Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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A&M teams headed to Washington

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

The Texas A&M men's and women's basketball teams may play their first NCAA Tournament games a long way from home, but at least they will be near each other. And if both teams are successful, they will be able to return to Texas to play in some of ...

Texas considers deportation of jailed illegal immigrants

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

State officials are considering deportation for jailed illegal immigrants serving time for nonviolent crimes in the face of a state budget crisis and a growing number of foreign nationals behind bars.State Sen. Eddie Lucio told the Austin American-St ...

A&M's CFO leaving position

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

A top financial officer of Texas A&M University has resigned to become vice chancellor for finance for the University of North Texas System. Terry Pankratz, vice president and chief financial officer, has worked at the 49,000-student university a ...

Two killed in Leon County wreck

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 01:34 AM PDT

Two people were killed and three others were injured in a wreck about five miles north of Centerville Monday, officials said.William Joseph Edens was driving a 2006 Dodge pickup northbound on Interstate 45 around 3:16 p.m.when he failed to see that a ...

Bryan resident accused of cutting man with knife

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 07:19 AM PDT

Police said they arrested a 20-year-old Bryan man Monday after he cut a man whom he previously dated on the hand.Wayne Christopher Moore was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a weapon.Bryan police said they responded to a home in the 28 ...

Police: Hearne man shot relative

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

A man from Hearne could face life in prison after shooting his brother-in-law in the face with a shotgun, Bryan police said. On Sunday morning, William McKinley Hammond shot Jesse Davenport III outside his home near MLK Street and Texas 6, police sai ...

Man arrested on felony DWI in CS

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 02:33 AM PDT

A 36-year-old man faces a felony drunken driving charge after police said they pulled him over for swerving on Texas 6.Frederick Dewayne Moore of Bryan was arrested Sunday on a charge of driving while intoxicated third offense or more.A College Stati ...

Officials: Man lied to churches for money

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportA man from Bryan remained in jail Monday after local authorities said he pretended to be a fire victim in order to solicit money from area churches.Christopher Dawson, 32, visited at least two churches in Millican in early March and ...

More Texas universities could charge green fees

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:03 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas -- Students at the University of North Texas, Texas-El Paso and Texas-San Antonio face votes in April on whether to charge themselves a few bucks to go green.The proposed environment friendly funds were approved by referendums this mo ...

CS Mayor White to discuss development

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportCollege Station's next Coffee with the Mayor will be Friday. The discussion with Mayor Ben White will focus on upcoming development. White and Planning and Development Services Director Bob Cowell will talk about the city's changing ...

Democrats start countdown to health care vote

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats triggered the countdown Monday for the climactic vote on President Barack Obama's fiercely contested remake of the health care system, even though the legislation remained incomplete and lacked the votes needed to pass.O ...

Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama's bill

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies.Som ...

Illegal immigrants in Texas get in-state tuition

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:04 AM PDT

DALLAS -- More than 12,000 illegal immigrants, non-permanent residents or non-U.S. citizens paid in-state tuition or received other such financial aid at public colleges and universities across Texas during late 2009, the Dallas Morning News report ...

Dodd unveils financial reform plan

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- A new Democratic Senate bill to tame the financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy, force the industry to pay for its failures and create a consumer watchdog within the Federal Re ...

Motive unknown in Mexico killings

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Suspected drug gangsters chased down and opened fire on two white SUVs carrying families of U.S. consular employees from a children's party, killing three adults and injuring two children in this violent border city, official ...

Study: Kicking smoking habit improves arteries, cholesterol

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- Quitting smoking can turn back time.A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, according to the first big study to test this.The improvement came even tho ...

Continental Airlines to charge for food

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- Attention coach passengers. Continental Airlines, which used to boast about giving away free hamburgers and barbecue while rivals passed out tiny bags of pretzels, is changing its tune on food.Continental plans to launch a food-for-sale pr ...

Baldacci going beyond e-book

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:00 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- David Baldacci is ready for e-book immersion.His next thriller, Deliver Us from Evil, comes out April 20 as a hardcover, an e-book, and in an "enriched" electronic version which will include passages deleted from the final text, research ...

Study: Sex Chromosomes Regulate Blood Pressure

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:48 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers determined that something in female sex chromosomes, rather than just sex hormones, appears to trigger a rise in blood pressure after the onset of menopause, challenging the current belief that it is sex hormon ...

Trauma of War Doubles Asthma Risk

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:50 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Living through the trauma of war seems to increase the risk of developing asthma, and those who are most traumatized are twice as likely to develop the condition as those who are least traumatized by their experiences.\ Researc ...

Antiseptic Cloths Reduce Deadly Bacteria

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:47 PM PDT

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Bathing trauma patients daily using cloths containing the antiseptic chlorhexidine may be associated with a decreased rate of infection by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other difficult-to-treat bacteria ...

Tracking Down The Spread Of Cancer - Research Summary

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:36 PM PDT

BACKGROUND: According to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure web site, a little more than 192,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in American women each year. From the 1940s until recently, the rate of new cases of breast cancer in the United S ...

Tracking Down The Spread Of Cancer

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:36 PM PDT

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Right now, there are more than two and a half million Americans living with breast cancer. When a woman has breast cancer, doctors want to be sure the disease has not spread to her lymph nodes. It's the first ...

Letters to the editor

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PDT

I completely agree with the editorial (Eagle, March 14) on the health care bill. People are very concerned about the cost of health care, and rightly so. There is also less trust in government than any time I can remember. An incremental appr ...

Game times

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PDT

* Men will play Utah State on Friday at approximately 4 p.m. on CBS.* Women take on Portland State on Saturday at 7:06 p.m. The game will be shown on ESPN2. ...

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