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Sheriff jobs questioned

The Monongalia County Commission approved a budget of up
to $10,000 or $215 per hour for legal services on behalf of the
Deputy Sheriff ’s Civil Service Commission (CSC) as it prepares
to decide if appointments newly re-elected Sheriff Al Kisner
made in 2009 were proper.

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Method of
takeover
in doubt

Customers of the Scotts Run
Public Service District wanted to know why the Morgantown Utility Board (MUB) seemed all too eager to begin the process of assuming operation of the district by changing the office doors’ locks and removing files and machinery.
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Mon General to
build radiation oncology facility

Monongalia General Hospital
officials announced plans
Wednesday to establish a
$7 million radiation oncology
center at the Zelda Stein Weiss Cancer Center.

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SRS official Lerner:
‘I did nothing wrong’

WASHINGTON —The Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) official
at the center of the storm
about the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told
Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers’ questions.
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WVU reports violation
OKLAHOMA CITY — WVU
self-reported a violation of
NCAA bylaws involving the
number of games played by its
baseball team this season to the Big 12 office, deputy athletic director Mike Parsons said Wednesday.
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MHS short
of state again
PARKERSBURG —Black storm clouds began to roll in over Hank Greenburg Field in the seventh inning of the Class AAA Region I baseball
final Wednesday evening.
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Mazey switches
pitchers

OKLAHOMA CITY — WVU
baseball coach Randy Mazey
threw the first curveball of the
Big 12 tournament Wednesday.
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  THE FIRST AMENDMENT


Average salary
for CEOs rises
to $9.7M in ’12

CEO pay has been going
in one direction for the past three years: Up.
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Bootleg memories
Todd Burge’s radio reckoning came at the corner of Kingwood Street and Wilson Avenue. It was
the early ’80s, and the then WVU student heard Gene Pool’s “Pilots Are Melting” come across
U92’s airwaves, the day after catching the band’s opening performance
for Dash Rip Rock at
The Underground Railroad— Morgantown’s newly minted music
mecca.
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Burglary charges added
A Monongalia County man arrested
earlier this month is facing five additional felony charges stemming from burglaries in
South Park and Suncrest.

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High Street work slated for August finish
Downtown Morgantown’s streetscape project on High Street should be done by August,
officials said.

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Preston chamber
honors its members

T here’s a huge gap between
what West Virginians consume
each year and what they
grow, West Virginia Commissioner
of Agriculture Walt Helmick told
Preston County Chamber of
Commerce members.
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BURGE, Ernest Shannon
DULEY, Barbara Ann
JOHNSON, Joseph A.
LAMBERT, Carl William Sr.
SIMPSON, Ruby Jane
TOOTHMAN, Peggy Lou
WARREN, Aubree Jane Sue

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Arias jury deadlocked
but must continue

PHOENIX — Jurors in the Jodi Arias murder trial told the judge they’ve been unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should
be sentenced to life or death.

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4 Americans killed since
2009 in U.S. drone strikes

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged
for the first time Wednesday that four
American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009.
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Oklahoma tornado damage
could top $2 billion

MOORE, Okla. — Authorities have now accounted for the last six people —
all of them adults — who were believed to still be missing after the massive tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb.
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Column: Father ’s death
has a huge impact on
life coach Mazey
T’S ALWAYS INTERESTING how
things come full circle, and that ’s certainly the case with this year’s WVU baseball team, which begins play today in the
Big 12 tournament. (Quick side question: How many would have guessed the baseball team would finish higher in the conference
standings than football or men’s basketball this year?)
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WVU sending 9 to track prelims
Nine members of the WVU track and field
team will compete at the NCAA East Preliminary Round, today-Saturday, at North Carolina A&T State University, in Greensboro, N.C.
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Penguins cruise
to 3-1 series lead

OTTAWA — Jarome Iginla and James Neal
each scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins routed the Ottawa Senators, 7-3, on Wednesday, to take a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
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Geno picks Jay-Z’s agency
as new rep

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Geno Smith has joined Jay-Z for one big sports and
hip-hop collaboration.
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Sen. Rockefeller sponsors
new head-injury legislation

CHARLESTON — A senator who has long
pushed parents, coaches and communities to help protect young athletes from
sports-related concussions is now sponsoring federal legislation to set safety
standards for helmets.
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Woods says Garcia
comment hurtful,
but time to move on

VIRGINIA WATER, England — Sergio Garcia
apologized to Tiger Woods for saying he would have “ fried chicken” at dinner
with his rival, a comment that Woods described as hurtful and inappropriate.
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Chalk this one
up for education?

None of it’s going to keep our kids engaged about the learning process this summer. However, none of what’s occurred in our state’s public education system since this school year began could qualify as by the book, either.

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Israel: Stirring up diversity in a hostile environment
WHEN I WAS LEAVING ISRAEL last
week, after a weeklong trip with a small group of family and friends, newspaper headlines in the airport lounge spoke of possible military conflict with Syria. Yet there was no sign of anxiety anywhere around — nothing to hint that this was a country in the shadow of war. Perhaps its people have lived in that shadow for so
long that it is part of their not-so-new normal.
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Letters to the editor
Removal of fresh water
from use looming threat

Let PSC know deal for
power plant bad idea

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Landreth returns to
‘Mountain Stage’ on June 2

More than 30 years in, Sonny Landreth admits to feeling the potholes that come with life on the road a bit more these days, but that doesn’t keep the bluesman from loving the gigs.

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Colum: TV outlook
brightens for
sunny season

LAST WEEK, I WAS a glass-half-empty
kind of gal regarding TV networks
slate of upcoming series. But, I’m feeling more optimistic these days.

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Milnes receives
Vandalia Award on Friday

CHARLESTON — The Vandalia Award, West Virginia’s highest folklife honor,
will be presented to folklorist, filmmaker, author and musician Gerald Milnes of Elkins, on Friday at the 37th Annual Vandalia
Gathering.
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Preston County Schools budget info for 2012
M onongalia County Commssion's letter regarding Westover's annexation request

Mountaineer Spay Neuter Assistance Program
TK Mining Services LLC

David McKain's tax information website
NCAA report on WVU's football program
Empty Bowls
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of North-Central West Virginia
Animal Friends of North-Central West Virginia

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GMCT Foundation

West Virginia Immunization Program
U.S. Prisons at Hazelton vacancies
Click to apply at the federal Office of Personnel Management job listing
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WVU Police safety courses
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Miss America voting

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National Youth Advocate Program info

 

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