Friday, November 25, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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The bitter end: Final game heartbreaking for Aggie fans

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:20 PM PST


Texas A&M fans have suffered through a frustrating season and decades of futility against their top rival.
But Thursday's game against the Texas Longhorns ended the year -- and maybe even the rivalry -- in a way that was devastating for even ...

Big 12 Aggie v. Longhorn rivarly

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:36 PM PST

Longhorns, behind by 1 with 2 seconds left in the game, kick a 40-yard field goal to win against the Aggies in a nail-biter. Final: 27-25.
The annual match — the fourth longest in college football history — ended Thanksgiving night. Texa ...

Rivals work well together

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:20 PM PST


With the Texas A&M-University of Texas football rivalry shelved indefinitely, Aggies and Longhorns are coming to terms with the fact that their universities are really quite alike and play well with one another off the field.
From a $700 mill ...

Easy to overspend on Black Friday

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST


Many shoppers undoubtably will be waiting outside storefronts in Bryan-College Station before the sun even rises on Black Friday.
Others will be firing up their computers after breakfast, breezing through one-day online deals.
Wherever your credi ...

A thankful spirit

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST


Loretta Foster loves to compete. The 45-year-old twice has come out on top of a highly contested field to claim the Pebble Creek Country Club Women's Championship.
Now the College Station mother of two is competing for her life, ...

CS man accused of indecent exposure

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 21-year-old College Station man remained in the Brazos County Jail on Thursday, two days after he was accused of exposing himself at a McDonalds -- his second indecent exposure arrest in five months.
Police were called to the p ...

Sharing Thanksgiving at Twin City Mission

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST

Mona Hayward feeds her 9-month-old son, Azzariah Miles, during a Thanksgiving meal Thursday at the Twin City Mission Community Cafe.

Plane with 3 men, 3 children crashes in Arizona

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:53 AM PST

PHOENIX -- A small airplane with three men and three young children onboard crashed Wednesday evening into mile-high mountains east of Phoenix while going around 200 mph, the Pinal County sheriff said.The body of one child was recovered and "it is no ...

Parts of Bastrop park to reopen following wildfires

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


BASTROP -- Parts of Bastrop State Park will reopen Dec. 2, three months after devastating wildfires turned the park's picturesque Central Texas hills into a blackened sea of torched pine trees.
Park Superintendent Todd McClanahan says there is "a ...

Grappling for Guadalajara: Drug cartels blamed for 26 bodies found

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found dumped before dawn Thursday in the heart of the picturesque city of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between drug cartels may have come to the metropolis that hosted las ...

Primitive fishing camp found

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


LOS ANGELES — Humans were expert deep-sea fishermen as far back as 42,000 years ago, hauling in tuna, sharks and barracudas, new research suggests.
Fish appeared in the human diet about 1.9 million years ago. Early catchers waded into freshw ...

AT&T pursuing T-Mobile deal despite lawsuit

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST

Associated Press
Deutsche Telekom and AT&T vowed Thursday to press ahead with the planned sale of the German company's T-Mobile USA unit to the U.S. cellphone operator despite concerns raised by American authorities.
Nevertheless, AT&T sai ...

AT&T pursuing T-Mobile deal despite lawsuit

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST

Associated Press
Deutsche Telekom and AT&T vowed Thursday to press ahead with the planned sale of the German company's T-Mobile USA unit to the U.S. cellphone operator despite concerns raised by American authorities.
Nevertheless, AT&T sai ...

Yemeni accord prompts violence

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:09 PM PST


SANAA, Yemen -- A U.S.-backed deal for Yemen's authoritarian president to step down fell far short of the demands of protesters who fought regime supporters on the streets of Sanaa Thursday in clashes that left five dead.
The agreement ending Pres ...

Egyptian military refuses demands to step aside

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


CAIRO -- Egypt's military rulers rejected protester demands for them to step down immediately and said Thursday they would start the first round of parliamentary elections on time next week, despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities.
The ru ...

Court orders release of American students arrested in Cairo protest

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST


PHILADELPHIA -- A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday.
Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University ...

Court orders release of American students arrested in Cairo protest

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST


PHILADELPHIA -- A court in Egypt has ordered the release of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo, a lawyer in Philadelphia confirmed Thursday.
Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the American University ...

Public donations funding Arizona border fence

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST


PHOENIX -- Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with state lawmakers collecting donations from the public to put fencing along every inch of the state's porous Mexican border in a first-of-its-kind effort.
The idea came from state Sen. Ste ...

USO welcomes soldiers on holiday

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


ATLANTA -- As often as she can, Pat Solomon spends a few hours with the throng at the top of the escalator where all arriving passengers emerge at the Atlanta airport.
Most of the crowd is excitedly waiting for loved ones to arrive, but Solomon i ...

Arizona plane crash kills six

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:03 PM PST


PHOENIX -- A small airplane slammed into a sheer cliff in the mile-high mountains east of Phoenix and exploded, killing the six people onboard, including the pilot and his three young children who were to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with him, au ...

A worthy way to assist those who need help

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:05 PM PST


Eagle Editorial Board
There are a lot of great projects to help others going on in this community all the time. Individuals and groups go out of their way to make life better for our friends and neighbors.
A senior at Bryan High School came to us ...

Stars decry invasive UK media

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST


LONDON -- Author J.K. Rowling told a U.K. media ethics inquiry Thursday how she felt "under siege" from intrusive journalists, who staked out her house and even went so far as to slip a note into her 5-year-old daughter's school bag.
The creator o ...

Show your thanks

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:47 AM PST


I always eat too much on Thanksgiving. I am not alone in this tradition. The holiday basically boils down to the celebration of a feast -- the first time when pilgrims and American Indians, together, injected a turkey with Cajun butter and deep-fri ...

Garden calendar

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:20 PM PST

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 Market, ...

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