Sunday, May 8, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Relay for Life: Celebration and remembrance

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Lisa Bernal of Bryan uses her phone late Friday night to photograph luminarias representing those afflicted with cancer during the Brazos County Relay for Life at Wolf Pen Creek. Survivors, their families and others affected by cancer walked from sun ...

Bryan, shelter in stalemate

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


Neither Bryan nor the Brazos Animal Shelter seemed excited this week to announce that they were ending negotiations and terminating their 30-year relationship.
Both sides say the community would be better off if the two groups stuck together.
B ...

A&M debates name of teacher ratings

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare, who may have reconsidered that line if he had read the following tale.
A tug-of-war has waged in Aggieland over a word in the title of a controversial program that give ...

A&M debates name of teacher ratings

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, wrote William Shakespeare, who may have reconsidered that line if he had read the following tale.
A tug-of-war has waged in Aggieland over a word in the title of a controversial program that give ...

Officers involved in Bryan shooting revealed

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


Bryan police on Saturday released further details about the incident Friday that left two men, including a bystander, wounded by an officer who had responded to a report of a suspicious person at a convenience store.
The two officers placed on adm ...

Officers involved in Bryan shooting revealed

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


Bryan police on Saturday released further details about the incident Friday that left two men, including a bystander, wounded by an officer who had responded to a report of a suspicious person at a convenience store.
The two officers placed on adm ...

B-CS economic index drops slightly

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


The Bryan-College Station economic index dipped slightly from February to March, a drop attributed to a decline in consumer spending and construction and housing permits.
According to a report assembled by Karr Ingham, an Abilene-based economist ...

Improvements projects on Bryan school board agenda

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


The Bryan school board on Monday will consider approving more than $1.6 million in maintenance projects across the district.
Among the proposed projects are an estimated $435,000 replacement of the fieldhouse roof at Bryan High School, which has l ...

Improvements projects on Bryan school board agenda

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


The Bryan school board on Monday will consider approving more than $1.6 million in maintenance projects across the district.
Among the proposed projects are an estimated $435,000 replacement of the fieldhouse roof at Bryan High School, which has l ...

Scholarship established to honor mother's legacy

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT

By CHRIS JARVIS
Special to the Eagle
If Margaret Sheather were alive, she likely would be the first one to say that a memorial scholarship in her name was too much of a fuss.
A resiliently enterprising wife and mother of four, Sheather, who died l ...

Scholarship established to honor mother's legacy

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT

By CHRIS JARVIS
Special to the Eagle
If Margaret Sheather were alive, she likely would be the first one to say that a memorial scholarship in her name was too much of a fuss.
A resiliently enterprising wife and mother of four, Sheather, who died l ...

Pakistanis upset about U.S. raid

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Outraged Pakistanis stepped up calls Saturday for top government officials to resign following the daring American helicopter raid that killed Osama bin Laden and embarrassed the nation.Some of the sharpest language was directed at the a ...

Videos show rare view of unkempt bin Laden

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- From a shabby, makeshift office, he ran a global terrorist empire. The world's most wanted man watched newscasts of himself from a tiny television perched atop a rickety old desk cluttered with wires.
For years, the world only saw Os ...

Memphis braces for flooding

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT


HICKMAN, Ky. -- As Memphis readied for the mighty Mississippi to bring its furor to town, some Kentucky residents upstream returned to their homes Saturday, optimistic the levees would hold and that they had seen the worst of the flooding.
In the ...

Drug cartel attacks military convoy

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police to a drug-violence plagued northern region Friday, the same day cartel gunmen fired on a military convoy with a grenade launcher and hit a bus carrying employees of a U.S.-owned assem ...

U.S.-born criminal could be behind mass killings

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


SAN FERNANDO, Mexico -- When he was deported from the U.S. to Mexico for the third time, Martin Estrada Luna was a high school dropout with a rap sheet of petty crimes like burglary.
Less than two years later, Mexican authorities say, he has trans ...

Stealth helicopters key in Osama bin Laden raid

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Secret until now, stealth helicopters may have been key to the success of the Osama bin Laden raid. But the so-far-unexplained crash of one of the modified Black Hawks at the scene apparently compromised at least some of the aircraft' ...

Missing students' bodies found off Costa Rica

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT


SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- Kai Lamar wanted nothing more than to serve God and help others, so his family had no reservations about him traveling from the U.S. to Costa Rica to take part in a religious mission there.
"It was an opportunity to show hi ...

Afghan government offices attacked

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:06 PM PDT


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Taliban unleashed a major assault Saturday on government buildings throughout Afghanistan's main southern city, an attack that cast doubt on how successful the U.S.-led coalition has been in its nearly yearlong military ...

Mastering the arts

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Austin Hines, a second year visualization student at Texas A&M's Viz Lab, demonstrates his piece, Fluid Wall, at the 18th Annual Viz-a-Go-Go in downtown Bryan on Saturday. The event features exhibits by the program's master's students as well as ...

A new twist on art

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Students in Jim Johnson's floral art class at Texas A&M University recently put a new twist -- or weave -- on a 23-year tradition.
In the exhibition Perspective '11: Interwoven, which continues through June 5 at the Benz Gallery of Floral Art ...

Arts Watch: Brazos Valley Chorale wraps up 'Cavalcade'

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Blend some 95 voices with a string orchestra of 15 professionals and top it off with the outstanding Marianne Anderson Quartet, and what you get is the Brazos Valley Chorale's final performance of this Chorale Cavalcade this afternoon at Christ Unite ...

Our Neighbors Calendar

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Monday
* American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). 9:30 a.m. Watercrest at Bryan, second floor activity room. Group with roundtable-style meetings featuring various topics and speakers. Guests are welcome. 703-7088.
* Star Duplicate Bri ...

Our Neighbors: Texas A&M Health Science Center

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Jane Bolin, associate professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health and director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center, recently was selected as a peer reviewer in the U.S. Department of Health and Human S ...

Our Neighbors: Symphony Belles

Posted: 07 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Twenty-seven high school seniors recently were honored at the Symphony Belle Senior Presentation at Miramont Country Club.
Senior members are Alexandria Bolton, Maddy Burdick, Avery Burns, Nicole Colunga, Lauren Cummings, Neely Edwards, Alycia Habib ...

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