Thursday, October 20, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Scaring up business at Halloween Express

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Emma Campbell, 18, shows off her spiderweb contact lenses Wednesday while working at Halloween Express on University Drive in College Station.

Bryan man charged with murder in weekend shooting death

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT

A 22-year-old Bryan man has been arrested on a first-degree felony charge of murder in relation to the shooting death of 19-year-old Billy Joe Menard Jr. last weekend.
Clayton James Thompson was taken into custody by Bryan police Tuesday night just ...

Fun for everyone planned this weekend

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT


Those who can't find anything to do this weekend in Aggieland probably aren't looking very hard.
Events aplenty will be taking place in Bryan-College Station and across the Brazos Valley -- from a World War II German prisoner of war camp in Hearn ...

Fun for everyone planned this weekend

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT


Those who can't find anything to do this weekend in Aggieland probably aren't looking very hard.
Events aplenty will be taking place in Bryan-College Station and across the Brazos Valley -- from a World War II German prisoner of war camp in Hearn ...

Bryan murder nets 2 arrests

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT


On the day friends and family laid Billy Menard Jr. to rest in Brownsville, Bryan police arrested two local men on murder charges in connection with the shooting death of the 19-year-old last weekend.
Clayton James Thompson, 22, and Travis Alan C ...

District 14 candidate Boenigk says government needs to spend smarter

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT


Rebecca Boenigk and her mother created the office furniture company Neutral Posture in their College Station garage in 1989.
Now, they operate a 60,000-square-foot facility in Bryan and did $17 million in sales last year.
"We never had any idea ...

Weather Whys: Weather and pain

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:25 AM PDT

Q: Some people say that changes in the weather give them aches and pains. Can this happen?
A: The answer is probably yes, says Brent McRoberts of Texas A&M University. There have been several studies on this topic, but the results have not been ...

Northgate CARES event Saturday

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:06 AM PDT

The vehicle of a 21-year-old woman killed by a drunken driver and volunteers with portable breath test units will be part of the Northgate CARES event in College Station on Saturday.The College Station Police Department is partnering with the Coaliti ...

College Station School District group boosts teachers

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT


College Station School District employees managed to raise $20,003 in just one month for teacher scholarships.
The funds, which will help teachers employ innovative lessons in their classrooms, were raised through the Education Foundation's employ ...

Warrant amnesty offered until Oct. 31

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportAnyone with a Class C misdemeanor arrest warrant in College Station has until Halloween to take care of the fees and avoid jail time. The two-week warrant amnesty program started Oct. 17. It will be followed, from Oct. 31 until Nov. ...

Bryan house fire displaces 9

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:09 AM PDT

Two adults and seven children were displaced by a fire at their Bryan home late Tuesday.Firefighters responded about 5:40 p.m. to the home at 904 N. Preston Ave., and the residents were out safely by the time they arrived, according to the fire depar ...

Man allegedly fled after traffic stop

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
After running from police through backyards and hopping fences, Stephen Sloan Williamson, 21, was taken into custody by College Station police Tuesday on charges of evading arrest and his second driving while intoxicated offense.
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5 foreign nationals held in San Antonio court break-in

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:51 AM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- Investigators say five foreign nationals have been detained after a break-in at a county courthouse in downtown San Antonio. Sheriff's department spokesman Louis Antu says the incident early Wednesday is being investigated by local and ...

Winter wear sought for hospice event

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA local hospice is collecting donations of gently used winter wear to sell for $2 or less during an upcoming fundraiser.Compassionate Care Hospice said it's accepting coats, jackets, hoodies and sweaters for adults and children unti ...

Dallas could be getting Ferris wheel-type ride

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:48 AM PDT

DALLAS -- Dallas could be getting another towering Ferris wheel-type attraction in an effort to boost downtown tourism.Dallas County commissioners on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a 174-foot "observation wheel" near the John F. Kennedy Memoria ...

Bicyclist hit while waiting at median

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:25 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA bicyclist is at The College Station Medical Center with incapacitating injuries after police said he was struck by a truck Wednesday that was pulling a trailer on University Drive. Police said the bicyclist, whose identity was bei ...

Police seek three remaining escaped exotic animals in Ohio

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:15 AM PDT


ZANESVILLE, Ohio — Townspeople cowered indoors Wednesday as deputies with high-powered rifles hunted down and killed lions, bears and dozens of other exotic beasts that escaped from a wild-animal preserve after the owner threw their cages ope ...

Horse rescued after falling into Houston well

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT

HOUSTON -- Officials say an exhausted horse has been lifted to safety after falling about 20 feet into a water-filled concrete well under construction in Houston. Authorities with the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals say the horse was fou ...

Bryan-College Station Library System to get new books from grant funds

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 01:14 AM PDT

The Bryan-College Station Library System is expected to have new foreign language books within a month that were purchased with a $2,500 grant it recently received.
The system received the Collections Enhancement Grant from the Texas Book Festival, ...

Authorities hunt down exotic animals freed by owner

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:28 PM PDT


ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals -- including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions -- in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and commi ...

Celebrating Chamber Week

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT

College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski hold a proclamation declaring this week "Chamber Week." The mayors signed the proclamation during an event hosted by the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. "This is ...

Hawk rescued after being stuck on Texas car grille

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:55 AM PDT


GRAPEVINE-- A hawk that struck a car traveling more than 60 mph survived but needed the help of a Dallas-area mechanic to extract it from the vehicle's grille.
Matt Whitehead, a mechanic at Park Place Lexus in Grapevine, says he thought the red-ta ...

Business briefs

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Shredders at the ready for CS event
The public is invited to "Shred Day" on Nov. 7.
The Better Business Bureau and Brazos Records Storage is hosting the event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 418 Tarrow St., College Station.
Residents and small businesse ...

Dirty equipment may be to blame in listeria cases

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at a Colorado farm's cantaloupe packing facility were probably to blame for the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration said We ...

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