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Oliverio out-earns McKinley
The campaign war chests for congressional candidates David McKinley and Mike Oliverio were nearly even at the end of the July quarterly filing period, according to the Federal Election Commission.
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Preston, Mon short pollworkers
Monongalia County needs 50 pollworkers for the Aug. 28 special primary election to fill U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s vacant seat.
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WVU study points to new child cholesterol screening guides
A recent WVU study suggests that parents who don’t have a family history of high cholesterol may want to have their children screened anyway.
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Hacker builds $1,500
cell-phone tapping devices
LAS VEGAS — A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that’s said.
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Informant: WikiLeaks
suspect had civilian help
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday.
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Search goes on for Kyron
PORTLAND, Ore. — The first accounts of 7-year-old Kyron Horman’s disappearance were a parent’s nightmare: A boy vanishes from the safe haven of his elementary school.
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Afghan official: 3 die in
Kunduz suicide bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A former militia commander who supported the Afghan government and two others were killed Saturday night by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a football game in northern Afghanistan, officials said.
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Death toll in Pakistani
floods surges past 800
NOWSHERA, Pakistan — The death toll in the massive flooding in Pakistan surged past 800 as floodwaters receded Saturday in the hard-hit northwest, an official said. The damage to roads, bridges and communications networks hindered rescuers, while the threat of disease loomed as some evacuees arrived in camps with fever, diarrhea and skin problems.
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Men swapped at
birth work, live together
SAO PAULO — Two years back, Dimas Aliprandi and Elton Plaster didn’t know of each other’s existence. Then they learned they had been accidentally switched at birth more than 20 years ago.
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BANDIERA, Tony J. Sr.
FLOWERS, Max D.
FILANDINO, Joseph “Joe” Charles
JOHNSON, Ruby F.
KENNEDY, Junior Carl
POPERNACK, Andrew G. Jr.
ROBINSON, Dennis
TURNER, Ruth Cox
VALLYATHAN, Dr. Velayudhan “Val”
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Players revel in a tough summer
Since he arrived at WVU, in 2008, strength and conditioning director Mike Joseph has been fighting an uphill battle. He knew it would take time for the football players under his watch to adjust to the intensity of his workouts. That didn’t happen during his first year with the Mountaineers, and it didn’t happen this past season, either.
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Column: Getting up to
speed on long Devine runs:
strength + explosion
Consider these stats, and then a fact: Since December 2005, the WVU football team has had 33 rushing plays go for 50 yards or more. In the 12 seasons between 1993 and 2004, the Mountaineers had 17 such runs.
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WVU’s Campriani wins
10-meter gold at world
shooting championships
WVU senior Nicco Campriani won the 10-meter men’s air rifle at the 50th International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) world championship Saturday, at Munich, Germany.
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Pat White returns
to Miami practice
after 1-day absence
DAVIE, Fla. — The absence of Miami Dolphins reserve quarterback Pat White, a former WVU star, from the first day of practice Friday was notable.
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Roethlisberger practices
with the Steelers’ starters
LATROBE, Pa. — His No. 7 hasn’t changed. Neither has his place in the offense. Ben Roethlisberger is the Steelers’ starting quarterback, and that was quickly evident during their first practice of training camp.
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Pocono chief promising
safety changes
ONG POND, Pa. — Pocono Raceway keeps taking hits.
Often criticized by drivers for unnecessary 500-mile races and for clogging two spots on the Sprint Cup schedule, the 2 1/2-mile triangle track is now deemed by some as unsafe, after an accident in the June race involving Kasey Kahne.
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Misplaced trust
The main thing people want from cemeteries is that their loved ones rest in peace there.
In the case of the dead in military cemeteries — it’s often the peace many never did know.
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State cannot afford to get
fooled again with outsourcing
Kyle Schafer, the chief technology officer for the West Virginia Office of Technology, is proposing to outsource almost all of the information technology (IT) functions and employees in the executive branch of state government.
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Letter to the Editor
Government should
do right thing on mine

Preston Countians
should get involved

Take kids to a dietitian
instead of psychiatrist
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Blennerhassett brings
our past to life
From the riverbank of Belpre, Ohio’s Civitan Park, where a sternwheeler dubbed Island Belle ferries visitors around and eventually onto its shores — Blennerhassett Island’s initial impression is deceptively provincial on a muggy, rain-spattered July afternoon.
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Column: Constructing
an outfit can take months
When it comes to the myriad things I obsess about, few fixations hold the power of the already-planned outfit.
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Taking a bite out of the bills?
CHICAGO — When Jeremy Reis got Bodhi last summer, he immediately took out a pet insurance policy on the yellow Labrador puppy. That wound up being a wise decision.
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