Charleston Daily Mail back issues from March 2005:
Snow forecasts bring hope for ski resorts: More than a foot expected in some areas; March often a busy time for resorts, spokesman says
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF This week's snow is a dream for state ski resorts, which wereexpecting more than a foot of snow and some of the best conditions ofthe year. "This could be the best ski week of the season," said Bryan Brown,a spokesman for Canaan Valley in Tucker County, ...
Jones seeks to shut down betting parlor: Mayor says he will; get court order to close Hot Spot Lounge
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Mayor Danny Jones said today that video lottery machines likethose at a Kanawha City parlor belong at the racetracks away fromneighborhoods. Jones plans to seek a court order sometime today that may shutdown the Hot Spot Lounge and Cafe, located at 3418 ...
State native's Saddam lawsuit stalled: Ex-POW from Wood County among those suing Iraq, but White House opposes action
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Parkersburg native Robert Sweet is still suing Saddam Hussein, butthe U.S. government isn't taking his side. Sweet was a prisoner of war for 19 days during the first Gulf War,and he is part of a $910 million class-action lawsuit against thedeposed Iraqi ...
Andrew ready for casts to come off: Boy to return for procedure; father says youngster will have to learn how to walk again
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Nearly three months after having surgery to correct his feet, aRoane County boy is ready to return to Johns Hopkins Hospital to havehis casts cut off. "He'll have to learn to walk all over again," said Don Mathewson,whose son Andrew underwent his second ...
Another step forward
Mar 01, 2005; ... Andrew Mathewson, 5, will return to Johns Hopkins Hospital inBaltimore soon to have his casts removed. He underwent surgery inDecember to correct deformities in his feet, with help from $80,000in donations from the public ....
W.Va. Guard unit returns home to hugs, fanfare
Mar 01, 2005; ... Tara Ford plants a kiss on her ...
W.Va. Guard unit returns home to hugs, fanfare: 3664th Maintenance Company had been in Iraq for more than a year
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Clutched in his mother's arms and pushing the hat his father hadgiven him out of his eyes, 2-year-old Nathan Allen of Clarksburgpointed to the C-130 transport plane flying in to Charleston's YeagerAirport and said, "There's daddy." His uncle, Christopher ...
Air Force cadet found guilty of smuggling steroids
Mar 01, 2005; ... AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - An Air Force Academy cadet has beenfound guilty of smuggling steroids into the United States anddistributing them to another cadet, but acquitted of more seriouscharges that could have meant 66 years confinement. Cadet First Class Eric M. Swartz also was ...
City businessman pleads guilty: Defendant admits giving former board member money in exchange for contracts
Mar 01, 2005; ... A Charleston businessman has pleaded guilty to federal chargesafter admitting that he gave money to a former assistant stateschools superintendent in exchange for contracts awarded to helpMcDowell and Wyoming county schools recover from flooding. Phillip "Pork Chop" Booth, 55, ...
New machine deadline fast approaching: Counties look to state, federal governments for help in meeting mandate on electronic voting
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Facing deadline pressure, Secretary of State Betty Ireland'soffice is almost ready to tell counties like Kanawha and Putnam thebest ways to replace their old punch-card voting machines with moremodern equipment. Those options can't come soon enough for many ...
House sends election bill to committee
Mar 01, 2005 ... Legislators want to test the viability of publicly financedelections, but they're hung up on how to keep track of candidates whodon't accept public money. The House sent the bill back to committee last week for more work. The pilot project would be available for two Senate ...
Vatican official says pope's recovery continues
Mar 01, 2005; ... VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II spoke with a top Vatican officialin German and Italian today, suggesting the ailing pontiff was makingsignificant strides toward recovery after throat surgery to ease abreathing crisis. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told reporters that John Paul used ...
Lebanon forming new government: Protesters continue to push for leadership less closely tied to Syria
Mar 01, 2005; ... BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hundreds of protesters blowing whistles andchanting anti-Syrian slogans returned to central Beirut today afterforcing out the pro-Damascus prime minister, and Lebanon's presidentsought candidates for a new government. About 400 people marched through downtown ...
Two found dead in home of judge targeted in plot: Chicago federal judge found bodies of husband, mother; both had been shot in the head
Mar 01, 2005; ... CHICAGO - A federal judge, who was once the target of a failedmurder plot by a white supremacist, returned home from work to findtwo bodies inside her home. U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow on Monday stumbled acrossthe bodies of her husband, attorney Michael Lefkow, and ...
Insurgent told to strike U.S., report says: Bin Laden prodding al-Zarqawi to target America, government bulletin indicates
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden is enlisting his top operative inIraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to plan potential attacks on the UnitedStates, U.S. intelligence indicates. Al-Zarqawi, who rivals bin Laden as the nation's public enemy No.1, has been involved in attacks in the Middle East ...
Court sentences British hypnotist to 90 days in prison in sex case
Mar 01, 2005; ... MILFORD, Conn. - A British hypnotist charged with having sex withpatients under his spell and secretly videotaping the encounters wassentenced to 90 days in prison and faces possible deportation toEngland. Michael Johnstone, 64, had pleaded no contest to recklessendangerment and ...
Almanac
Mar 01, 2005 ... Yesterday's high 45 Record high 79, 1918 Normal high 51 Yesterday's low 32 Record low 10, 1906 Normal ...
Tonight
Mar 01, 2005 ... Snow showers likely. Accumulation around an inch. Lows in thelower 20s. Wednesday Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow 50 percent. Highs above 30. Thursday Partly cloudy ....
Regional forecasts
Mar 01, 2005 ... Akron 26 19 Snow Charlotte 48 25 Clr Cincinnati 32 22 Cldy Cleveland 25 20 Snow Columbus,Ohio 30 22 Cldy Dayton 29 18 Cldy Daytona Beach 60 40 Clr Greensboro,N.C. 43 25 Clr Lexington 35 20 ...
National forecasts
Mar 01, 2005 ... Anchorage 31 19 Clr Baltimore 25 39 Cldy Boston 36 26 Cldy Chicago 27 15 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 51 43 Rain Denver 56 24 PCldy Detroit 27 16 Cldy Honolulu 81 66 PCldy Houston 66 52 Rain Indianapolis 31 17 PCldy Kansas ...
Nation & world
Mar 01, 2005 ... Karzai says Afghanistan, U.S. to unite militarily KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan and the United States willestablish a long-term military partnership and officials have alreadybegun working out the details, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzaisaid today. To ...
Our views: Why you pay through the nose; Legislators should scramble to cut constituents' insurance premiums
Mar 01, 2005; ... TO hear the suggestions for lawsuit reform in West Virginia is tounderstand the degree to which West Virginia legislators have beenwilling to gouge their own constituents. The state has been running a gravy train for tort lawyers, and hasbeen doing it knowingly. With ...
Our views: A summer vote would irk voters; West Virginians need time to think about borrowing $5.5 billion
Mar 01, 2005; ... NEVER let it be said that the West Virginia Legislature, as aninstitution, is not thorough. It took governors and legislators along time to roll up a monumental unfunded liability in the state'spension funds. But the mission was accomplished. The more than $5.5 billion inunfunded ...
Your views
Mar 01, 2005 ... Everyone should vote on table games Aren't county lines primarily just lines on a map? Do we reallyknow or even care when we've crossed from one county into another? Most people live, work and play, throughout the day crossingcounty lines. For example: students often ...
An Oscar-worthy conversation opener: Clint Eastwood asked the question on many minds
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Is it too late to create an Oscar for the MostPolitically Controversial Film? It would be awfully handy to have a designated category forcontroversy so the rest of us could concentrate on what everyone'swore. This year, the two most contentious contenders ...
Doctor faces charges of botulism distribution
Mar 01, 2005; ... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A doctor who's recovering from botulismpoisoning rolled a walker into court to face fraud charges forallegedly buying and selling the raw toxin in place of the wrinkletreatment Botox. Bach McComb is accused of paralyzing himself and three others ...
Local briefs
Mar 01, 2005 ... Arbaugh arrested on drug, weapon, battery charges Tony Dean Arbaugh Jr., whose sexual assault case and probationbecame the focal point of one of the nastiest and most expensiveSupreme Court races in history, has been arrested on drug, weapon andbattery charges. Arbaugh, 23, ...
New president
Mar 01, 2005; ... Charles Bayless is officially welcomed as the new president ofWest Virginia University Institute of Technology. He appeared at aceremony Monday. A ...
Some flood victims are on their own, officials say: Those who didn't own insurance won't get federal, state assistance
Mar 01, 2005; ... West Virginians who didn't own flood insurance and suffered damageduring January's flooding shouldn't count on government assistance tohelp them recover, state and federal emergency officials said. Former Gov. Bob Wise had requested a federal disaster declarationfor eight counties ...
Culinary skills on display at Capitol
Mar 01, 2005; ... Glade Springs Executive Sales Director Jane Lilly waits asstudents from the United Technical Center in Clarksburg prepare her asample of rabbit meat as part of ...
Tourism's role still growing in state economy
Mar 01, 2005; ... MORGANTOWN - The tourism and travel industry's role in WestVirginia's economy has grown steadily in recent years while the rolesof mining and other traditional industries have declined, WestVirginia University researchers said. Between 1998 and 2002, the gross state product of the ...
Bankruptcy court allows airline deal: Air Wisconsin would loan airline $125 million in return for US Airways accepting its regional jets
Mar 01, 2005; ... ALEXANDRIA, Va. - US Airways received bankruptcy court approvalfor a deal with affiliate regional carrier Air Wisconsin that couldprovide US Airways half of the money it needs to emerge frombankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Mitchell gave interim approval toplans by ...
Judge OKs settlement of suit against DuPont: Residents alleged company contaminated water supplies near its Washington Works plant
Mar 01, 2005; ... A judge approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit alleginga chemical used in making the nonstick substance Teflon contaminatedwater supplies near DuPont Co.'s Washington Works plant. Wood County Circuit Judge George W. Hill called the settlement -in which DuPont agreed to ...
This 'halfway house' goes all the way: Martha Stewart faces period of house arrest at opulent N.Y. estate
Mar 01, 2005; ... BEDFORD, N.Y. - Fashion designer Ralph Lauren lives next door.Billionaire financier George Soros is down the street. And on anearby hill stands the house that patriot John Jay retired to after acareer that included serving as the first U.S. chief justice. When Martha Stewart gets ...
Manchin to tackle workers' comp issue: Governor, named commission's chairman, plans to run meetings
Mar 01, 2005 ... Gov. Joe Manchin is taking a personal interest in getting a handleon the bear called workers' compensation. The governor has been selected as the chairman of the Workers'Compensation Commission, and he says he plans to attend the meetingshimself. During its Feb. 16 meeting, ...
Manchin offers to study business practices he calls 'outrageous'
Mar 01, 2005; ... Gov. Joe Manchin pledged to consider ending tax breaks, stateloans and other public largesse for businesses that award bonuses andraises to executives at the same time they lay off workers. In launching a Commerce Department study of the issue, Manchinconvinced a state senator to ...
Local lawmakers schedule a series of town meetings
Mar 01, 2005 ... Town meetings are set in several locations to give residents theopportunity to talk with legislators about their views regardingissues under consideration during the upcoming session. A meeting will begin at 8 p.m. today in Nitro City CouncilChambers immediately following the ...
Former sailor returned to W.Va. to try to rebuild his life: Veterans twice as likely as other people to be chronically homeless
Mar 01, 2005; ... FAIRMONT - Harleigh Marsh was tough enough to scrape ice from thefrozen deck of a Navy aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic. Smartenough to strip and rebuild a cockpit. Responsible enough to maintainsurvival gear for pilots. So when he found himself homeless six years ago, he ...
Calhoun's elected officials going without pay
Mar 01, 2005; ... GRANTSVILLE - Calhoun County is having trouble paying its electedofficials, partly because of higher than expected jail costs, acounty commissioner has said. Elected officials in the county went without their paychecksMonday. County Commission President Larry McCallister ...
Mideast foes trade blame for violence: Dueling accusations over suicide bombing are convenient for all sides
Mar 01, 2005; ... JERUSALEM - Israel insists Syria was the mastermind behind a TelAviv suicide bombing that shook an informal Mideast truce. ThePalestinians say it was Lebanese Hezbollah guerillas. Neither side has given any evidence to back its claim, but thedueling accusations are politically ...
Storm closes schools in 31 W.Va. counties
Mar 01, 2005; ... A winter storm brought up to 7 inches of snow to the West Virginiamountains today, closing schools in 31 of the state's 55 counties anddelaying the start of classes in 16 others. When school is canceled, "I get just as excited as the studentsdo," said Kelli Hill, a sixth grade ...
Md. woman sentenced to 17 years for enslaving girl
Mar 01, 2005; ... GREENBELT, Md. - A Maryland woman was sentenced to more than 17years in prison for forcing a Cameroonian girl to work as a domesticservant for no pay, beginning when the girl was 11. Theresa Mubang, herself originally from Cameroon, was convicted bya federal jury in November of ...
Police report
Mar 01, 2005 ... Senior couple faces marijuana charges DANVILLE - A 78-year-old grandmother faces drug charges andauthorities are searching for her 72-year-old boyfriend after policefound more than a pound of marijuana stashed in a freezer on thewoman's property. State Police ...
Eagle women focus on defense
Mar 01, 2005; ... Charleston 78 Bluefield State 36 BLUEFIELD STATE (2-26) Player Min FG 3pt FT R A PT Brown 25 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Harris 32 0-8 0-5 2-2 4 1 2 Repass 34 7-20 1-5 4-6 8 1 19 Coleman 39 0-7 0-1 0-0 2 5 0 Humphries 13 1-6 1-3 0-0 1 0 ...
UC freshman is rust-free: Former shipyard worker Rob Strickland shining up his game
Mar 01, 2005; ... Basketball tournament time, for most teams, is about a secondchance at glory. Rob Strickland didn't need the start of the West VirginiaConference tournament to play that game. His entire first season atthe University of Charleston has been about roundball redemption. "I'm ...
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL SECTIONALS: Capital hoping it won't be Miller time at Ripley
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Josh "Cookie" Miller likely will be in uniform tonight andparticipate in pre-game warm-ups before his Capital High SchoolCougars play Ripley in a boys basketball sectional at Ripley. But if the state Player of the Year candidate isn't 100 ...
WVU 7-footer a nice fit for Mountaineers
Mar 01, 2005; ... MORGANTOWN - Little seems known about the latest in the transfer-a-year club that is endorsed by the men's basketball regime at WestVirginia. Although well-spoken, Robert Summers has been kind of a quietaddition to the Mountaineers. Two years ago, when center D'or Fischer ...
Flying Eagles face sanctions for illegal practice: Beckley High School's boys stage workout at sectional tourney site
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Beckley High School's storied boys basketball program, stillrecovering from an ugly post-game incident earlier this seasonagainst St. Albans, is in hot water again. The Flying Eagles conducted an illegal practice Saturday at WestVirginia University ...
Top of the 2nd
Mar 01, 2005 ... SSAC to release seeds Friday Secondary School Activities Commission Assistant ExecutiveDirector Butch Powell announced that girls basketball statetournament seeds will be released statewide Friday at 10 a.m. onMetroNews Radio - WCHS, 580-AM in Charleston. Since the South ...
National scoreboard
Mar 01, 2005 ... BASKETBALL National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 29 28 .509 - Philadelphia 26 29 .473 2 New Jersey 25 32 .439 4 Toronto 24 32 .429 41/2 New York 24 33 .421 5 Southeast ...
UC drops men from rowing program
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTS EDITOR The venerable rowing program at the University of Charleston willbe missing something this spring. There are no men. The NCAA hasn't recognized men's rowing as an intercollegiatesport and, now, UC has dropped the men from the Golden Eagle ...
Local scoreboard
Mar 01, 2005 ... Area schedule Colleges The upcoming athletics schedule for West Virginia, Marshall,Charleston, West Virginia State and WVU Tech: Men's basketball Today - West Virginia Conference tournament, first round, campussites (see WVC tournament ...
'Jackets survive to advance in tourney
Mar 01, 2005; ... W.Va. State 59, WVU Tech 54 WEST VIRGINIA STATE (12-16) Player Min FG 3pt FT R A PT Suggs 40 5-13 3-7 2-3 5 3 15 Stevenson 40 2-11 2-5 1-3 4 4 7 Scott 35 7-16 0-1 1-1 13 1 15 Stevens 32 5-8 2-3 0-0 6 2 12 McFarland 32 2-8 0-0 6-7 7 2 ...
Panthers deal Boston College crushing defeat on home floor
Mar 01, 2005; ... BOSTON - It's hard to tell which was the biggest problem forBoston College: bad shooting, bad rebounding or bad karma. The fifth-ranked Eagles blew a chance to clinch the top seed fortheir final Big East Tournament when they were trounced 72-50 by No.24 Pittsburgh on Monday ...
State boys sectionals
Mar 01, 2005; ... Class AAA Regional championships Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.Region 1 Section 1: Wednesday, at Moundsville Field House, 7:30 p.m. John Marshall vs. Brooke; Friday, at Moundsville Field House, 7:30p.m. Wheeling Park vs. John Marshall-Brooke winner. Section 2:Thursday, 7:30 p.m. ...
Chaney won't coach in A-10 tourney
Mar 01, 2005; ... PHILADELPHIA - John Chaney extended his own suspension by banninghimself from the Temple sidelines for the Atlantic 10 Tournament. The Hall of Famer continued a week of apologies and punishmentsMonday when he announced he won't return after the school's three-game suspension ends ...
Fire marshal against bill: Bed and breakfast owners want a break from safety standards
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Bed and breakfast owners want breaks from current fire safetystandards, but state Fire Marshal Sterling Lewis is dead-set againstit and one state senator thinks it might be unconstitutional. Kathleen Panek, president of the Mountain State Association of Bed& ...
New academic standards not welcomed by all
Mar 01, 2005; ... INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA had barely released its first report onteams' academic progress rates when the outrage began. "We'd be remiss if we didn't express at least some concern thatthere are any number of flaws in this methodology," Oklahoma AthleticDirector Joe Castiglione ...
Agents show support: Insurers back Manchin's proposal to ban bad faith lawsuits
Mar 01, 2005; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Only six states - including West Virginia - continue to allowthird-party bad faith lawsuits. But scores of insurance agents on Monday banded together tosupport Gov. Joe Manchin's proposal to ban such lawsuits, whichpermit claimants to sue another person's ...
On a road to $avings: Pamela James awarded; $10,000 bonus for showing her department how to tighten spending
Mar 01, 2005; ... Big savers Other state employees who have won bonuses for theirmoney-saving suggestions include: * Eddie Withrow: An employee withthe Treasurers Office, whose idea to save money on paper won him$1,646 in 2002. n Molly Bevins: Won $10,000 in 2002 for pointing outto the state Division of ...
Child choking hazard prompts toy recall by Dollar Tree Stores
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Dollar Tree Stores Inc. is recalling about 147,600toy drums and xylophones because the ball on the end of theirdrumsticks can break off and pose a choking hazard to young children. The Chesapeake, Va.-based company has not received any injuryreports linked to the ...
Fight shaping up over bankruptcy measure: Supporters seek to tighten rules; Democrats hope to use legislation to raise minimum wage
Mar 01, 2005; ... WASHINGTON - Escaping credit card debt and other bills bydeclaring bankruptcy will be tougher if legislation being debated inthe Senate passes Congress as its supporters predict. President Bush called the proposed revisions of the nation'sbankruptcy laws "commonsense reforms" that ...
Business people
Mar 01, 2005 ... ACCOUNTING Joshua Bach, Marie Castro, Chad Hovis and Mark Pendleton have beenpromoted to managers at Arnett & Foster, the Charleston-basedaccounting and consulting firm. Bach, Castro, Hovis and Pendleton arecertified public accountants. BANKING Mark McCoy, senior vice ...
Business briefs
Mar 01, 2005 ... Financial opportunities workshop is Wednesday A financial opportunities workshop featuring information about theU.S. Small Business Administration's "Small Office Home OfficeCommunity Express" loan program and other small business resourceswill be offered at 9 a.m. Wednesday ...
GOP delegates want to change House rule: Resolution would increase the number of lawmakers allowed to co- sponsor a bill
Mar 01, 2005; ... With their largest margin since 1974, House Republicans pushed tochange the way the Democrat-dominated House of Delegates takes up andvotes on bills. The chamber could vote as early as Wednesday on GOP-led measuresthat aim to stop committees from bottling up bills, require a ...