Recently added articles from Charleston Daily Mail:
Willie Nelson hit the links in South Charleston
Oct 03, 2008; LUKE R. MITCHELL and MATTHEW THOMPSON ... On the road again, Willie Nelson had the opportunity for a littleleisure time before he performed at the Clay Center this week. He spent it swinging a club at Little Creek Park Golf Course. Matt Petts, an employee in the park's pro shop, said anunidentified person called ...
Doo Wop car show packs Boulevard: ; Owners share classic rides at festival
Oct 03, 2008; JEFF MORRIS ... Proud papas were showing off their pride and joy, but thesebabies weren't donning diapers and pink or blue booties. Think of a smorgasbord of cars more pampered than a kid wearingPampers. We're talking gleaming chrome, fins, custom wheels and high-performance engines with enough ...
Turmoil impedes state projects: ; Manchin says borrowing for road, college improvements on hold
Oct 03, 2008; GEORGE HOHMANN ... Gov. Joe Manchin said Wall Street turmoil is hampering thestate's ability to raise money for a variety of needs ranging fromhighway projects to improvements at community and technicalcolleges. Manchin said on Wednesday that the state's finances are in goodshape and that West ...
Leaves changing colors early
Oct 03, 2008; FROM STAFF REPORTS ... West Virginia's fall colors are coming out in full force fasterthan usual, state foresters say. Depending on their elevation, trees in some parts of the state -including areas of Pendleton County - already are at 80 percent oftheir peak fall color, forester Shon Butler ...
Colleges face woes with stock meltdown: ; Private foundations lose ground as troubled economy cuts into funds
Oct 03, 2008; RY RIVARD ... Wall Street turmoil will make it more difficult for statecolleges and universities to pay for scholarships and programs asthe market drop hits their endowments. Officials from the private, not-for-profit foundations affiliatedwith the state's public colleges and universities say ...
Biden and Palin stick to script in only debate: ; Candidates trade barbs while trying to identify with voters
Oct 03, 2008; CATHLEEN DECKER and MICHAEL FINNEGAN ... ST. LOUIS - Focused sharply on the middle class, Joe Biden andSarah Palin fought over taxes, military strategy and which partycould better rebuild America in a vice presidential debate thatserved as the nation's first extended look at the little-knownAlaska governor who vaulted weeks ago ...
S.C. Women's Club donates 100 Teddy bears
Oct 03, 2008 ... The South Charleston Women's Club donated more than 100 Teddybears to the city's Fire Department to give to children who areinvolved in emergencies. The announcement was made during Thursday night's city councilmeeting. Maureen Helvey and Christi Shankin of the Women's Club ...
New York banker sentenced to five years probation, service in bribery case
Oct 03, 2008; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ... SAN DIEGO - A New York banker has been sentenced to probation andcommunity service on charges related to a corruption case against aformer California congressman. John Michael of Long Island was sentenced Thursday in federalcourt in California to five years' probation and 1,000 ...
Verizon opens Charleston-Huntington network: ; Company gives $40,000 to domestic; violence agencies
Oct 03, 2008; GEORGE HOHMANN ... Verizon Wireless unveiled its new $54 million network in theCharleston-Huntington market with a ribbon-cutting ceremony anddonations to the YWCA in Charleston and Branches in Huntington. The company celebrated its entry in the market on Thursday with afestive event at its new ...
Regional weather
Oct 03, 2008 ... Hi Lo Otlk Akron 63 41 Clr Charlotte 79 47 Clr Cincinnati 71 48 PCldy Cleveland 62 41 PCldy Columbus,Ohio 66 46 PCldy Dayton 68 45 PCldy Daytona Beach 84 65 PCldy Greensboro,N.C. 79 48 ...
National weather
Oct 03, 2008 ... Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 44 33 Cldy Baltimore 70 46 PCldy Boston 63 43 Clr Chicago 65 38 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 93 70 Clr Denver 78 50 PCldy Detroit 59 39 PCldy Honolulu 87 74 Clr Houston 89 66 Clr Indianapolis 68 46 ...
Kansas mayor apologizes for drag-blackface skit
Oct 03, 2008; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ... ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. - The mayor of a Kansas town appeared inblackface as part of a drag-queen beauty contest but apologizedafter a meeting with NAACP officials. Arkansas City Mayor Mel Kuhn won the weekend fundraiser, in whichhe appeared in dark makeup and used a vulgar reference ...
Boy enters zoo, goes on killing rampage
Oct 03, 2008; KRISTEN GELINEAU ... SYDNEY, Australia - A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outbackzoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashedseveral lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said today. The 30-minute rampage, caught on the zoo's security camera,happened early Wednesday ...
Frozen animal bodies found at kennel: ; 56 suffering dogs, cats needed immediate medical attention
Oct 03, 2008; MICHAEL RUBINKAM ... EMMAUS, Pa. - Agents raided a kennel and discovered hundreds ofanimals crowded together in foul-smelling conditions and dozens ofcarcasses in a freezer, authorities said. Authorities removed 56 ailing dogs and cats for immediate medicalattention after Wednesday's raid at the ...
Lobbying for bailout plan intensifies
Oct 03, 2008; JAMES PUZZANGHERA, TOM HAMBURGER and RICHARD SIMON ... WASHINGTON - Lobbying for the $700 billion financial rescue planreached fever pitch as the hours ticked down toward today'sclimactic vote in the House, with powerful interest groupsorchestrating last-minute appeals from constituents back home andthe two major presidential candidates ...
Nation & world
Oct 03, 2008 ... Ike washes up giant fossil tooth CAPLEN, Texas - A paleontologist whose beachfront home in Texaswas destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size toothin the debris. Dorothy Sisk and Jim Westgate are scientists at Lamar University.They discovered the ...
Our views: ; VOTE 2008; 32nd District: Armstead, Walters and Lane are excellent legislators
Oct 03, 2008; Dmedit ... ANYONE who thinks an individual can't make a difference inpolitics hasn't been following the 32nd District delegates, whorepresent the northwestern part of Kanawha County. The Daily Mail endorses Republicans Tim Armstead, Ron Walters andPatrick Lane. Economic growth is the ...
Our views: ; VOTE 2008; Kanawha delegates 30th District: Carden, Casey, Joseph,; Miller, Skaff, Spencer and Wells
Oct 03, 2008; Dmedit ... WEST Virginia's state government has made progress on theeconomic front in recent years. Medical malpractice reform, taxrollbacks, reduction of long-term debt and the privatization ofworkers' comp are beginning to make a difference. More needs to be done. Onerous regulation, tort ...
Your views: ; Lack of oversight led to a trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout
Oct 03, 2008; Ron Payne ... The good ol' boys in Washington, D.C., are about to pass on to usnearly $1 trillion of bad debt to help out none other than thewealthy of this world. Our oversight commissions have so littleoversight. Meaningful oversight and rapid resolve is what America needstoday, not just a ...
We've arrived at jabberwocky politics: ; Lewis Carroll's slithy toves had nothing on this
Oct 03, 2008; Dave Peyton ... EXCUSE me, but have I gone down the rabbit hole with Alice? HaveI entered a surreal political world where things keep getting"curiouser and curiouser?" Is it brillig, and do the slithy tovesgyre and gimble in the wabe? Here I sit, a longtime populist who has always looked askance ...