Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Andrew Card named acting dean of Bush School

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT

President George W. Bush's ex-chief adviser will be acting dean of Texas A&M's Bush School, the university announced Tuesday, the week after the Senate confirmed Dean Ryan Crocker as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. Andrew Card, who served as chie ...

Ex-Bush adviser Andrew Card tapped for Bush School dean

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


President George W. Bush's ex-chief adviser will be acting dean of Texas A&M's Bush School, the university announced Tuesday, the week after the Senate confirmed Dean Ryan Crocker as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
Andrew Card, who served as ...

Brazos Valley water rights up for debate

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


A fight over access to water in the Brazos Valley is heating up this summer as rural landowners and municipal governments disagree over how much Bryan and College Station should be allowed to collect from underground.
At issue is the renewal of B ...

Grill blamed for Grimes County fire was enclosed

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT

The barbecue grill believed to be responsible for the nearly 6,000-acre wildfire that destroyed 30 homes in Grimes County in late June is actually a completely enclosed smoker, District Attorney Tuck McLain said Tuesday. McLain said he saw pictures o ...

Casey Anthony acquitted of murder in death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT


ORLANDO, Fla. --  A Florida jury has acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
Anthony showed no reaction when the jury’s verdict was read Tuesday after more than 10 hours of deliberations. But she began to c ...

Film industry has eyes on Texas A&M visualization program

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Despite light summer enrollment, Texas A&M's department of visualization is still buzzing with activity.
Last week, on the top floor of the Langford Architecture Center, senior visualization production specialist Glen Vigus and graduate studen ...

Film industry has eyes on Texas A&M visualization program

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Despite light summer enrollment, Texas A&M's department of visualization is still buzzing with activity.
Last week, on the top floor of the Langford Architecture Center, senior visualization production specialist Glen Vigus and graduate studen ...

Man charged with DWI with children in the vehicle

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:02 AM PDT

A 22-year-old Bryan man faces a felony charge after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper said he was speeding and driving drunk with two children in his vehicle on Monday.Jose Luis Ramirez was charged with driving while intoxicated with two ch ...

Locals react to outcome of Casey Anthony trial

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


Local reaction to the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial was not unlike those reported across the country, with attorneys and residents alike saying the jury's decision that the mother was not guilty of killing her child was surprising.
Criminal ...

Judge weighs injunction against Texas abortion law

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT

AUSTIN -- A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday on whether to stop Texas from enforcing a new law requiring doctors to conduct a sonogram before performing an abortion.The so-called sonogram law, which takes effect Sept. 1, requires a doctor ...

Casey Anthony cleared of murder, convicted of lying to investigators

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT


ORLANDO, Fla. -- Casey Anthony's eyes welled with tears and her lips trembled as the verdict was read once, twice and then a third time: "Not guilty" of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reac ...

NY motorcyclist in helmet protest hits head, dies

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:43 AM PDT

ONONDAGA, N.Y. -- A man riding bareheaded on one of about 550 motorcycles in an anti-helmet law rally lost control of his cycle, went over his handlebars, hit his head on the pavement and died, police said Sunday.The motorcyclist, 55-year-old Philip ...

Police arrest at least 20 on DWI charges

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
At least 20 people were arrested in Brazos County for driving while intoxicated during "No Refusal Weekend," which began Friday and ended 6 a.m. Tuesday.
Bryan police said they arrested four people for DWIs -- including a 52-year ...

Clemens trial begins Wednesday with jury selection

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:01 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens, one of the most imposing and accomplished pitchers in baseball history, is going on trial Wednesday to fight allegations that he used drugs to enhance his power on the mound.Like other players who have been indicted in ba ...

14 men charged in sexual assaults of Texas girl

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 11:58 PM PDT

LIBERTY -- More than a dozen men accused of taking part in a series of sexual assaults on an 11-year-old girl are expected in court in a case that has divided and horrified their small southeast Texas town.The 14 men facing charges are scheduled to b ...

Corpus Christi pays nearly $10,000 for timer

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:41 AM PDT

CORPUS CHRISTI -- A Texas city is paying nearly $10,000 to fix a buzzer and light system that lets speakers know when their time is up before the city council. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported Monday that the total is about 10 times the cost ...

Britain shocked by hacking into slain girl's phone

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:05 PM PDT

LONDON -- Britain's voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World was facing claims Tuesday that it hacked into a missing 13-year-old's phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her abduction and murder.Britons are u ...

U.S. offers to keep 10,000 troops in Iraq next year

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT


BAGHDAD -- The White House is offering to keep up to 10,000 troops in Iraq next year, U.S. officials say, despite opposition from many Iraqis and key Democratic Party allies who demand President Barack Obama bring home the American military as prom ...

Mexican woman arrested trying to sneak man out of jail in suitcase after conjugal visit

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:28 AM PDT

CHETUMAL, Mexico -- Police say a woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit.A spokesman for police in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo says staff at the prison in Chetum ...

DPS: Driver in deadly motorcycle crash not drunk

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:02 AM PDT

CANTON -- The Texas Department of Public Safety says no alcohol was found in the blood of the driver of a car that veered into a pair of motorcycles on an East Texas highway, killing four motorcyclists.DPS Trooper Landon Corbett tells the Houston Chr ...

Rain may scrub Space Shuttle Atlantis launch

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:03 PM PDT


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's last space shuttle countdown is under way, but lousy weather may delay Friday's launch attempt.
There's a 60 percent chance that rain or thunderstorms will postpone the liftoff of Atlantis, shuttle weather officer Ka ...

Spay, neuter programs reducing euthanasia rate

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT


LOS ANGELES -- When Stephen Zawistowski got his first dog 50 years ago, she was the only dog in the neighborhood that was spayed.
"She had an incision that must have been a foot long and was sewn up with what looked like piano wire," says Zawistow ...

U.S. shipmates await word of 7 missing in Mexico

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT

SAN FELIPE, Mexico -- They are fathers, fiances and experienced fishermen.The seven U.S. tourists still missing two days after their boat capsized off Mexico's coast went to sea as they had for several years on the U.S. Independence Day holiday: They ...

President Barack Obama presses for debt limit deal

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to make a deal within the next two weeks on raising the nation's borrowing limit, and he said he was summoning leaders of both parties to the White House this week to try to get it done. ...

The apps that eat your wireless data

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT

If you have a cellphone with a monthly limit on how much data you can use, here are some tips on what types of phone use will gobble up your precious megabytes:
* Streaming video and videoconferencing. The biggest offender. One minute of YouTube-qua ...

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