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A friendly competition

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT

Texas A&M players kneel as head coach Mike Sherman (top center) delivers a speech before the annual Maroon & White Game at Kyle Field in College Station on Saturday.

A friendly competition

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT

Texas A&M players kneel as head coach Mike Sherman (top center) delivers a speech before the annual Maroon & White Game at Kyle Field in College Station on Saturday.

BV birth defects cause for concern

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT



Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series of stories on cases of the birth defect trisomy 18 in Brazos County.
A confirmed cluster of birth defects in Bryan-College Station has been recognized by the Texas Department of State Hea ...

Council hopefuls lay out agendas

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


The race for the Place 3 seat on the College Station City Council is a contrast between experience and fresh perspective, institutional knowledge and new ideas.
Candidate Karl Mooney, 61, is a former chair of the city Planning and Zoning Commissi ...

2 vying for CS trustee spot

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT


James Lancaster and Kimberly McAdams have at least one thing in common: They have children in the same elementary school class in College Station.
But that mutual interest hasn't stopped them from vying for an open seat on the College Station scho ...

2 vying for CS trustee spot

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT


James Lancaster and Kimberly McAdams have at least one thing in common: They have children in the same elementary school class in College Station.
But that mutual interest hasn't stopped them from vying for an open seat on the College Station scho ...

A&M harnesses power of the sun

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


Texas A&M University has begun installing its first solar energy system, in a place where it's sure to get lots of public exposure.
The $200,000 project, coordinated by a newly hired assistant professor, started to take shape last week as sola ...

A&M harnesses power of the sun

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


Texas A&M University has begun installing its first solar energy system, in a place where it's sure to get lots of public exposure.
The $200,000 project, coordinated by a newly hired assistant professor, started to take shape last week as sola ...

Prostitution stings net pair of arrests

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Two women were arrested Friday on prostitution charges in separate undercover operations.
Minnie Gale Shorter, 51, approached an undercover officer at the intersection of West Martin Luther King and Muckleroy streets around 8:30 ...

Prostitution stings net pair of arrests

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Two women were arrested Friday on prostitution charges in separate undercover operations.
Minnie Gale Shorter, 51, approached an undercover officer at the intersection of West Martin Luther King and Muckleroy streets around 8:30 ...

Sheriff's office plans self-defense class

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos County Sheriff's office is offering free self-defense classes on April 25 and 26 from 6 until 9 p.m.The Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention class is for women ages 18 or older and will be held at the Precinct 3 fire sta ...

Taliban sleeper agent kills 9

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Like hundreds of thousands of Afghan men, he volunteered in the national army, ran drills in the mud, carried an automatic rifle, and worked alongside coalition mentors struggling against a hardcore insurgency.But he was not one ...

Spill still affects life on Gulf

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


ALONG THE GULF COAST -- In the small brick church across the road from the chocolate waters of Bayou Lafourche, the Rev. Joseph Anthony Pereira unbuttons his collar as the last parishioners pull out of the lot. Tonight, nearly a year after the BP o ...

Texans survey fire damage

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


IVAN -- With calmer winds giving firefighters a chance to get a handle on a few massive Texas wildfires Saturday, some residents returned to their homes -- or what was left of them -- in communities ravaged by the blazes.
Gary Glasscock, who owns ...

Mexico massacre undermines efforts

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT


XONACATLAN, Mexico -- With only odd jobs to support a young wife and 2-year-old son in their concrete hut on a dirt road, Uriel Carvajal decided to seek work in the U.S., heading from central Mexico by bus to the northeastern border state of Tamaul ...

Irregular work schedules can pose health risk

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:09 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Reports of sleeping air traffic controllers highlight a long-known and often ignored hazard: Workers on night shifts can have trouble concentrating and even staying awake."Government officials haven't recognized that people routinely fa ...

Experts: Moms killing kids not as rare as we think

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- "How could she?"It's the headline du jour whenever a horrific case emerges of a mother killing her kids, as Lashanda Armstrong did when she piled her children into her minivan and drove straight into the frigid Hudson River. Our shock at ...

Online poker houses accused of fraud in NYC

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Federal authorities busted the three largest online poker websites in the United States on Friday with charges of bank fraud and illegal gambling against 11 people, accusing them of manipulating banks to process billions of dollars in ill ...

Pancho Villa's purported finger put up for sale

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:07 PM PDT


EL PASO-- Pancho Villa's fingerprints are all over this dusty border city known for its tangy green chiles and striking views of the yucca-dotted Franklin Mountains.
There's the site of the old smelter on West Paisano Street where the famed Mexic ...

Quite a pair

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:38 PM PDT

11-month-old Kanzie Mantey of Caldwell sits with the Easter Bunny at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum's annual Easter Celebration on Saturday.

Bedias pastor retires after 35 fulfilling years

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Jerald Brown was working as an insurance salesman in Spring more than 35 years ago when friends asked him to fill in as the interim pastor at Bedias Baptist Church.
A couple of months later, in August 1975, Brown became the permanent pastor of th ...

Brody, Lopez shine in gritty drama

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Love old or unusual movies but never know when they're on? Here are several I recommend:
Bread and Roses (2001): Director Ken Loach made his reputation making gritty, documentary-like dramas about the British working class (My Name is Joe, Ladybird ...

Texas Reads: Military chaplains share moving stories

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Sixty active and retired military chaplains share inspiring stories from their ministries in Miracles & Moments of Grace by Nancy B. Kennedy (Leafwood Publishers, $14.99 paperback).
The book is kind of a "Chicken Soup for the Chaplain's Soul," a ...

Arts Watch: Carson's life hits screen in 'A Sense of Wonder'

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Seems just recently I was writing about the increased awareness of the arts at Blinn's Bryan campus, but here I go again, this time touting not only Blinn's continuing collaborations with Texas A&M but particularly a documentary that will be pres ...

Our Neighbors

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT

BRIDGE
* The March 25 Star Duplicate Bridge winners were: N/S -- 1. Oscar Beard and Lynn McIlhaney; 2. Pat Cruse and Richard Miller. E/W -- 1. Richard Duble and C. Nick Pace; 2. Sue Lee and Shirley Edmiston.
* The March 28 Star Duplicate Bridge win ...

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