Saturday, January 28, 2012

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Flipping around

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

Rudder High School's Cody White performs his floor routine Friday as his teammates watch during a gymnastics meet at Brazos Valley Gymnastics Friday.

Professors pitch in for scholarship

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


The daughter of Aggie billionaire George Mitchell, Sheridan Lorenz, had a proposal: She'd give $50,000 for a scholarship for women undergraduates in Texas A&M's physics and astronomy department if the department could match it.
Then-departmen ...

Saint Michael's Episcopal School receives surprise help

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


A donor who's asked to remain anonymous has offered to match two dollars for every one given to Saint Michael's Episcopal School to help ensure the Bryan campus stays open.
"This is what we've been waiting for to keep going. It was always our secr ...

Bryan schools try to see future

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


The Bryan school board hired a firm this week to analyze the future growth of its student population.
The board voted unanimously to pay College Station-based Population and Survey Analysts about $49,700 to conduct a demographic study of the dist ...

Tax man cometh on Tuesday

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


Property taxes are due Tuesday in Brazos County, but tax office employees are warning residents to get their payments in early.
Last year, some payments arrived late after mix-ups in the mail.
"Some changes over the past few years by the Postal ...

President Barack Obama targets college tuition

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition costs could lose federal funds.
The election yea ...

Twitter's censorship plan gets globe chirping

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.It was a stunning r ...

New twist in district map dispute

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


SAN ANTONIO -- A lengthy and contentious fight over Texas redistricting plans took a new twist Friday when the state and a minority group opposing the redrawn maps started negotiating over the disputed districts in hopes of preserving its April 3 p ...

Board vote sets up textbook showdown

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:11 PM PST


AUSTIN -- The Texas Board of Education gave preliminary approval Friday to new math standards for schools statewide, but moved to block implementation unless the Legislature provides funding for books to help students cope with tougher curriculums. ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's security costly

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


AUSTIN -- The state's bill for providing security for Texas Gov. Rick Perry's failed presidential bid is nearly $800,000 and growing.
A Texas Department of Public Safety report released Thursday showed the cost of the security detail for Perry and ...

Plano hospital admits to newborn mix-up

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

PLANO -- A Texas hospital said Friday it has re-educated staff on patient identification procedures after two newborns were accidentally switched for about three hours following circumcisions. Kevin and Susan Dunagan said they noticed when their son ...

Tubby tabby gets new knee joint

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


RALEIGH, N.C. -- Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catchin ...

Police: Teens planned Utah school bombing

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


ROY, Utah -- Authorities on Friday charged an 18-year-old man with possession of a weapon of mass destruction after they say he and another teenager planned to bomb a Utah high school.
Dallin Morgan and a 16-year-old were arrested Wednesday at Roy ...

Released 911 recording details Demi Moore's collapse

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST


LOS ANGELES -- Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.
The w ...

Cruise passengers mull settlement

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


ROME -- How much is it worth to suffer through a terrifying cruise ship grounding?
Italian ship operator Costa Crociere SpA on Friday put the figure at $14,460 plus reimbursement for the cost of cruise tickets and extra travel expenses, seeking to ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

Sunday
* Faith United Church, 2901 Austin's Colony Parkway in Bryan, will hold a Sunday study "Introducing the Disciples" at 9:15 a.m., fellowship at 10 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Karl Tewold's message will be "Your Real Identity." For ...

Calendar

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

MARK YOUR CALENDARS
The Bryan High School Fine Arts Department will present The Wizard of Oz at 7 p.m. on Feb. 3, 4 and 6 and at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. Advance tickets are $7 for students and $10 for adults or $12 at the ...

Experts say U.S. economic growth too slow

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- The economy grew late last year at a pace that in normal times would suggest it's healthy.
But the 2.8 percent annualized growth rate in the October-December quarter -- the fastest pace since the spring of 2010 -- isn't being cheered ...

Can you really learn to fly a plane at home?

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:07 PM PST

Associated Press
Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?
Sort of.
Authorities say two teenagers in Utah planned to bomb their school, steal a plane and flee the country. They'd never flown a plane, bu ...

Mitt Romney's tithes detailed in tax returns

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST


Mitt Romney's newly released tax returns provide more than an accounting of the Republican presidential candidate's remarkable personal wealth. The documents also give a rare glimpse into tithing to the Mormon church by one its most prominent membe ...

St. Louis holds nation's first parade for Iraq veterans

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:06 PM PST


ST. LOUIS -- Since the Iraq War ended there has been little fanfare for the veterans returning home. No ticker-tape parades. No massive, flag-waving public celebrations.
So, two friends from St. Louis decided to change that. They sought donations ...

Police: Thieves stole 274 guns in Houston

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST

HOUSTON -- Thieves have stolen 274 guns, including rifles and handguns, in an organized crime spree that targets gun stores and pawn shops in the Houston area, authorities said.
The culprits strike at night when businesses are closed, authorities sa ...

France wants out of Afghanistan

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

PARIS -- France and Afghanistan will ask NATO to hand over all combat missions to the Afghan military in 2013, a year earlier than planned, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday.It signaled a sharp break by France, the fourth-largest troop contributo ...

Film spotlights gay honor killing

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

ANKARA, Turkey -- Shortly after telling his parents he was gay, Ahmet Yildiz was gunned down inside his car by his father in Istanbul. It was Turkey's first officially recognized gay "honor killing."An award-winning film partly inspired by Yildiz's s ...

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