Monday, November 9, 2009

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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America's heroes

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Kelly Ledezma has worn a Bryan High School band uniform and marched in the Bryan Rotary Club Veterans Day Parade for the past four years.This year, the 18-year-old graduate stood on a sidewalk and watched, wearing a shirt that gave insight into at le ...

Police investigate 3 robberies in Bryan

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportBryan detectives late Sunday were investigating a robbery and two attempted robberies reported over an 18-hour period.Police said it was unclear whether the crimes were related.The first incident was reported in the 700 block of W. ...

Texas A&M student dies in CS crash

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Police identified the driver killed after striking a utility pole late Sunday as a 21-year-old Texas A&M University student. Adam Segura, from San Antonio, died from his injuries at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan, police said. Police wer ...

Bush to visit during Berlin Wall event

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

The public is invited to an event Monday at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum that celebrates the Berlin Wall coming down 20 years ago.Combined choirs from Rudder, Bryan and A&M Consolidated high schools, along with the Texas Aggie ...

Veterans Day events

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Veterans Day Ceremony and Barbecue Dinner* Who: Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Board and the Museum of American GI* When: 4 p.m. Wednesday* Where: Veterans Park* Details: Event will include unveiling of names on the Wall of Honor, tours of the Lynn ...

Army: Shooting suspect critical, stable condition

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:17 AM PST

FORT HOOD, Texas -- A U.S. Army spokesman says the man suspected in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood is in critical but stable condition at a Texas hospital.Col. John Rossi told Fox News early Monday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's condition has not cha ...

Fort Hood mourns as investigation is launched

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

FORT HOOD -- An Army chaplain asked mourners Sunday to pray for the accused Fort Hood shooter, calling on them to focus less on why the tragedy happened and more on helping each other through "the valley of the shadow of darkness.""Lord, all those ar ...

Hasan linked to 9/11 hijackers

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI ...

Germany marks the fall of the Wall

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

BERLIN -- With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.On that cold night, they danced atop the wall, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope. Years o ...

Health care bill faces changes

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours ...

Texas death over alleged reckless driving by teens

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WYLIE, Texas -- Police say five teens are charged with murder in the beating death of a Dallas-area man who argued with them about reckless driving in his neighborhood.Wylie police Detective Venece Perepiczka said the suspects were arrested in Wyli ...

Ida forecast to slow before hitting U.S.

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.A hurricane watch extended over more than 200 ...

Young reporters fight for privacy

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

CHICAGO -- A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind ...

Iraq passes electoral law; vote to be held in January

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis that could have delayed the U.S. troop withdrawal.The decision appeared to r ...

Fair targets France's 260,000 divorcés

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

PARIS -- The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair.In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country's National Institute of Demo ...

Escobar's son out of hiding, seeking forgiveness

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

BOGOTA -- After notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, the son who many thought would succeed him fled Colombia, assumed a new identity and lived a low-profile life as an architect in Argentina.The former Juan Pablo Escobar, who was 16 when hi ...

Chavez: Prepare for war with Colombia

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela's military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country's soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the South ...

Beijing angry over Dalai Lama's trip

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

TAWANG, India -- Joyous Buddhist pilgrims welcomed the Dalai Lama back Sunday to the Himalayan town he first set foot in five decades ago while fleeing Chinese rule in his native Tibet -- a rare trip close to his homeland that has angered Beijing.Th ...

New computer virus fakes child porn collections

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses -- the malicious programs better known ...

Drug treatments vs. prison time

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

NEW YORK -- Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to ...

Obama calls law a milestone for Iraq

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliament's passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future.In a Rose Garden statement, Obama said the development would fa ...

Lawmaker pushes for E. coli checks

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., is worried about a recent outbreak that killed at least two people ...

Jones-Ryan

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 04:18 AM PST

Laura Barran Jones, of Houston and Michael Patrick Ryan were united in Holy Matrimony November 7, 2009 at St Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. F. Stuart Shelby of Houston and Msgr. John McCaffrey of Bryan. ...

Experts: Market's rally may be over

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end.The Dow Jones industrial average rose or fell more than 100 points in seven of the past 12 trading days, capped by a ...

Letters for November 9

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:05 PM PST

People should vote on more issuesI thank Jim Ash for his diligence in standing up and fighting the red-light issue. He didn't do it for personal gain or any " attaboy." He did it to inform the College Station City Council and hopefully future counci ...

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