Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Construction workers take part in synchronized stretching

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Some 250 Skanska construction workers begin their day just after dawn Tuesday with a series of stretching and flexing exercises that include squats, toe-touches, neck stretches and many other movements designed to warm them up for the tasks ahead at ...

CS boy IDs murder suspect

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A 9-year-old boy identified the man who allegedly killed his mother and stabbed him in the throat repeatedly with a garden trowel in a photo line-up from his hospital bed, according to a police report. Stanley Lamar Griffin was a friend of 29-year ...

Joint police force to disband

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

A law enforcement unit that combats gangs and drugs in Brazos County will be disbanded at the end of the month because the team's state funding has dried up. The Brazos County Special Investigations Unit operated on about $300,000 in annual grants fr ...

Board pushes rezoning talks

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Nearly a month after receiving a school rezoning proposal from a committee assigned to the task, College Station trustees met Tuesday to discuss the plans for the first time as a group. Three public forums were held to gather feedback prior to the bo ...

A&M regents to vote on institute

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Texas A&M's governing authority will consider creating an institute that aims to be the leading university center for nuclear studies. The A&M System Board of Regents will vote to establish the Nuclear Solutions Institute during the body' ...

What are BV's health worries?

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Brazos Valley residents are most concerned about transportation, alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, population growth and poverty, according to results of a recent health survey. The findings of the Brazos Valley Health Assessment will be presented du ...

Mom of 3 slain kids says she was abused

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

HOUSTON -- The estranged wife of a man accused of killing their three children in a custody dispute said "no one believed me" when she claimed he abused her for years and was a threat to their children. Norma Martinez filed for divorce in February f ...

Child pornography gets man 80 years

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A 25-year-old College Station man was sentenced to 80 years in prison Tuesday after he was found guilty of 25 counts of possession of child pornography. After a 2 1/2-day punishment hearing, Judge Travis Bryan III sentenced Justin Davis to 20 years ...

Body of missing area man found

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Authorities on Tuesday found the body of a 57-year-old Burleson County man who had been missing since last week. William "Bill" Kincaid was reported missing Thursday after his wife noticed he was gone but his cell phone, wallet and money were inside ...

Doves flocking together

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A Mourning Dove fluffs its feathers under the watchful eye of its counterpart near a temporary roosting spot they had claimed along a line of shrubs near College Station Medical Center on Rock Prairie Road in College Station. The doves, many of whom ...

Man accused of hitting, choking ex

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

A 23-year-old College Station man was in jail Tuesday night, accused of beating and attempting to strangle his ex-girlfriend. College Station police said they were called around 6:30 p.m. Monday to an apartment on Anderson Street, where a woman told ...

UN speakers split over capitalism

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS -- Iran's president on Tuesday predicted the defeat of capitalism and blamed global big business for the suffering of millions, but Germany's chancellor said market economies were key to lifting the world's least developed countries ou ...

Police find body as flooding eases

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

CORPUS CHRISTI -- Storms partly fueled by Hurricane Karl finally began weakening along the Texas coast on Tuesday after dumping more than 10 inches of rain, and authorities found the body of a driver who had been swept away by floods. Widespread f ...

9 NATO troops killed in chopper crash

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A helicopter carrying international troops crashed in a rugged section of southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing nine service members in the deadliest such incident in four years for coalition forces. A "large number" of Am ...

No one injured in rollover near Kurten

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:04 PM PDT

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Gordon Schneider investigates a rollover accident on Texas 21 near Kurten on Tuesday. The driver of the sport utility vehicle lost control on rain-slickened roads. Two children in the vehicle were properly re ...

Mexican mob beats 2 alleged kidnappers to death

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:53 AM PDT

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Mexican authorities say a mob has beaten two alleged kidnappers to death in the northern border state of Chihuahua.Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval says dozens of angry people in the town of Asencion bea ...

Police seize $30M from Vatican

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY -- Italian authorities seized $30 million from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe.The Vatican said it was "perplexed and sur ...

Leaving Big 12 costs Nebraska, Colorado millions

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 06:12 PM PDT

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Big 12 will become a 10-team league next year after all in the wake of agreements Tuesday that require Nebraska and Colorado to forfeit a combined $16 million in conference payouts. Nebraska, which joins the Big Ten on July 1, w ...

Texas sees increase in Hispanic businesses

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:54 AM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas -- U.S. Census figures show Texas is ranked third nationally when it comes to number of Hispanic-owned businesses.The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in Texas grew by 40 percent between 2002 and 2007, reaching 447,000. The governmen ...

Chimps' future prompts debate over NM primate lab

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 12:52 AM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal rights advocates, including New Mexico's governor ...

Simple technique carmelizes milk

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Dear Lisa: I am curious about a pie recipe using sweetened condensed milk that is caramelized in the can by boiling it in water. Is it possible to make such a thing? -- A reader Dear Reader: Not only is it possible, but making caramelized sweetene ...

Lamb burger built with memories in mind

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT

For Art Smith, a great burger is rich with not just flavor, but also memories. And his burger memories stretch back to the 100-year-old Florida cattle farm on which he grew up -- and from which his ground beef came. "Mother only made them for Sat ...

Restaurant Monitor

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:31 PM PDT

The Restaurant Monitor is a weekly listing of scores for restaurants inspected by the Brazos County Health Department.Inspection scores are on a 100-point scale. Generally, scores below 80 might cause the department to schedule a follow-up visit. A s ...

Health & Fitness Calendar

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT

CLINIC Monday * Brazos County Health Department immunization clinic. 8:30-11:30 a.m. 201 N. Texas Ave., Bryan. All ages: Immunizations, $5/child and $25/adult. Adults: TB skin test $10, tetanus $10. Accepts Medicaid for children. 361-4440. GET MOV ...

Letters for September 22

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Homeowners in danger from CS overlay plan The Neighborhood Prevailing Overlay provision in the College Station Unified Development Ordinance gives the city our property rights in the hope that it can protect us from the development of student ho ...

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