Friday, June 3, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Bryan officer not indicted

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT


A Brazos County grand jury on Thursday declined to indict a Bryan police officer who shot two men during a confrontation with one of them last month on a North Bryan street.
Relatives and supporters of Johnnie Walton Harris Jr., the man police sai ...

Grand jury no-bills Bryan police officer

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT


A Brazos County grand jury returned a "no bill" decision against a police officer who recently shot two men after hearing from at least four witnesses to the May 6 shooting.
Officer Bill Cross was dispatched to a suspicious person call that came ...

Search on for A&M chief

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT


The candidates for Texas A&M System chancellor may never be known due to a state law that exempts from the Public Information Act the names of applicants for chief executive officer of a higher education institution.
The purpose of the statut ...

Texas 6 lanes reopened after wreck near Texas Avenue

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 06:07 AM PDT


Traffic has been reopened in the 2800 block of Texas 6 in Bryan after officers cleared the road following a two-vehicle accident that resulted in a van flipping and its driver being transported to the hospital.
Officer Jon Agnew, a spokesman for ...

More details released in fatal wreck near Hearne

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:20 AM PDT

The names of a 13-year-old boy killed, along with four injured in a two-vehicle wreck near Hearne, were released Thursday.
The crash happened at about 5:20 p.m. on U.S. 190 just outside Hearne, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Rhi ...

Blinn begins search for next president

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT


If you're interested in becoming Blinn College's next president, applications are now being accepted.
A search advisory committee and Gold Hill Associates, a firm that specializes in finding community college presidents, has released a presidentia ...

Firefighters aim to collect funds

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT

The only thing bigger than the millions of acres of wildfires hundreds of volunteer firefighters are battling across the state might be the bill to cover the costs of the fight -- including providing volunteers with proper equipment.The worst fire se ...

Drunken driver damaged four parked vehicles, police say

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:43 AM PDT

A 19-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said she left the road and caused damage to four vehicles in College Station.
The Wylie woman was released from jail after posting $2,000 bail.
An officer said he responded ...

Police: Driver had pot, controlled substances

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:58 AM PDT

A 20-year-old Friendswood man was arrested on drug charges after a Department of Public Safety trooper pulled him over on Texas 6 for speeding, authorities said.
Tyler William Roberson was charged Wednesday with possession of from one to four grams ...

School districts offer nutritional meals

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Kids eat free this summer.
The Bryan and College Station school districts have opened their doors to offer hot meals to local children by utilizing U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded programs.
"The program was created to ensure that children i ...

Coulter Field to host air show Saturday

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The Devil Dog Squadron out of Georgetown will be entertaining on-lookers Saturday at Coulter Field in Bryan with vintage aircraft.
The city of Bryan is hosting the Coulter Airfield Aviation Expo from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the ev ...

Las Lomas reopens after forced closure

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Las Lomas Mexican Grill on South Texas Avenue in Bryan reopened Thursday afternoon, following a mandatory 24-hour closure after health inspectors found evidence of a rodent infestation.
Billy Sanders, a health inspector with the ...

Officials on lookout for illegal dumpers

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Police and code enforcement officials in Navasota are stepping up their efforts against illegal dumping and recently have handed out several fines for the offense.
One resident received a $2,632 fine for dumping eight bags of tr ...

Follow, like TxDOT for fast storm info

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Hurricane season has arrived and the Texas Department of Transportation has made efforts to get storm information out to residents faster than ever before.
TxDOT has created accounts on Facebook and Twitter, where anyone can become a fan or follow ...

State medical board revokes Octomom doc's license

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:17 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments is being barred from practicing medicine.The Medical Board of California said the decision to r ...

Pa. woman set to plead in deaths of 5 newborns

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:18 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA -- A northeast Pennsylvania woman will plead and be sentenced Thursday on charges she killed five babies born after hidden pregnancies -- and kept their remains in a locked closet.DNA tests show Michele Kalina, 45, of Reading conceived m ...

Attack leaves 63 dead in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD -- Islamist militants who flowed out of Afghanistan fought a second day of fierce battles with Pakistani security forces Thursday in one of the deadliest clashes on the Pakistan side of the frontier in months. Authorities said 63 people wer ...

Some in DRT eye shedding Alamo

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT


SAN ANTONIO -- Some within a prominent women's legacy group that has cared for the Alamo for more than a century now want to turn the responsibility over to the state.
Some within the Daughters of the Republic of Texas want the group to walk away ...

Civilians killed in South Sudan fight

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT

JUBA, Sudan -- Southern Sudan soldiers attacking a rival ethnic group fired indiscriminately on unarmed men, women and children at a remote Nile River village, killing or wounding hundreds of civilians, according to witness accounts in a confidential ...

Liquefying bodies becomes a growing green trend

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hal Shimp didn't want a traditional send-off after death. He didn't want a big, somber service, and he certainly didn't want to be buried.
When the 91-year-old World War II veteran died in February after a cancer battle, his body ...

E. coli outbreak could hit U.S.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The nasty form of E. coli hitting Europe points out gaps in the U.S. food safety system that raise concern that similar outbreaks might happen here.It's impossible to test for every illness-causing form of E. coli, even the kinds we alr ...

Navasota insurance agency honored

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 11:59 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The William Albert Miller Insurance Agency in Navasota recently was ranked among the top 7 percent of agencies in the Houston region by a research company that rates industry professionals.
The agency was given the 2011 Five Sta ...

Berries ripe for the picking in Caldwell

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 11:59 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
The season for a pick-your-own blueberry farm in Caldwell has started and is expected to last through the end of June.
The picking season at Kingsbury Blueberry Farm, 760 County Road 316, started about two weeks ago and should la ...

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