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Texas A&M student candidate appeals disqualification

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST


The top vote-getter in the race for Texas A&M's student body president made his case late Monday before a student panel for why his disqualification on Friday should be overturned.
John Claybrook, a junior finance major, had received 60 perce ...

The Eagle's parent company opts to sell 123-year-old paper

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PST


The Bryan-College Station Eagle newspaper -- one of the Brazos Valley's oldest businesses -- is for sale.
The Evening Post Publishing Co. purchased The Eagle 12 years ago for an undisclosed amount from Dallas-based A.H. Belo Corp., which owns the ...

Filing opens with new district maps

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST


The filing period in local and statewide elections has reopened for this week to allow candidates to adjust to new legislative and congressional maps.
But so far, only one candidate has changed his position. Waco Democrat Roy D. Walthall dropped ...

Death penalty may apply in murder trial

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:08 PM PST


A capital murder pre-trial hearing will continue Tuesday when District Judge Steve Smith rules on whether to include the death penalty as a punishment option when the case goes to trial.
Stanley Lamar Griffin, 46, of College Station, was charged ...

Photo identification ruled admissible in capital murder trial

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 06:20 AM PST

District Judge Steve Smith ruled Monday morning that a video showing a 9-year-old select the defendant as the man who attacked him and his mother out of a group of photos could be used as evidence in the man's trial.
Stanley Lamar Griffin, 46, of C ...

CS police seek man who robbed woman

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

College Station police looking for man who entered woman's apartment

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 11:23 AM PST

College Station police officers were looking Monday night for man who entered a woman's apartment and took her purse and two laptop computers.The woman told police she was in the kitchen of her apartment in the 1600 block of Southwest Parkway about 1 ...

CS police: Northgate driver charged with DWI after mimicking riding a bull

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 12:17 AM PST

A College Station man was arrested on two misdemeanor charges after authorities said he narrowly missed driving over an officer on a bicycle at Northgate over the weekend.
Two officers were on bike patrol in the entertainment district about 1:45 a. ...

Jury can't be seated in sex assault trial

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST

Police: Man caught stealing from BTU

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST

A 45-year-old Bryan man was arrested Monday after he was caught on security camera stealing spools of copper, authorities said.
Bryan officers were dispatched to a Bryan Texas Utilities truck yard on Atkins Street about 2:35 a.m. Monday for a report ...

Man with seven public intoxication convictions arrested again

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 06:38 AM PST

A Bryan man remained behind bars Monday after being arrested on charges of public intoxication, a Class C misdemeanor.The 61-year-old has been convicted of public intoxication seven times, according to police reports.Bryan police said they were calle ...

Police: Wrong-way driver charged with DWI

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 07:29 AM PST

A 24-year-old Bryan man was arrested after leading police on a chase down the wrong side of the road, authorities said.A Bryan police officer was responding to Groesbeck Street and Finfeather Road after 2 a.m. Sunday to help another officer with an a ...

U.S., Israeli leaders divided over Iran

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack. Ev ...

Iraqi police targeted in early-morning attack

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST


BAGHDAD -- Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to government control over a strategic town fraught with Iraq war symbolism.
The attack replicated tactics used by ...

Super Tuesday may reshape race

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- On the eve of their Super Tuesday showdown, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum strained for an edge in Ohio on Monday and braced for the 10 primaries and caucuses likely to redefine the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
New ...

3 children survive direct twister strike

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:07 PM PST


CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When Latonya Stevens heard thunder and lightning in the distance, she knew the drill. Every time a storm drew near, her children would run to her room seeking comfort.
So Stevens turned on a hall light for the young kids as high ...

Tornado damage may spell the end of tiny towns

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:07 PM PST


MARYSVILLE, Ind. -- This tiny Indiana farm town has no mayor, no school and no shopping center. And after last week's deadly tornadoes, it has virtually nowhere left to live.
Nearly every home in Marysville was destroyed or so badly damaged it wil ...

Anti-Putin protest quickly dispersed in Russia

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:08 PM PST


MOSCOW -- Riot police on Monday quickly and forcefully broke up an opposition attempt to occupy a downtown square in a bid to challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election, arresting dozens of participants, inc ...

History of The Eagle

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PST


• 1889: Attorney Richard Smith published the first edition of the Bryan Eagle, not the first newspaper in the relatively new community, but the one that would last. His father and uncle were journalists who worked in Bryan. Smith opened his fi ...

Guantanamo goes lighter in sentencing

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The military tribunals held at this isolated U.S. outpost have been lambasted as kangaroo courts, heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution. But most of the convictions so far have led to lighter than expected se ...

Egyptian politician out over nose job

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:22 PM PST

CAIRO -- A lawmaker from Egypt's most conservative Islamist party resigned from parliament after he was caught lying to cover up a nose job, claiming the injuries to his heavily bandaged face were from a carjacking and beating.Parliament member Anwar ...

Study finds concussions' effects linger for children

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:07 PM PST


CHICAGO -- Children with even relatively mild concussions can have persistent attention and memory problems a year after their injuries, according to a study that helps identify which kids may be most at risk for lingering symptoms.
In most kids w ...

More advertisers leave Rush Limbaugh's show

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST


More of Rush Limbaugh's advertisers say they are dropping his program after the conservative talk show host's derogatory comments about a Georgetown law student.
On Monday, AOL Inc. and Tax Resolution Services Co. were the eighth and ninth compani ...

Still time for Steve Ogden to run again

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:05 PM PST

Eagle Editorial Board
Texas is in dire financial straits. While the sour economy hasn't hurt Texas as badly as other states, it has been bad enough -- and it looks to be that way for some time to come.
Oh, to be sure, there are cautious signs of be ...

New Option for Fertility after Cancer

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 01:38 AM PST


CINCINNATI, OH ( Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Effective cancer treatments mean more young cancer patients are surviving, but the same medications that are saving their lives are also killing their chances of having children.
From studying chemistry to win ...

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