Charleston Daily Mail back issues from August 1998:
Tobacco companies sued by 27 people Lawsuit filed in county court alleges firms hid information
Aug 01, 1998; ... Twenty-seven West Virginians who have contracted lung or throatcancer or have relatives who had cancer are suing tobacco companies,claiming the firms knew about the dangers of smoking and hid themfrom customers. Charleston lawyer Jim Humphreys filed the suit Friday in ...
ABC names first female president
Aug 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK - ABC has appointed Patricia Fili-Krushel as president,the first woman to lead a major television network. Fili-Krushel has been president of ABC's daytime TV division since1993 and previously worked at Lifetime Television and HBO. She succeeds Preston Padden, who ...
readers' vent line
Aug 01, 1998 ... * If Yeager Airport really wants to compete against a regionalairport, they need to put a monitor up somewhere in the lobby soclients can tell when airplanes are coming in, when they're late andso forth. It's really ridiculous. Once you get there you have noway of knowing what the air ...
Hospital delivers twins by the dozen
Aug 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK - The Doublemint folks might want to pay attention. Obstetricians at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York Cityprobably were seeing double Thursday after helping to deliver sixsets of twins in 29 hours. "This is extremely unusual," said Dr. Alan Jacobs, head ...
Proposed ECHL mascot hits too close to home for Razorbacks
Aug 01, 1998; ... LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A mockup of the mascot for the newly formedEast Coast Hockey League team looked like a pig on ice, but to avoida faceoff with the University of Arkansas, the team's owners aresearching for a new identity. The likeness proposed by Arkansas Sports Entertainment ...
Former Wildcat goes from 3-point line to the pulpit: Cameron Mills says he's always had an urge to preach
Aug 01, 1998; ... FRANKLIN, Ohio - Standing on stage before a packed auditorium,Cameron Mills asks God to help him make every shot he takes tonightat reaching souls. Mills helped Kentucky win the national title last spring. Nowhe's praying for the girls with "UK" painted on their cheeks, thekids ...
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Aug 01, 1998; ... We hate to be quick to judge, but we have no choice this season.The first big Saturday of the college-football season - we'll call itSuper-Duper Saturday - is Sept. 5. Perhaps never before has an early-season weekend featured as manybig games that figure to play a huge role in ...
NICE GUYS DON'T ALWAYS FINISH LAST: He's one of baseball's top rookies and may be Arizona's cornerstone
Aug 01, 1998; ... PHOENIX - That circle in Travis Lee's back pocket has nothing todo with chewing tobacco. No way. That's just his yo-yo. Along with being ambidextrous, unassuming, unflappable andpossibly the best rookie in the National League, Lee is a yo-yoistextraordinaire. No ...
THEY'VE LEFT THEIR BAD DAYS BEHIND: Strawberry feels no pressure
Aug 01, 1998; ... ANAHEIM, Calif. - This is not going to be a Darryl-Strawberry-has-changed story. There have been enough of those. Our hero has publicly fallendown and gotten up more times than an ice skater or president. This story is different. This is a ...
THEY'VE LEFT THEIR BAD DAYS BEHIND: Sure, now everybody loves Vaughn
Aug 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK - Greg Vaughn didn't need to dial into talk radio. Hedidn't need to pick up the sports page to read how lousy he was. Ill wind gusted all around him. It blew hard and nasty off thePacific through Qualcomm Stadium. The earth quaked under his feetall along the San Andreas ....
Tall Sun shines down on Cats
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Hagerstown's 6-foot-7 Matt McClellan had a super angle from whichto pitch to the Charleston Alley Cats on Friday he was on the mound. The Suns' right-hander blanked the Cats through six innings,allowing just three hits. When the Toledo, Ohio, ...
Otto's stars
Aug 01, 1998 ... * Jorge posada, Yankees. Two home runs. - Dean Palmer, Royals. Two home runs, four RBI. - fred Mcgriff, Devil Rays. 4-for-4 with two RBI. - eric young, Dodgers. 3-for-5 with game-winning double. - frank thomas, White Sox. Hit his fifth career grand slam andhad a ...
AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES
Aug 01, 1998 ... ATHLETICS 12, INDIANS 2 Tom Candiotti got his second win since May and Matt Stairs homeredfor the second straight game. Candiotti, who had lost three straight starts and 9-of-10decisions, allowed two runs on five hits and four walks in 52/3 andstruck out a season-high ...
NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES
Aug 01, 1998 ... D-BACKS 8, BREWERS 2 Devon White and Jay Bell hit home runs to back Andy Benes, whogave up six hits in 72/3 innings and struck out five. Arizona broke a 2-2 tie with a four-run sixth. Andy Fox, who hadthree hits, singled and Bell followed with his 14th homer. KarimGarcia ...
sports vent line
Aug 01, 1998 ... * I'm amazed at all the vents talking about Randy Moss' lack ofclass. I see more lack of class in these vents than Randy could showin a hundred years! And maturity? That really shows in these ventsalso! No wonder West Virginia has such an image. - Randy used Marshall to get to the ...
Hall of Fame Game worthy of prime-time
Aug 01, 1998; ... CANTON, Ohio - Although a prime-time game with the Pro FootballHall of Fame looming in the distance is nice, the Pittsburgh Steelersand Tampa Bay Buccaneers have visions of a more meaningful matchup. How about Jan. 31, the Super Bowl in Miami? The annual exhibition game tonight ...
Moss shines in scrimmage
Aug 01, 1998; ... MANKATO, Minn. - Randy Moss stole the show at the MinnesotaVikings' annual intrasquad scrimmage, treating the record crowd to apair of touchdown grabs. "He's a player," Viking quarterback Randall Cunningham said."He's the next Cris Carter or Jake Reed, and now we have three ...
Harrick hires son
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Predictably, Jim Harrick Jr. has left his post as a MarshallUniversity assistant basketball coach. Harrick left the Thundering Herd after only two months on the jobto join his father, Charleston native Jim Harrick, at the Universityof Rhode ...
LOCAL SPORTS
Aug 01, 1998 ... Flag football - The Nitro men's flag football league is forming.The first 12 teams will be accepted. Play is scheduled to start thefirst week in September. For more information, call Rick Woodrum at 776-4626 or ...
BRIEFLY
Aug 01, 1998 ... GOLF - U.S. Women's Open champion Pat Hurst shot a 7-under-par 65 for ashare of the lead in the du Maurier Classic at Windsor, Ontario. Brandie Burton had a 64 to match Hurst at 12-under 132 on theEssex Golf and Country Club course. Betsy King (69) was a strokeback, and ...
Ankle surgeries knock out MU's Scarbrough
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER The hole Marshall University had to fill on its offensive linejust got a lot bigger. Bert Scarbrough, a 6-foot-5, 305-pound senior left guard,announced he would not return for his final year of eligibility thisseason with the Thundering ...
Barnes gets more bad news - Facing lifetime ban, shot putter must file for appeal of ruling
Aug 01, 1998; ... NEW YORK - Shot-putter Randy Barnes' chances of avoiding alifetime ban from track and field are running out. The latest chapter in Barnes' troubles came Friday when theInternational Amateur Athletic Federation said the B sample from hisout-of-competition drug test April 1 was ...
Hardesty looks backward, forward: WVU president says '97-98 athletics were a big success
Aug 01, 1998; ... FOR THE DAILY MAIL MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University President David C. HardestyJr. discussed various sports matters in a question-and-answer sessionThursday. In the fourth such interview since taking office in July 1995, hetalked about the state of WVU's athletic ...
No speed limit for Persinger: Poca man wins third consecutive KVGA tourney title
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER POCA - Remember rocker Sammy Hagar's revelation that he couldn't"drive 55." Well, 55-year-old Charles Persinger not only can drive, he canchip and putt too. The Poca golfer has fashioned a speedy ascent to near the top ofthe list of West ...
Clicking back into baseball
Aug 01, 1998; ... CURSE you, Mark McGwire. You, your bulging biceps and yourBrobdingnagian blasts into the stratosphere have foiled my carefullyformulated plan to banish Major League baseball from my mind and toconcentrate on more important things. Until this year, it was easy. Thanks to the ...
Talk Shows
Aug 01, 1998 ... SUNDAY MORNING - "This Week" - The Clinton investigation. Guests: AnthonyZaccagnini, attorney for Linda Tripp; Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.;Bradford Berenson, criminal defense attorney; and Richard Ben-Veniste, former Watergate prosecutor. 11:30 a.m., WCHS. - "Meet the ...
SOAP OPERA REVIEW
Aug 01, 1998; ... ALL MY CHILDREN: Marian was unable to stop Lee, who knocked Stuartunconscious. Liza was surprised, and suspicious, when Adam said hewill not interfere in her insemination plans. Tad and Dixie spenttime together. ANOTHER WORLD: Sofia nixed waiting for Matt after he proposed ...
War through the ages Eight-part series traces development of weapons and tactics
Aug 01, 1998; ... LOS ANGELES - Those too busy living through the last days of the20th century to ponder its lessons are being offered a make-upcourse. It's "War and Civilization," an eight-part series that airs Aug.2-5 on The Learning Channel. Narrated by Walter Cronkite, withexecutive director ...
Missing hiker stuns rescuers
Aug 01, 1998; ... APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. - A hiker feared dead after being lost inthe mountains in searing heat for more than two days stunned rescuersby stumbling into their command post. "Hi, you guys got any water?" asked Guy Garlinghouse, who wasdehydrated, confused and bruised Friday but ...
Public hearing on mountaintop removal on tap
Aug 01, 1998 ... The public is invited to a hearing Monday on mountaintop removalmining, sponsored by a task force appointed by Gov. Cecil Underwood. The hearing will be conducted from 6 to 9 p.m. at ...
Other photos taken of Kennedy autopsy
Aug 01, 1998; ... WASHINGTON - New testimony released about the autopsy on John F.Kennedy says a second set of pictures was taken of Kennedy's wounds -pictures never made public. The existence of additional photographs - believed taken by WhiteHouse photographer Robert L. Knudsen during or after the ...
LOTTERY numbers
Aug 01, 1998 ... * WEST VIRGINIA Daily 3: 633 Daily 4: 7055 Cash 25: 1-7-8-10-15-24 - OHIO Pick 3: 717 Pick 4: ...
POLICE BLOTTER
Aug 01, 1998 ... Worker fires at getaway car after robbery BRIDGEPORT - A red sports car used during a holdup of a LewisCounty strip club should be easy to find - it has one or more bulletholes in the driver's side door, according to the Lewis CountySheriff's Department. An employee at the ...
Prosecutors hold off on charges in incest case
Aug 01, 1998; ... STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - Prosecutors say they will wait for a 12-year-old girl to recover from an abortion before filing rape chargesagainst her 17-year-old brother in the case. The girl had a late-term abortion in Kansas within the past week,Lauren Tomayko, the girl's lawyer, ...
Hip-hop acts join lineup for MultiFest
Aug 01, 1998 ... Nationally known hip-hop act B-Rock and The Bizz have been addedto the lineup of MultiFest 9, festival organizers announced. The group, best-known for the hit "My Babby Daddy," will headlinethe festival's Friday night lineup, which also includes Stratus andthe Pittsburgh-based ...
Gauley Bridge chief wants 3 trials
Aug 01, 1998; ... FAYETTEVILLE - Gauley Bridge Police Chief Lee Jones says he needsthree separate trials to fairly fight child sex abuse charges. "The sheer number of charges" against Jones would cause a jury toreturn a guilty verdict, said Cynthia Salmons, Jones' lawyer. Jones, who is on ...
Leaders discuss highway projects: Babbitt visits city to talk about roads on senator's request
Aug 01, 1998; ... U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt says he did not promise Gov.Cecil Underwood he would clear the way for Corridor H to be built,but he did pledge to try to streamline the federal approval process. "I'm going to go back and re-examine that.I believe I canhelp clarify and ...
OBITUARIES/NEWS
Aug 01, 1998 ... Carl E. Bee DEEP WATER - Carl Eugene Bee, 43, of Deep Water, Fayette County,died Friday, July 31, 1998, in CAMC, General Division, after a shortillness. He was an installer/technician for Capitol Cablecomm, Shrewsbury,and a lifelong resident of Deep Water. Surviving: ...
Sect to ordain 100,000 Buddhist nuns
Aug 01, 1998; ... BANGKOK, Thailand - A reform sect of Thai Buddhists will ordain100,000 nuns Aug. 12 in observance of Queen Sirikit's 66th birthday. The Dhammakaya Foundation said the mass ordination would honor thewife of Thailand's constitutional monarch and improve the image ofThai women. The ...
Residents forming group to fight the religious right
Aug 01, 1998; ... DENVER - A religious group has organized in Colorado to counterpolitical messages from the so-called religious right. The Rev. Michael Carrier, a Presbyterian minister, said theChristian, Jewish and Muslim founders of the state's InterfaithAlliance aim to monitor and counter groups ...
RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
Aug 01, 1998 ... * Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 306 Washington St. E., willhold its 12th pastoral anniversary celebration for the Rev. and Mrs.Ricardo C. Flippin Wednesday through Aug. 12. - Revival services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday through Fridayat Ruthdale Freewill Baptist Church, ...
Mormon president trots globe: Even at 88 years, church leader doesn't plan to take a rest
Aug 01, 1998; ... SALT LAKE CITY - In the morning he described himself as an oldman. But in the afternoon, when most men of 88 might be nodding,Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley was taking impish delightin a surprise announcement. The church, he said at the faith's semiannual conference in ...
Choose an ample amplifier: If you're buying an electric guitar, louder is better
Aug 01, 1998; ... I got a call from a guy I know named Carl. It was a cry for help.Carl is a successful man in his 40s, but sometimes even successfulpeople, when they are in need, have to reach out to their friends,and I am proud to consider Carl a friend, even though for my 50thbirthday he gave me some ...
Some families are happier apart
Aug 01, 1998; ... DEAR ABBY: Your reply to "Outcast," who was good to his family,but was treated badly by them, was correct and true. My husband andI have had the same problems. We sacrificed and worked hard to besuccessful, but we paid the price. However, your second paragraph stating that perhaps ...
HOROSCOPE
Aug 01, 1998 ... FORECAST FOR SUNDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19). A new sense of responsibilityempowers you to challenge relationships. You are entering a time ofchange and growth. rTAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your tendency toward stubbornresistance can be exasperating when new ideas are being ...
Movies are becoming a Scream again: Halloween sequel kicks off a group of scary flicks this fall
Aug 01, 1998; ... LOS ANGELES - A deranged killer is back, and Hollywood couldn't behappier. Twenty years have passed since knife-wielding psycho Michael Myerstormented a then-unknown actress named Jamie Lee Curtis in theoriginal low-budget slice-and-dice flick "Halloween," leavingaudiences ...
Hurricane man pleads innocent: Suspect charged in death of infant
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL PUTNAM REPORTER WINFIELD - A Hurricane man has pleaded innocent in Putnam CountyCircuit Court to causing injuries that eventually led to the death ofan infant he said was his daughter. Ernest L. Browning, 27, sought a reduction in the $100,000 bondFriday on the ...
Powerball: - Ed Stanek's small-state lottery has turned into a monster headache
Aug 01, 1998 ... IS there such a thing as being too successful? This week, thePowerball had a record $295.7 million jackpot that filled the coffersof lottery commissions in 20 states and the District of Columbia. But the jackpot also led to traffic jams, long lines and shorttempers in stores near ...
Welfare - W.Va. seeks the right balance as it pursues welfare reform
Aug 01, 1998; ... WELFARE has been a fact of American life for decades. Nobodythought that changing the rules, which Congress did a couple of yearsago, would proceed smoothly and painlessly. Indeed, advocates for the disabled now question West Virginia'sdecision to bar welfare payments to people who ...
'Ulysses' maybe, but 'Zuleika' ?: Let's all argue over the 100 best English novels
Aug 01, 1998; ... They've come up with another 100-best list. This time it's ModernLibrary's best 100 English-language novels published in the 20thcentury. All such lists are essentially nonsense - there are no definingcriteria of greatness in literature, and precious few other fields -but they ...
A best-books list to argue about: OK, OK, but who among us has actually read 'Ulysses'?
Aug 01, 1998; ... OK, OK, but who among us has actually read 'Ulysses'? WASHINGTON - When I overheard a couple of red-vested women in ourneighborhood's volunteer security patrol discussing how many of the"100 best English-language novels" they had read, I realized severalthings: 1. My ...
ALMANAC:
Aug 01, 1998 ... Yesterday's high: 82 Yesterday's low: 67 Today's record high: 101 in 1931 Today's record low: 52 in 1956 Normal high for today: 85 Normal ...
GLOBAL TEMPS:
Aug 01, 1998 ... Midnight to Midnight on the previous day. Hi Lo Otlk Amsterdam 64 53 cdy Auckland 62 51 cdy Bangkok 91 77 cdy Beijing 82 73 cdy Berlin 73 57 cdy Dhahran 113 86 clr Hong Kong 91 80 ...
U.S. TEMPS:
Aug 01, 1998 ... Tomorrow's highs and lows Hi Lo Otlk Albany,N.Y. 85 53 Clr Anchorage 66 54 Cldy Atlanta 84 69 Cldy Atlantic City 80 65 Clr Billings 76 61 Rain Boston 82 63 Clr Buffalo 82 56 Clr Burlington,Vt. 84 54 Clr Chas.,S.C. 87 ...
REGIONAL:
Aug 01, 1998 ... WEST VIRGINIA: Clear and cool tonight with lows in the mid-50s.Mostly sunny Sunday with highs in the mid-80s. KENTUCKY: Mostly clear tonight with lows in the 60s. Sunny Sundaywith highs in the ...
Sunrise: 6:28 a.m.Sunset:: 8:37 p.m.
Aug 01, 1998 ... Moon ...
City
Aug 01, 1998 ... 5 p.m. 80 8 p.m. 78 11 p.m. 70 2 a.m. 64 5 ...
Ex-hostage, captor look to future Iranian man does not apologize for role in embassy takeover
Aug 01, 1998; ... PARIS - An Iranian and an American, two men tethered by a singlehorrid episode: the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979.The Iranian refuses to apologize for helping to plan the raid, whilethe American makes clear he cannot forget his 444 days as a hostage. But Abbas Abdi ...
U.S. possibly linked to weapons: Testimony says America involved in apartheid-era plot
Aug 01, 1998; ... CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The United States and its Cold Warallies encouraged South Africa's former white regime to develop achemical and biological warfare program that investigators here sayveered out of control and targeted the country's own blackpopulation, according to testimony by ...
Ala. women file suit over ban on sex devices
Aug 01, 1998; ... BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A group of women has filed a federal lawsuit toblock a new Alabama law that bans the sale of sex toys, arguing thelaw intrudes on their right to privacy. "No one wants the government in their bedroom," Sherri Williams,one of six plaintiffs, said ...
daily quote
Aug 01, 1998 ... "No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do, exceptmaybe all the rest of the American ...
today's people
Aug 01, 1998 ... Coleman arrested for alleged fight HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Gary Coleman, the former "What you talking'bout" kid on television's "Diff'rent Strokes," has been arrestedfollowing allegations he punched a woman. The 4-foot-7 Coleman, who now works as a security guard at ...
news in brief
Aug 01, 1998 ... Huffy workers weep as plant closes CELINA, Ohio - As co-workers wept, Nathan Wenning lifted thegleaming red, 20-inch boy's bicycle off the Huffy assembly line andpacked it tenderly in a box. It was the last Huffy bicycle made in this town of 10,000 whichhelped produce ...
Lottery revenues continue to increase: June's weekly sales averaged $3.37 for every person in state
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER Powered by Powerball ticket sales, overall West Virginia Lotteryrevenues rose about 24 percent in 1998. There's no doubt West Virginians love their lottery. In June 1998alone, weekly sales averaged $3.37 for every man, woman and child inthe ...
Girl testifies about chemical leak: Child says dreams, illnesses plagued her after incident
Aug 01, 1998; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF What caused young Brittanni Broussard to dream of a giantbutterfly dropping poisonous pollen and of a monstrous wasp thattries to sting her? Lawyers representing Brittanni and others in a class-actionlawsuit against Rhone-Poulenc Ag Co. say it was the trauma ...