Monday, February 7, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Packers win Super Bowl

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:14 PM PST

ARLINGTON -- Aaron Rodgers at long last casts his own shadow. All it took was a Super Bowl victory for the Green Bay Packers. Capping one of the greatest postseasons for any quarterback, Rodgers led the Pack to their first NFL championship in 14 yea ...

Packers win Super Bowl

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:14 PM PST

ARLINGTON -- Aaron Rodgers at long last casts his own shadow. All it took was a Super Bowl victory for the Green Bay Packers. Capping one of the greatest postseasons for any quarterback, Rodgers led the Pack to their first NFL championship in 14 yea ...

Super Bowl ads spotlight autos, stars

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

In the Super Bowl of advertising, Eminem was everywhere, Roseanne Barr took a big hit from a log and Joan Rivers became a GoDaddy girl. It was also hard to throw a Pepsi can without hitting a car commercial during Super Bowl XLV between the Pittsbur ...

Cameron teenager has wish granted

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

A 13-year-old from Cameron recently was able to do something kids his age -- or any age -- can only dream about, though none would want to trade places with him. A few days after Christmas, he was handed just over $2,000 from the Make-A-Wish organiz ...

ID released of man killed in Grimes County motorcycle wreck

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:27 PM PST

A 49-year-old Navasota man died after authorities said he tried to navigate a sharp curve on his motorcycle in Grimes County late Sunday. Douglas Wayne Smith was traveling at 6 p.m. north on F.M. 244, near the intersection with F.M. 3090, when he pas ...

Police seek help in locating robbers

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:18 PM PST

Eagle Staff Reports College Station police late Sunday said they were continuing to search for two men who reportedly assaulted a man a day earlier and took off with his wallet. According to authorities, a 31-year-old man told police he was attacked ...

Fire departments team up on blaze

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

Eagle Staff Reports It took about 50 firefighters from area departments about three hours to get a fire under control after it blazed across 75 to 100 acres near Smetana, officials said. Brazos County Volunteer Fire Department Chief Joe Ondrasek said ...

Frigid weather dims hope for finding Texas toddler

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:43 PM PST

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- Frigid cold and rugged terrain diminished the hopes of rescuers working to find an 18-month-old who had been missing for two days, and a police spokesman said Sunday the search effort had turned into a recovery mission.Signs s ...

Aguilera flubs line in national anthem

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

ARLINGTON -- Christina Aguilera flubbed a line as she belted out the national anthem at the start of the Super Bowl Sunday night. She sang "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming," which is the same line from earlier in the song ...

Unrest threatens U.S. fight against terrorism

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The unrest engulfing Arab streets and threatening authoritarian governments in the Mideast is complicating U.S. counterterrorism efforts, scrambling the volatile battleground against al-Qaida in Yemen and raising concerns about the dur ...

Weather deals blow to rail plans

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

NEW YORK -- When members of Congress met recently to discuss revitalizing passenger trains in the United States, they chose Grand Central Terminal, a majestic hub of New York's vaunted mass transit system. From a balcony above the main concourse, Ma ...

2 women die after boat capsizes

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:41 PM PST

STANTON, Texas -- Two West Texas women have died after their boat capsized during a family fishing trip.Martin County Sheriff John Woodward says Melody and Kyle Cook were fishing along with Kyle Cook's son, Kevin Cook, and Kevin's wife, Erin Cook, wh ...

5 killed in Midland crash of car, dump truck

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:46 PM PST

MIDLAND, Texas -- Five people are dead, including three children, after a Volkswagen Beetle slammed head-on into a dump truck.All four people in the subcompact car were killed on impact in the Saturday afternoon crash on Farm Road 1788, about five mi ...

Ex-Texas prison official on trial for pupil sex

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:42 PM PST

LUBBOCK, Texas -- After a six-year journey to court, jury selection is expected to start Monday in the trial of a man accused of sexually molesting boys in his charge at a West Texas youth prison.Now, after years of court motions and alleged inactio ...

Freeze causes water shortages in El Paso

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

EL PASO -- El Paso's mayor declared a water emergency Sunday to stiffen enforcement of a ban that restricts residents and businesses from using water for anything but drinking.Mayor John Cook took the step after frigid temperatures put some of El Pas ...

Wal-Mart gets back to tried-and-true strategies

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

SADDLE BROOK, N.J. -- The battle for shoppers is playing out in this New York suburb: Wal-Mart versus everyone else. Dollar stores beckon, their small size ideal for quick shopping. Target offers 5 percent off if you pay with its store-branded card. ...

2 arrested in fatal fraternity shooting

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:19 PM PST

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Two men have been arrested and charged in a shooting at an Ohio fraternity house that killed one student and injured 11 people at a party near Youngstown State University campus, police said Sunday.Each man is charged with aggrava ...

Chilean police forcibly remove natives

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

BUENOS AIRES -- Police on Chile's Easter Island raided the grounds of a luxury hotel Sunday to evict the last of dozens of indigenous protesters battling for ancestral lands and a larger share of profits from the tourists who come to see the Pacific ...

Dance squad still cheering through troubled times

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

By VINCENT T. DAVIS San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO -- In 1938, a pair of Thomas Jefferson High School Lassos graced the cover of Life magazine, representing one of the best pep squads and schools in the country. The Lassos strutted onto footbal ...

Beach Boys help ring in Ronald Reagan's 100th

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Former first lady Nancy Reagan praised her late husband from the stage Sunday, laying a wreath on his grave and singing Happy Birthday with the Beach Boys as actors, musicians, former advisers and friends paid tribute to Rona ...

Predicting Heart Attacks!

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST

NASHVILLE, TN (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every 35 seconds, an American dies of heart disease. If your family has a history of heart attacks or stroke, you are twice as likely to have one yourself. Now, for the first time in medical history, two tests can ...

Predicting Heart Attacks! - Research Summary

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 05:51 PM PST

BACKGROUND: According to the Mayo Clinic, a heart attack (or myocardial infarction) is defined as the damage or destruction of a part of the heart muscle that occurs as the result of coronary arterial blockage. Lifestyle factors such as eating habit ...

Letters for February 7

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:05 PM PST

Scientific explanations can be beautiful, also A story to explain how people and everything around them originated has been common in all of the hundreds of civilizations that have existed since humans evolved on Earth. All the stories are diff ...

Calendar

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST

MARK YOUR CALENDAR The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Brazos Valley is registering seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls who want to develop or improve his/her basketball skills in its Jr. NBA and Jr. WNBA programs. Registration ends Friday. $35. 8 ...

Ex-judge going on trial in kickbacks case

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Kids in Luzerne County had a powerful incentive to stay out of the courtroom of Mark Ciavarella, a fearsome, zero-tolerance judge who tossed youths into juvenile detention even when their crimes didn't warrant it.Ciavarella ordered ...

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