Monday, January 23, 2012

Today's News from TheEagle.com

Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Driven to have fun

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST

Jeffrey Parrish, 9, sends dirt flying as he rides his go-cart Sunday in his backyard in east Brazos County. His dad, who purchased the go-cart, said Jeffrey rides all day on the weekends, and has worn a quarter-mile mini-course that meanders around t ...

Paterno's death met with grief in State College

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 09:15 AM PST


STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Joe Paterno's death from lung cancer Sunday just two months after his firing left many Penn State students, alumni and community members numb with grief and a sense that the legendary coach deserved better from the university ...

Redistricting delay gets mixed reaction from local officials, candidates

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST


Area Republicans and Democrats are divided over last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that threw out electoral maps drawn by federal judges in Texas that favored minorities, but they agree the decision means an April 3 primary is unlikely.
"It mi ...

Program helping Bryan children read

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski will kick off the Bryan school district's literacy campaign at 10 a.m. Monday with the presentation of a mayoral proclamation in the library at Kemp Elementary.
The district's monthlong awareness campaig ...

5 police officers needed to arrest 36-year-old

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
William Shawn Oliver was in the Brazos County Jail on Sunday, a day after being accused of unbuckling his pants in front of a restaurant and resisting arrest.
Bryan police said they were called to the 500 block of North Harvey M ...

Relative accuses man of cutting face

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 46-year-old Bryan man was in the Brazos County Jail Sunday after police arrested him on a charge of cutting a family member in the face.
Donald Lee Jones' bail was set at $12,000 for the felony charge of aggravated assault wit ...

Police: Man stole funds from religious group

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 37-year-old Bryan man was in the Brazos County Jail on Sunday after being accused of using account information from the Brazos Valley Pastors and Ministers Fellowship to pay his bills.
Michael Bernard Browder was paid once by t ...

Aggie charged with DWI after hitting car

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 21-year-old senior at Texas A&M was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated and failure to stop at the scene of a wreck.
According to the police report, witnesses called police when they saw a truck run into a parked ...

Suspect arrested in pocketknife assault

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST

Eagle Staff Report
A 33-year-old Bryan man was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after being accused of cutting an 18-year-old man across the back with a pocketknife.
Bryan police responded to a disturbance with a weapon call on ...

Some states slow to implement health care overhaul

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Here's a reality check for President Barack Obama's health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.
This is the year that wil ...

Economy taking center stage at State of the Union address

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, using his State of the Union address to outline a lasting econo ...

U.S. officials exploring peace talks with Afghan group

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST


ISLAMABAD -- Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of an insurgent movement led by a former Afghan prime minister who has been branded a terrorist by Washington, a relative of the rebel le ...

Fort Hood's new mission: Going green

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST

Austin American-Statesman
FORT HOOD -- The goal is as ambitious as it is daunting: The minicity that is Fort Hood is seeking to eliminate the nearly 20,000 tons of waste it sends annually to landfills by 2020. And do so without receiving any outside ...

Human Rights Watch urges West to accept Islamic leadership

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST


CAIRO -- The United States and other Western governments must accept the new reality that Islamists have emerged to fill the power vacuum in the Arab world after a wave of popular uprisings, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Sunday.
The ...

Gabrielle Giffords to resign seat in Congress

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:29 PM PST


WASHINGTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago that shook the country.
"I ...

Yemen leader cedes power before medical trip to the U.S.

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST


SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for any "shortcomings" during his 33-year rein.
But in a ...

What would we think of MLK today?

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST


By BEN STARNES
Special to The Eagle
The editorial (Eagle, Jan. 15) headlined "Would MLK be pleased had he lived?" was an honorably scripted tribute to the commonly revered icon of the civil rights movement.
Perhaps another question can be asked ...

Sigourney Weaver in new film on the paranormal

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:30 PM PST


PARK CITY, Utah -- Sigourney Weaver may not believe in ghosts, but the paranormal world of her latest film is not alien territory for her.
Weaver's Sundance Film Festival premiere, Red Lights, is a dark exploration of the supernatural realm she pr ...

Revolutionary Surgery for Perforated Eardrum

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:54 AM PST


(Ivanhoe Newswire) Good news! What? I said good news! A revolutionary surgical technique for treating perforations of the tympanic membrane (eardrum) in children and adults, called Myringoplasty, has been created to replace traditional techniques. ...

Replacing Knees with 3D!

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:41 AM PST


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ( Ivanhoe Newswire) -  3D has always been great for watching action movies. Now, it's proving to be a great way to help people with severe pain get back in action. There's a new option for a major procedure half a millon ...

Replacing Knees with 3D! -- In Depth Doctor's Interview

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:39 AM PST


Tell us about this procedure, how it's different from normal knee surgery.
Dr. Zann: The way the trend of knee surgery is going it's becoming much more sophisticated. Because the critical thing with doing knees is the alignment, the alignment dict ...

Replacing Knees with 3D! - Research Summary

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:35 AM PST


BACKGROUND: Knee replacement surgery, also known as knee arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure used to replace a damaged knee joint, usually due to arthritis, with an artificial knee. Artificial joints are designed to mimic the knee's natural rolli ...

Halting Esophageal Cancer in its Tracks with Sugar

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:34 AM PST


Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett's dysplasia, making it much easier to detect and remove these c ...

Killer Cells and Diabetes

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:33 AM PST


(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Killer T-cells protect the body from disease, but a new study suggests that these same cells, created to protect, may be inadvertently destroying cells that produce insulin for the body.
Professor Andy Sewell, an expert in hu ...

Cholesterol Lowering Statins Treat Cancer

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 11:32 AM PST


(Ivanhoe Newswire)- Cholesterol lowering statins seem to be effective against breast cancer in some patients. Research shows that a mutation in a single gene may be a way for researchers to identify tumors that are likely to respond to statin thera ...

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