Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Piece of history

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Texas Engineering Extension Services Urban Search and Rescue employees Joe Easterling (left) and Matthew Winn unload a beam of the World Trade Center Friday at Kyle Field. The beam will be positioned in the Zone before the Texas A&M football game ...

New age of traffic control

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Local officials are hoping the Bryan-College Station Mobility Initiative becomes a household name. To get to that point, though, the initiative has a long way to travel. The interlocal partnership hopes to begin the first leg of its journey in the ...

Doc explains details of JFK shooting

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

An elegant photo of a wavy-haired young president flashed on the screen as Robert Grossman said, "This is the way I remember John F. Kennedy." Moments later, the crowd of about 150 at Texas A&M gasped as a video played of the president with his ...

Economic index dips slightly

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

A five-month streak of small but steady improvements in Bryan-College Station's economic index was broken by July's numbers, which revealed a slight dip in the area's fortunes, although the cities continued to generate new jobs. "The fact that it's ...

DBA reveals new executive director

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

The Downtown Bryan Association named its new executive director this week. Cassidy Barton will fill the role after coming from the Heritage Society Museum in Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston. A University of Texas graduate, officials said, Bart ...

Police: Speeding driver charged with felony DWI

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 07:53 AM PDT

Bryan police arrested a 37-year-old man on a felony drunken driving charge after an officer reported seeing him speeding through a neighborhood. Jose Alejo Cabrera-Castro of Bryan was charged early Friday with driving while intoxicated with at two p ...

CS police to host shredding event

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportAnyone with documents to shred can do so Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Post Oak Mall. The College Station Police Department has partnered with Shred-Pro to offer the free service to the public. The shredders will be statione ...

Tensions cast shadow over Sept. 11 events

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against ...

Death toll in storm rises

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

SAN ANTONIO -- The bodies of two men found Friday in swollen Texas waterways pushed the death toll caused by remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine to six, while a scaled-back search resumed for another woman swept away in flooding caused by a record dre ...

Homeless man seeks Bush

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

DALLAS -- Secret Service agents have questioned a homeless man who was knocking on doors in search of former President George W. Bush near his Dallas home, police said Friday. Both the Secret Service and Dallas police said the man never made it with ...

Feds could lift ban on drilling

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

A key U.S. government official said Friday that the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling likely won't be extended past Nov. 30, but whether it is cut short will depend entirely on the industry.Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy ...

Crews try to reach smoldering homes

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- Investigators searched the smoldering rubble of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood tucked into the hills overlooking San Francisco on Friday, looking for answers to why a gas line ruptured and fed a giant fireball that killed at ...

Vet who caught Tojo tells story

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting a former Army intelligence officer-turned-career ...

Wholesale inventories, sales increase in July

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Inventories held by wholesalers surged in July by the largest amount in two years while sales rebounded after two straight declines. The Commerce Department said Friday that wholesale inventories rose 1.3 percent in July, the best perf ...

Man fought Colorado wildfire with shovel

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

BOULDER, Colo. -- Bob Arnold breathed a sigh of relief Friday morning when the ominous glow finally disappeared from the ridge behind his house. He spent four days and nights defending his home with a shovel and dirt in the shadow of a wildfire tha ...

Pilots may get fewer hours

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Work hours would be shortened for pilots who fly at night while some pilots who fly during the day could spend more time in the cockpit under a government proposal to help prevent dangerous fatigue.The Federal Aviation Administration pl ...

Roger Ebert to return to TV

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

CHICAGO -- Film critic Roger Ebert, who lost his ability to speak and eat after cancer surgeries, said Friday that he is returning to television on a movie review show that he is producing for television. Ebert says the thumbs up and thumbs down rev ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Saturday * First Baptist Church, 3100 Cambridge Drive in Bryan, will hold the True Women '10 Pre-Conference Meeting from 10 a.m. to noon in Room 136B. The guest speaker will be Rene Hanebutt, the conference coordinator from Revive Our Hearts Ministr ...

Mormons, Jews tackle baptism

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy. In a joint statement issued recently, Th ...

Letters for September 11

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Congressman shoots himself in the foot Chet Edwards thought he had a magic bullet to shoot Bill Flores with. Here's a summary of the story: After a 1998 merger between Baker Hughes and Western Atlas, Baker Hughes had to lay off more than 3,000 ...

Fashion's Night Out celebrates shopping

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Fashion's Night Out, the one-night-only celebration of fashion dreamed up by Vogue's Anna Wintour, is expanding across the country Friday, with special events meant to lure shoppers into stores and revive the flagging fashion industry. H ...

Weekend attraction

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Carnival worker Humberto Alonso wipes down horses on the carousel Thursday at the Talley Amusement Park on Texas 21 and Waco Street in Bryan.

Calendar

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Saturday EVENTS Second Chance for Love Adoption Days, 4 to 7 p.m. PetSmart. www.brazosanimalshelter.org. 26th Annual Kolache Festival, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Kolaches sold on the courthouse square, Caldwell. Also: Czech dancers and bands, Czech demonstr ...

Signs of remembrance

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Texas A&M student Natalie Martinez leans forward to place an American flag at a memorial Friday for those killed in the 9/11 attacks as well as for service men and women killed in Iraq and Afganistan. The memorial was organized by the Texas Aggie ...

Senate urged to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell'

Posted: 10 Sep 2010 05:14 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Elated by a major court victory, gay-rights activists are stepping up pressure on Congress to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy this month. They want to avoid potentially lengthy appeals and fear their chances fo ...

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