Monday, March 15, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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A&M women win Big 12 title

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:41 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Texas A&M women's basketball team is playing so well that even its misses are pretty good.A&M scored off four missed shots down the stretch en route to a 74-67 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners for the Big 12 Tournamen ...

Teens accused of alcohol violations

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

Several local teens were arrested over the weekend in unrelated incidents after authorities said they tried to either drink alcohol or gain entrance to a bar.College Station officers watched early Saturday as customers entered Martini Street in the N ...

Police: Man stole feminine products

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA Bryan man with three prior theft convictions remained jailed late Sunday after being charged with stealing female products from a local store, officials said. Police said they were investigating an intoxicated driver at the inters ...

Easier procedure for hearts in works for U.S.

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday.The d ...

Legal fees related to BTU cost $13K

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe city of Bryan paid more than $13,665 in legal fees to assist officials in dealing with issues related to Bryan Texas Utilities, according to an open records response.The Eagle filed the request March 5 after the Bryan City Counc ...

Social Security to cash IOUs

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.It's time to start cashing ...

U.S. mulls pulling nuclear weapons out of Europe

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is taking a go-slow approach on one of the touchiest and least discussed national security issues: whether to remove the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.Some officials in Germany and other U.S. allies ...

State offers grants for young farmers

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- Texas has added its own grants to an existing federal low-interest loan program to encourage beginning farmers.The state's Young Farmer Grant program is funded by fees from farm license plates and aims to help farmers from ages 18 to 46 sta ...

Two snowmobilers die in Canadian avalanche

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

REVELSTOKE, British Columbia -- An avalanche that killed two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently unleashed a deadly wall of snow on up to 200 people bel ...

ACORN branches rename, rebrand after video scandal

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:07 AM PDT

CHICAGO -- Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of ...

Europe might be turning against Islam

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

LONDON -- With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?A small group of Europeans have been doing just that -- provoking death plots and at least one murder by turning out art that derides the Pro ...

Some think of deporting foreign-national inmates

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:05 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas -- State officials again are considering pursuing deportation for foreign nationals serving time in Texas prisons for nonviolent crime, according to the Austin American-Statesman.The newspaper reported in its Sunday editions that the in ...

Israeli apology gets cool U.S. reception

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister expressed regret Sunday for a crisis with the United States over plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, even as American officials played down the apology and called for bold Israeli action to ge ...

AP: Guns in shootings came from authorities

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that b ...

3 tied to U.S. consulate killed in Mexico

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Gunmen killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in this violent border city with their baby in the back seat, minutes after the husband of another consular employee was shot to death and his two children ...

Church members rush to help orphans in Haiti

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- "It has been a very long and deadly night for our friends and family in Haiti," Mark Zimmerman e-mailed the worshippers of White Stone Church.And in Knoxville, too, the morning after the earthquake -- Wednesday, Jan. 13 -- had bee ...

Privacy issues nix Netflix contest

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO -- DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers.The retreat announced Friday settles a lawsuit alleg ...

Blake Shelton on marriage, breakups and bromance

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:09 AM PDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Blake Shelton seems to be coping well after his recent breakup.The country star ended his committed relationship with Twitter about a month ago by deleting it from his phone."After I guess almost a year of being on Twitter, about ...

'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.Graves passed away Sunday just a few days before his 84th birthday outside ...

Awards honor gay media efforts

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series Brothers & Sisters are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.Presented Saturday in New York, winners of the 21st Annual GLAA ...

Pregnancy Alert: Hip Implants

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:45 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Moms with metal hip implants pass metal ions on to their infants while pregnant. Although the effects of this transmission aren't yet known, medical device companies are already working on technologies to reduce the release of ...

Gastric Bypass Boosts Risk of Kidney Stones

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Gastric bypass surgery leaves patients at higher risk of developing kidney stones, a complication that may not surface until months or years after the procedure. Urinary changes that happen in weight-loss surgery patients leave ...

Letters for March 15

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Demonization of each other must stop Recently, I ran for state representative in the Republican Primary in Brazos County -- something of my own Precious moment in politics. The analogy between the political process and the heart-rending story ...

Calendar

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:28 PM PDT

MondayCLUBSCollege Station Noon Lions Club. Hilton Hotel. 690-8525.Brazos Genealogy Association, 7 p.m. Bryan Public Library, upstairs auditorium. Doris Emshoff will present the program on United Daughters of the Confederacy. Anyone interested in gen ...

Brain Chemical Linked to Cognitive Decline in Schizophrenia

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The delusions and hallucinations associated with schizophrenia may be linked to a deficit in a brain chemical.  This may open an important avenue of inquiry for improving cognitive function in the more than 2 million Amer ...

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