Saturday, April 14, 2012

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Chili, music and beer: Currington headlines annual music festival

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:31 PM PDT


Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a weeklong series of previews of the country artists taking the Chilifest stage on Saturday.
Billy Currington was standing backstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 2009, ready to perform his hit People Are Crazy ...

Texas A&M admits data breach

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:28 PM PDT


Texas A&M's registrar's office spent Friday preparing letters to notify thousands of alumni that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was inadvertently made public.
The breach on Thursday affected nearly 4,000 former ...

Corps Hall of Honor to add 8

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:29 PM PDT

By ROSALEE GETTERMAN
rosalee.getterman@theeagle.com
Seven former members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets will be recognized for exemplifying the Aggie Spirit as they are inducted into the Corps Hall of Honor during a ceremony in Rudder Auditor ...

Bryan man gets 15 years

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:28 PM PDT

District Judge Travis Bryan III on Friday ordered a 40-year-old Bryan man to serve 15 years in prison immediately followed by 10 years probation after the defendant pleaded guilty to 50 counts of possession of child pornography earlier in the week. T ...

Fort Worth woman faces drug charges

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:29 PM PDT

A 20-year-old Fort Worth woman was arrested Thursday after officers searched her car and found 10 grams of Adderall that were not prescribed to her, police said.
According to College Station police, a resident of a home in the 2500 block of Cross Ti ...

DPS: Drunken driver had child in car

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:29 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A 44-year-old Madisonville woman was arrested for DWI, authorities said, after she allegedly crashed her Chevrolet Lumina into the guardrail on U.S. 190 on Thursday at about 8 p.m. while her 2-year-old son was in the vehicle.
Acc ...

Police: Woman assaulted jailer

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

After being arrested for public intoxication, a 41-year-old Riesel woman was given an additional charge of assault of a public servant after she allegedly bit a detention officer while being booked at the College Station Jail.According to College St ...

Protests strain Syria cease-fire

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

BEIRUT -- Syrian forces used live fire, tear gas and clubs to beat back tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets across the country Friday in powerful and often jubilant displays of defiance. But a U.N.-brokered truce largely held up w ...

Rocket Science proves difficult

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated
WASHINGTON -- It really is rocket science and it really is hard. North Korea proved that again.
The giant explosion that gets a rocket off the ground isn't that complicated. The superhot, superfast exhaust from that g ...

Texas adopts rules for stem cell treatments

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:31 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- The Texas Medical Board on Friday approved new rules on experimental stem cell therapies such as the one Gov. Rick Perry underwent during back surgery last year, despite objections they don't do enough to protect patients and could led to ...

Vermont government chased by bear

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT


MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A late-night encounter with four bears trying to snack from backyard birdfeeders gave Vermont's governor a lesson in what not to do in bear country.
One of the bears chased Peter Shumlin and nearly caught the governor while he w ...

NASA needs cheaper Mars ideas

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help.
The space agency on Friday put out a call for ideas for the next Mars mission in 2018. The fine print: The cost can't be astronomical and the idea has to move the country close ...

Stock gains expected to persist

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:31 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- The zigzag in the stock market this past week may leave you wondering queasily: Will this quarter build on the blockbuster gains from the start of the year or wipe them away?
Over the past 30 years, strong quarters like the one that en ...

Earnings reports point to housing rebound

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT


NEW YORK -- Earnings reports from two major banks Friday painted a picture of a healing housing market, with more Americans taking out mortgages, paying them on time and taking advantage of low interest rates to refinance.
At JPMorgan Chase, the b ...

Pakistani atoning for beheading

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT


HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan -- Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pak ...

Violins resonate with Holocaust history

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When a musician plays a violin long enough, the instrument is imprinted with its owner's way of making sound. If someone else picks it up, they learn to play it in a way that honors its history. So when David Russell places a violi ...

Tourism, religion are connected

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:32 PM PDT

Like so many of us, my life is multifaceted. Part of my life is spent as the rabbi at Texas A&M Hillel Foundation. The other major aspect of my professional life deals with the world of tourism. As May is national tourism month, I thought this mo ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:29 PM PDT

Sunday
* Faith United Church (UUC), 2901 Austin's Colony Parkway in Bryan, will celebrate the second Sunday of Easter with a Sunday Study at 9:15 a.m., followed by worship at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Karl Tewold will preach the message "Blowin' in the Wi ...

Letters for April 14

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:05 PM PDT


Government laws intrude on women
For member of a party who say they are for smaller government, the Republicans are spending an enormous amount of time on laws involving women's reproductive restrictions.
The repercussions of these laws are going ...

Senate candidates face off

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:31 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- The four leading Texas Republicans hoping to be the party's U.S. Senate nominee faced off in their first televised debate Friday, and most of the attacks focused on perceived front-runner Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and who is the most conser ...

Calendar

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:28 PM PDT

MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Bluebonnets & Bluegrass will take place at Old Tyme Wonderland each weekend in April. There will be food, fun, festivities, four stages of live music, horse-drawn wagon rides, WWII exhibit, face painting, pony rides, kid's tr ...

N. Korean rocket launch curbs U.S. foreign aid plans

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's hopes of using diplomacy to defuse an unpredictable, nuclear-equipped North Korea fizzled with that country's failed rocket launch, leaving Obama with little to show for his overture to the new North Korean lead ...

Mega-help key to megachurches

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 05:30 PM PDT


NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- On just about any Sunday, as many as 10,000 people may fill the pews of The Potter's House, Bishop T.D. Jakes' Dallas-area megachurch. Believers say he has an uncanny way of connecting with his audience anyway.
"It doesn't matt ...

Paul not planning to endorse Romney anytime soon

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:45 AM PDT


FORT WORTH — Republican presidential contender Ron Paul says he's friendly with GOP front-runner Mitt Romney but that he's not planning to endorse Romney anytime soon.
Paul told reporters Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, that he and Romn ...

Biden: Romney is out of step with American values

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT


EXETER, N.H.— Eyeing the November election, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday called presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney "out of touch" and "out of step" with history and basic American values.
Biden also opened a new line of ...

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