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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Aggies give back in a big way

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:07 PM PDT


Chelsea Cooper joined 17,500 of her fellow Aggies on Saturday to toil in her first Big Event.
A sophomore agricultural communications and journalism major, Cooper was part of a group about 50 students from The Cambridge, an off-campus student hous ...

Aggies give back in a big way

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:07 PM PDT


Chelsea Cooper joined 17,500 of her fellow Aggies on Saturday to toil in her first Big Event.
A sophomore agricultural communications and journalism major, Cooper was part of a group about 50 students from The Cambridge, an off-campus student hous ...

Brother arrested in Tomball man's death

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:06 PM PDT


Police in Carlsbad, N.M., surrounded a hotel room early Saturday morning and arrested the brother of a Tomball man whose body was discovered lying alongside Texas 21 in Brazos County less than 24 hours earlier.
Kyle Wischnewsky, 27, is charged wit ...

Brother arrested in Tomball man's death

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:06 PM PDT


Police in Carlsbad, N.M., surrounded a hotel room early Saturday morning and arrested the brother of a Tomball man whose body was discovered lying alongside Texas 21 in Brazos County less than 24 hours earlier.
Kyle Wischnewsky, 27, is charged wit ...

A&M women's basketball team ready for Sweet 16

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT


RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Texas A&M women's basketball team is excited to be in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, but they expected it.
And much more.
"I believe the Final Four is very realistic," A&M head coach Gary Blair said Saturday dur ...

A&M women's basketball team ready for Sweet 16

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT


RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Texas A&M women's basketball team is excited to be in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, but they expected it.
And much more.
"I believe the Final Four is very realistic," A&M head coach Gary Blair said Saturday dur ...

Blast away: Space cleared out for Chile telescope

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT


It was a groundbreaking that was literally a groundbreaking.
The process to blast rock from a Chilean mountaintop to level it for an ambitious $800 million telescope for which Texas A&M University is a partner began Friday.
The Giant Magell ...

Blast away: Space cleared out for Chile telescope

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT


It was a groundbreaking that was literally a groundbreaking.
The process to blast rock from a Chilean mountaintop to level it for an ambitious $800 million telescope for which Texas A&M University is a partner began Friday.
The Giant Magell ...

CSISD to increase digital offerings

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


What do you do if your child is struggling with math homework and it's been a few years since you were in school?
College Station school district employees have found a way to assist students and parents when a child needs additional help with sch ...

CSISD to increase digital offerings

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


What do you do if your child is struggling with math homework and it's been a few years since you were in school?
College Station school district employees have found a way to assist students and parents when a child needs additional help with sch ...

Supreme Court's health ruling could shape fall elections

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is likely to shake the presidential election race in early summer. But the winners in the court will not necessarily be the winners i ...

Study of nationwide test scores flags school for possible cheating

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


Hundreds of school systems nationwide, including those in Houston and Dallas, exhibit suspicious test scores that point to the possibility of cheating, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The newspaper examined test ...

Cowboys come to town

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT

Trinity's Hunter Carter loses his ride while competing in the bareback event at the Intercollegiate Rodeo hosted by the Texas A&M Rodeo Club at the Brazos County Expo on Saturday. The event featured 15 schools from the southern region of the Nati ...

Renters' ban takes another hit

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


FARMERS BRANCH -- A Dallas suburb has spent five years and nearly $5 million trying to ban illegal immigrants from renting apartments within city limits, but court challenges have kept the law from taking effect. Still, city officials say they're l ...

Protesters decry cuts to Texas schools

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- More than 1,000 teachers, students and administrators from schools across Texas rallied Saturday at the state Capitol to decry $5.4 billion in cuts to public education and demand that lawmakers restore some of that funding -- or at least ...

5 ways to settle Republican nomination

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Are we there yet? Not quite. Mitt Romney's two steps forward, one flub back campaign continues its tantalizing progress toward a total victory that always seems just ahead.
Still, the Republican presidential race has got to end some ...

Rick Santorum beats Mitt Romney in Louisiana

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:09 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Rick Santorum won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary Saturday, beating front-runner Mitt Romney in yet another conservative Southern state.
"We're still here. We're still fighting. We still believe, as this race really sho ...

Pope focuses on children during Mexico visit

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:07 PM PDT


GUANAJUATO, Mexico -- Pope Benedict XVI worked to build the future of Mexico's church by reaching out to children Saturday as tens of thousands of teenagers streamed into a vast, shade-starved park to camp out overnight ahead of a gigantic papal Ma ...

America still No. 1 in the eyes of other nations

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- Anyone worried about an erosion of America's global status might consider this modest fact: Facebook is the dominant social network in Mongolia.
Along with its pervasive social media, the United States leads in myriad other ways -- fro ...

House fire kills 6 kids, 2 adults

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT


CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Alisha Carter-Camp had a new job, a wedding to plan and a 26th birthday to celebrate with a family cookout and toasts to the birthday girl in a yard full of children. By the end of the night, she was among eight dead, incl ...

Slain teen's story a lesson for black males

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:06 PM PDT


PHILADELPHIA -- I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to my ch ...

Perched at the park

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

A Great Egret tends to its wing feathers while perched on a railing at Research Park in College Station.

Always along for the ride

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

Robin Batson of Bryan strolls along with Sugar, her 13-year-old Maltese, as they venture around her central Bryan Neighborhood. Sugar has been in the saddle since she went blind about a year ago, but still enjoys the ride with Batson several times a ...

Local Horse named to Hall of Fame

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

Indigo Illusion, an American Quarter Horse, was recently inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. The 1981 dark-brown mare, by Beduino (TB) out of the Duplicate Copy mare Copy Capri, was bred by William Carter and Allen Baitzor of Clovi ...

The Officers' Wives' Club of Bryan and College Station aids national volunteer group

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

The Officers' Wives' Club of Bryan and College Station recently supported the "Sew-Much-Comfort" national volunteer group with a check for $800. The volunteer group modifies clothing to be used by wounded service members.
Pictured (from left to ri ...

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