Charleston Daily Mail back issues from June 2002:
Trade Center beams part of memorial
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF The first time Weirton Steel Supervisor Hughy Patterson and hiscolleagues saw the mammoth, mangled I-beams from the fallen WorldTrade Center towers, which they had received as scrap metal to berecycled, they simply stared at them, marveling at their size andtheir ...
Crisis worries India natives living in state
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF As tensions and a threat of nuclear war mount in India, natives ofthe country living in West Virginia find different ways to deal withthe troubles facing their homeland. "It's more serious than it's ever been," Riz Zaman, who graduatedfrom the University of ...
HOT DOG!: Kids get one wiener to go, with everything; Students won visit from Wienermobile
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL PUTNAM REPORTER SCOTT DEPOT - A five-ton orange hot dog rolled into the parkinglot of Scott-Teays Elementary School in Scott Depot, promptingstudents' jaws to drop in childish glee and a gaggle of parentstoting cameras to gather. Larry Jackson of Scott Depot ...
HOT DOG!: Kids get one wiener to go, with everything; Students won visit from Wiernermobible
Jun 01, 2002; ... After touring the Wienermobile, the 63 members of Scott-TeaysElementary School's chorus gathered to take a group picture in frontof the five-ton hot dog. The visit from the piece of ...
Lawyers skeptical of reforms: Larger juries just one change for medical malpractice cases
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF West Virginia soon will find out if emergency medical malpracticetort reform passed last year will have any effect. In special legislation signed in December, lawmakers doubled thesize of jury panels, required plaintiffs to have their claimscertified by an ...
Two others shot at park: Incident is second shooting this week at Shawnee Park
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Two more people were shot today at Shawnee Park, police said. The shootings, the second such incident at the park this week,happened about 4 a.m., according to Sgt. Jess Bailes of the KanawhaCounty Sheriff's Department. The victims were taken to ...
SATURDAYS: The Jesse James of neglect; Delinquent tax listing offers some validation
Jun 01, 2002; ... MY name was in the paper. And it wasn't in the usual way. This time I was listed among the people who haven't bothered topay their property taxes. On the one hand, I felt ashamed. On theother hand, it's great to be recognized. It's like being singled outfor criminal achievement ....
Principal gets her just desserts
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Glenwood Elementary School Principal Deborah Shelton got creamed,but she didn't care. There was a good reason for having her students launch cold,sticky pies at her face. For the second year, the students have scored above the 50thpercentile on their ...
Truck panel unlikely to meet deadline
Jun 01, 2002; ... A 10-member panel weighing the issue of heavy coal trucks isunlikely to have its recommendations ready for a special legislativesession in July, its chairman said. "It'd be real tough for us to get it done," Mike Browning,chairman of the Governor's Truck Safety Workgroup, said ...
Rush-hour accident shuts down Interstate 64 for several hours
Jun 01, 2002 ... Traffic in Charleston on Interstate 64 was shut down for nearlysix hours after a rush-hour accident. The accident happened at 4:30 p.m. Friday on I-64 eastbound justpast the Greenbrier Street exit and was caused by a dump trucktowing a flatbed carrying an excavator with its boom ...
Clendenin says goodbye to mayor: Retiring official proud of town's accomplishments
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Clendenin Mayor Evelyn Robertson isn't mayor anymore. After five years in office, Robertson retired and turned over herposition to City Council member Kenneth Payne in a swearing-inceremony Monday. Robertson's second term as mayor was supposed to end ...
State woman pleads guilty to kidnapping
Jun 01, 2002; ... CHICAGO - A West Virginia woman pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 16-month-old girl from a Chicago bus station on Christmas Eve to presentto her boyfriend and his parents as his child. Sheila Matthews, 33, stood before U.S. District Judge Matthew F.Kennelly on Friday and admitted the ...
Supreme Court allows probation officers to go armed
Jun 01, 2002; ... County probation officers will be allowed to carry firearmswithout permits under a new state Supreme Court ruling. The high court voted 3-2 Tuesday to support the new administrativerule, which also says officers who carry guns must receive at leastfour hours of State Police ...
Study shows greater cancer risks: Chemicals may affect two-thirds of Americans
Jun 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Toxic chemicals pose an elevated cancer risk to two-thirds of Americans living in nearly every part of the country, saysan assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency. A long-awaited study of health risks from 32 toxic chemicals,released Friday, concludes that ...
Government will make nuclear triggers again
Jun 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The government plans to resume making plutoniumtriggers for nuclear warheads and is beginning design work on amanufacturing plant, the Energy Department said. The department halted the production of plutonium "pits," ortriggers, for warheads in 1989. The pit is a ...
REGIONAL
Jun 01, 2002 ... Hi Lo Otlk Akron 71 55 PCldy Charlotte 92 67 PCldy Cincinnati 84 65 PCldy Cleveland 71 54 PCldy Columbus,Ohio 82 62 PCldy Dayton 82 63 PCldy Daytona Beach 89 70 Rain Greensboro,N.C. 93 65 ...
NATIONAL
Jun 01, 2002 ... Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 63 47 Cldy Baltimore 90 65 PCldy Boston 76 55 PCldy Chicago 76 58 Rain Dallas-Ft Worth 89 69 Clr Denver 86 60 Clr Detroit 72 53 PCldy Honolulu 88 74 Clr Houston 88 67 PCldy Indianapolis 84 66 ...
U.N. staffers sending families home: Dependents told to leave India and Pakistan
Jun 01, 2002; ... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Hundreds of U.N. staff members in Pakistanand India have been ordered to send their families home as fears growof war between the nuclear-armed neighbors, a U.N. official saidtoday. The military standoff at the India-Pakistan border persisted, withIndia's ...
News briefs
Jun 01, 2002 ... Official says U.S. had many hints HOLMDEL, N.J. - The Bush administration's top anti-terrorismprosecutor said the United States had ample evidence that adevastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil was likely long beforeSept. 11. Assistant Attorney General Michael ...
Short takes
Jun 01, 2002; ... "Without, or With, Offence to Friends or Foes, I Sketch Your World Exactly As It Goes." MORGANTOWN drew the nation's attention on Memorial Day because ofthe death of Morgantown resident Sgt. Gene Vance in Afghanistan onMay 13. The tributes were many, and among them was ...
D-Day, and the beginning of the end: Retro Views
Jun 01, 2002; ... Thursday marks the 58th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion atNormandy that led to victory in Europe during World War II. Thiseditorial from the Daily Mail on June 7, 1944, noted the significanceof the Allied invasion. WHEN German troops thundered across the borders of ...
DUIs, gobbledygook and the poor
Jun 01, 2002 ... Filling jails West Virginia lawmakers trying to stave off a federal governmentedict to lower the blood alcohol concentration level from .10 to .08run the risk of being accused of pandering to drunk drivers. But House Speaker Bob Kiss says what highway funding the ...
HATS OFF
Jun 01, 2002; ... THE closing of familiar schools usually brings forth regretfulresponses from communities, but falling enrollments and risingmaintenance costs leave school boards little choice but toconsolidate. And in Kanawha County, as three schools prepare to close theirdoors permanently on ...
Arab world catches 'Millionaire' fever: Popular host gives quiz show a political twist
Jun 01, 2002; ... CAIRO, Egypt - The Arab world's version of "Who Wants to Be aMillionaire" remains popular - while its U.S. prime-time counterparthas been dropped by ABC - and to keep Arab audiences tuning in, theshow has added another ingredient to the familiar mix: politics. One of host George ...
Today's people
Jun 01, 2002 ... Director Steven Spielberg received his film degree from CaliforniaState University, Long Beach, on Friday. Now Spielberg's a real filmmaker LONG BEACH, Calif. - Until 8:56 a.m. Friday, four minutes beforethe band started to play "Pomp and Circumstance," some of the ...
Care Home Advisory Board has yet to hold a single meeting
Jun 01, 2002; ... Call it the board that got bogged down in bureaucracy. The Legislature created the Care Home Advisory Board during the2001 session to report on the burgeoning industry of personal careand residential care homes. The legislation went into effect lastJuly. The board has yet to ...
Students return to damaged schools for graduation: McDowell seniors go back to prepare for ceremony
Jun 01, 2002; ... The May 2 floods may have shortened the school year for McDowellCounty students, but education officials worked to make sure seniorsended their high school careers on a positive note. Students were invited to return Friday to Mount View High Schoolin Welch, Big Creek High School ...
PEIA director gets $50,000 raise, additional title
Jun 01, 2002; ... The director of the state's health insurance program for publicemployees is getting a $50,000 raise and an additional title. Public Employees Insurance Agency Director Tom Susman was namedFriday to the newly created post of Insurance and Retirement ServicesDirector. His annual ...
Gates charity spending millions to fight hepatitis B
Jun 01, 2002; ... BEIJING - A charity created by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gateswill donate $37.5 million to combat hepatitis B in China, where two-thirds of the disease's victims live. The Vaccine Fund's gift will be used to help ...
US Airways settles suit over worker's long hair
Jun 01, 2002; ... PHILADELPHIA - US Airways and the U.S. Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission have resolved a lawsuit filed by a Rastafarianemployee who said the airline violated his civil rights by notletting him have long hair. US Airways will pay $50,000 to ...
Officials reporting safe schools hotline
Jun 01, 2002; ... West Virginia's statewide safe school hotline is about to receivea publicity boost. The state Fire Marshal's Office was given the program last year,but has done little to promote the telephone number, ...
Racetrack plans hotel, showroom
Jun 01, 2002; ... WHEELING - Wheeling Downs plans to open a 150-room hotel and 600-seat showroom this year that could host Jamboree USA, one of thenation's oldest live radio shows. Terri Phillips, marketing director for Jamboree USA, said therehave been discussions but not agreement has been ...
Police blotter
Jun 01, 2002 ... W.Va. fugitive arrested in Tenn. An alleged fugitive from justice in West Virginia, wanted forkidnapping and domestic violence charges, was arrested in Tennessee,police said. John Richard Kuhn, 25, of Guyandotte was arrested Friday nearMurfreesboro, Tenn., by members of the ...
Lakers force game 7 in Western finals; Nets clinch title series
Jun 01, 2002; ... LOS ANGELES - Game 7, is necessary. Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant made it so. The Los Angeles Lakers, down a game and facing elimination alongwith the end of their three-peat desires, defeated the SacramentoKings, 106-102, Friday night at Staples Center, forcing one last ...
Players need more, coach says
Jun 01, 2002 ... DAILY MAIL STAFF John Marshall assistant baseball Coach John Rush wasn't pleasedabout his team's 2-0 loss to eventual Class AAA state championHurricane in the semifinals of the state tournament on Thursday. There were some things with which he took issue. He didn't ...
Winfield earns 2nd straight title
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER As a sophomore last year, Billy McDaniel watched from the dugoutas Winfield High School captured a Class AA state baseballchampionship. On Friday afternoon, McDaniel's red-hot bat helped lead the top-ranked Generals to their second straight ...
Putnam-onium!: Hurricane wins first state crown; Estimated 5,000 fans watch 'Skins defeat Logan, 5-2
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER If they're still playing baseball in West Virginia in 50 years,they'll still be talking about this game. It was that memorable. The big plays, the big calls, the big hits and, most of all, thebig crowd made Hurricane's 5-2 win over Logan for the ...
Alley Cats squander 5-0 lead in loss to Bats
Jun 01, 2002 ... DAILY MAIL STAFF GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Charleston Alley Cats took a 5-0 lead intothe fifth inning here Friday. They left with an 11-5 loss as the Greensboro Bats rallied for theSouth Atlantic League victory. Bats Jeff Christensen, Bronson Sardinha and Robinson Cano ...
Kenseth gives car owner nice present
Jun 01, 2002; ... DOVER, Del. - Matt Kenseth picked an appropriate time to win thefirst pole of his Winston Cup career, making it a welcome-backpresent for car owner Jack Roush. The boss was at Dover International Speedway on Friday, his firstpublic appearance since an airplane he was piloting ...
Local sports
Jun 01, 2002 ... SMITH TRANSFERS Former South Charleston High basketball standout Jon Smith hastransferred from Virginia Tech to Bowie State in Bowie, Md. Bowie State had its finest season in school history with a 20-8mark in 2002 under Coach Luke D'Alessio. In addition to Smith, a ...
Team Go-Mart wins Charleston Criterium
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Just before the start of the elite division of the 24th annualCharleston Downtown Criterium bicycle race, Jim Baldesare of TeamWest Virginia Go-Mart had a plan. "Personally, I like my chances," he said. "But I would give up mychance at winning for any of my ...
TODAY'S ODDs
Jun 01, 2002 ... Major League Baseball National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Atlanta -140 at Cincinnati +130 at San Francisco -155 Colorado +145 Houston -115 at Chicago +105 at Los Angeles -140 Arizona +130 at Florid -115 New York +105 at ...
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Jun 01, 2002 ... orioles 8, mariners 7 The Baltimore Orioles were rewarded for this rally against theSeattle Mariners. Geronimo Gil hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, completing alate comeback that lifted the Orioles Friday night. Chris Singleton, Tony Batista and Jeff Conine ...
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Jun 01, 2002 ... braves 7, reds 0 Greg Maddux is back in his old form, getting batters out with hishead as much as his arm. The Atlanta Braves are back in a comfortablespot, too - first place. It's just like old times for the Braves, who beat the CincinnatiReds on Friday night to finish May ...
Baseball P.M.
Jun 01, 2002 ... AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Intr Boston 36 15 .706 - 6-4 W-4 15-11 21-4 0-0 New York 36 19 .655 2 z-6-4 L-1 16-9 20-10 0-0 Baltimore 24 28 .462 121/2 z-5-5 W-1 12-13 12-15 0-0 Toronto 18 33 .353 18 2-8 W-1 8-20 10-13 ...
Moorefield: it's not just about football anymore: 'Jackets upend Wheeling Central for Class A title
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Moorefield, known for its football prowess at the varsity level,showed some baseball wares on the Watt Powell Park diamond this week. Completing a remarkable postseason run, the Yellowjackets poundedout 17 hits, which included nine in the third inning, ...
Obituaries
Jun 01, 2002 ... Navada I. Baker ANSTED - Navada I. Baker, 86, of Ansted died May 30, 2002. Servicewill be 2 p.m. Sunday at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Ansted.Burial will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens, Victor. Friends may callfrom 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Dave ...
State officials looking into slurry leak reported at Kanawha mine
Jun 01, 2002; ... A Department of Environmental Protection Abandoned Mine Lands crewis monitoring an abandoned mine in Kanawha County where a slurry leakhas been reported ....
Crime watch
Jun 01, 2002 ... The following crimes were reported to the Charleston PoliceDepartment between May 22-29, 2002: ZONE 1 * 1800 block of Washington Street West, petit larceny about 9 a.m.May 29. * 1900 block of Seventh Avenue, grand larceny at midnight April15. * 2200 block of ...
One killed as storm sweeps through amusement park: W.Va. students unharmed in storm at Kennywood Park
Jun 01, 2002; ... WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. - About 100 West Virginia school children werevisiting a crowded amusement park in suburban Pittsburgh where onewoman was killed and at least 47 others were injured as a severestorm damaged a ride. None of the children from Elkins Middle School, Harman School ...
Bucs seek 'can't-miss' prospect in draft
Jun 01, 2002; ... PITTSBURGH - Baseball's June amateur draft is an inexact science,with far more failures than successes, and millions of dollars thrownat first-rounders - 35 percent of whom will never play a game in themajors. There is one time when a team is not expected to fail in thedraft, ...
It's not just a man's sport anymore: Women begin to make impact on football field
Jun 01, 2002; ... DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - The idea of playing football - the real kind,with tackling and blocking and everything else - first came toJennifer Frederick in sixth grade. She approached the principal aboutgetting a permission slip for her parents to sign. He refused. C'mon, she was a girl ....
Weekend sports on TV
Jun 01, 2002 ... AUTO RACING 1 p.m. - CART Miller Lite 250 WOWK 8:30 p.m. - NHRA Drag Racing Route 66 Nationals from Joliet, Ill.(same-day) ESPN2 BASEBALL 1 p.m. - Regional coverage: Atlanta at Cincinnati; Boston Red Soxat N.Y. Yankees or Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Indians ...
Red Wings blitz Colorado, 7-0
Jun 01, 2002; ... DETROIT - The Detroit Red Wings knew it was quite anaccomplishment to end Colorado's season. They just weren't ready tocelebrate. Detroit scored on its first two shots and forced Patrick Roy towatch from the Avalanche bench early in the second period as the RedWings eliminated ...
Weekend sports on radio
Jun 01, 2002 ... 12:45 p.m. - Cincinnati at Atlanta WCHS, 580-AM 7:05 - Alley Cats at Greensboro WBES, 1240-AM 4:45 p.m. - ESPN Game Night WCHS, 580-AM 12:45 p.m. - Cincinnati at ...
Capriati advances at French
Jun 01, 2002; ... PARIS - Jennifer Capriati started slowly but finished in a hurrytoday, winning 11 of the last 12 games to beat Evie Dominikovic 6-3,6-1 and make the fourth round at the French Open. Top-seeded Capriati, the defending champion, double faulted andcommitted three unforced errors to ...
DEARABBY: Seek to maintain trust of both parent, child
Jun 01, 2002; ... DEAR ABBY: You have stated that when a child feels unable to talkto his or her parents about a serious problem, the young personshould confide in a trusted adult. However, I am confused aboutsomething: When a teenage girl goes to that adult, is the personsupposed to keep her secret or ...
Ministry brings Christianity to prisons: Trained team offers weekend of prayer, teaching, food
Jun 01, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Within the confinement of Mount Olive Correctional Complex, JamesWensell found peace. "Kairos is wonderful," said the 33-year-old inmate. "I can explainit with one word. That word is love. I never felt the type of love Ifelt that weekend. God's love is ...
HOROSCOPE
Jun 01, 2002; ... FORECAST FOR SUNDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19). Plenty of news, gossip and the likemay play a big role in your life. You're wise to scrutinize what youencounter. Family members are on your side. Good things could arisefrom a long discussion with a close friend. Make time for him or ...
Religious activities
Jun 01, 2002 ... * Maranatha Baptist Church, Sissonville, will have an outdoorgospel sing at 7 p.m. today. Singers include King's Harmony, OneAccord, Witness and the Maranatha Quartet. Bring a lawn chair. Thechurch is located just off Interstate 77 at the Tuppers Creek Exit. * Liberty Missionary ...
Fallen soldiers' families face uncertainties
Jun 03, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF As local Army National Guard members and military personnel cometogether to raise memorial funds for the Morgantown soldier killed inAfghanistan, the financial support his family could expect to receiveafter his death could be much less than the emotional support ...
Officials hope law has bite
Jun 03, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL HEALTH REPORTER State health officials hope a new law that goes into effect nextmonth will help West Virginians keep their teeth longer. Legislators recently created an Office of Oral Health within thestate Department of Health and Human Resources. The ...
Watt Powell feasible for new park, study says: Kanawha City may be alternative to East End
Jun 03, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Watt Powell Park is a feasible site for a new Alley Cats stadium,a new study states. When the city applies for about $10 million in state economicgrant money July 1, it will now mention both the Watt Powell site andthe preferred East End site in ...
WVU health complex to grow: Officials envision $250 million project over next five years
Jun 03, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL HEALTH REPORTER MORGANTOWN - Not since Ruby Memorial Hospital was built in thelate 1980s has the health sciences campus at West Virginia Universityfaced such a growth spurt. Officials are planning what could turn into a $250 millionexpansion project over five ...
Levy vote may be early: School board members seek to avoid costs
Jun 03, 2002; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF A vote on Kanawha County schools' excess levy could come more thana year ahead of schedule, as board members look for ways to avoid thecosts associated with a special election. Board members will decide at a meeting tonight whether to put theexcess levy on ...