Thursday, June 3, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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The Bombers are back

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Tyler Merritt (right) and other Brazos Valley Bombers fans scramble to reach balloons dropped from the ceiling as part of an opening day celebration for the Bombers' 2010 season at Brazos Valley Bank Ballpark Wednesday. The game against the Texas Tom ...

Gang member arrested in injunction zone

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Bryan police have made a fourth arrest in less than a month using the courts to restrict the activities of gang members. Augustin Herrera Junior, 19, of Bryan was released from jail Tuesday after being arrested on a Class A misdemeanor charge of viol ...

A&M community can use unfolding disaster as lesson

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

It's not surprising that researchers within the Texas A&M System are entrenched in investigating the BP oil spill considering it has universities on the Gulf of Mexico -- in Galveston and Corpus Christi.Added to the fact that the system has a dis ...

Gulf oil spill could increase local seafood prices

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Initial panic may have prompted some seafood prices to rise, but the continued catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico soon may cause local residents to have to pay more for their favorite dishes. Halley Welsh, general manager for Fish Daddy's G ...

Police investigate Bryan robbery

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:34 AM PDT

Bryan police Wednesday were investigating a report that a man walking in his neighborhood the night before was robbed by several men.Authorities were dispatched at about 11 p.m. Tuesday to the 500 block of Gainer Street for a report of an aggravated ...

BP says unprepared for Gulf spill; pipe awaits cut

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:42 AM PDT

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- BP's top executive acknowledged Thursday the global oil giant was unprepared to fight a catastrophic deepwater oil spill as engineers were forced yet again to reconfigure plans for executing their latest gambit to control the Gulf ...

Gulf spill workers complaining of flulike symptoms

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:40 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS -- For days now, Dr. Damon Dietrich has seen patients come through his emergency room at West Jefferson Medical Center with similar symptoms: respiratory problems, headaches and nausea.In the past week, 11 workers who have been out on th ...

Police: Woman driving drunk in CS drive-through had illegal pills

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:35 AM PDT

Police said a February incident in which a 20-year-old was pulled over for driving drunk in a College Station restaurant drive-through led to an additional charge of drug possession Wednesday.Dallas Danielle Wolford of College Station was jailed Wedn ...

States to establish uniform standards for teaching

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:14 AM PDT

SUWANEE, Ga. -- By third grade, students should know how to write a complex sentence and add fractions, no matter if they live in Georgia or California.Eighth-graders should understand the Pythagorean theorem. And by high school graduation, all U.S. ...

Perry says Texas doesn't deserve EPA's wrath

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

DEER PARK -- Texas should not be threatened with a takeover of its air quality program but should instead be lauded as the "poster child" for clean air and pollution regulation, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.At a warehouse in the heart of the Housto ...

New businesses shoring up south CS

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:04 PM PDT

The retail construction under way at the intersection of Texas 6 and William D. Fitch Parkway isn't just a sign of an economic boon -- it's indisputable evidence that College Station's center is shifting to the south, officials say.The scheduled sum ...

Businesses apply for new development

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:55 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report College Station officials received applications for new development this week. * Jackson Estates representatives submitted a final plat for an agricultural-open lot on 14.48 acres at 3751 Rock Prairie Road. * Tower Point o ...

Businesses apply for new development

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:55 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report College Station officials received applications for new development this week. * Jackson Estates representatives submitted a final plat for an agricultural-open lot on 14.48 acres at 3751 Rock Prairie Road. * Tower Point o ...

Anger over Obama's meeting with Ariz. governor

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:05 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's planned meeting Thursday with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is angering opponents of Arizona's new immigration law.They say the law, which Brewer signed, is discriminatory. They also think Obama's leadership on immigr ...

Holloway suspect sought in Peru murder

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:13 AM PDT

LIMA, Peru -- Peruvian police said Wednesday that a young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is being sought as a suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian woman.Chief of detectives Col. M ...

More teens using rhythm method for birth control

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:52 AM PDT

ATLANTA â€" A growing number of teen girls say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it’s OK for an unmarried female to have a baby, according to a government survey released Wednesday. The report may help explain why ...

AT&T to end unlimited data

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Just in time for the release of a new iPhone, AT&T will stop letting new customers sign up for its unlimited Internet data plan for smart phones and iPads and charge more for users who hog the most bandwidth.AT&T hopes to ease con ...

Calvert hosts Link Harlan cook-off

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:48 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report The public is invited Saturday to the first annual Link Harlan barbecue cook-off hosted by the Calvert Chamber of Commerce. The event is named after local legend, Link Harlan, who introduced his unique "Sop Style" barbecue by ...

4 officers, 4 Taser jolts subdue naked man in NY

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:53 AM PDT

NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- New York police say it took four officers and four jolts from a Taser to subdue a man found running naked through city traffic, high on the hallucinogen PCP.They began getting reports about a man running around in nothing but sneake ...

$25M will be used to woo Formula One

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- Texas taxpayers will put up the first $25 million to attract the new Formula One U.S. Grand Prix to Austin -- money state officials previously said would be used to reimburse local governments for costs incurred by hosting large sporting ev ...

Liberian teen gets probation in rape of child

Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:39 AM PDT

PHOENIX -- A teenage Liberian refugee who pleaded guilty in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old girl in Phoenix last summer has been sentenced to probation.A juvenile court judge Wednesday also sent the 15-year-old boy to a secure treatment center for at ...

Ex-Fla. GOP chairman arrested, charges unknown

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:55 AM PDT

OVEIDO, Fla. -- The former chairman of the Florida Republican Party was arrested Wednesday, officials said, though they did not release the charges and there was no immediate word on whether they were linked to a probe of his finances.Jim Greer, who ...

Trial begins in 1984 stabbing death of SMU student

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:30 AM PDT

Associated PressDALLAS -- The trial got under way Wednesday for a prison inmate charged in the 1984 killing of a Southern Methodist University student in her off-campus apartment.Donald Andrew Bess, 61, was already serving a life sentence when he was ...

Report: 'Targeted killings' could be war crimes

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

GENEVA -- Governments must come clean on their methods for killing suspected terrorists and insurgents -- especially when using unmanned drones -- because they may be committing war crimes, a U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday.Philip Alston, th ...

Auto sales skyrocket in May

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:02 PM PDT

DETROIT -- Americans shrugged off fewer discounts and a scary stock market plunge last month, snapping up new automobiles and delivering another month of higher sales for carmakers.The industry's double-digit jump in sales shows that consumers feel t ...

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