Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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A&M women National Champs

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:38 PM PDT


INDIANAPOLIS -- "Will the members of the national championship team please make their way to the presentation stage."
No one could hear the public address announcer's last few words at Conseco Fieldhouse as the Texas A&M fans drowned them out ...

Winning women becoming an A&M tradition

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:38 PM PDT


INDIANAPOLIS -- Tyra White stuck a dagger in Notre Dame, striking the biggest blow in the history of Texas A&M women's basketball -- again.
The Aggies, who had gallantly fought back from a seven-point deficit to take the lead, were teetering w ...

Murder trial starts in convenience store shooting

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:48 AM PDT

A capital murder trial began Tuesday for a 19-year-old Bryan man accused of killing a convenience store clerk during an aggravated robbery last April. Joshua Nicholas Evans is one of two men charged with killing Johannes Kinny, a 39-year-old who work ...

Eleven testify in murder trial

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT


A Brazos County jury heard from 11 prosecution witnesses Tuesday during the first day of the capital murder trial of a 19-year-old Bryan man accused of murdering a College Station convenience store clerk on Good Friday of last year.
Joshua Nichol ...

Eleven testify in murder trial

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT


A Brazos County jury heard from 11 prosecution witnesses Tuesday during the first day of the capital murder trial of a 19-year-old Bryan man accused of murdering a College Station convenience store clerk on Good Friday of last year.
Joshua Nichol ...

Organizers expect big crowd at Chilifest

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT


The generators have arrived, tents have been set up and 220 portable toilets are now in place, lining the back of the 15-acre pasture in Snook where Chilifest is set to take place this weekend.
Travis Hughes, a Texas A&M senior studying agri ...

Conference is looking for the next girl genius

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT


Women are underrepresented in the STEM fields, so female professionals from a wide range of occupations will gather on April 30 to inspire and motivate girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Limited registration is a ...

Video: Pet of the week

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 02:24 AM PDT


Burn ban extended for Brazos County

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportMembers of the Brazos County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to extend the burn ban that was set to expire this weekend. County Judge Duane Peters said the ban has been extended for another 60 days, but its lifting could come unde ...

Man convicted in armed robbery case

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A 23-year-old Eagle Lake man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison after a Brazos County jury convicted him last week of engaging in criminal activity.
Paul Lee Barrow Jr. was found guilty of being one of five men involved ...

Public invited to area school banquet

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos Christian School is inviting the public to attend its annual spring banquet on April 28. Reservations must be made by April 21 for the $40-per-person event. It starts at 5:30 p.m. at Pebble Creek Country Club, 4500 Pebble ...

Corpus Christi man guilty over video game killing

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 01:41 AM PDT

CORPUS CHRISTI -- A Southeast Texas man accused of killing his cousin in fight over whose turn it was to play a video game about drug violence has pleaded guilty to murder. Prosecutors say the plea agreement reached Tuesday for 22-year-old Alejandro ...

Officers to face off in battle of the brooms

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportArea law enforcement officers are gearing up for a battle on the ice Friday at the Arctic Wolf Ice Center. The Bryan, College Station and University police departments as well as the Brazos County Sheriff's Office and the Bryan and ...

Cow reaches new heights

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:22 PM PDT


LAUFEN, Germany -- When Regina Mayer's parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old didn't sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow called Luna to make her riding dreams come true.
Hours of training, and t ...

Fans encouraged to greet Aggie women

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:38 PM PDT

Texas A&M University's women's basketball team will arrive back in town Wednesday afternoon and plans to immediately greet fans.
The team is expected to arrive at Easterwood Airport at around 1:50 p.m., be loaded onto buses and arrive at 2 p.m. ...

One last runthrough

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT

The Rudder Rangerettes conduct a dress rehearsal in the Margaret Rudder Auditorium at Rudder High School in Bryan on Tuesday. They will perform their annual Rudder Revue there Saturday, with solo performances starting at 5 p.m., and the team show com ...

2 men plead guilty to unrelated crimes

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportTwo men pleaded guilty Tuesday for separate crimes they committed in Grimes County -- one for felony driving while intoxicated and the other for several counts of cattle theft. District Attorney Tuck McLain said Michael Scott Kimich ...

Boeing didn't expect cracks so soon

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:22 PM PDT

PHOENIX -- Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner's fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn't old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday, as the airline cleared most of its older 737 planes to retur ...

Party with the Ags

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:24 PM PDT


* Whether the Aggies win or run out of time, the public is invited to celebrate their Final Four run Wednesday. The women's basketball team will return from Indianapolis at 2 p.m. Wednesday to a welcome party in the parking lot of Reed Arena. Parki ...

Gadhafi loyalists get deals to defect

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:22 PM PDT

LONDON -- It's an offer that diplomats hope Moammar Gadhafi's family and top aides can't refuse: If they publicly withdraw support for the Libyan dictator's regime, the restrictions on their assets and travel plans could be made to vanish.The U.S. Tr ...

Teens OK with 5 drinks per day

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:23 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Downing five or more alcoholic drinks nearly every day isn't seen as a big problem for many of the nation's teens, says a new report.When asked if they see "great risk" in drinking that much, almost half the teens questioned -- 45 perce ...

Gbagbo refusing to surrender

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:23 PM PDT

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Surrounded by troops backing Ivory Coast's democratically elected leader, strongman Laurent Gbagbo huddled Tuesday with his family in a bunker and played his final hand, trying to wrest last-ditch concessions as he negotiated ...

College Station cheers Aggies to title

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:38 PM PDT


Texas A&M fans huddled around televisions to watch the Aggies play in their first national championship game on Tuesday night.
And when they won, it seemed as if the crowds packed into bars and restaurants near the campus were trying to cheer ...

College Station cheers Aggies to title

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:38 PM PDT


Texas A&M fans huddled around televisions to watch the Aggies play in their first national championship game on Tuesday night.
And when they won, it seemed as if the crowds packed into bars and restaurants near the campus were trying to cheer ...

Letters for April 6

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Article an effort to vilify Councilwoman McMillan
I read with interest and some bewilderment the front-page lead article on Jana McMillan (Eagle, April 3). I do not know McMillan, I do not live in College Station, and have no personal interests ...

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