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 Ex-teacher
gets 92-100
James
Louis DeGasperin was sentenced to 92 to 100 years in prison
minus time served for the deaths of Lori Casteel, her unborn
child and 4-year-old son, Collin.
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Students want role in
search for WVU head
WVU’s
Student Government Association will take an active
role in the search for the university’s next
president.
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A
hard
ticket
More
than 15,000 WVU students requested tickets to the
Mountaineers’ home football opener against
the Villanova University Wildcats — a school
record, according to an athletic department official.
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Man
gives
church
$3M
lottery ticket
PORT
JEFFERSON, N.Y. — A New York pastor says
one of his congregants donated a winning lottery
ticket worth $3 million to his church.
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Stack
defense
allows
for more speed
Same
base formation, completely different defense.
The WVU vs. Villanova clash this Saturday will feature
two variations of the versatile 3-3-5 stack, a relatively
rare defensive scheme used by only a handful of schools
around the nation.
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UHS
girls whip Knights
KINGWOOD — University
and Preston’s boys’ and girls’ soccer
teams met on Wednesday, with very different results.
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ESPN
crew bound
for Coliseum
Be
on the lookout for Digger Phelps and Jay Bilas.
Phelps, Bilas and the ESPN College GameDay crew will
make their first trip to the Coliseum this season.
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 Ralphie
May
returns
Ralphie May is
not a man who shies away from much,
as anyone who has seen his comedy
routines is aware.
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Global
Science &
Technology
wins
federal contract
FAIRMONT — Global
Science & Technology, Inc. announced that its joint
venture partnership known as Diversified Global Partners
JV LLC has been awarded a contract to develop and maintain
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
(CLASS).
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Garrison’s
last day is Friday
Mike
Garrison’s last day at WVU will be Friday, according to
a university spokeswoman.
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UPS
truck flips onto
side on interstate
A
UPS truck with a double-trailer flipped on its side on Interstate
68 at about 7 a.m. Wednesday, blocking both westbound lanes.
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Brookhaven
school, partners recognized for projects
The
Partnership in Education between Brookhaven Elementary
School and its Morgantown area business partners
has earned frequent recognition during its roughly
20-year history..
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Rockefeller
says Obama could win W.Va.
CHARLESTON — Barack
Obama was thrashed in West Virginia’s primary, but the
state’s junior senator said from the Democratic National
Convention that history will not repeat itself in November.
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5-day
search for missing
mother ends in rescue
LENOIR,
N.C. — Tommy Courtner had searched for Amber Pennell
with hundreds of others for five days.
They had combed miles of winding roads in Caldwell County
where they believed the 21-year-old mother of two had wrecked
on her way home. Many worried they would never find her — much
less alive.
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Bush
steps up fight over
congressional authority
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is raising the
stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of
power between the White House and Congress.
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Point
Marion, Pa., homeowners can get
tax reduction
More
than 50 homeowners in Point Marion, Pa., did not apply for the
new Homestead Exclusion from school taxes this tax year, reported
David M. Callahan, tax collector for the Borough of Point Marion.
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Gustav
kills 11;
US Gulf
Coast
prepares
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti — Gustav swirled toward Cuba on Wednesday after
triggering flooding and landslides that killed at least 11
people in the Caribbean. Its track pointed toward the U.S.
Gulf coast, including Louisiana where Hurricane Katrina wreaked
havoc three years ago.
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2
hijackers of Darfur plane
surrender in Libya
TRIPOLI,
Libya — An airline official says the two hijackers
of a jetliner that took off from Sudan’s Darfur region
and was diverted to southern Libya have surrendered to
authorities after a 22-hour standoff.
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Mugabe
plans to form new
government in Zimbabwe
HARARE,
Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he will
form a new government soon, with or without the opposition.
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DeWITT,
Trenton Michael
RILEY, Anna May
WILES, George Russell
ZINN, Virginia M.
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Column: Payback
on
the mind
of Isdaner
Offensive
lineman Greg Isdaner is a native of Gladwyne, Pa., a town that’s
but a five minute drive from the Wildcats’ campus in
Villanova, Pa.
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WVU’s
Spiker not willing
to skip final season
Alison
Spiker doesn’t have to be running through the streets
of Morgantown on these blisteringly hot August days.
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Coach
K to ‘live the
moment’ after
Olympic success
DURHAM,
N.C. — Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading
the U.S. Olympic basketball team would make him a changed
coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline
in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something
he otherwise might have.
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Inside
the huddle with
WVU and Big East football
Weekday
games have become a staple of the college football landscape
in recent years. Schools play games on Thursday and Wednesday
nights because of the exposure they get on national TV.
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Cubs
sweep Pirates again
PITTSBURGH — Jason
Marquis allowed five hits over seven innings and Chicago turned
two well-placed bunts into two runs in the seventh inning to
beat the Pirates, 2-0, on Wednesday afternoon.
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Bide
your tongue, U.S.A.
If
they’ve thought about
it at all, Americans have had a ho-hum attitude about Russia’s
recent hints of possible military attacks on Poland. And perhaps
it is just a bluff.
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Pelosi
invokes
St. Augustine to reason
when life begins
Thanks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, none other
than St. Augustine has been summoned to Denver.
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Letter
to the editor:
Garrison
got bad rap
in Bresch scandal
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Column:
Down and out?
TV the best medicine
Recently,
I came down with some little beast of a bug that trapped
me in bed for days.
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‘Shiraz’ a
play about
secrets people keep
When
M.T. Pockets Theatre Company takes to the stage with local
playwright Don Fidler’s “Shiraz” on Wednesday,
it will do it in a new home.
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WVU
to celebrate
College Colors Day
A
new tradition will have Mountaineer fans wearing their school
pride on their sleeves this week.
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