at its bursting point reduced attention span and the ability to make decisions to the same de ...

A few final minutes with Andy Rooney of '60 Minutes'

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:01 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- On the broadcast they call it "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney."
They might better have called it "A Few Choice Words From Andy Rooney."
Rooney, despite his decades as a 60 Minutes fixture, is a writer, not a talking head. Words, not ...

Frantic scene after doctor found Jackson lifeless

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:09 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors are calling a key witness Thursday in an attempt to show jurors that Michael Jackson's doctor delayed calling authorities on the day the King of Pop was found lifeless and was intent on concealing indications that he had be ...

Tough times demand tough plants

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 05:03 PM PDT

If the hottest, driest summer in Texas' recorded history left you looking for new garden solutions, consider some of these plants that came through with flying colors.

Plants for
drought recovery
A survey of Brazos County Master Gardeners re ...

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