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Jury
deadlocks on murder
Lincoln Taylor is halfway home, his sister said
Friday.
A jury found Taylor, 24, of Huttonsville, not
guilty of conspiracy to commit murder but deadlocked
on Taylor’s guilt or innocence on first-degree
murder, thus causing a mistrial on that charge.
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Ex govs may have
shot at Obama job
WASHINGTON — Former
West Virginia Govs. Gaston Caperton and Bob Wise
each have an outside shot of pushing education policies
on the national front as part of President-elect
Barack Obama’s cabinet, according to The Chronicle
of Higher Education.
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Van
rolls over
on icy W.Va. 73
An
accident on W.Va. 73 south sent three people to the Ruby
Memorial Hospital. Eyewitness accounts said a van lost
control and flipped over onto one lane of the road around
11 a.m.
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Automakers
need to make case for government aid
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders began laying out
conditions Friday that they say Detroit’s Big Three
automakers need to meet before Congress will consider giving
them an emergency $25 billion lifeline.
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Cool ’Cats cruise
GRAFTON — Despite
playing in bitter cold and two turnovers in the red zone, the Grafton High football
team won its second-round playoff game against Ravenswood, 41-7, Friday to advance
to the Class AA semifinals next week.
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WVU
could get
Dent back today
LOUISVILLE,
Ky. — WVU head football coach Bill Stewart
said Friday afternoon that center Mike Dent could
be a gameday addition to the lineup, pending clearance
from the team’s medical staff this morning.
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Ali
hurtin’, WVU
turns to Burton
Natalie
Burton never expected this.The 6-foot-5 center, from
Perth, Australia, figured she’d spend
her first year in the WVU
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Column:
Tradition of
Thanksgiving an evolving one
It would be good to know when the first Thanksgiving
Day was observed in Morgantown. Zackquill Morgan
began laying out the town in 1783, and got a charter
in October 1785. At the time he had a tavern and
there was one store. But developers were still contending
with pioneer life that left little time for social
gatherings.
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Snowshoe
opens its ski trails
after 31 inches of snow
CHARLESTON — Normally, Thanksgiving comes before
ski resorts open in West Virginia, but not this year.
Snowshoe Mountain welcomed the start of the season
Friday after 31 inches of snow fell recently.
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Landlord
silent in groping case
A Morgantown landlord will not testify in a hearing to determine
whether he violated a sexual harassment settlement reached with
tenants and the state Human Rights Commission.
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WVU
student makes
maps
fun for youth
An
intermittent drizzle mists the windows of Christine Maloney’s
seventh-grade science class at Suncrest Middle School.
But don’t look for that gloom to intrude within the
four walls of Room 131.
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Woman
finds bear
remains in trash bag
A grizzly discovery Friday cost one local woman her breakfast.Kristin Orbin,
28, a property manager for area apartments, found bear parts inside a garbage
bag, sitting by one of the vacuums at the Ashebrooke Express Wash around
11 a.m.
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Pipestem
Resort State Park trotting for trout
PIPESTEM — You don’t need to travel to the Rockies
or spend a small fortune to take part in a fishing trip that
involves a scenic trail ride into a remote canyon to cast
for citation-size trout with a professional guide, followed
by a night in a cozy lodge.
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State
Police superintendent resigning Dec. 31
CHARLESTON — Gov.
Joe Manchin is losing his State Police superintendent at
the end of the year.
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Feds
award grant for
W.Va. scenic byways
CHARLESTON — The
Federal Highway Administration has awarded $276,200 to the West
Virginia Department of Transportation to improve and promote
national scenic byways in the state.
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Florida
teen commits suicide
in front of webcam
MIAMI — A
South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing
on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer
users egged him on, some debated his method and others tried
to talk him out of it.
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Who’s
in the running for Obama administration positions
It’s Washington’s favorite parlor game during a presidential
transition: trying to figure out who’ll land a top spot
in the new administration. President-elect Barack Obama is weighing
an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some
Republicans, for Cabinet and other top positions, according to
Democratic officials.
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Neb.
lawmakers OK age limit
for safe-haven law
LINCOLN,
Neb. — Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill
adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35
children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to
be abandoned at state hospitals.
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Iraqi
Shiites burn Bush effigy
to protest U.S. security pact
BAGHDAD — Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric
protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning
an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where
Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years ago.
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Islamists
say they’ll
fight Somali pirates
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A radical Islamic group in Somalia
said Friday it will fight the pirates holding a Saudi supertanker
loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil.
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Mexico:
Ex-drug czar
allegedly took cartel money
MEXICO
CITY — Mexico accused its former drug czar Friday of taking
$450,000 from a cartel he was supposed to destroy, going public
with a scandal that deals a serious blow to the country’s
U.S.-backed drug war.
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Bluhm,
Wilbur H.
Burnside, James C. “Jim”
Egan, Maxine L.
Fullmer, James A.
Gregg, Alma
Mayne, Leanna Renee
Selders, Sherri L. Adams
Tennant, Chester
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Column:
High-flying VMI among reasons to pay attention
It’s
perfectly understandable why college basketball is not exactly the top
priority among sports fans just yet.The Thanksgiving turkey has yet to
thaw, conference games are still a month away and March is nowhere in
sight.
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Group
honors tennis
coach’s outreach efforts
WVU
tennis coach Marc Walters has been named a United States Tennis Association/International
Tennis Association Campus Recreational Sectional award winner for the
Mid-Atlantic Region.
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QB
White stacks WVU’s
deck against Cards
LOUISVILLE,
Ky. — Historically speaking, Patrick White has fared rather well
against Louisville, even inside Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
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Sorenstam’s
LPGA career
cut short at ADT tourney
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Standing in the center of a sun-drenched
18th green, as waves of cheers rippled from a packed gallery, Annika
Sorenstam hugged caddie Terry McNamara and took the flag from his hand.
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NFL:
Pacman can
practice Monday
IRVING, Texas — The NFL confirmed Friday that suspended cornerback
Adam ‘‘Pacman’’ Jones can join the Dallas
Cowboys on Monday and that he can play again Dec. 7, against Pittsburgh — but
only if he stays on his best behavior.
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Rest
in Peace plucky Phoenix
The
last communication from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander
came Nov. 2. It is presumed dead, a victim of faltering
power and worsening weather conditions on a desolate
planet millions of miles away.
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U.S.
must fulfill educational
duty
to military members
American
citizens recognize that our soldiers serving during the
conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have made a great sacrifice
for our country.
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Letters
to the editor
Rejecting
Preston bond
a blessing in disguise
Visitor to Auburn game
outraged by behavior
No town’s mayor should
put self above the law
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