Monday, September 13, 2010

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Program helps families get back on track

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Cindy Figgers, a single mother of two teenage sons, said she knew what she wanted out of life but needed a little help. "It means having confidence and support," she said. "Knowing you have someone standing behind the goals you want out of life is e ...

Landfill's future could be at risk

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

The future of the Rock Prairie Road Landfill is in doubt after College Station City Council members raised concerns that a partnership with the city of Bryan could unravel years from now. The landfill, which is nearing capacity and set to be replace ...

Police say man threw Aggie ring

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report A 19-year-old College Station resident was charged with theft after being accused of throwing someone's Aggie ring into a field. Texas A&M University police officers said they were on bicycle patrol around 11 a.m. Saturday wh ...

CS man charged with reckless driving

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report A 44-year-old College Station man faces a reckless-driving charge after a Bryan officer reported seeing him driving an estimated 95 mph on the east frontage road of North Earl Rudder Freeway, authorities said. The officer said th ...

Residents can go to the museum for free

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportResidents will have an opportunity to visit the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History for free on Sept. 25. Museum officials said the day of free admission is part of Museum Day -- a nationwide event aimed at encouraging people t ...

Muslims want to move forward

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Nine years of denouncing terrorism, of praying side-by-side with Jews and Christians, of insisting "I'm American, too." None of it could stop a season of hate against Muslims that made for an especially fraught Sept. 11. Now, Muslims are ...

GOP leader backs tax cuts

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader John Boehner says he would vote for President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy, if that were the only option available to House Republicans.Boehner, R-Ohio, said it is ...

Man shot with Taser by Dallas police officer dies

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:49 PM PDT

DALLAS -- A male robbery suspect shot with a Taser while trying to flee a Dallas police officer on foot has died at a Dallas hospital.A police statement says the officers were answering a robbery call about 11:30 a.m. Sunday in the South Oak Cliff se ...

Trial set for Mass. doc in abortion patient death

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:47 PM PDT

BOSTON -- Laura Hope Smith was 22 years old and 13 weeks pregnant when she went to see a Cape Cod doctor for an abortion. She was pronounced dead later that day.Prosecutors charged the doctor with manslaughter, alleging that he failed to monitor her ...

Fire pit may have caused blaze

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

BOULDER, Colo. -- Colorado crews let hundreds of evacuees return to their scorched homes Sunday as investigators probed the cause of a devastating wildfire that has burned 10 square miles near Boulder.A senior law enforcement official familiar with ...

Mexican marines arrest presumed drug kingpin

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:51 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel who appears on a list of the country's most-wanted fugitives, in a raid Sunday in the central state of Puebla, the government ...

Setback won't stall mine rescue

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's mining minister acknowledged that a problem has stalled the most advanced of three tunnels being drilled to 33 miners trapped underground and said officials might have to restart the bore hole in another location.But Laure ...

Tea partiers rally across nation

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Tea party activists gathered in cities on each coast and in between Sunday to spread their message of smaller government and focus their political movement on the pivotal congressional elections in November.Several thousand peo ...

Newborn found in garbage bag, alive

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

MANILA, Philippines -- Authorities at Manila's airport found a newborn baby in a garbage bag that was apparently unloaded from an airplane that landed Sunday from the Middle East, officials said. Security officials brought the baby boy, who was co ...

Clinton leading 'last chance' talks

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is shepherding Mideast talks this week that she says may be the last chance for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.Clinton and former Sen. George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's special ...

Emotional Kanye West closes VMAs

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Taylor Swift absolved Kanye West of last year's onstage sin with one somber song, and West, also in song, beat himself up once again over his misbehavior.The Swift-West drama took center stage at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, with b ...

Another fire erupts, destroys a home

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. -- A fast-moving wildfire has erupted in northern Colorado, destroying at least one home and threatening other as residents in the Boulder foothills about 35 miles away return to their homes after one of the most dest ...

Dems downplay GOP edge

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:03 PM PDT

INDIANOLA, Iowa -- Two top Democratic strategists said Sunday that President Barack Obama has the nation moving in the right direction, downplaying polls that suggest Republicans have an edge heading into November's midterm election.White House advis ...

Iranian prosecutor ready to release American

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran -- After a power struggle within Iran's conservative leadership put her freedom in doubt, an American woman arrested more than a year ago along the Iraq border is on the verge of heading home. Her two companions, however, could be on th ...

U.S. agencies endorse new global banking standards

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve and other major U.S. banking regulators are calling new global bank capital standards a "significant step forward in reducing the incidence and severity of future financial crises."In a joint statement, the U.S. regu ...

Congress cautious as election nears

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Congress returns this week with embattled Democrats torn between trying to show they have the economic answers and fearing the further wrath of voters over new government programs.It appears the fears will win out.The inbox is overflow ...

Letters for September 13

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Representative must get 'children' in line It's time for Chet Edwards to get his "children" in line. As a pizza delivery man, I've experienced firsthand the ingratitude and disrespect of those infected with the entitlement mentality. And not ...

Calendar

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:02 PM PDT

MondayCLUBSAmerican Association of Individual Investors, 9:30 a.m. Carriage Inn, 4235 Boonville Road, Bryan. Roundtable-style meetings featuring various topics and speakers. Guests are welcome. 846-0551. Star Duplicate Bridge Club, 9:45 a.m. College ...

Palin, Beck recall 9/11 attacks at Alaska event

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 11:53 PM PDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck teamed up in the former Alaska governor's home state Saturday night, delivering their messages to a crowd of thousands and recalling their thoughts and feelings the day of the 9/11 attacks.Palin applaud ...

Drugs may work against bat disease

Posted: 12 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT

BOSTON -- Scientists may have found some ways to help the nation's bats, which are being wiped out by a novel fungal disease, an unprecedented wildlife crisis.Lab tests show that several drugs can fight the germ and that some antiseptics might help d ...

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