Charleston Daily Mail back issues from February 2006:
Jessica Lynch finds new inspiration, major at WVU: Wirt native has switched focus from education to journalism; wants to create TV network for children
Feb 01, 2006; ... MORGANTOWN - Jessica Lynch, now a college student, has a new majorand a new dream. And she still bristles at the idea that she is a hero. "That word still makes me a little sad," Lynch said in a rarepublic appearance on the campus of West Virginia University ...
St. Albans man killed when vehicle hit by train in Putnam County
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF A St. Albans man was killed early today when the car he wasdriving was struck by a train at Ventroux Hollow in Putnam County,according to the sheriff's department. Vernon Gray Jr., 33, of St. Albans died when his 1992 OldsmobileCutlass was hit by a CSX train ...
Delegates spar over cloning: Legislators disagree over bill to ban procedure in humans
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Del. Otis Leggett, R-Pleasants, wants to outlaw human cloning inWest Virginia. Del. Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, who once tried to have his infant soncloned, says the House of Delegates should stay out of such issues. In 2001, Hunt invested $500,000 in a lab ...
Bill aims to tax, tag all felines: Lawmakers who are sponsoring measure say it will help counties curb cat populations
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER Cat owners would have to pay the same taxes as dog owners, anddomestic felines would have to wear collars and tags if theLegislature passes a bill introduced this week in the House ofDelegates. Several lawmakers seem poised to curb what they say ...
Teachers split over pension issue: Majority vote decides whether individuals or the state can manage retirement funds
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER About 23,000 of the state's teachers and school service personnelare divided right now over what could be the most important vote anyof them ever cast - what to do with more than $645 million of theirretirement funds. Half of the state's teachers ...
Bus driver pleads guilty to shuttling cocaine
Feb 01, 2006; ... KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A Greyhound bus driver pleaded guilty tofederal conspiracy and money-laundering charges accusing him ofshuttling more than 300 pounds of cocaine on buses from Texas forsale in Tennessee. Beginning in January 2000, Christopher Winford, 33, wouldregularly check ...
Man accused of hitting teen says he lost control
Feb 01, 2006; ... STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. - Police said a man accused of attackinga teenager after she collided with his daughter at a ski resort toldauthorities that he lost control. Randell Berg, 52, of Littleton, punched the 16-year-old girl inthe head and neck and yelled profanities after ...
Table games bill to be introduced: Opponents of measure say Northern Panhandle is too dependent on gaming industry revenue
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Opponents of table games legislation believe there's a cultureclash between the Northern Panhandle and the rest of the state ongambling. Delegates plan to introduce a bill today that would allow votersto legalize casino-style table games in the four ...
Dead animals found in illegal dumps
Feb 01, 2006; ... About 350 dead cats, dogs and other animals have been found inillegal dumps in Hampshire and Hardy counties, the state Division ofNatural Resources said. More than 250 animal carcasses - including mice, rats, rabbits,squirrels, raccoons, foxes, hawks and deer - were found in a ...
Papers accidentally release customers' financial data
Feb 01, 2006; ... BOSTON - The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazettesaid slips containing the names and credit card numbers of as many as240,000 subscribers of both newspapers were accidentally deliveredwith bundles of papers last weekend in Worcester. Officials of the newspapers, both ...
Weather Almanac
Feb 01, 2006 ... Yesterday's high 42 Record high 73, 1988 Normal high 44 Yesterday's low 34 Record low -1, 1936 Normal ...
Forecasts
Feb 01, 2006 ... Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. Thursday Mostly cloudy, with a high around 57. Friday A chance of showers, mainly before 2 p.m ....
Regional weather
Feb 01, 2006 ... Akron 46 34 Cldy Charlotte 61 34 PCldy Cincinnati 53 38 Cldy Cleveland 47 32 Cldy Columbus,Ohio 51 36 Cldy Dayton 51 36 Cldy Daytona Beach 80 52 PCldy Greensboro,N.C. 58 34 PCldy Lexington 53 39 ...
National weather
Feb 01, 2006 ... Anchorage 8 4 Clr Baltimore 52 32 PCldy Boston 45 30 Cldy Chicago 45 29 Cldy Dallas-Ft Worth 68 45 PCldy Denver 46 24 Cldy Detroit 43 33 PCldy Honolulu 79 71 Clr Houston 76 54 PCldy Indianapolis 51 36 Cldy Kansas City ...
Shooter was on medical leave: Postal inspector says co-workers worried woman was going to hurt herself
Feb 01, 2006; ... GOLETA, Calif. - When sheriff's deputies were called to takeJennifer Sanmarco from her job at a mail sorting facility here twoyears ago, it was because her colleagues feared she might hurtherself. But when Sanmarco returned this week, it was her formercolleagues she was bent on ...
Great-grandma says she had no choice: Woman facing murder charge claims victim was molesting her great- grandson
Feb 01, 2006; ... NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Handcuffed and walking slowly, an 81-year-old woman was ushered into a courtroom here to face charges ofmurdering her great-grandson's father. Jeane E. Allen talked in a whisper Tuesday, and only then to agreeto have the hearing postponed until Monday. She ...
Court rules firm does not own Titanic artifacts
Feb 01, 2006; ... RICHMOND, Va. - The company that has exclusive salvage rights tothe wreckage of the Titanic does not own the site or the artifactsrecovered from it, a federal appeals court said. The ruling Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals affirmed a decision ...
Nation & world
Feb 01, 2006 ... Auction shows friendship does indeed have a price SYDNEY, Australia - An offer of beer, sausages and a chat withfour Aussie blokes has set off a bidding frenzy on the AustralianeBay online auction site. Their pitch is simple: an offer of no-questions-asked ...
Sheehan arrested before Bush address: Woman was wearing protest T-shirt under clothing that she revealed upon taking her seat
Feb 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - Cindy Sheehan finally got her invitation to seePresident Bush again, but before she set eyes on him at the State ofthe Union address, Capitol Police removed her from the galleryoverlooking the House chamber. The offense: her shirt, bearing an anti-war message and ...
Our views: The business of the nation; President Bush makes a good case for strong foreign, domestic policies
Feb 01, 2006; ... MOST Americans don't pay much attention to State of the Unionaddresses, especially those given midway through a president's secondterm. Such speeches tend to be businesslike affairs, and PresidentBush's was typically short on drama. But it was long enough on substance. Bush ...
Our views: Making power more reliable; Here's to expedited approval of a West Virginia-New Jersey line
Feb 01, 2006; ... AMERICAN Electric Power plans to build a 550-mile transmissionline from the John Amos plant to New Jersey. This would take eightyears and cost $3 billion. A 765-kilovolt line from Poca to Pohatcong, N.J., makes sense.West Virginia has the coal that generates the electricity; New ...
Your views
Feb 01, 2006 ... Blackwater needs to be protected I love Blackwater Falls, the river and the trail and all thenatural, unspoiled beauty of the canyon. It would be a tragedy not only for us but for future generationsto have logging and road building take place in the area. As ...
Chesapeake is happy to be in West Virginia: Looking forward to getting to know the Appalachians
Feb 01, 2006; ... CHESAPEAKE Energy Corp. joined the West Virginia businesscommunity with the $3 billion purchase of Appalachian Basin naturalgas reserves in November. As a company new to the region, we were apprehensive about thereception we would receive, and about what to expect in working ...
Bill addresses no contest pleas in DUI cases
Feb 01, 2006; ... People who plead no contest to drunken-driving charges would nolonger lose their driver's licenses automatically under legislationadvanced by the House Judiciary Committee. State law requires the Division of Motor Vehicles to yank adriver's license for a DUI conviction when the ...
Putnam commission OKs zoning compromise: Businesses in area will be able to expand or change only through special permit process
Feb 01, 2006; ... FOR THE DAILY MAIL WINFIELD - A member of the committee that drafted zoningregulations for Teays Valley seemed to welcome a decision not torezone parts of Scott Depot for new commercial development butremained uneasy about the compromise. "I'm a fairly strict ...
GOP should talk conservatively to blacks: The strategy thus far has been ridiculously dumb
Feb 01, 2006; ... A promising new black political figure is emerging in Ohio - KenBlackwell, a solid, pro-life conservative who has fought for lowertaxes. He is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio, andpolls indicate that he has substantial support. Unfortunately, Ohio's ...
Ohio man gets seven years for selling crack cocaine
Feb 01, 2006 ... An Ohio man has been sentenced to seven years in prison forselling crack cocaine. Demetrius Baxter, 30, of Columbus pleaded guilty in November tobringing drugs from Columbus to distribute in Charleston. He wassentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Members ...
Byrd, Rockefeller split over Alito's stance: Senators disagree on the justice's views about executive power
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., voted to confirm Supreme Court JudgeSamuel Alito, saying he was comfortable with Alito's views on howmuch power a president should have. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., voted against Alito, saying hisappointment to the court ...
Lawyers lodging complaints: Bar has received reports of attorneys making contact with families of miners
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF A handful of state lawyers are telling on other lawyers for whatthey see as unethical conduct related to the Sago mine explosion lastmonth that killed 12 miners. Larry Lewis, who heads the disciplinary board for the State Bar,said all the complaints he's ...
City woman pleads not guilty to abusing girl
Feb 01, 2006; ... A woman accused of beating her 11-year-old stepdaughter forimproperly cleaning stairs has pleaded not guilty to child abuse andneglect charges. Catherine Lee Brown of Charleston entered her plea on Tuesday inKanawha County Circuit Court. She is charged with child abuse ...
Evacuees may have to pay own hotel bills
Feb 01, 2006; ... ATLANTA - Thousands of hurricane evacuees in Georgia will have tostart paying their own hotel bills or leave after missing a deadlineto register for additional federal funds. Evacuees in nearly 2,000 hotel rooms missed a midnight Mondaydeadline to register with the Federal ...
Correction
Feb 01, 2006 ... An article Tuesday incorrectly said that Kanawha County ...
Police report
Feb 01, 2006 ... 3-year-old dies after being hit by pickup truck HURRICANE - A 3-year-old boy was killed when apparently ran intothe path of a pickup truck driven by his father at their home. Brandon Copley was struck by his father's truck as the man backedout of his driveway at ...
Struggling Irish visit No. 11 WVU
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Meet Mike Brey, budding Buddhist. "All I can ask is that we keep laying it all on the line," saidthe Notre Dame basketball coach. "Hopefully, the karma will fling." He's hoping, more specifically, that it starts tonight, as theFighting Irish ...
WVU FOOTBALL: Recruiting is going high tech
Feb 01, 2006; ... WVU recruiting A look at reported signees or verbal commitments toWest Virginia Universitys 2006 football recruiting class: Player Pos. Ht.Wt. Hometown School Franchot Allen DB 6-2 200New Berlin, N.Y. Milford (Conn.) Acad. Jetavious Best* RB 5-9 180 W. Palm ...
NATIONAL SIGNING DAY: He just wants a chance; South Charleston's Tommy Spurlock hopes to make impact at WVU
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER South Charleston star tailback Tommy Spurlock just wants a chanceto play at West Virginia University. And, if that doesn't work out, he always has his career to fallback on - the one he'll be building toward someday owning his ownphysical therapy ...
For WVU, the cost of doing business rising
Feb 01, 2006; ... WHAT price success? It's a good question these days for West Virginia University, andone that the Mountaineers may have to find different ways to answerthan in the past. As WVU's athletic program builds its profile beyond Big EastConference success with Bowl Championship ...
NATIONAL SIGNING DAY: Incoming Marshall football recruit Redick has athletics in his blood
Feb 01, 2006; ... Marshall recruiting A look at Marshalls reported football signingsand verbal commitments to date for the 2006 recruiting year: Player Pos. Ht.Wt. Hometown School Brian Anderson QB 6-3 185Louisville, Ky. Male HS Anthony Binswanger PK 6-2 190 Concord, Calif. ...
Top of the 2nd
Feb 01, 2006 ... No Bulger, but WVU tops No. 13 DePaul MORGANTOWN - Meg Bulger was missing for West Virginia on Tuesdaynight, but she wasn't missed. LaQuita Owens scored a career-high 20 points as the Mountaineersupset No. 13 DePaul 82-70 for a Big East Conference women'sbasketball victory ...
National scoreboard
Feb 01, 2006 ... TODAY'S ODDS National Football League Super Bowl at Detroit Favorite Open Today O/U Underdog Pittsburgh 31/2 4 47 Seattle BASKETBALL College men Tuesday EAST Connecticut 80, Pittsburgh 76 SOUTH Belmont ...
Fan Fare: Notre Dame coach says Marshall played WVU at best possible time
Feb 01, 2006; ... MORGANTOWN - Some of West Virginia University's faithful took astunning 58-52 loss to Marshall a lot harder than others did lastweek. One long-time fan lamented, "It was the worst basketballperformance I can recall by one of our teams." It became so frustrating for two other ...
Local scoreboard
Feb 01, 2006 ... AREA SCHEDULE High schools The upcoming athletics schedule for area high schools, assubmitted by the schools (available times 7:30 p.m., unless listed) Boys basketball Thursday - George Washington at Princeton; Hurricane at St.Albans; South Charleston at Nitro; ...
Recruiting game adding stress to Kennedy Award winner's life
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER A ringing phone in the Culbertson household is nothing unusual inlate January. Fortunately, the Culbertsons are getting quite used to it. So, when it rings again for Josh - one of the twins who starredfor Nitro during its run to the West ...
UConn beats Pitt, improves to 19-1: BIG EAST CONFERENCE; C-USA BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Feb 01, 2006; ... Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun was exhausted. His players wereincredibly tired, too. The host Huskies had just gutted out an 80-76 win over ninth-ranked Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. With Big East Conferencebasketball in full swing, the top-ranked UConn Huskies can expect afew ...
Buffalo coach picks up 300th win
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER Chuck Elkins won't say this year's team is his best. "Record-wise, yeah it could be," said Elkins, who is in his 27thseason as the Buffalo High boys basketball coach, "but, we had somereally good teams. "We had a kid by the name of Josh Raynes; ...
Playing time is the start of long road back for Marshall transfer
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER HUNTINGTON - It was only for a minute ... just 60 short seconds. Yet, that seemingly insignificant minute meant the world to JeanFrancois Bro Grebe. That's because his one minute of playing time in Marshall's lossat Houston on Saturday, meant ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Daniel hits for 30-plus again
Feb 01, 2006; ... Josh Daniel continues making life difficult for South Charlestonbasketball opponents. Daniel continued his recent impressive scoring run Tuesday night,helping the Black Eagles to a 75-62 Mountain State AthleticConference boys' win over visiting Cabell Midland. Daniel, who ...
Ex-Black Eagle Montgomery scores 26 for Huskies
Feb 01, 2006; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville women's basketball Coach Tom Collenknew he had to make some tough choices when getting ready for No. 4Connecticut. One of those choices included laying off UConn freshman guardRenee Montgomery and instead focusing on some of the Huskies' ...
IOC, not Italian government, will carry out tests
Feb 01, 2006; ... ROME - The International Olympic Committee will conduct dopingtests at the Turin Olympics after the Italian government decided notto press its demand to carry them out. Italy's health ministry backed down last week from a demand thatit conduct the tests during the Feb. 10-26 ...
Olympian trying to overcome tragedy
Feb 01, 2006; ... LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - The sport has taken Travis Mayer to placesmost people only imagine. It carried him to heights few ever reach.It was there for him in his grandest moments, and it was a loyalfriend in times of anguish. Mayer was the world's top-ranked men's moguls skier last ...
Nothin' to somethin': Seattle kicker Josh Brown was eight-man football hero in tiny town
Feb 01, 2006; ... FOYIL, Okla. - Come summertime, folks in cars and recreationalvehicles tracing the path of historic Route 66 - even the occasionaltour bus - will see the sign and turn off the main highway toward thehouse where Seattle Seahawk kicker Josh Brown's parents still live. Their ...
Pilot landed in field: 2 days before crash; Pilot's cousin says he was engaged to be married
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF The pilot killed in a plane crash next to U.S. 35 just south ofPoint Pleasant had made an emergency landing in a swampy field twodays before after running low on fuel. Lantz Bricker, 25, of Salem, Ohio, died shortly after takeoffTuesday when his Piper PA-28 ...
Parole denied for man who stabbed co-worker to death in 1993: Incident occurred at Danny Jones' restaurant; mayor calls man 'cold- blooded sociopath'
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF A Hurricane man who fatally stabbed a co-worker at a Nitrorestaurant in 1993 will have to wait another three years before beingconsidered for release from prison. Dale Guthrie was denied parole this morning by a three-memberboard after emotional testimony by ...
Capito, Byrd disappointed by speech: Lawmakers wanted Bush to address mine safety during State of the Union
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF At least two of West Virginia's congressional members aredisappointed that President Bush failed to tackle mine safety duringhis fifth State of the Union Address. Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Democratic Sen.Robert Byrd said the president ...
Kanawha drains jail budget: Cost of incarceration has gone from $35 to $48.50 per day in past 11 years
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Kanawha County has exhausted its $3.2 million budget for jailcosts five months before the end of its financial year, said CountyCommission President Kent Carper. And based on the average $360,319 being spent each month in jailcosts, Carper estimates the ...
Pilot landed in field: 2 days before crash; Pilot's cousin says he was engaged to be married
Feb 01, 2006; ... Crews prepare to extract the body of pilot Lantz Bricker, who waskilled when his single-engine plane crashed near U.S. 35 shortlyafter takeoff in Henderson, Mason County. Bricker, 25, of ...
WSAZ general manager taking on new duties: Ray will continue role at station but assumes operational responsibility at three others in addition
Feb 01, 2006; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF WSAZ General Manager Don Ray has been named regional vice-president for Gray Television Group. Ray's new job title is just oneof many changes the local NBC affiliate is going through after itspurchase by Gray last month. Ray, 59, will continue his general ...
House to start over on health care coverage effort: Kiss says he wants Manchin proposals to pass but hopes lawmakers can still address cost shifts
Feb 01, 2006; ... The House of Delegates has decided to start over on its effort toexpand health care coverage for the uninsured rather than try to workout differences with the Senate, which rejected the lower chamber'smove toward universal basic care. House Speaker Bob Kiss said the House's goal ...
Ruling allows UMW help with probe: Manchin says he may call special session if review turns up need for additional legislation
Feb 01, 2006; ... A federal appeals court has upheld the United Mine Workers ofAmerica's participation in an underground investigation of anexplosion at a nonunion mine that resulted in the deaths of 12miners. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., rejectedInternational Coal ...
Business briefs
Feb 01, 2006 ... Mason alloy plant purchased by Ukrainian company A U.S. subsidiary of a Ukrainian company has acquired a troubledMason County alloys plant for $20 million. The Global Industrial Projects LLC plant, formerly known asHighlanders Alloys, makes silicon manganese, which is used ...
Obituaries: Obit
Feb 01, 2006 ... Mildred Irene Bennett Mildred Irene Bennett, 68, of Lewisburg died Jan. 30, 2006.Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at Wallace & WallaceFuneral Home, Lewisburg. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.Burial will be in Adwell Cemetery. Bertram Wayne ...
Students in emergency services field may apply for scholarship
Feb 01, 2006 ... The Jackson County Community Foundation is now acceptingapplications for the Dr. David Monroe Ritchie Scholarship. The scholarship is open to Jackson and Kanawha County residentswho are working toward paramedic or EMTI certification. Applicants should have a record of ...
Poca High to host choir competition Saturday
Feb 01, 2006 ... Poca High School will host its annual Music Fest Show ChoirCompetition on Saturday. This will be the largest show choir event in West Virginia thisyear with 19 groups from West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland. Schoolsparticipating and performance times are: Huntington, 8 a.m.; ...
Mine agency chief faces questions: Strickler does not back specific legislation but says enforcement of laws could be improved
Feb 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - The man chosen by President Bush to head the agencythat oversees mine safety faced tough questioning from lawmakers whowanted to know what he would do to prevent disasters such as thosethat recently killed 14 miners in West Virginia. Richard Stickler previously headed ...
Panel OKs bill to let doctors forgo CPR in some cases
Feb 01, 2006; ... Doctors could ignore living wills and advanced medical directivesand refuse to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on patients whoare so ill that it would do no good under a bill a House committeeendorsed. An attending physician and another physician would have to agreethat ...