Panel: Tax hikes = road funds
CHARLESTON — A commission studying West Virginia’s
highway system is proposing tax and fee increases to raise
millions of dollars for maintenance and repairs. Read
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Health dept.
next target
for WVU? Not “if, ” but “when. ”
According to the Monongalia
County Commission, that’s an accurate accounting of the likelihood that
WVU will make a move to purchase the Van Voorhis Road property that is home to
the Monongalia County Health Department. Read
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Meteorologist:
Weekend weather looks nice Memorial
Day weekend ceremonies, observances, parades and family cookouts got a
green light from Mother Nature.
House
backs variable rate student loans WASHINGTON — Dismissing
a veto threat from President
Barack Obama, lawmakers in
the House passed legislation
that links student loan rates to
the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party
lines. Read
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Rusty
tourney start OKLAHOMA
CITY — WVU
baseball coach Randy Mazey’s worst fear became reality early during
his team’s 7-2 loss to sixth-seeded Kansas on Thursday night at Chickasaw
Bricktown Ballpark. Read
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Musgrave
may go pro
if offer right OKLAHOMA CITY — Par
t
of Harrison Musgrave isn’t
concerned about what happens in next month’s MLB draft. Part of WVU’s
redshirt sophomore ace pitcher wonders what more he has to do to put himself in
a prime position.
Players
hope to avoid
repeat of last season They gathered inside the Coliseum at 6 a.m. most days
this winter, lifting weights and
whacking volleyballs around
before many of their WVU classmates stepped out of bed.
Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published PHILADELPHIA — A
newly discovered novel
by the late Nobel
Prize-winning author
Pearl S. Buck is to be
released this fall. Read
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80, climber
becomes oldest
atop Everest KATMANDU,
Nepal —
An 80-year-old Japanese
mountaineer Thursday became the oldest man to
reach the top of Mount
Everest, a Nepali official
and Miura’s Tokyo-based
support team said. Read
more ...
Charit
y funding is down In
2012, Salvation Army organizations
across the U.S. saw
decreases in income compared to
the previous year. Read
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No
suspects in Puskar
grave vandalism It’s been nearly four months
since her father’s gravesite was
vandalized, but Johanna Puskar
is still “furious. Read
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UHS
classes take on
the stock market The parents of students
in Suzanne Ernstes
and Andrea Headings’
civics classes may
want to start asking their kids
for investment advice. Read
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Scouts
OK plan to accept
openly gay boys GRAPEVINE,
Texas—T he
Boy Scouts of America’s National
Council has voted to
ease a long-standing ban and
allow openly gay boys to be
accepted as Scouts.
Obama
defends drone strikes,
but says tactic no ‘cure-all’ WASHINGTON — Presi
-
dent Barack Obama on
Thursday defended America’s
controversial drone attacks
as legal, effective and a
necessary linchpin in an
evolving U.S. counterterrorism
policy. But he acknowledged
the targeted strikes
are no “cure- all ” and said he
is haunted by the civilians
unintentionally killed. Read
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IRS’s
Lerner replaced in light
of controversy WASHINGTON —A
day after
she refused to answer questions
at a congressional hearing,
Lois Lerner was replaced
Thursday as director of the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS)
division that oversaw agents
who targeted tea party groups. Read
more ...
Column:
Huggins
needs
the
2013
class to
fix
problems FROM
THE MOMENT things went
sour for the WVU men’s basketball
team last season, WVU
coach Bob Huggins said he
would fix it. Read
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Penguins
are looking
to close out Senators PITTSBURGH —Ottawa
Senators
captain Daniel Alfredsson
isn’t quite ready for the traditional
season-ending handshake. Read
more ...
Pirates
beat Cubs
for 4th straight win PITTSBURGH — It
was
hard to tell whether the
Pittsburgh Pirates were
heading on a road trip or
getting ready for a Stanley
Cup playoff game after beating
the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on
Thursday for their fourth
straight win. Read
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Rogge
praises
wrestling’s changes LONDON — Wrestling ’s
governing
body has “reacted well”
and made the necessary
changes to give the sport a
chance of saving its place
in the Olympics, IOC President
Jacques Rogge said. Read
more ...
Heat,
Pacers say Game 2
should be even better MIAMI — Losing
a game
at the final buzzer, no less than
a playoff game on the road
against the reigning NBA
champion Miami Heat, would
seem to have potential to demoralize
the Indiana Pacers. Read
more ...
Heading
off
concussions “Keep
ya head up!”
Loosely translated that means keep your head on a swivel in football, especially
during interceptions, punts and kick-offs. Or as athletes, from catchers
to right wings,
are instructed: Protect yourself at all times.
It’s
not just for
kids anymore THE
CONFLUENCE OF social networks
and business technology
is so tightly linked today that it
requires serious thinking anew
about responsibility and requirements
to keep us protected. Read
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Tornado ‘victims’ don’t
fit television news’ script OKLAHOMA!
The world looked upon the tornado-
flattened landscape of Moore,
Okla., with awe. The destruction
was shocking, as were the personal
losses. Many Americans in the audience
also felt —and this must be
said — some comfort. Here was a
country of strong people rolling
with some very serious punches. I Read
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“THE
HANGOVER PART III” 3
stars. This time,
Zach Galifianakis’ insufferable,
inappropriate
man-child Alan has gone
off his meds and is out of
control. His family and
friends —including fellow
“
Wolfpack” members
Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu
(Ed Helms) and Doug
(Justin Bartha) —stage
an intervention and offer
to drive him to a treatment
center in Arizona. Read
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“FAST & FURIOUS
6” 2 stars.
Clearly, nobody ever
told the makers of the
“
Fast & Furious” franchise
that less is more. More is
ALWAYS more —and so
regular fans will be delighted
with this latest installment,
which again ups the
ante with the cars, the
crazy stunts, the crashes
and the fights. Read
more ...
“STAR
TREK INTO DARKNESS” 2
stars. Like fan-boy fiction on a $185
million budget, director J.J. Abrams’ film is reverential,
faithful and steeped in “Trek” mythology. It’s
also an excessively
derivative what-if rehash of themes and interactions that came before,
most of the characters are lesser copies
and even caricatures of the originals. Read
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