Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Helping hearts

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

A giant chocolate heart stands in the entrance to the American Heart Association's Brazos Valley Heart Ball Friday at Miramont Country Club. The formal event, which featured live music, dancing and a gourmet meal, benefited the American Heart Associa ...

Police: Texas A&M student threatened to 'cut flesh' from freshman's face

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST

Police: Texas A&M student threatened to 'cut flesh' from freshman's face

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST

Episcopalians flood Bryan-College Station for two-day conference

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:15 PM PST


More than 1,000 Episcopalians from across the state congregated at the Brazos County Expo on Friday to kick off the 163rd annual Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
More than 700 clergy and church representatives came in town with ...

Police: Texas A&M student threatened to 'cut flesh' from freshman's face

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:46 AM PST

Texas A&M President R. Bowen tackles Twitter

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST


Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin knows he's "liked." Now, he wants to be "followed."
Already a social media giant in Aggieland, Loftin -- who long ago hit his 5,000 Facebook friend limit -- unrolled his Twitter account to the masses this w ...

Texas A&M President R. Bowen tackles Twitter

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST


Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin knows he's "liked." Now, he wants to be "followed."
Already a social media giant in Aggieland, Loftin -- who long ago hit his 5,000 Facebook friend limit -- unrolled his Twitter account to the masses this w ...

Freshman reports knife threat

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST


A 20-year-old Texas A&M junior posted bail after being arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat against a fellow student.
The junior is accused of telling a freshman student that he was going to cut the flesh from his face and eat it ...

Freshman reports knife threat

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST


A 20-year-old Texas A&M junior posted bail after being arrested on charges of making a terroristic threat against a fellow student.
The junior is accused of telling a freshman student that he was going to cut the flesh from his face and eat it ...

Police to serve warrants soon

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 PM PST


If you received a warrant for a ticket you forgot to take care of, you might want to address it before Feb. 25, when law enforcement agents will be arresting people with active warrants as part of the annual "Great Texas Warrant Roundup."
Whether ...

Carnation for a cutie

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST

Mitchell Elementary kindergartner Savannah Hall smells a flower given to her Friday at her class Valentine's Day party at the school in Bryan.

Bryan man gets 8 years for robbery

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A Brazos County jury this week handed down an eight-year prison sentence for a 24-year-old Bryan man convicted of aggravated robbery.
Joseph Paul Madison was found guilty of robbing a convenience store clerk at gun point on Marc ...

Bryan man arrested after a brief chase

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 19-year-old Bryan man was arrested after leading officers on a foot chase, police said.
Christopher Wade Blake was spotted by an officer responding Thursday to a report of a man pushing on a bathroom window while attempting to ...

Kinky Friedman performs in Bryan

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

Author, musician and political figure Kinky Friedman lights his trademark cigar before a performance Friday at the Village Cafe in downtown Bryan.

Grants to Teachers honors educators

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
More than $35,000 was presented to 12 Bryan school district teachers on Friday.
The Bryan ISD Education Foundation surprised the teachers at the 12 different campuses with news they'd won the cash awards.
The "Grants To Teacher ...

Grants to Teachers honors educators

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
More than $35,000 was presented to 12 Bryan school district teachers on Friday.
The Bryan ISD Education Foundation surprised the teachers at the 12 different campuses with news they'd won the cash awards.
The "Grants To Teacher ...

28 killed in Syrian attack

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:15 PM PST


ALEPPO, Syria -- Two suicide car bombers struck security compounds in Aleppo on Friday, killing 28 people, Syrian officials said, bringing significant violence for the first time to an industrial center that has largely stood by President Bashar As ...

Obama adjusts his birth control policy

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Cong ...

Obama adjusts his birth control policy

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Cong ...

Cards cut border wait times

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:16 PM PST


EL PASO -- Under the desert sun at the Paso del Norte bridge between Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and El Paso, hundreds of pedestrians stand in line for up to two hours to reach the immigration booths.
Not Veronica Escobar. She, like almost a third of ...

Judge accused of hiding evidence

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST


GEORGETOWN -- A judge recommended Friday that a former Texas prosecutor who is now a judge face a formal investigation into allegations he hid evidence and helped wrongfully send a man to prison for nearly
25 years.
State District Judge Ken Ande ...

Probe launched in cardinal's death

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 PM PST


PHILADELPHIA -- The child-molestation scandal in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has taken a mysterious new turn, with prosecutors asking a coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua to establish whether he died of natural causes.
...

Greece: Default would lead to 'chaos'

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST


ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's future in the eurozone came under renewed threat Friday as popular protests again turned violent and dissent grew among its lawmakers after European leaders demanded deeper spending cuts.
The country's beleaguered coalit ...

Westminster ads to show playful pups

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 PM PST


NEW YORK -- Pet lovers won't have to look away anymore when those heart-wrenching TV ads appear during the Westminster dog show -- the ones with the pitiful little faces peering out from behind those rusted bars of a cage and wondering "how I ende ...

Lessons learned from inquiry

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:17 PM PST

LONDON -- The first phase of Britain's media ethics inquiry ended this week after 40 days of dramatic hearings that heard from 184 witnesses -- celebrities, journalists, editors, academics and lawyers -- and revealed wildly differing perspectives on ...

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