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WVU nixes nursing-fee hike

WVU’s nursing program is changing courses on a massive summer tuition and fees hike, saying it did not effectively communicate the increase.

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FirstEnergy:
Plant buy
is necessary

FAIRMONT — FirstEnergy went to bat Monday morning for its plan to have subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison buy the Harrison Power station, in Haywood.
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Mileground project
on track for
Aug. 16 finish

The Mileground roundabout
is starting to take shape. State Division of Highways spokeswoman Carrie Bly said work planned for this week includes the placement of stone base to outline the roundabout and concrete pouring.
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Yahoo takes
big leap with
$1.1B Tumblr deal

SAN FRANCISCO —Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times.
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Shorter stands tall
on mound for MHS

KINGWOOD — If Morgantown High wins the Region I final Wednesday to advance to the state baseball tournament for the first time since 1976, Tyler Shorter won’t technically earn the win.
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WVU baseball team safe in Oklahoma
The WVU baseball team is safe after a massive tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., a city located about 10 miles south of the Mountaineers’ hotel in Oklahoma City.
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St. Marys
knocks out
Cee-Bees

BLACKSVILLE — The St. Marys baseball team was a hit
Monday.
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  THE FIRST AMENDMENT


W.Va. gets reprieve
from No Child Left
Behind law

CHARLESTON — West Virginia won limited freedom Monday from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, gaining approval of its own method for identifying struggling schools and then devoting resources to improve them.
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Just win $590M?
Then get a good
team in place

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — So you have a lottery ticket worth $590.5 million. Now what?
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Armory transfer progresses
Morgantown City Council will take the next step toward its acquisition of the Mileground
armory property at tonight’s regular meeting.

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New major
in the works
at university

A new major, one with significant infrastructure already in place, could be coming to WVU’s College of Business and Economics in the near future.
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MHS students create
narrative art sculptures

Ninth grade Art I students at Morgantown High School completed a project on narrative
art Monday.
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EICHELBERGER, Clifford Eugene Sr.
ETLING, Ella Mae
FOSTER, Julie Anne
GREENBERG, Mary D.
KNOTTS, Dona Evelyn Bolyard
MATHENY, Colleen B.
WARREN, Aubree Jane Sue
WHYEL, Jean C. Shick

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More Obama aides knew of
IRS audit; Obama not told

WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff
Denis McDonough and other senior advisers
knew in late April that an impending report was
likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama’s spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier.
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Huge tornado hits
Oklahoma City suburb, kills 37

MOORE, Okla. — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 37 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.
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McCartney rejoins
WVU football team
Former wide receiver Ivan McCartney has rejoined the WVU football team.
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Success no shock
These are heady days for girls and soccer in Morgantown. Both Morgantown and University high schools have won state championships recently, and the WVU women’s program perennially fields Top 20 and NCAA tournament teams.
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Column: One year later,
Stewart’s legacy remains strong

IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE that it has already been a year since former WVU head football coach Bill Stewart passed away.
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Driver takes life
1 day at a time

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — AJ Allmendinger’s parents attended their first Indianapolis 500 in 1979, when they camped in a grassy lot and watched Rick Mears win his first 400.
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Memphis’ Black
heading to KU

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas’ basketball team has added another big body to a burgeoning roster overhaul.
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Bosh eager to square off
against Hibbert, Pacers

MIAMI — This is the matchup Chris Bosh wanted in the Eastern Conference finals.
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There will be
consequences

Some will say it hardly qualifies as news that some WVU students misbehaved last year.

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One dose does not fit all
I often use sleeping pills containing zolpidem (Ambien is the predominant brand-name version) to help reset my biological clock when I travel across time zones, or if I just have trouble getting to sleep.

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Gosnell’s ‘clinic of horrors’
may be a turning point
IT WAS THE PICTURES and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar, who overdosed on Demerol during an abortion at Gosnell’s clinic.

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People You Know
Highlights of residents' achievements.
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M onongalia County Commssion's letter regarding Westover's annexation request

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