Friday, August 12, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Sherman tells grads to embrace truth, love

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT


The greatest values of all are truth and love, Texas A&M's head football coach said to several hundred graduating Aggies and their families Thursday.
"They're unwavering, uncompromising principles by which I run the football team," said Mike ...

Sherman tells grads to embrace truth, love

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT


The greatest values of all are truth and love, Texas A&M's head football coach said to several hundred graduating Aggies and their families Thursday.
"They're unwavering, uncompromising principles by which I run the football team," said Mike ...

Spokesman says Perry running for president

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 08:17 AM PDT


AUSTIN-- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running for president.
That's the word from Perry spokesman Mark Miner.
Miner is telling The Associated Press that Perry will announce his intentions to run for the GOP nomination on Saturday as he visits early p ...

Spokesman: Perry to run for president

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running for president, a spokesman confirmed Thursday, a move certain to shake up the race for the GOP nomination much to the delight of conservatives looking for a candidate to embrace.
Perry spokesman Mark Mine ...

Local golfer Brad Lardon may make cut for next PGA round

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT


The director of golf at Miramount Country Club is within range to make the cut of the final two rounds of the PGA Championship.
Brad Lardon finished Thursday tied for 78th place, at three over par. The top 70 players at the end of the day Friday w ...

Analysis: Perry may pose biggest threat to Romney

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:47 PM PDT

AMES, Iowa -- The biggest development of the Republican presidential campaign on Thursday happened in Austin, Texas -- 1,000 miles from the leadoff caucus state where GOP front-runner Mitt Romney and seven of his opponents squared off ahead of an imp ...

CS may see lower property taxes

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:27 PM PDT


College Station city staff on Thursday proposed lowering property taxes next year to their lowest rate since 2001.
The new rate would be 43.8 cents per $100 valuation of property, a decrease of 1 cent from last year's taxes. In other words, a hom ...

Community stuffs the bus with donations

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:22 PM PDT


The number of students in need of help in acquiring school supplies increased this year from slightly more than 15,000 to nearly 16,000, according to the Junior League of College Station.
But luckily, so did the number of donations.
The Junior L ...

Bryan schools to maintain tax rate

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT


The public is invited Monday to discuss the Bryan school board's budget and proposed tax rate.
The district will stick with its property tax rate of $1.29 per $100 property valuation, with $1.04 of that going toward maintenance and operations and ...

Video: Pet of the week

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:36 AM PDT


Police arrest 2 men at family reunion

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
A family reunion in Navasota last weekend ended with two men being arrested by local police.
Navasota police Sgt. Justin Leeth said the family reunion, which took place at the fairgrounds, ended Sunday afternoon and several atten ...

College Station man dies in oil rig accident

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:10 AM PDT

HIGH ISLAND -- A worker dismantling an oil rig in Southeast Texas has died after being struck by some pipes. The Galveston County Daily News reported Wednesday that the accident in High Island killed 56-year-old Ralph Hudspeth of College Station. Aut ...

Dow Jones has fourth 400-point swing

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:09 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Lurching higher in its week of whiplash, Wall Street recorded one of its biggest gains of all time Thursday after investors seized on a few signs that the economy might just be able to avoid a new recession.The Dow Jones industrial averag ...

Texas Ranger says raid on polygamist compound vindicated

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:09 PM PDT


SAN ANGELO -- Investigators made no mention of child sex tapes, or seized photos of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs kissing young girls, after their April 2008 raid on the sect's remote Texas compound. Instead, the public saw the televised spectacle ...

Dog brings home hand, authorities find body

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:47 PM PDT

MISSION -- South Texas police have found a man's body after a dog brought home a human hand setting off a search.Mission Police spokesman Sgt. Jody Tittle says police found the unidentified man near a canal after searching for about two hours with th ...

Facial recognition in use after London riots

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:10 PM PDT


LONDON -- Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feeding photographs of suspects through ...

CS announces 8 new developments

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 12:37 AM PDT

College Station officials have received requests for new development at the following locations:
Lincoln House of Hope: 1013 Eleanor; a site plan for a commercial building.
The Barracks II Phase 100: 3100 Haupt Road; a final plat for 83 planned de ...

CS announces 8 new developments

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 12:37 AM PDT

College Station officials have received requests for new development at the following locations:
Lincoln House of Hope: 1013 Eleanor; a site plan for a commercial building.
The Barracks II Phase 100: 3100 Haupt Road; a final plat for 83 planned de ...

Retail gasoline prices in Texas down 8 cents

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:10 AM PDT


HOUSTON -- The average price at the gasoline pump has slipped 8 cents this week across Texas.
AAA Texas on Thursday reported the retail price of gasoline fell to $3.53 a gallon.
The association says the nationwide price per gallon also declined ...

Chinook ablaze when it crashed in Afghanistan

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:21 PM PDT


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan children retrieved souvenir-sized pieces of a helicopter shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan where witnesses on Thursday described seeing the chopper burst into flames and break apart before falling from the ...

9/11 conspiracy theories thrive

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:09 PM PDT


DALLAS -- In Dealey Plaza, with the white "X" painted on the spot where President Kennedy was assassinated, ask anyone about the grassy knoll and the second gunman.
Conspiracy theories come with the territory here. And at Barbec's Restaurant on t ...

Britain riot victim gives account of violent attack

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Associated Press
LONDON -- A Malaysian student attacked during London's riots offered an account of his assault Thursday, saying he was shocked as he watched the videotape of thugs rifling through his belongings while he bled on a sidewalk.
Mohamma ...

GOP hopefuls target Obama, each other

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:27 PM PDT


AMES, Iowa -- GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney and seven rivals trying to emerge from the pack castigated President Barack Obama's handling of the economy and the debt ceiling debate Thursday night in a debate shadowed by the latest Republ ...

Parents fleeing famine forced to abandon kids

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:10 PM PDT

DADAAB, Kenya -- Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the lit ...

Knife River Corp. names new leader

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Knife River Corp. has named Roy Kirkpatrick president of its Texas operations.
Kirkpatrick had been named interim president in Texas in early June. He has been with Knife River since 2007 as the vice president of materials. He performed sales and op ...

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