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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Wishing for a speedy recovery

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST

Jarvis Lister (right) holds a"Get Well" card to be sent to his brother Juwan as he and fellow Jane Long Middle School student (from left) Juan Galindo and Milam Elementary students Jeremy Gonzalez and Tason Devault stand with snacks and change that t ...

Condominium developer sets sights on Bryan

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST


Another city-backed developer is taking a crack at building luxury Game Day condominiums in Aggieland -- only this time in the city of Bryan.
Next week the Bryan City Council is expected to convey about three-fourths of an acre in west Bryan to t ...

Department of Motor Vehicles getting upgrades

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST


The Motor Vehicle Department of the Brazos County Tax Office will be closed Friday as new computer equipment is installed that will make motor-vehicle transactions more efficient.
Kristeen Roe, the Brazos County tax assessor-collector, said tax of ...

Brazos Valley Heart Ball set for Feb. 10

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
The American Heart Association's Brazos Valley Heart Ball will be held Feb. 10 in Bryan.
The event, sponsored by Scott & White Healthcare and Utility Fleet Sales, will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Miramont Country C ...

First Friday event in Bryan tonight

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:20 AM PST

Visitors to downtown Bryan are encouraged to "dress to the nines" for the First Friday event from 5 to 10 tonight.
Organizers are asking people to wear outfits such as holiday party clothes, a bridesmaid dress, junk gypsy style clothes or a tux. Car ...

Police searching for man involved in College Station burglary

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:27 AM PST

College Station police said they arrested one man and were looking for another Friday after the two broke into a home and stole property.
Officers responded about 11:20 a.m. to a home on Hawktree Drive after a man reported seeing two men taking prop ...

Two charged in burglary of home

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:48 AM PST

Two men face burglary and theft charges after being accused of stealing a chain saw, golf cart and trailer from a Brazos County home.
Bryan residents Michael Allen Crenshaw, 17, and Deacon Wayne Jones, 25, were each charged Thursday with burglary of ...

Nation adds 200,000 jobs in December

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Four painful years after the Great Recession struck and wiped out 8.7 million jobs, the United States may finally be in an elusive pattern known as a virtuous cycle -- an escalating loop of hiring and spending.
The nation added 200,0 ...

2011 a better year for jobless

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:04 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- For many people whose job prospects faded most during the recession, 2011 brought a small dose of relief.
When unemployment was surging, the youngest U.S. workers, the oldest, those without college degrees and men as a whole all suf ...

Rockets' Lowry charged with battery in Vegas

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:21 AM PST

LAS VEGAS -- Houston Rockets guard Kyle Lowry is facing a misdemeanor battery charge amid accusations that he threw a basketball at a referee and threatened her during a game at a Las Vegas training gym.The criminal complaint says the 25-year-old Low ...

Marksman charged in shooting behind Texas school

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:21 AM PST


EDINBURG -- A competitive target shooter was charged Friday in a shooting last month in which two teens were severely wounded during basketball tryouts behind their South Texas middle school.
Dustin Wesley Cook, 36, was arraigned on a charge of se ...

Suspect charged in shooting behind Texas school

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:19 AM PST

EDINBURG -- Prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old man in a shooting last month in which two South Texas teenagers were severely wounded while trying out for their middle school basketball team.Dustin Wesley Cook was charged with second-degree aggrav ...

U.S. changes definition of rape

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST


WASHINGTON-- The Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI's more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers.
The ...

Rockets' Lowry charged with battery in Vegas

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:22 AM PST

LAS VEGAS -- Houston Rockets guard Kyle Lowry is facing a misdemeanor battery charge amid accusations that he threw a basketball at a referee and threatened her during a game in Las Vegas.The criminal complaint says the 25-year-old NBA player was tau ...

Teen runaway back in the U.S.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:03 PM PST


DALLAS -- A Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was reunited with her family in the United States on Friday.
The 15-year-old girl is at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could ...

Texas teen deported to Colombia headed back to US

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:21 AM PST

EL PASO -- A 15-year-old Texas girl who was deported in May to South America after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was headed back to the United States on Friday, Colombian and U.S. officials said.Jakadrien Lorece Turner was turned over to the U. ...

Houston skyscraper set for implosion Sunday

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:22 AM PST

HOUSTON -- A big boom has been scheduled Sunday morning in Houston to bring down a 20-story building. The former Prudential Life Insurance Building faces demolition. The Houston Chronicle reported Friday that Prudential Insurance Co. commissioned arc ...

Community rattled after student shot

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:02 PM PST


BROWNSVILLE -- The Rev. Jorge Gomez was counseling worried parents late into the night the day police fatally shot an eighth-grader brandishing what appeared to be a handgun inside his South Texas school. The parents said their children weren't eat ...

Blasts kill 9 NATO troops, 6 children

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:03 PM PST


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Explosives hidden in a trash heap killed six children in southern Afghanistan Friday, police said, and five NATO troops were killed in roadside bombings in the volatile region.
The children were rummaging through the trash fo ...

Paul campaign dominates in military support

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 03:05 PM PST


GALVESTON -- An Army reservist who spoke up for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul while in uniform -- and landed in trouble for it -- is just one of the soldiers getting behind the Texas congressman's campaign.
Plenty of other troops simp ...

Former teacher accused of child sex abuse was popular

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:03 PM PST


ALABASTER, Ala. -- Children used to clamor to get into Danny Acker's classes, and he was so popular he was once named his elementary school's Teacher of the Year.
But authorities in this well-to-do Birmingham suburb are offering a starkly differen ...

Sale of Apollo 13 list draws NASA inquiry

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:03 PM PST


MIAMI -- NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
The docum ...

Faith calendar

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST

Saturday
* St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 217 W. 26th in Bryan, invites guests to walk the Labyrinth from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in its Parish Hall. The January theme is "Prayerfully parting to the old of 2011 and joyfully journeying into 2012." It is fr ...

King fought for justice for all races

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST

During the month of January, we mark the birthday of one of our nation's great modern heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Almost everyone in America knows how King struggled for human equality and dignity.
All too many people have come to believe tha ...

"Squeezing" Away Chronic Chest Pain

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 05:12 AM PST


ORLANDO, FLA. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It's a pain in the chest nine-million Americans live with every day. Angina is treatable, but most of the time patients have to take medication for the rest of their lives to control it. Now, a simple therapy is ...

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