Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Service set for small plane crash victims

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


Four of the five family members who died in a plane crash late Monday in rural northeast Brazos County will be laid to rest the day after Christmas in Georgia.
The four -- Michael Dustin Butler, 33, his wife, Kelly Thornton Butler, 34, and their c ...

Service set for small plane crash victims

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


Four of the five family members who died in a plane crash late Monday in rural northeast Brazos County will be laid to rest the day after Christmas in Georgia.
The four -- Michael Dustin Butler, 33, his wife, Kelly Thornton Butler, 34, and their c ...

Piper had to pass rigorous yearly inspection

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


Although the plane that crashed in northeast Brazos County late Monday night was built in 1966, it's likely that it was still fit to fly, a local aviation expert says.
The six-seat, single-engine Piper Cherokee Six broke apart in mid-air and crash ...

Texas A&M Regents OK contracts for Kevin Sumlin, Bill Kennedy

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


The Texas A&M System Board of Regents on Tuesday authorized A&M president R. Bowen Loftin to sign contracts with the Aggies' new football and men's basketball coaches.
Both have already begun working for the Aggies under their already agre ...

Texas A&M Regents OK contracts for Kevin Sumlin, Bill Kennedy

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


The Texas A&M System Board of Regents on Tuesday authorized A&M president R. Bowen Loftin to sign contracts with the Aggies' new football and men's basketball coaches.
Both have already begun working for the Aggies under their already agre ...

Texas A&M Regents OK contracts for Kevin Sumlin, Bill Kennedy

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


The Texas A&M System Board of Regents on Tuesday authorized A&M president R. Bowen Loftin to sign contracts with the Aggies' new football and men's basketball coaches.
Both have already begun working for the Aggies under their already agre ...

Consol student indicted on capital murder charge

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
The 18-year-old high school student arrested for allegedly killing a College Station man and wounding his wife in October was indicted Tuesday by a Brazos County grand jury on a capital murder charge.
Gabriel Paul Hall, who was a ...

Consol student indicted on capital murder charge

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
The 18-year-old high school student arrested for allegedly killing a College Station man and wounding his wife in October was indicted Tuesday by a Brazos County grand jury on a capital murder charge.
Gabriel Paul Hall, who was a ...

Chancellor John Sharp shuffles Texas A&M communications staff

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


Chancellor John Sharp on Tuesday reshuffled the Texas A&M System's top public relations staff as part of his broad review of system communications.
Sharp announced that Jason Cook, who currently oversees communications for A&M and its gove ...

Chancellor John Sharp shuffles Texas A&M communications staff

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


Chancellor John Sharp on Tuesday reshuffled the Texas A&M System's top public relations staff as part of his broad review of system communications.
Sharp announced that Jason Cook, who currently oversees communications for A&M and its gove ...

Instructor dead in plane crash near Denton airport

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:40 AM PST


DENTON -- A small plane crashed in North Texas during a training flight early Tuesday, killing a pilot from China and injuring another Chinese pilot and their U.S. flight instructor, officials said.
The Cessna 172 lost altitude while preparing to ...

Parts of Texas Panhandle get 10 inches of snow

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:27 AM PST


AMARILLO -- Travelers in the Texas Panhandle were urged to stay off ice-packed roads Tuesday after up to 10 inches of snow covered parts of the region.
Several major thoroughfares were closed after the storm clipped the far northwest part of th ...

Shots that hit Texas students were not a first at school

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


McALLEN -- Authorities had previously responded to reports of gunfire around the South Texas middle school where two teen boys were shot last week on an outdoor basketball court, the school district's lawyer said Tuesday.
The local sheriff's offic ...

Retail gasoline prices slip 4 cents across Texas

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:50 PM PST

HOUSTON -- Retail gasoline prices across Texas have slipped 4 cents this week as travelers prepare to hit the road for the holidays.AAA Texas on Wednesday reported that the average price at the pump is $3.05 per gallon. The association says gasoline ...

Shots that hit Texas students were not a first at school

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:06 PM PST


McALLEN -- Authorities had previously responded to reports of gunfire around the South Texas middle school where two teen boys were shot last week on an outdoor basketball court, the school district's lawyer said Tuesday.
The local sheriff's offic ...

Guns heard before near Texas school where boys hit

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:28 AM PST

McALLEN -- Authorities had previously responded to reports of gunfire around the South Texas middle school where two teen boys were shot last week on an outdoor basketball court, the school district's lawyer said Tuesday.The local sheriff's office, c ...

Travelers sit in Kansas as snowstorm socks Plains

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 03:27 AM PST


TOPEKA, Kan. -- Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal accidents and closed highways in five states crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across th ...

House GOP blocks Senate's 2-month tax cut extension

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Congress lurched toward Grinch-like gridlock on Tuesday as the Republican-controlled House rejected a two-month extension of Social Security tax cuts that President Barack Obama said was "the only viable way" to prevent a drop in take ...

House GOP blocks Senate's 2-month tax cut extension

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Congress lurched toward Grinch-like gridlock on Tuesday as the Republican-controlled House rejected a two-month extension of Social Security tax cuts that President Barack Obama said was "the only viable way" to prevent a drop in take ...

House GOP blocks Senate's 2-month tax cut extension

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Congress lurched toward Grinch-like gridlock on Tuesday as the Republican-controlled House rejected a two-month extension of Social Security tax cuts that President Barack Obama said was "the only viable way" to prevent a drop in take ...

Interstates reopening after Great Plains snowstorm

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:50 PM PST

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Holiday travelers were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday after a storm that dumped up to 15 inches of snow and forced the closure of interstates across the Great Plains moved out of the region, allowing crews to clear drifts and st ...

Tensions high amid North Korea transition

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST


PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "bor ...

Details on research of deadly bird flu withheld

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government asked scientists Tuesday not to reveal all the details of how to make a version of the deadly bird flu that they created in labs in the U.S. and Europe.
The lab-bred virus, being kept under high security, appears ...

National Guard troops at Mexican border to be reduced

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will keep a reduced contingent of National Guard troops working along the Mexican border for the next year, the Defense Department said Tuesday.
Starting in January, the force of 1,200 National Guard troops a ...

Housing market showing signs of recovery

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- A surge in apartment construction gave home builders more work in November. And permits, a gauge of future construction, rose largely because of a jump in apartment permits.
Some analysts say the gains, though coming off extremely l ...

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