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Tractor-trailer
flips
at Cheat Lake
They were crying over spilled milk at Cheat Lake
on Sunday.
Crews cleaned up about 40,000 pounds of milk
packaged as quarts and about 300 gallons of diesel
fuel after a tractor trailer truck flipped over
and crashed around 1 p.m. at the Cheat Lake Exit.
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Victims
live longer — but ignorance lingers
Dr.
Arif Sarwari, medical director at the WVU Positive
Health Clinic for HIV and AIDS care, said the good
news about his job these days is that he can tell
people they will live — and live long.
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Phone
scam solicits for bogus firm
Scam artists in Canada are targeting victims all over
the country, claiming that their “business” is
based in Morgantown.
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Info on scams
Amid
recession
fears, W.Va. braces
for winter
CHARLESTON — As
he helps disabled West Virginians stay in their homes,
Larry Paxton has another worry: how they’re going
to keep those homes warm this winter.
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Questions
abound after loss
LAS VEGAS — Bob Huggins was wondering aloud late Friday night if his WVU
men’s basketball team was on the verge of possibly breaking into the Top
25.
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‘Pat
White is a king’
It’s
Senior Day for the Pittsburgh Panthers, and the public
address announcer has already started introducing
the Pitt seniors to the crowd as fans continue to
trickle into the stadium. Everyone’s revved
up, excited to see the Mountaineers take on Pitt
in the 101st edition of the Backyard Brawl.
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Steelers
finally
beat Pats
FOXBOROUGH,
Mass. — The Pittsburgh Steelers snapped the
New England Patriots’ spell over them with
a plan that has worked all season: knock 'em
down, steal the ball and keep them from gaining yards.
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Perfume captures
scent of Penn State
BERWICK, Pa. — The scent of Penn State is now available
in a bottle.
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Column:
Boy Scout
provides inspiration
This time of year, “feel good” stories
come to the fore. One of the candidates for top honors
among The Dominion Post entries last month might
be reporter J. Miles
Layton’s story about Andrew Pender.
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Women
Work! needs help
Morgantown’s West Virginia Women Work! may have to cut
back on its skilled trades training for women by June if the
organization does not receive more funding from donors, Executive
Director Janis Gunel said.
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Power
plant ahead of schedule
The new target date to produce electricity from the $1.8
billion Longview Power Plant is fall 2010.
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United
Way supports
community through AmeriCorps
The United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties is always looking at ways to
support its member agencies, above and beyond the annual fundraising campaign.
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Gov.
Manchin weighing push
for nonpartisan judiciary
CHARLESTON — Gov. Joe Manchin may ask the Legislature next
year to end West Virginia’s practice of electing its judiciary
along partisan political lines, at least for the state’s
circuit court judges.
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Obama
to name 4
more Cabinet posts
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to announce
longtime advisers and political foes alike as his picks for top
administration jobs at a Monday news conference, nominating one-time
political nemesis Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
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Space
shuttle Endeavour
lands in California
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Space shuttle Endeavour
and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday,
taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main
landing strip in Florida.
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United
Auto Workers chief
pleads for government aid
WASHINGTON — The head of the United Auto Workers made a
public plea Sunday for government help for U.S. carmakers as
the Big Three put the final touches on stabilization plans to
submit to Congress.
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Police:
Pakistani militants
behind Mumbai attacks
MUMBAI, India — The only gunman captured by police after
a string of attacks on Mumbai told authorities he belonged to
a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed region
of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday.
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Taliban
frees 2 kidnapped
Afghan journalists
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants who kidnapped two
Afghan journalists have released them after three days in captivity,
officials said Sunday.
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51
protesters are wounded
in Bangkok explosions
BANGKOK,
Thailand — Unidentified assailants set off explosions at
anti-government protest sites Sunday, wounding 51 people and
raising fears of widening confrontations in Thailand’s
worst political crisis that has strangled its economy and shut
down its airports.
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BOHON,
Mitchesslaw “Mitch” Arnold
DeMASI, Victoria
GOULD, Wilma Eileen
GRIMES, Jerry Lee Sr.
GRIMM, Charles Franklin II
PALMER, Bennie F.
RUSH, Ronnie L.
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Column:
Not all doom and
gloom after Pitt loss
The loss to Pitt was deflating, but look beyond the scoreline, and you’ll
come away with some positives that bode well for the team next season.
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BCS
favors Sooners
NEW YORK — A week before the final standings are released and
the Bowl Championship Series is already ticking people off.
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Embattled
Weis awaits his fate
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick
said three weeks ago that he looked forward to Charlie Weis being
football coach ‘‘for a long time.’’
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Kiffin
to take over
Vols’ program today
KNOXVILLE,
Tenn. — Lane Kiffin will become Tennessee’s next head coach,
two days after Phillip Fulmer’s 17-season tenure ended with a grand
and victorious send-off.
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Column:Troopers
could
use some backup
Be
on the lookout for the State Police.
But if the results of a recent survey of the troopers
themselves is any indication, you might not see them,
because there’s simply not enough officers to
go around in West Virginia.
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Stressed
parents crying
out for help with kids
At
one level, it sounds like a bad joke.
In September, a safe haven law took effect in the state
of Nebraska allowing parents to leave their children at
hospitals without fear of prosecution.
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What
part of
‘No’ don’t kids
understand?
I wonder how many changes this recession will bring for
families.
I would like to think that it might bring some sort of
reflection by parents as to how their children are raised.
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Spider-Man,
Batman swing onto consoles with mixed results
While
superheroes may have taken over Hollywood, the video-game world
has been harder for them to conquer. Sure, recent games featuring
Iron Man and Spider-Man have sold well, but they haven’t
fired up gamers the way that a typical ‘‘Grand
Theft Auto’’ or ‘‘Madden NFL’’ release
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