Charleston Daily Mail back issues from June 2004:
Forecasters predict at least one day's break from the rain: 'It looks like a war zone'; Sudden flooding surprised residents
Jun 01, 2004; ... Mingo, Logan and Wyoming Counties added to State of emergency list BELO - The small stream that runs beside Earl Hall Jr.'s homeusually dries up this time of the year, he said. But Monday, the stream that typically is a foot wide was 5 feet ofraging brown water cutting away at ...
'It looks like a war zone': Officials begin assessing damage; National Guard called on to help
Jun 01, 2004; ... Mingo, Logan and Wyoming Counties added to State of emergency list Gov. Bob Wise today was touring southern West Virginia countiesdevastated by flooding, while National Guard personnel startedhelping residents clean up after heavy rains damaged hundreds ofhomes and contributed to ...
Principal enters plea to shoplifting charge
Jun 01, 2004; ... MORGANTOWN - Aurora Elementary School Principal Edna Rothwell haspleaded no contest to stealing $34.58 in items from the MorgantownWal-Mart store last year. Rothwell, of Westover, entered the plea in Morgantown MunicipalCourt on Thursday. Morgantown Assistant Staff Attorney ...
Candidate Warner takes aim at food tax: If elected, he would make proposal to put an end to it
Jun 01, 2004; ... If elected, Republican gubernatorial candidate Monty Warner saidhe would make eliminating the food tax a major part of hislegislative agenda. "We'll make a proposal to the Legislature," Warner said. "I'mgoing to make it part of the campaign so that when we're elected,we'll make ...
Wise readies his resume for life after Statehouse
Jun 01, 2004; ... Gov. Bob Wise has his resume ready. He's got a law degree, 18 years in Congress and four years as WestVirginia's governor. Now, he needs someone to hire him when he leavesoffice in January. "My son and I finally worked out my resume," Wise said in aninterview last week. "I ...
Milton mulls ban on bikes: Council meets tonight to talk about proposal
Jun 01, 2004; ... MILTON - City Council tonight is scheduled to consider a ban onbicycles, skateboards and inline skates in city limits. "It is about the protection of property," said Mayor BettySargent. Some people are concerned about possible damage and danger causedby reckless ...
Students take whole brain approach: Cross Lanes team represents state in academic meet
Jun 01, 2004; ... Hidden in a corner of Kerry Roesch's Cross Lanes Elementaryclassroom is an oversized piece of cardboard, stretching to theceiling. Although far from Sherwin-Williams perfect, it's painted and alsodecorated with toilet paper, streamers and construction paper -clearly the work of ...
Iran announces new radar-evading missile
Jun 01, 2004; ... TEHRAN, Iran - Iran is producing its first stealth missile, arocket that can evade electronic detection, the Iranian DefenseMinistry said today while withholding its range. The missile, named Kowsar after a river in Muslim descriptions ofparadise, will be capable of hitting ships ...
Beckley student begins bee competition: National contest starts today with written exam
Jun 01, 2004; ... He's contestant number 253. Of the 276 spellers registered for this year's 77th ScrippsNational Spelling Bee, Yiping Wang must wait patiently in the queueof students before taking his turn at the microphone. But he says he's ready for those anxious moments in the ...
Tense oil markets open with price hikes: Saudi terror attack inspires jitters
Jun 01, 2004; ... KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Jittery world oil markets opened today withstrong price increases in the first significant trading since aterror attack targeting Western oil workers left 22 people dead. Saudi authorities, meanwhile, were still searching for threeIslamic militants involved ...
REGIONAL WEATHER
Jun 01, 2004 ... Hi Lo Otlk Akron 68 54 Cldy Charlotte 83 64 PCldy Cincinnati 72 55 PCldy Cleveland 69 56 Cldy Columbus,Ohio 70 54 Rain Dayton 70 54 Cldy Daytona Beach 91 72 PCldy Greensboro,N.C. 84 60 ...
NATIONAL WEATHER
Jun 01, 2004 ... Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 58 45 Cldy Baltimore 79 61 PCldy Boston 68 49 Cldy Chicago 66 51 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 91 73 PCldy Denver 77 46 PCldy Detroit 69 52 Cldy Honolulu 86 75 Cldy Houston 92 76 PCldy Indianapolis 69 54 ...
Bombs kill at least 14 in Iraq: Iraqi political office, U.S. military base both targeted
Jun 01, 2004; ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombs exploded today in central Baghdad and near aU.S. military base in the northern city of Beiji. killing at least 14people. In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside the offices of thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing three people and injuring 20,the ...
Iraqi council selects president: Body dissolves in anticipation of transfer of power
Jun 01, 2004; ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - A powerful Sunni Muslim tribal leader and criticof the U.S.-led occupation was named president of Iraq's incominggovernment today, after Iraqi leaders rejected the Americans'preferred candidate for the post. After the selection of Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer to the ...
News briefs
Jun 01, 2004 ... Two killed by train on railroad bridge RIDGEFIELD, Wash. - A Union Pacific freight train struck fivepeople on a Memorial Day outing as they walked along a railroadbridge over the Lewis River, killing two of them. The southbound train, on its way from Seattle to ...
Media need to show common decency: Star reporters also need to take some responsibility
Jun 01, 2004; ... WHILE politicians were expressing their shock to the media overthe mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, the Iraqi terrorists gave us abitter lesson in what real shock is all about, with the videotapedbeheading of an American civilian who was in Iraq to try to helprebuild the country ....
Our views: Ravenswood; The Justice Department made a sensible decision in this case
Jun 01, 2004; ... AMERICAN antitrust laws date back to 1890, predating theautomotive, motion picture and dot.com industries. Antitrust laws aredesigned to keep any one entity from controlling the supply - andtherefore, the price - of any single product. Little did Congress realize when it approved ...
Our views: ATV ban; Kanawha commission does what legislators should have
Jun 01, 2004; ... ALL-TERRAIN vehicles do not belong on paved roadways. They werenot designed to keep pace with 18-wheel tractor-trailers or sportutility vehicles or sedans or even motorcycles. That the Legislature allowed ATVs to use unlined highways says alot about the dark side of politics. Too ...
It was a rough ride for Davis: W.Va.'s only major party veep pick couldn't beat TR
Jun 01, 2004; ... PICTURE this: An elderly West Virginia Democrat, the formerchairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, becomesvice presidential running mate to a stiff Northeasterner who needshelp with Southern voters. No, Robert Byrd shouldn't start picking out his best vest for ...
East Bank Middle closed due to water line mishap
Jun 01, 2004 ... East Bank Middle School students were dismissed early today afterwater was accidentally shut off to the school. Workers repairing lines throughout the town of East Bank hadplanned maintenance in the vicinity of the school. But the crewaccidentally used an older map of the lines, ...
State briefs
Jun 01, 2004 ... W.Va. man charged after police chase DUBLIN, Va. - A West Virginia man accused of leading Virginiapolice on a high-speed chase across three counties is in jail oncharges that include trying to kill a police officer, State Policesaid. Mark Allen Goss, 26, of Beckley, was ...
All Kanawha judges seek to be excused from hearing case
Jun 01, 2004 ... All seven Kanawha Circuit judges say a special judge should decidewhether the county's taxpayers should pay for the lawyer who helpedProsecutor Mike Clifford beat back an impeachment attempt. In a letter to the state Supreme Court last week, chief circuitJudge Irene Berger wrote ...
Commuting gets longer for state: W.Va.'s increase highest in nation,; Census reveals
Jun 01, 2004; ... A $7.52-per-hour midnight shift position at Wal-Mart is worth thehour-long drive from rural Boone County to the outskirts of the statecapital for Christina Fisher. The best job the 26-year-old mother of two could find near herhometown of Ottawa had been waiting tables at a Pizza ...
Man facing death penalty in murder case: W.Va. woman one of alleged victims in crime spree
Jun 01, 2004; ... COLUMBIA, S.C. - Buried several pages into a brief by federalprosecutors in their case against Chadrick Fulks is a phrase summingup their strategy for South Carolina's first federal death penaltytrial. Fulks is "a pathological liar," they write. Fulks has already pleaded ...
Air marshals want lower profile: Appearance, boarding protocol make them obvious
Jun 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON - As they settled into first class on American AirlinesFlight 1438 from Chicago to Miami, they were supposed to be the lastline of defense against terrorists - two highly trained U.S. airmarshals who would sit unnoticed among the ordinary travelers butspring into action at the ...
Grandfather says boy's family is relieved
Jun 01, 2004; ... HUNTINGTON - Even though a body found in the Ohio River onSaturday has yet to be identified, the grandfather of a missing boysays his family feels a sense of relief. "For so long, all the people's prayers have been for recovery,"said Steve "Poppy" Black. "Those prayers are ...
N.M. officials drop plan to require dogs wear seat belts
Jun 01, 2004; ... Officials in Santa Fe, N.M., proposed making dogs wear seat beltsa while back, and the basic public response went along the lines ofwhat Steve Spraitz had to say. "We have City Council people who think up the lamest laws. It'sabsolutely ridiculous," said Spraitz, a ceramic tile ...
Musician wins Vandalia Award
Jun 01, 2004 ... Guitarist, singer and songwriter Carl Rutherford of War hasreceived the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folk life honor. The state Division of Culture and History presents the awardannually to a West Virginian who has made outstanding contributionsto the continuation of the ...
DEP office is flooded: State agency's files boxed for move are now destroyed
Jun 01, 2004; ... Packed up and ready to move to its new office, the stateDepartment of Environmental Protection's Logan mining office wascaught in a Memorial Day flood that ...
DEP office is flooded: State agency's files boxed for move are now destroyed
Jun 01, 2004; ... A state environmental office in Logan is all packed up and readyto go - to the Dumpster - after flooding. Jeff McCormick, head of mining enforcement for the stateDepartment of Environmental Protection, said the Memorial Day floodcaught the mining program's Logan office with all of ...
Corrections
Jun 01, 2004 ... John R. Gillispie is a write-in candidate for mayor of Nitro, andRalph E. McKinney Jr. is a candidate for city council ...
Police blotter
Jun 01, 2004 ... Man, woman held in store robbery A Charleston man and a Boone County woman were in jail today afterpolice say they joined forces to rob the Kanawha City doughnut shopwhere they worked. Barbara Miller, 59, of Sumerco and Barron Sutphin, 40, both werecharged with ...
Rising streams don't wash away Logan's baseball run
Jun 01, 2004; ... THE phone calls began at 8:30 a.m. At first, several players couldnot make practice. Then Monday morning's scheduled practice at LoganHigh was canceled. Then a phone interview with Wildcat Coach RogerGertz would have to wait until the afternoon. One could almost hear the gurgling ...
St. Albans' pitchers lack star power, not arm power: Prep baseball; Dragon pitching staff
Jun 01, 2004; ... St. Albans isn't looking for star power on its pitching staff,only a bunch of no-name contributors. Those are the words of St. Albans hurler Ben Paxton, who helpedthe Red Dragons earn their first Class AAA state baseball tournamentberth in five years with three scoreless innings ...
Hornbuckle's act called 'childish prank': SC star basketball player charged with shoplifting; Prep basketball; Hornbuckle charged
Jun 01, 2004; ... South Charleston High School Principal Bill Walton says peopleshould not be too quick to judge basketball star Alexis Hornbuckleafter she was charged with shoplifting. "I know her personally and I know she's a good person," Waltonsaid Monday. "Kids are going to make ...
Hot Reds owe much to Miley
Jun 01, 2004; ... HOLIDAY weekend leftovers, ready for grilling: OK, the season has only passed Memorial Day, but is there anyother compelling choice for National League Manager of the Year otherthan Cincinnati skipper Dave Miley? The erstwhile Charleston Wheelermanager guided the Reds to 18 ...
His decisions come naturally: St. Albans' Rick Whitman followed father into coaching; Prep baseball; St. Albans' coach
Jun 01, 2004; ... St. Albans Coach Rick Whitman can't say his decision that resultedin the Red Dragons' advancing to the state high school baseballtournament would be the same one his father would make. That choice was to send Tommy Carr home from second with one outon a Ben Paxton single. That ...
Instructional camps
Jun 01, 2004 ... FOOTBALL West Virginia Classic Quarterback Skills Clinic - Braxton CountyHigh School, Saturday, June 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; $40 per athlete; CallBill Powers, 304-364-5234; Includes Lyle Lansdale, head coach CalvaryChapel High School, Santa Ana, Ca. and Rasheed Marshall, ...
Cost of Olympics expected to far outweigh rewards for Greece: Olympic Expenses
Jun 01, 2004; ... ATHENS, Greece - The cost of hosting the Olympics is more than $1billion higher than expected and the rewards less than Greece hadhoped for, the country's new finance minister said in an interviewpublished Sunday. Giorgos Alogoskoufis blamed the higher costs on delays incurred ...
Briefly
Jun 01, 2004 ... TENNIS * Benjamin Becker of Baylor defeated Tulane's Michael Kogan 6-4, 7-6 to capture the NCAA men's tennis championship. Stanford's KC Corkery and Sam Warburg won the doubles title,beating Georgia's Bo Hodge and John Isner 6-2, 6-7, 6-4. It was theCardinal's 14th NCAA ...
LOCAL, NATIONAL
Jun 01, 2004 ... BASEBALL South Atlantic League Standings Northern Division W L Pct. GB Charleston (Blue Jays) 32 18 .640 - Hickory (Pirates) 29 22 .569 31/2 Lexington (Astros) 27 22 .551 41/2 Lake County (Indians) 25 26 .490 71/2 Lakewood ...
Baseball P.M.
Jun 01, 2004 ... AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Intr New York 30 19 .612 - z-7-3 L-1 13-7 17-12 0-0 Boston 31 20 .608 - z-7-3 L-1 18-9 13-11 0-0 Baltimore 24 23 .511 5 4-6 W-4 12-13 12-10 0-0 Toronto 22 29 .431 9 5-5 L-2 14-14 8-15 ...
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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Griffey inspired by series rings
Jun 01, 2004; ... MIAMI - Ken Griffey Jr. isn't fueled by the drive for 500 homeruns. His inspiration Monday was souvenir World Series championshiprings the Florida Marlins handed out to fans. Griffey passed Lou Gehrig on the career home run list with a go-ahead, three-run drive in the seventh ...
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Jun 01, 2004 ... mariners 6, blue jays 2 Ichiro Suzuki had three hits to give him 50 in May and Randy Winndrove in three runs for Seattle in a victory over Toronto. Suzuki became the first player since Pete Rose to have two 50-plus hit months in his career. He had 51 in August of 2001 ....
Final prep softball stats
Jun 01, 2004 ... KANAWHA COUNTY Team Records St. Albans 25-10 Herbert Hoover 18-9 South Charleston 21-11 Nitro 15-10 Sissonville 19-14 Charleston Catholic 12-8 Riverside 15-14 Capital 6-18 George Washington 3-21 Individual ...
Lakers end 'Wolves season: NBA Western Finals
Jun 01, 2004; ... LOS ANGELES - Kareem Rush just kept firing that smooth left-handed jumper from 3-point range, and it kept going in. When the biggest game of his life to date was over, with Rushhaving played a starring role in a playoff game for the first time,he spoke like a grizzled veteran who ...
Buffalo's second title was unexpected: Prep softball; Season wrapup
Jun 01, 2004; ... VIENNA - The trophy case at Buffalo High may have to be expanded. After Saturday's 5-3 Class A title-game win over Moorefield, theBison softball team doubled the number of state championship trophiesthe school has won in its 82 year history. The softball squad actually ...
Tired Irwin wins fourth Senior PGA title
Jun 01, 2004; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. Hale Irwin had just two words when he walked offthe 18th green at Valhalla Golf Club. "I'm pooped," he said, climbing a hill to the clubhouse. But it doubtless was a happy kind of tired for Irwin after winninghis fourth Senior PGA Championship. Irwin, ...
Cats' Roberts belts two HRs in win
Jun 01, 2004; ... EASTLAKE, Ohio - For the second time in a week, second basemanRyan Roberts spent the night with going-deep thoughts. As he did last Tuesday against Kannapolis at Watt Powell Park,Roberts hit a pair of home runs Monday. He also knocked in three runsas the Charleston Alley Cats ...
State Baseball Champions
Jun 01, 2004 ... West Virginia high school baseball champions: Single Class 1940 Fairview 1945 Weir 1946 Parkersburg 1947 Wellsburg 1948 Williamson 1949 Huntington East 1950 Weir 1951 East Bank 1952 East Bank 1953 ...
Richards wins another for Lightning
Jun 01, 2004; ... CALGARY, Alberta - A potent power play helped carry the Tampa BayLightning past the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conferencefinal. An anemic man-advantage unit threatened their chances of winningthe Stanley Cup. Enter Brad Richards - again. Richards scored ...
Capriati beats Serena Williams to reach French semis
Jun 01, 2004; ... PARIS - Serena and Venus Williams were knocked out of the FrenchOpen within 30 minutes of each other in the quarterfinals today. Jennifer Capriati overcame an erroneous call by a linesman onmatch point and beat Serena Williams 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to reach thesemifinals. Venus was ...
Convenience stores set standard for retailers
Jun 01, 2004; ... A few years ago, you almost never heard anyone in the mainstreamretail industry worry about competition from convenience stores. Now, for executives at supermarkets, drugstores and discounters,the lowly convenience store ranks right up there with other rivalretail ...
Program aims to help businesses: System designed to link entrepreneurs to needed resources
Jun 01, 2004; ... A new program designed to help entrepreneurs expand theirbusinesses hit the ground running today. Led by Citynet co-founder Mark Burdette, the new Advantage ValleyEntrepreneurial League System is designed to link entrepreneurs withthe resources they need to grow and ...
Oil giants outside Middle East work to offset rising crude prices
Jun 01, 2004; ... LAGOS, Nigeria - Leading oil exporters outside the Middle Easthave pledged to boost production to offset soaring world prices - butit could be months or years before Russia, Nigeria and Mexico reallymanage to open their taps. Those three nations are the world's Nos. 2, 7 and 9 oil ...
As drug co-pays rise, health may decline: People may spend more on ER visits, hospitalizations
Jun 01, 2004; ... Co-payments for prescription drugs may seem like a relativelyminor expense; after all, many people must foot the entire bill fortheir medicine. But raising those payments, especially for folks whotake several medications a day, can have a dramatic effect on eventhe privately insured ....
Local lawyer, actor dies at 75: Louderback dies in motorcycle crash
Jun 01, 2004; ... Friends today remembered Robert Louderback as an optimistic personwho was fun, polite and ethical. Louderback, 75, a lawyer, amateur actor and founder of the annualLegislative Prayer Breakfast, died Friday after a motorcycle accidenton U.S. 35 in Kanawha County. "He made you ...
Obituaries: Obit
Jun 01, 2004 ... Venus Rappold Blake Venus Rappold Blake, 94, of Culloden, W.Va., died Sunday, May 30,2004, at home after a long illness. She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Una Rappold;and her husband, John Blake; granddaughter, Joan Bias; and grandson,Terry ...
Wildfire prompts Fla. university to close for at least a day
Jun 01, 2004; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - Firefighters battled several wildfires inFlorida, including one that compelled a university to cancel classestoday. Heavy smoke and ash from a 1,300-acre fire near Florida Gulf CoastUniversity in Fort Myers led officials to cancel classes for at leasta day, ...
Battle reveals fight for GOP: Party mavericks seeking low deficit buck tax cut trend
Jun 01, 2004; ... WASHINGTON - Eclipsed by the furor over foreign policy, Congress'debate over the federal budget has slipped quietly into an impassethat is no garden-variety partisan standoff. It is a battle amongRepublicans over what their party stands for, analysts say. At issue is whether this ...
Public boarding schools back in Alaska: Rural parents seeking options lead to rebound
Jun 01, 2004; ... JUNEAU, Alaska - A new world opened for Afton Brinkman when shestarted attending a boarding school 400 miles from home. She could choose her classes, play sports and learn about collegescholarships, none of which was available at her hometown high schoolin Eagle, where she was one ...
ASK THE VET: Fruit will be finefor cat; Just keep him away from the raisins
Jun 01, 2004; ... Q: We have a 2-year-old tabby cat. He is an indoor cat, eats Iamsdry cat food and very rarely gets people food - and it's always inhis dish as a treat and a very small amount. We have discovered thiscat LOVES bananas, apples, strawberries and pawpaws. Is this bad forour cat? He doesn't ...
In search for snakehead, other fish getting a jolt: Biologists using a shocking device in search for predator
Jun 01, 2004; ... The fishing boat crept through the warm green water, past sprigsof hydrilla and milfoil, into a lush shoreline nook of the Pohick Bayon the Potomac River. The depth finder ticked down - four, three, two feet. A metal clawhung out from the bow, trailing its stainless steel tendrils ...
Home at last: Putnam woman's years of work pay off with a modern home and old fashioned garden
Jun 01, 2004; ... TEAYS VALLEY - Hannah Johnson has all the convenience of asubdivision home, with its modern, spacious layout and energy-efficient windows. Yet her garden has the charm of a 100-year-oldcountry farmhouse. Weathered gates, low stone walls, a rustic greenhouse, homeytouches like ...