Saturday, December 3, 2011

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Lighting up the holidays

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST

Matt Nobles holds his daughter, Cecilia, 1, as they view a light display Friday at Christmas at the Creek at Wolf Pen Creek in College Station. The event features live performances, pictures with Santa, illuminated hayrides and more. It will continue ...

Mike Sherman gives a 'gut-wrenching' goodbye

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


One day after being dismissed as A&M's head football coach, Mike Sherman spent an emotional 40 minutes Friday afternoon talking about his abrupt firing and the program's accomplishments during his four seasons. He also expressed gratitude at ha ...

Mike Sherman gives a 'gut-wrenching' goodbye

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


One day after being dismissed as A&M's head football coach, Mike Sherman spent an emotional 40 minutes Friday afternoon talking about his abrupt firing and the program's accomplishments during his four seasons. He also expressed gratitude at ha ...

College Station police searching for bank robber

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 01:11 AM PST

College Station police were searching for a man who robbed the FedStar Credit Union on Friday.
The robbery was reported at 9:04 a.m. at 701 Harvey Road, College Station Officer Rhonda Seaton said. A man entered the bank with a gun, demanded and was ...

Timothy Delasandro announces bid for state representative seat

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST

Timothy Delasandro, a nurse who was a leading advocate of the effort to recall College Station mayor Nancy Berry and two city council members, announced Friday that he will run for the Texas House of Representatives.
He will run as a Republican for ...

Timothy Delasandro announces bid for state representative seat

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST

Timothy Delasandro, a nurse who was a leading advocate of the effort to recall College Station mayor Nancy Berry and two city council members, announced Friday that he will run for the Texas House of Representatives.
He will run as a Republican for ...

Rescued pit bull to participate in parade

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
Esperanza, one of a pair of pitbulls who were found earlier this year beaten, burned and near death, has made a near-complete recovery and will be participating in the Bryan-College Station Christmas Parade this weekend.
She'll ...

Bryan to hold its own parade

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST


The once-annual Downtown Bryan Christmas Parade is making a comeback on Friday, when at least 20 entries will line up and travel the streets of Bryan to spread holiday cheer.
Cassidy Barton, executive director of the Downtown Bryan Association, s ...

B-CS Christmas Parade ready to roll

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST


When the Bryan-College Station Christmas Parade kicked off for the first time in 1926, crews had just finished installing streetlights in Bryan the prior year and College Station was still 12 years from becoming an incorporated city.
Eighty-five ...

Police seek CS bank robber

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


A man who robbed a College Station bank Friday morning remained at large late in the day.
He is described as a black male about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds. When he robbed the FedStar Credit Union on Harvey Road just afte ...

Alleged stabber among indictees

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST


A 40-year-old Bryan woman who police said stabbed a woman five times during a bar fight -- cutting her liver and colon -- was indicted this week on the second-degree felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Mary Lou Bohler, accor ...

Grid operator: Extreme weather may mean blackouts

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:20 AM PST

AUSTIN -- Texas needs more generating capacity if it's to avoid repeats of last February's rolling blackouts and the summer's power supply crises, according to reports issued Thursday by the state's electric power grid operator. "Our assessment indic ...

Texan, 81, shoots at burglars, later dies

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 12:50 AM PST

HOUSTON -- Police say an 81-year-old Houston-area woman has died of an apparent heart attack after shooting a gun and scaring off two burglars. KHOU-TV reports Memorial Villages police believe a man and a woman had posed as utility workers and talked ...

Delasandro joins Texas House race

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


Timothy Delasandro, a nurse who was a leading advocate of the effort to recall College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and two city council members, announced Friday that he will run for the Texas House of Representatives.
The race will pit him against ...

Give tools TLC before springtime

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:19 PM PST


While it's not quite time to pack away garden tools and equipment for the winter, it's not too soon to start taking care of them. Whether you have deluxe tools or inexpensive ones, given tender loving care, they will last longer.
Follow these tips ...

Delasandro joins Texas House race

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


Timothy Delasandro, a nurse who was a leading advocate of the effort to recall College Station Mayor Nancy Berry and two city council members, announced Friday that he will run for the Texas House of Representatives.
The race will pit him against ...

Bay City woman shot by spouse remains critical

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 02:20 AM PST

BAY CITY -- A Southeast Texas woman shot three times by her husband, who then fatally shot their four children before killing himself, remains in critical condition two days after the attack.A spokesman for Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Ho ...

Superintendents losing raises

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST


More than 60 percent of Texas school districts froze superintendent salaries this year, according to a recent study.
The Texas Association of School Boards and Texas Association of School Administrators released the information in a report highli ...

Superintendents losing raises

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST


More than 60 percent of Texas school districts froze superintendent salaries this year, according to a recent study.
The Texas Association of School Boards and Texas Association of School Administrators released the information in a report highli ...

Merry M.A.S.H.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST

Donated toys rest on the ground as Kyle Gammenthaler and other volunteers prepare them for distribution Friday at the 28th annual Radio M.A.S.H. Toy Drive in the parking lot at Post Oak Mall. The toy drive, which provides toys to thousands of Brazos ...

Silver Taps to honor student Tuesday

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
Texas A&M University will hold a Silver Taps ceremony Tuesday in remembrance of an Aggie who died last month.
The ceremony will honor Austin Gray Fannin, from Midland, who died Oct. 22. Fannin was a junior recreation, park an ...

Transplant crape myrtles in mid-winter

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:21 PM PST

Dear Neil: I have seven crape myrtles that have been growing along a fence for the past five years. They're now getting too much shade, and they don't bloom properly. When and how do I transplant them?
A: You want to transplant all woody plants (tre ...

Unemployment rate falls to 8.6 percent

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, fell sharply in November, driven in part by small businesses that finally see reason to hope and hire.
Economists ...

Airline business can be tough

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST


NEW YORK -- Airlines may defy the law of gravity, but they can't ignore math.
When American Airlines sought bankruptcy protection this week, it marked the 189th time a U.S. airline has done so since the government deregulated the industry in 1978. ...

Texas drought also withering Mexico

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST


DURANGO, Mexico-- The sun-baked northern states of Mexico are suffering under the worst drought since the government began recording rainfall 70 years ago. Crops of corn, beans and oats are withering in the fields. About 1.7 million cattle have die ...

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