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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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On target

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Matt Jaques of College Station tosses a horseshoe Thursday during a meeting of the South Central Horseshoe Club at Sue Haswell Park in Bryan. The club is made up of horseshoe enthusiasts from across the Brazos Valley and competes regularly. To see mo ...

12 B-CS schools rated exemplary, recognized

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:12 AM PDT

Six schools in the Bryan school district and six in College Station earned exemplary or recognized ratings from the Texas Education Agency.
Two schools in Bryan were also dubbed academically unacceptable: Fannin Elementary and Jones Elementary.
The ...

Bryan, College Station schools get high ratings

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


Five schools in the Bryan and College Station school district earned the exemplary rating from the Texas Education Agency.
Two schools in Bryan were dubbed academically unacceptable: Fannin and Jones elementaries.
The TEA on Friday released scho ...

Bryan, College Station councils' differing patterns

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


On paper, Monday's meeting of the College Station City Council should have been short, with only two items on the regular agenda. But once things got started, it became clear that it was going to be a long night.
One issue -- the changing date f ...

Cool finale for fan drive

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


After two weeks of community-driven support, the numbers are in: about $5,000 and 439 fans were donated to help needy Bryan-College Station residents keep cool.
The Eagle, KBTX and the Salvation Army teamed up with the Bryan Broadcasting Co. for F ...

Area doctor performs new surgery

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


Dorothy Start is no stranger to medical procedures.
The 86-year-old has had both of her hips and one knee replaced, her appendix removed, a hysterectomy, and in January underwent heart stent surgery.
Each of the operations came attached with a r ...

Video: Firefighters learn new techniques at TEEX training

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT


Parched Texas welcomes tropical storm, wants more

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND -- As Tropical Storm Don crawled through the Gulf of Mexico, South Texas braced for long-awaited rain and what some saw as a practice run for storms to come.Almost all of Texas is an extreme drought, and Don's few inches of rain wo ...

Bug-eyed

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT

Jae Hyuk Kim, 12, examines a mounted American Bird Grasshopper that he captured Friday during the Backyard Bugs Summer Nature Camp at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History. Youngsters learned about a variety of insects during the weeklong camp.

Members pressured on debt seek sanctuary

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:52 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The stare-down over the debt limit debate had become so fierce that a trio of South Carolina Republicans, pressured by their leaders to agree to a bill they didn't like, sought answers from a higher power."I'm going to pray on it," Rep ...

Rancher to sell cows at a discounted rate

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Drought conditions have forced a Navasota rancher to sell 150 premium cows at a reduced rate Saturday through the Navasota Livestock Auction Co.
The set of young to middle-aged cows, which have been bred or exposed to J.D. Hudgin ...

New mileage standards aim for less fuel, pollution

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and automakers ushered in the largest cut in fuel consumption since the 1970s on Friday with a deal that will save drivers money at the pump and dramatically cut heat-trapping gases coming from tailpipes.
The a ...

House approves debt legislation

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- In an unforgiving display of partisanship, the Republican-controlled House approved emergency legislation Friday night to avoid an unprecedented government default and Senate Democrats scuttled it less than two hours later in hopes of a ...

U.S. weighing payment priorities if default comes

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- If the government can't pay all its bills come Wednesday, odds are it will pay bondholders. Social Security and Medicare recipients will be high on the must-pay list, too. Likely losers: federal workers in jobs deemed non-essential, pri ...

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs issues threats in court

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


SAN ANGELO -- A polygamist sect leader defending himself against sexual assault charges broke his silence Friday with a 55-minute sermon defending plural marriages as divine and later said God would visit "sickness and death" on those involved if h ...

Tropial Storm Don teases parched Texas, but fizzles

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT


SOUTH PADRE ISLAND -- In the end, Tropical Storm Don was little more than summer thunderstorms. Some scattered showers were expected to linger over parts of South Texas, but the area's best hope for substantial rain in months collapsed on approach ...

AWOL soldier defiant in court

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


WACO -- An AWOL soldier accused of plotting to launch an attack on Fort Hood was defiant during his first court appearance on Friday, yelling out the name of the Army psychiatrist blamed in the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at the same Texas base.
...

Economy could trigger recession

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The economy is at risk of slipping into another recession.It nearly stalled in the first six months of the year, the government reported Friday. Economic growth was feeble in the second quarter and practically non-existent in the first. ...

Computer to conduct Houston couple's wedding

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:28 PM PDT


HOUSTON — You could call it “My Big Fat Computer Geek Wedding.”
When Miguel Hanson and Diana Wesley get married Saturday, they won’t stand before a gray haired minister holding a Bible. Instead, they’ll be looking at ...

Death of Libyan rebel commander raises fear, doubts

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:21 PM PDT


BENGHAZI, Libya — The Libyan rebels’ military commander was killed by his comrades while in custody after he was arrested by the opposition’s leadership on suspicion of treason, witnesses said Friday, in a sign of disarray that po ...

Rebuilding Arthritic Fingers

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT


NEW YORK, NY (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- About 285,000 kids are diagnosed with juvenile arthritis each year. It's a pain so crippling that by the time these kids reach adulthood, they can become immobile, unable to use their knees, shoulders and hands.&n ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Sunday
* St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 2700 W. Villa Maria Road in Bryan, will hold worship service at 10 a.m. The Rev. Jeff Dungan will preach on "Ready for Launch" (Acts 11:1-12:24). An adult study, " The Fruit of the Spirit, Joy" will be he ...

Children Aren't Effected by Working Moms

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:43 AM PDT


(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Great news for working moms; a new study reveals that there are no significant detrimental effects on a child's social or emotional development if their mothers work during their early years.
For children living with two par ...

Tweeting about Health Care

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:42 AM PDT


(Ivanhoe Newswire)--Social media is changing the way people are communicating about health. New social media outlets such as "speak-to-tweet" are being used to improve communication about health and safety. This particular social network facilitate ...

Rebuilding Arthritic Fingers - Research Summary

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:24 AM PDT


BACKGROUND: Juvenile arthritis is a disease that targets thousands of children in the United States. It's often a crippling pain that can prevent mobility by the time children reach adulthood, causing them to be unable to move their knees, shoulder ...

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