Sunday, December 11, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Kevin Sumlin coming back to Aggieland as head coach

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST


From the moment Mike Sherman was fired nine days ago, it looked as if University of Houston coach Kevin Sumlin would be his successor.
Saturday, it became official.
Sumlin accepted an offer to become the next head football coach at Texas A&M ...

Kevin Sumlin coming back to Aggieland as head coach

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST


From the moment Mike Sherman was fired nine days ago, it looked as if University of Houston coach Kevin Sumlin would be his successor.
Saturday, it became official.
Sumlin accepted an offer to become the next head football coach at Texas A&M ...

District 14 candidates split over online sales taxes

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:14 PM PST


When they briefly describe their biographies, the two candidates vying in Tuesday's runoff to represent Brazos County in the Texas House of Representatives seem nearly identical.
Both are Republicans and Aggies who raised their families in Brazos ...

Candidates split over taxes

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:49 PM PST


When they briefly describe their biographies, the two candidates vying in Tuesday's runoff to represent Brazos County in the Texas House of Representatives seem nearly identical.
Both are Republicans and Aggies who raised their families in Brazos ...

Election Day information for District 14 runoff

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST

With only one race on the ballot and some precincts not participating, Brazos County has moved and consolidated some polling places for Tuesday's election runoff.
Sixteen polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. No schools that usually hos ...

Election Day information for District 14 runoff

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST

With only one race on the ballot and some precincts not participating, Brazos County has moved and consolidated some polling places for Tuesday's election runoff.
Sixteen polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. No schools that usually hos ...

Over 1,000 to run in B-CS marathon

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST


Felix Lugo has run 56 or so marathons in the past 15 years, and Sunday's BCS Marathon will be the 27th that he has run carrying a 3-by-5-foot American flag attached to an 8-foot flagpole.
After the 9/11 attacks, Lugo said his father began to openl ...

Texas A&M buying .xxx sites to keep reputation clean

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:26 PM PST


Texas A&M administrators would rather not imagine the possibilities of a porn website called The Wrecking Crew.
So to keep that name ingrained in Aggie lore as Texas A&M's spirited football defense and not a gaggle of scantily clad men wi ...

Software tracks Texas A&M faculty's work

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST


Texas A&M has contracted with Academic Analytics LLC for software that helps track faculty members' scholarly productivity.
The key areas of the five-year, $525,000 contract are publications such as journal articles and their citations, grant ...

Man, 78, dies when pickup hit by vehicle

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:23 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
An accident at the intersection of Wellborn and Graham roads early Friday night led to the death of a 78-year-old Millican man.
College Station police said a Ford pickup driven by Franklin Steward Sr. was attempting to turn sou ...

Police: Driver was 'high on mushrooms'

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 21-year-old driver who admitted to police that he was high on hallucinogenic mushrooms was arrested Friday after he was involved in two hit-and-run accidents and then crashed his pickup into the living room of an apartment on We ...

Police looking for robbery suspects

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST

Eagle Staff ReportCollege Station police on Saturday were investigating a robbery reported by a man who said he was accosted by three men as he was walking near Texas Avenue early that morning. The victim told police he was approached by three Hispa ...

Russian protests hint of change

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST


MOSCOW-- Tens of thousands of people held the largest anti-government protests that post-Soviet Russia has ever seen on Saturday to criticize electoral fraud and demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule. Police showed surprising restraint and state-c ...

Gingrich assailed by rivals, fires back at Romney

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:23 PM PST


DES MOINES, Iowa -- Attacked as a lifelong Washington insider, newly minted Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich parried criticism from Mitt Romney in campaign debate Saturday night, telling the former Massachusetts governor, "The only reason you ...

PBS film sheds new light on 'the Kid' and his Hispanic ties

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- His mythical exploits and jail escapes made this son of Irish immigrants one of the nation's most famous Old West outlaws. Yet fewer know that the man widely known as Billy the Kid was a central figure in a violent, Irish-Engli ...

Obama hopes to get votes by staying in the middle

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:24 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- On issues from air pollution to contraception, President Barack Obama has broken sharply with liberal activists and come down on the side of business interests and social conservatives as he moves more to the political middle for his ...

Free media helps define GOP candidates

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:23 PM PST


NEW YORK -- From late-night comedy shows to cable news interviews, free media exposure has proved influential in defining the Republican presidential candidates and setting the dynamics of the primary race, especially for lower-tier hopefuls lackin ...

Sumlin tells team he's A&M-bound

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST

Houston's Kevin Sumlin has agreed to become Texas A&M's next head football coach, according to several sources close to Sumlin and A&M.
Sumlin told his team he was leaving after arriving at the Houston student athletics center about noon Sat ...

Sumlin tells team he's A&M-bound

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST

Houston's Kevin Sumlin has agreed to become Texas A&M's next head football coach, according to several sources close to Sumlin and A&M.
Sumlin told his team he was leaving after arriving at the Houston student athletics center about noon Sat ...

Burdett-Ratcliffe

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:38 PM PST


Dave and Kathy Burdett of Bryan are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Andrea Burdett, to Ryan Ratfliffe, son of Debbie and Robert Ratcliffe of Garland, Texas.
Andrea is a 2009 graduate of Texas A&M ...

Frederick- DuBose

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:37 PM PST


Miss Stephanie Isabel Frederick and Mr. Brandon Paul DuBose were united in marriage on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 at two in the afternoon at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The double ring ceremony was officiated ...

Fay-Veccia

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:36 PM PST


Miss Ashley Joy Fay of Houston and Commander Timothy Tileston Veccia of Grapevine were united in marriage on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at three o'clock in the afternoon at St. Anne Catholic Church in Houston.  Deacon Jean-Paul Budinger officiat ...

Davidson-Laudermilk

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:34 PM PST


Melissa Ann Davidson and Neal Arthur Laudermilk were united in marriage on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at A&M United Methodist Church in College Station with Pastor Laurinda Kwiatkowski officiating. Parents of the bride are Dennis and Georgia ...

Broomall-Jefferson

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:32 PM PST

Heather Broomall of Bandera and Brian Jefferson of College Station were united in marriage on October 22, 2011 at 2:00 pm at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The bride is the daughter of Bill and Margie Broomall of Ban ...

Livestock Report

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST

Bryan
Results of the Brazos Valley Livestock Commission's Nov. 29 and Dec. 3 sales:
Head: 1,877
Steers: 200-300 lbs., $135-$217.50, 300-400 lbs., $120-$205, 400-500 lbs., $120-$178, 500-600 lbs., $112-$155, 600-700 lbs., $110-$150, 700-800 lbs., $ ...

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