Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Police expect shooting investigation to be quick

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT


Bryan police are making progress in their investigation of the shooting death of 19-year-old Billy Joe Menard Jr., said Peter Scheets, assistant police chief, on Monday.
"We're moving the case along very rapidly and expect a swift conclusion," he ...

District 14 candidate John Raney wants to lead with integrity

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT


John Raney has spent most of his adult life involved in Republican politics, but mostly in the background.
He ran for Brazos County judge in 1978 -- mainly because he couldn't find anyone else to run on the GOP ticket. He lost. The rest of his car ...

18 arrested on drug charges in Milam

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT


Authorities in Milam County still are looking for nine people they intend to serve with felony warrants related to selling marijuana and crack cocaine.
Four arrest warrants served simultaneously Monday morning in Cameron and Rockdale resulted in t ...

Texas stars light up wildfire benefit

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT


AUSTIN -- Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines says "there was zero hesitation" when her band was asked to help raise money for victims of the recent wildfires in her home state of Texas.
The band joined fellow country music stars George Strait ...

Flute choir begins concert season

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Eagle Staff ReportThe Brazos Breeze Flute Choir is scheduled to perform its season-opening concert on Sunday. The performance will begin at 6 p.m. at A&M United Methodist Church, 417 University Drive in College Station. Admission is free but dona ...

Deadline Nov. 18 to enter Bryan-College Station Christmas Parade

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:57 AM PDT

Entries are being accepted through Nov. 18 for the 85th annual Bryan-College Station Chrismas Parade set for Dec. 4.The theme will be "Inside Santa's Workshop." Penny Zent, parade chairwoman, said she believes the theme will make people thing of a b ...

A&M event offers look into basketball program

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:54 AM PDT

Fans interested in getting an in-depth look into the Aggie basketball program can sign up for Texas A&M's "Tip-Off Club Weekend" on Friday and Saturday.
Participants will get access to practice and participate in competitions and meetings with t ...

Entries welcomed for holiday parade

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Entries are being accepted through Nov. 18 for the 85th annual Bryan-College Station Christmas Parade, which is set for Dec. 4.
The theme will be "Inside Santa's Workshop." Penny Zent, parade chairwoman, said she believes the the ...

Cops: IDs, papers found after 4 locked in basement

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:53 AM PDT

PHILADELPHIA -- Dozens of pieces of identification and power of attorney documents have been discovered after a Philadelphia landlord found four mentally disabled adults locked in the squalid basement of his building, a discovery that points toward a ...

Obama seeks votes on jobs, piece by piece

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:47 AM PDT


FLETCHER, N.C.— Railing against Republicans, President Barack Obama on Monday pushed for a jobs package that Congress is splintering into pieces, with Senate Democrats planning to start with a plan to help states hire teachers, police and fir ...

Two men charged with possession of pot

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Eagle Staff Report
Two men are facing felony possession of marijuana charges after they were involved in a traffic accident with a motorcyclist, police said.
According to the police report, a College Station officer responded to a major accident j ...

'Superheroes' under scrutiny after arrest

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT


SEATTLE -- Fabio Heuring was standing outside a Seattle nightclub on a Saturday night and smoking cigarettes with a friend when a man bolting from a bouncer ran into them. The enraged man ripped off his shirt in the middle of the street and prepare ...

Hawk rescued after being stuck on Texas car grille

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:57 PM PDT

GRAPEVINE -- A Dallas-area mechanic had a special wildlife assignment when he saved a hawk that was stuck in the grille of a car.Matt Whitehead, who's a mechanic at Park Place Lexus in Grapevine, says he thought the red-tailed hawk was dead until the ...

Red tide bloom overwhelms Texas coast

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT


SOUTH PADRE ISLAND -- Historic drought conditions are fueling the largest algae bloom in more than a decade along the Texas Gulf Coast, killing fish, sparking warnings about beach conditions and making throats scratchy, researchers said Monday.
Th ...

Stolen Valor case going to Supreme Court

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will decide if telling a lie about yourself is a crime -- if the lie claims military medals you didn't earn.
The court said Monday it will rule on the constitutionality of a law that makes it a federal crime for peo ...

Wireless users to get limit warnings

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:18 PM PDT

NEW YORK -- Cellphone companies pledged Monday to warn subscribers before they go over their monthly limits for calling minutes, text messages and data use.The pledge comes in response to a threat of regulation by the Federal Communications Commissio ...

BlackBerry offers free apps as apology for outages

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT


TORONTO -- The BlackBerry has left a bitter taste in the mouths of its users.
Trying to make amends for massive outages last week, Research In Motion on Monday promised BlackBerry users free premium apps and a month of technical support. But the a ...

Israel, Hamas begin elaborate prisoner exchange

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:42 PM PDT


JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials in Gaza said a captured Israeli soldier was moved across the border into Egypt early Tuesday, beginning an elaborate prisoner swap deal in which hundreds of Palestinian inmates are to be freed in return for the ca ...

Questions raised over CIA operative assisting NYPD

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:17 PM PDT


WASHINGTON -- Working inside the New York Police Department is one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives. He arrived in July as the special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. While his title is clear, his job respo ...

President Barack Obama takes jobs bill on the road

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT


FLETCHER, N.C. -- Rolling through small Southern towns in a campaign-style bus, President Barack Obama on Monday pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it dow ...

Saving Infants from a Killer Bacteria

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT


ST. LOUIS, MO ( Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's the baby disease you never hear about. NEC is a dangerous condition striking babies' intestines soon after they're born. It affects nearly 10-percent of infants born at less than 32 weeks. 35 percent of the ...

Sniffing Out Cancer

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:24 AM PDT


WAKE FOREST, N.C (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- This year, about one and a half million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer. But here's something you may not know, six million dogs will be diagnosed with cancer this year. We call them man's best friends ...

Inside The NIH: Movement Labs

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:24 AM PDT


WASHINGTON D.C (Ivanhoe Newswire) --Movement disorders affect up to 72 million Americans. Now,  a one-of-a-kind lab is helping doctors learn more about how to treat these disorders.  We'll explain four new technologies are allowing some p ...

Forget About It! Your Memory & Aging

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:23 AM PDT


BALTIMORE (Ivanhoe Newswire)--Lots of things change as we get older, our eyesight, our hearing, and our weight. But when we start to forget simple things like where the car is parked, some people might wonder if a little forgetfulness is something ...

Tics Or Tourette's?

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 01:23 AM PDT


ST. LOUIS (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Ten percent of schoolchildren have them, but often even their parents don't know it. We're talking about tics, unnatural sounds or sudden movements of the body that happen involuntarily, again and again. For most of ...

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