Saturday, March 3, 2012

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Colorful cast

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST

Members of the world renowned Blue Man Group play a pipe drum Friday during a performance at Rudder Auditorium. The group appeared as part of the MSC OPAS Main Stage schedule.

Bryan schools to cut support classes

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST


After this school year Bryan students will no longer have the option of catching up on classwork in the district's flexible year program, which is being shelved in favor of another program that will give professional-development days back to teache ...

Top vote-getter disqualified in A&M student body president runoff

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST


"Go Nuts for McNutt" was a candidate's campaign slogan in this year's race for Texas A&M student body president, but the whole election cycle has been a bit nutty, and Friday was no exception.
John Claybrook was announced as receiving 5,912 v ...

Wreck near Brenham injures 3 teens

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 03:00 AM PST

Eagle Staff Report
Department of Public Safety troopers are investigating a one-vehicle accident Friday morning involving three teenagers.
Officials said the trio were traveling west on Texas 105 near Brenham just after 7 a.m. when the driver lost ...

Alleged robber gives himself up

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST


The search for a man who burst into a home in rural Madison County and demanded drugs and money ended Friday with the man's surrender to authorities in Conroe.
The Madison County Sheriff Department initiated a manhunt for 32-year-old Brandon Fran ...

Alleged robber gives himself up

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST


The search for a man who burst into a home in rural Madison County and demanded drugs and money ended Friday with the man's surrender to authorities in Conroe.
The Madison County Sheriff Department initiated a manhunt for 32-year-old Brandon Fran ...

Pictures show progress year after Japanese tsunami

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:24 AM PST

It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world’s worst nucl ...

Brenham teens hurt in wreck

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST


Three teenagers hurrying to get to class at Brenham High School were in a car accident Friday that left the two passengers with critical injuries.
According to the Department of Public Safety, Samuel Price, 16, was driving to school along with An ...

Deadline extended for Chilifest cookoff

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
If you haven't had a chance to sign-up a team for this year's Chilifest, you still have a little time to fill one of the 100 spots that are left.
The deadline for Chilifest team sign-up has been extended for one week. To registe ...

Police: Man hid pot in child's juice cup

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:29 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 22-year-old Bryan man remained jailed Friday evening after being arrested Thursday for attempting to get rid of marijuana by dumping it in a 9-year-old's cup of juice.
According to police, a car driven by Dejon Rochone Roberts ...

Treasure hunt

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST

Ally McNeill of the Junior League of Bryan-College Station carries a clothes rack past lamps on display Friday at the organization's annual Bargain Blitz fundraising sale at the Brazos Center.

Drugs allegedly found during traffic stop

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST

A 20-year-old Bryan man was arrested after drugs were found in his car by a state trooper, the Department of Public Safety reported.
The trooper pulled over Eric Ty Wall for speeding on Texas 6 around 1:45 p.m. on Thursday and found Wall was "shaki ...

Jewish holiday of Purim reminds us to have hope

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST

On the evening of March 7, Jews around the world celebrate their happiest of festivals. Known in Hebrew as Purim (the casting of lots), the holiday is based on the small Biblical book called Esther. The Megillat Esther (literally, the scroll of Esthe ...

Armadillo Dash to close two CS roads

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST

The College Station Police Department reminds motorists that the following local streets will be closed beginning at 6:30 a.m. Sunday for the Sixth Annual Armadillo Dash:* Harvey Road between the State Highway 6 East Feeder and F.M. 158 will be close ...

Historic site to celebrate Texas' birthday

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST

Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site will be celebrating the 176th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence during a two-day festival today and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. This celebration will feature historic ...

American Eagle plans pilot layoffs

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST


FORT WORTH -- American Eagle, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, plans to lay off 50 pilots as it grounds nine turboprop planes.
Eagle's most junior pilots will be furloughed on April 5 with recall rights if the airline hires pilots in t ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST


Saturday
* St. Francis Episcopal Church, 1101 Rock Prairie Road in College Station will hold its weekly Men's Breakfast and Morning Prayer at 9 a.m. From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., the St. Francis Garden Keepers will meet for flower pruning instructions by ...

Letters for March 3

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:05 PM PST

Honor Cowboy and let Casey know we care
Thank you for publishing the letter from 11-year-old Casey (Eagle, March 1) expressing his heartbreak over the loss of his beloved dog, Cowboy. Cowboy was poisoned. How do you explain evil like that to a young ...

Calendar

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PST

Saturday
EVENTS
Rattler Run. Hosted by Navasota Parks and Recreation Department. 5K and 1 mile children's run benefiting the Navasota Athletic Booster Club. www.RattlerRun.com or 936-825-2241.
Rummage Sale, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bethany Baptist Church, ...

U.S. policy in Israel defended

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Pushing back hard, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are rejecting Republican criticism of President Barack Obama's policy toward Israel, arguing that the election-year attacks ignore the str ...

Storms wreck Indiana towns, kill 24 in 3 states

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST


HENRYVILLE, Ind. -- Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what ...

Stockman warns of another crisis

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST

NEW YORK -- He was an architect of one of the biggest tax cuts in U.S. history. He spent much of his career after politics using borrowed money to take over companies. He targeted the riskiest ones that most investors shunned -- car-parts makers, tex ...

Police review security after Philly runway scare

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST

PHILADELPHIA -- A day after an SUV crashed through a fence and sped onto a runway, causing an approaching plane to have to pull up quickly, officials said that the facility's perimeter fencing meets federal standards but that police are investigating ...

Obama criticizes Limbaugh about 'slut' comment

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:29 PM PST


NEW YORK -- Stepping into an emerging culture clash over women, President Barack Obama made a supportive phone call Friday to a law student who testified before Congress about the need for birth control coverage, only to be called a "slut" by Rush ...

Texas rice farmers denied water for irrigation

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:29 PM PST


HOUSTON -- Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year of drought.
The Lower Colorado River Authority said Friday it won't release water from two Austin-area l ...

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