Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Turgeon leaving Aggieland

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


A gut feeling helped make a gut-wrenching decision for Mark Turgeon, who stepped down Monday after four years as the Texas A&M men's basketball coach to take an identical position at the University of Maryland.
"Maryland has a great basketball ...

Woman guilty in crash that injured officer

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


Tracy Sheets was surrounded by supporters immediately after the injured College Station police officer learned that a jury had returned a guilty verdict against a 23-year-old woman who crashed into her patrol car.
Alex Taylor Ford slammed the Mase ...

Jury finds Maserati driver guilty in wreck with CS police officer

Posted: 09 May 2011 08:57 AM PDT

UPDATE: The jury has found Alex Taylor guilty of intoxication assault.
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A Brazos County jury began deliberations mid-afternoon Monday in a trial where a 23-year-old woman is charged with being drunk when she drove a Maserati up to 80 mph and hit ...

Two blazes put out in Brazos County

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Volunteer firefighters worked with the assistance of the Bryan Fire Department for more than seven hours Monday in north Brazos County to contain two grass fires, according to authorities.
At about 12:30 p.m., crews were called ...

Strawser stands firm against 'solutions'

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


Texas A&M needs to be more aggressive in its response to statements made by a conservative think tank that's advocated a series of higher education reform ideas, the outgoing Faculty Senate speaker said Monday during his "state of the senate" s ...

Firefighters battle 2 blazes in north Brazos County

Posted: 09 May 2011 09:08 AM PDT

Firefighters in north Brazos County have a 100-acre grass fire off Dilly Shaw Tap Road under control, and have shifted their efforts to a second blaze that is threatening homes.
The second fire broke out on Wellhead Lane and Standing Rock Road and s ...

Driver found passed out behind wheel, police say

Posted: 09 May 2011 08:43 AM PDT

A 32-year-old man was arrested on a felony methampethamine charge after police reported finding him passed out behind the wheel of his truck on William Joel Bryan Parkway in Bryan.
Dustin E. Siegert of Hearne was charged Saturday with possession of ...

Record number of Aggies to graduate this week

Posted: 09 May 2011 04:31 AM PDT

Following is a breakdown on graduation activities at Texas A&M:
A record graduating class is expected at Texas A&M University this week, with more than 6,800 students having filed to receive degrees. Texas A&M officials say the final fi ...

Record number of Aggies to graduate this week

Posted: 09 May 2011 04:31 AM PDT

Following is a breakdown on graduation activities at Texas A&M:
A record graduating class is expected at Texas A&M University this week, with more than 6,800 students having filed to receive degrees. Texas A&M officials say the final fi ...

Teens learn 'love is not abuse'

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


Love is not abuse.
That was the message members of the Brazos County Coalition Against Domestic Violence delivered to Bryan High School students Monday.
The group visited the school as part of an effort to prevent violence as teens are forming th ...

Suspect in deaths of 3 killed during police chase

Posted: 10 May 2011 01:31 AM PDT

Associated PressGEORGETOWN -- A man who shot and killed his wife and her parents at a home near the Central Texas town of Georgetown was killed 30 minutes later in a crash during a chase with officers, Williamson County authorities said.Three other f ...

Pakistan suspected of releasing identity of spy

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:15 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Suspicion rose Monday that Pakistan's intelligence service leaked the name of the CIA chief in Islamabad in anger over the raid that killed Osama bin Laden -- the second outing of an American covert operative here in six months.The U.S. ...

Teen dies in police chase

Posted: 10 May 2011 01:30 AM PDT

Associated PressHUNTSVILLE -- Officials say a 15-year-old driver died and a 14-year-old passenger was injured after their car slammed into a telephone pole during a police chase in southeast Texas.The Department of Public Safety says the wreck happen ...

Police: Man set mom aflame, stabbed superintendent

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:45 AM PDT


LUBBOCK-- Police say a Texas man set his mother on fire, then went to a nearby school and held a teacher at knifepoint in an office before the superintendent broke down the door and disarmed him.
Lubbock police say 32-year-old George James Bradley ...

Samoa planning to jump forward in time

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


APIA, Samoa -- Samoa plans to leap 24 hours into the future, erasing a day and putting a new kink in the Pacific's jagged international date line so that it can be on the same weekday as Australia, New Zealand and eastern Asia.
It'll be Back to th ...

13 killed in Mexican border lake gunbattle

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:45 AM PDT


MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican navy says marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead.
The navy says one marine and 12 gunmen from the Zetas drug cartel ...

13 die in gunbattle of Mexican navy, drug gang

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


MEXICO CITY -- Mexican marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead, the navy said Monday.
One marine and 12 suspected gunmen of the Zetas drug carte ...

Senate passes guns on campus bill

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- With help from Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, the Texas Senate voted Monday to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into public college buildings and classrooms.Monday's 19-12 vote sends the bill to the House in a majo ...

Voter ID bill jumps forward

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

AUSTIN -- The Texas Senate gave its final approval Monday to legislation requiring Texas voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot.Monday's 19-12 vote moved the bill a big step closer to becoming law. Gov. Rick Perry has declared th ...

Waco aims for national monument status

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

By MATTHEW HUISMAN
The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON -- Waco leaders are hoping that a small, brown arrowhead designating a site as a national monument will soon adorn one of Texas' paleontological treasures -- and that the site will be like no ot ...

Flight disrupted by passenger

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


SAN FRANCISCO -- The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco. He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.
"I kept say ...

Gingrich enters presidential race

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT

ATLANTA -- Newt Gingrich, the House speaker who led a national GOP resurgence in the 1990s before facing ethics questions and resigning, is running for president. Gingrich's announcement, made on social networking websites Monday, came after months o ...

China pressed to work on human rights

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:17 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton launched high-level talks with the Chinese on Monday by pointedly criticizing Beijing's crackdowns on democracy advocates, arguing that long-term stability depends ...

Vieira leaving 'Today' show

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:15 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- NBC's Today show faces a transition with Ann Curry replacing Meredith Vieira as the show's main co-host, but just as important is the transition that the morning television program won't have to make.Matt Lauer said Monday that although h ...

Letters for May 10

Posted: 09 May 2011 05:05 PM PDT


Put divisions behind and support CS council
The primary mission of any elected individual should be to do what is in the best interest of the entity he or she represents. While no one agrees with all actions of any elected person, I am confident t ...

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