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Woman dies in
single-car accident
A
woman is dead after a single car crash at about 6:50 p.m. Thursday
on Holland Avenue in Westover. Westover Police Department Sgt.
Roy Harper said her name would not be released until the family
was notified.
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Work to begin on
WVU day care
WVU
has authorized Fairchance Construction Co., of Pennsylvania,
to begin work on a new child care center and nursery
school near Krepps Park at a cost of $5.4 million,
according to a spokeswoman.
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2
arrested
for
theft of copper
West
Virginia State Police have made two arrests and aren’t
ruling out others to solve copper wire thefts at
mine sites in western Monongalia County
that they say are dangerous for thieves, as well
as those robbed.
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Disposable
diaper
saves toddler’s life
SAO
PAULO, Brazil — A disposable diaper has saved
the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall
from a third-floor apartment window, officials said
Thursday.
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The
Wheeling feeling
A
coincidence is striking occurrence of two or more
events at one time apparently by mere chance. But
some may say that there are no coincidences, only
fate.
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Hagey’s
goal: To
score one for WVU
A
season with no goals.
The thought had always been unconscionable for WVU
men’s soccer forward Dan Hagey.
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Santa
Clara up next
for Mountaineers
When
Notre Dame asked WVU to play in its annual St. Mary’s
Classic, WVU women’s soccer coach Nikki Izzo-Brown
thought it would be a great early season opportunity
for her team.
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 Starting
or not,
Lazear ready
for anything
Perhaps
no other WVU football player made
the most of spring ball than sophomore
Pat Lazear.
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Detectives
submit
original evidence
in case
Morgantown
High School alumnus Cassandra Rundle and her two young
children were found brutally
murdered in their Colorado Springs, Colo., home, discovered
by her second ex-husband who stopped by the house to
deliver a Valentine.
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‘Litter
Gitter’ to help
clean up county
Members
of the Monongalia County Litter Control Team spent Thursday morning
dropping old water bottles, empty styrofoam cups, pop cans and
crumpled bits of paper along the fences bordering the Community
Recycling Center off River Road.
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Italian
heritage group
hosts annual banquet
Italian
Americans will continue to celebrate their ethnicity after
the West Virginia Italian Heritage festival, which begins
today and concludes Sunday. Calabria-West Virginia Italian
Heritage Association will hold its annual banquet sponsored
by CONSOL Energy at the Village Square Conference Center at
7 p.m. Sunday in Clarksburg.
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MHS
opens to students
Morgantown
High School was back in business Thursday with a
new look.
Students started school Thursday — getting
two more days of summer break than other county students
because of the extra time needed for post-construction
clean-up. And they got to return to a new-and-improved
version of their school.
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Troopers
prepare for
Labor Day weekend
Troopers
are preparing for a busy Labor Day weekend by increasing visibility
on the state’s highways to keep drivers safe. ... As part
of a nationally coordinated mobilization effort, a “target
period” of
enforcement has been designated as Friday-Monday.
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Third
panel to decide
fate of W.Va. women
veterans statue
CHARLESTON, — Nearly
10 years and two wars later, West Virginia is revisiting plans
to erect a monument to honor its female military veterans..
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GPS
devices help
prosecutors win
convictions
Like
millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his
Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably
didn’t expect that prosecutors would eventually use
it too — to help convict him of killing four family
members.
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Groups
file lawsuit over
law protecting polar bear
WASHINGTON — Five industry groups have sued the
Interior Department over a rule to protect the polar bear
that they say unfairly singles out business operations
in Alaska for their contribution to global warming.
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Drunken-driving
deaths
fall in 32 states
WASHINGTON — Drunken-driving
deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday,
but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders
in half the states.
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Georgia
warns of
ethnic cleansing
VIENNA,
Austria — Georgia’s foreign minister warns that
ethnic cleansing of Georgians is taking place in South Ossetia
and will soon be completed.
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Tourists,
residents flee as
Gustav swamps Jamaica
KINGSTON,
Jamaica — Residents, tourists and oil workers fled
as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people
dead in its wake.
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Senior
Iraqi official
suspected of having
militia links
BAGHDAD — A
senior official in Nouri al-Maliki’s government was in
custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias
and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including
four Americans, Iraqi authorities said.
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FICHTNER,
Etta May
JOHNSON, Bobby Lee
JOHNSON, Phyllis Jane Allen
SINSEL, Vida
WILES, George Russell
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Polar
Bears pick
up
golf sweep
FAIRMONT —-
The Fairmont Senior golf team won a tri-match against Morgantown
and University on Thursday afternoon, at the Fairmont Field
Club.
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Teams
of the week
Mylan
Summer Classic champs
The Togs take 2nd in Las Vegas
Suncrest wins Mon Valley
AAA BOPARC softball champs
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Second
MHS Hall of Fame
class announced
Morgantown
High School’s second annual Athletic Hall of Fame celebration
kicks off at 4 p.m. Sept. 12 with a dinner
at Synergy Restaurant at the Pines Country Club.
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Bowden
lasts through
turbulent times
CLEMSON,
S.C. — Clemson star tailback C.J. Spiller laughs
at the question: How often did people tell you not to
join the Tigers because coach Tommy Bowden would get
fired?
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Focused
In
the blink of an eye, the years and races have come and gone
for Jeff Burton.
“
It seems like it anyway,” he said shortly before qualifying
for Saturday’s Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Pacman
cleared to
resume playing
IRVING,
Texas — Adam ‘‘Pacman’’ Jones has
been cleared to play for the Dallas Cowboys this season.
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A
nation
in debt
Think
of the movie ‘‘I.O.U.S.A.,’’ which
opened last week, as a kind of disaster movie for adults. Unfortunately,
it’s a documentary, not fiction.
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Parties
afraid to face
an upcoming US
population explosion
There’s a burning concern in the American
West — almost an obsession — that Democrats
will not touch in their convention here. Nor will
Republicans in St. Paul. It is the U.S. population
explosion.
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Letter
to the editor:
Not
a bike lane,
but a lane for all
Marion chamber should be
applauded for its efforts
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Capsule
reviews
‘‘Frozen
River’’ — 3 1/2 stars. Each time
Melissa Leo’s character Ray and Misty Upham’s
Lila drive across the rugged, icy expanse that separates
Quebec and the Mohawk Indian Reservation of upstate
New York, they have illegal immigrants stowed in the
trunk — men and women from China and Pakistan
willing to take this risk for the possibility of a
better life.
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