Charleston Daily Mail back issues from January 2007:
Church raising money for family of crash victims
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF A local church has raised $15,000 to help the family of a fatherand his two children who were killed in a crash near the BraxtonCounty line. On Dec. 15, Clendenin resident Jeremy Shamblin, 32, and his 7-year old twins, Haylee and Cody, were killed when a ...
Four fires break out in Boone County: Firefighters believe arson to blame in blazes that struck car, buildings
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Firefighters suspect arson in four fires that erupted within hoursof each other along a two-mile stretch of road in Boone County thismorning, an official said. The state Fire Marshal's office has been contacted and is expectedto begin investigating the ...
Individual ATV deaths sometimes overshadowed by record numbers
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Eight-year-old Cara Jo Culver of Marion County was riding an ATVat her friend's house on Grey's Run Road when she had an accident.She was flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown where she died. Eighty-eight-year-old Lester Rohrbaugh of Petersburg was ...
Bowl trip is big treat for sergeant: Mountaineer fan from Va. will depart for Baghdad on Jan. 14
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - When times are tough, a piece of advice oftenoffered to people is this: Find your happy place. Chances are, Chris Bledsoe will face such a situation - probablymore than a few of them, to be honest - in the coming ...
WVU foundation chief Duke Perry retires
Jan 01, 2007 ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MORGANTOWN - The last day of the year marks the retirement of WestVirginia University Foundation president and CEO Duke Perry, whospent eight years working for the fundraising organization. Since 1999, when Perry ...
Post Offices to be closed Tuesday in honor of Ford
Jan 01, 2007 ... There will be no regular mail delivery or retail services at PostOffices on Tuesday. The Postal Service is closing to observe the national day ofmourning for President ...
Improving health key to insurance fix: One in two W.Va. residents either get their coverage from the state or have none at all
Jan 01, 2007; ... Lawmakers and health care advocates in West Virginia must confronta stark reality: more than one in two residents either get theirinsurance from the government or have no insurance at all. Next year, the Legislature will face the soaring cost of thissituation, and proposed reforms ...
Visitors bureau launches search for director
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF The Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau has started anationwide search for a new director. Mayor Danny Jones, who also serves on the bureau's executivecommittee, said he hopes a replacement would continue the success theentity has had in recent ...
New Year's bash leaves lots of trash
Jan 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK - The big ball is not all that drops in Times Square onNew Year's Eve. As revelers headed home early today, the first day of 2007, workcrews moved in to sweep up the remnants of 2006. Their mission:picking up 3.5 tons of confetti (a record-setting amount), as well ...
Bad words: Mich. university bans 'worn-out' words of 2006
Jan 01, 2007; ... * See the list of the banned: www.lssu.edu /banished DETROIT - If the media's habit of combining celebrity names didn'tcause word watchers enough heartburn in 2006, the past year hadplenty of other words and phrases that language purists wish had"gone missing." Lake Superior ...
U.S. death toll in Iraq at 3,000
Jan 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - The day after Saddam Hussein's execution, the deathtoll for Americans killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000 as PresidentBush struggles to salvage a military campaign that has scant publicsupport. The death of a Texas soldier, announced Sunday by the Pentagon,comes as ...
Bombs kill 3 in Bangkok on holiday
Jan 01, 2007; ... BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's prime minister said today thatousted politicians rather than Muslim insurgents were likely behindthe bombings that killed three people and canceled New Year's Evefestivities for thousands of revelers. The nine bombs that exploded across Bangkok on ...
Nation & world
Jan 01, 2007 ... Denver Broncos player dies in drive-by shooting DENVER - Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot andkilled in a drive-by shooting in downtown Denver early this morning,police said. Team spokesman Jim Saccomano said police called him about 3 a.m.Mountain ...
Regional weather
Jan 01, 2007 ... Hi Lo Otlk Akron 42 29 PCldy Charlotte 57 35 Clr Cincinnati 45 31 PCldy Cleveland 44 31 PCldy Columbus,Ohio 43 30 PCldy Dayton 44 30 PCldy Daytona Beach 68 56 PCldy Greensboro,N.C. 57 36 ...
Forecasts
Jan 01, 2007 ... Tonight Cloudy. A chance of rain showers. Much cooler with lows in thelower 30s. Tuesday Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper ...
National weather
Jan 01, 2007 ... Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 17 10 Snow Baltimore 51 38 Clr Boston 45 38 PCldy Chicago 47 26 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 55 29 PCldy Denver 44 15 Clr Detroit 42 32 PCldy Honolulu 81 68 Clr Houston 57 36 PCldy Indianapolis 46 29 ...
Your views: Deposits on bottles certainly worked for West Virginia in the 1960s
Jan 01, 2007 ... The Daily Mail claimed in a Dec. 21 editorial that our legislatorsshould not burden their constituents with a bottle bill. With the long list of government agencies, civic groups andprivate individuals supporting a bottle bill in West Virginia, surelythe Daily Mail will allow more ...
Here's to further progress this year: W.Va. should keep improving on its economy
Jan 01, 2007; ... AS we begin a new year, there are many things to be thankful forhere in West Virginia. A new sense of hope and optimism is prevalentacross the state, and there is renewed energy coming out of our hillsand hollows. I am not talking just about "energy" in the form of coal, ...
Our views: Big Brother is taking notes; Sadly, the average American will waste 65 days in '07 watching TV
Jan 01, 2007; ... THE new year is a time to reflect on the past one and look ahead.The U.S. Census Bureau has done that, and unfortunately, itdiscovered that people waste a lot of time. The average American will spend, in bits and snatches, a total of65 days watching television in ...
Our views: Maintenance is a real must; The town's trestle-to-trail project hinges on thinking long term
Jan 01, 2007; ... WITH an $800,000 federal earmark dangling before them, CharlestonCity Council and Mayor Danny Jones have an incentive to go ahead withpursuing the conversion of the CSX trestle into a bicycle andpedestrian walkway. The proposal has kicked around for at least two years. Among ...
Once again, a hope that peace will prevail: Everyone wants it, but no one knows how to obtain it
Jan 01, 2007; ... IT'S a new year. May I wish you peace for 2007? You don't have toaccept my wish. I don't want to offend you. You see, I have this weird and uneasy feeling that some folkssuspect those who wish them peace. What are they? Peaceniks? Maybe they're socialists or evencommunists ....
Body of Saddam Hussein buried in his home village of Auja, Iraq: Simplicity of burial in sharp contrast with dictator's life, aspirations
Jan 01, 2007; ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was broughtto his home village early Sunday morning in a simple wood coffin forburial, less than 24 hours after his execution. A few hundredmourners paid their respects in the predawn darkness for a man wholed their nation over three ...
Nurse says Saddam rarely complained in custody
Jan 01, 2007; ... ST. LOUIS - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jailsaid the deposed dictator saved bread crusts to feed birds and seldomcomplained to his captors, except when he had legitimate gripes. Master Sgt. Robert Ellis cared for the former Iraqi dictator fromJanuary 2004 ...
Woman accused of stalking ex-Beatle found dead
Jan 01, 2007; ... TRUCKEE, Calif. - A woman who pleaded no contest to trespassing atthe Hawaii home of George Harrison was found dead in a blood-splattered sport utility vehicle, apparently the victim of a murder-suicide, police said. Cristin Keleher, 34, served four months in jail after her ...
Chinese college grads face a bleak employment outlook
Jan 01, 2007; ... BEIJING - For the better part of a 20-hour journey, Yu Meng hadslept as the train jostled and rolled across the north of China. A broad-faced, cheerful 26-year-old graduate student in chemistry,she had come from remote Gansu province to attend a job fair in thecapital. Now, still ...
Months after Katrina, neighborhood still nearly empty: Some would like area to be abandoned,; but mayor wants people to be able to return
Jan 01, 2007; ... NEW ORLEANS - For blacks in New Orleans at the height of Jim Crow,there were few aspirations higher than owning one of the modest brickbungalows in Pontchartrain Park. When postal workers and teachers and longshoremen wrote their lastrent checks and moved into the newly developed ...
Doctors treating more kidney stones in children
Jan 01, 2007; ... Doctors at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and other medicalinstitutions are beginning to report a curious increase in childrenwith kidney stones - another possible consequence of America'sdependence on processed foods. Bad eating habits have already fueled twin epidemics of ...
One dead after reported domestic dispute in Pinch
Jan 01, 2007 ... One man is dead after an apparent murder-suicide attempt at aPinch home late Sunday night, according to the Kanawha CountySheriff's Department. Lt. Bryan Stover said Michael Brisendine fatally shot his son-in-law, Teddy Pauley II, at Brisendine's esidence at 332 Mill Creek ...
Small plane crashes into yard, kills four in N.C.
Jan 01, 2007; ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A small plane crashed into a yard, killing fourpeople aboard and embedding its engine into a house, authoritiessaid. No injuries to people on the ground were reported Sunday. Thevictims' names were not immediately released. The control tower at ...
Gunmen wound six at Chicago party
Jan 01, 2007; ... CHICAGO - Two masked gunmen burst into a party and opened fire,wounding six men, police said. About 100 people were attending the party in a house on the city'sSouth Side when the gunmen kicked down a door early Sunday, policespokeswoman Monique Bond said. The six victims ...
Police report
Jan 01, 2007 ... One killed, one injured in early morning wreck One person was killed and a juvenile injured in an early morningcrash today on Interstate 79 near the Kanawha and Roane county line,a dispatcher said. Information was limited this morning, but the dispatcher said thetwo ...
Fuel tax hike, other changes take effect
Jan 01, 2007; ... Driving a vehicle and heating a home or business will become moreexpensive in West Virginia on New Year's Day, when the state hikesone of its fuel taxes by 4 1/2 cents. Drawn from average wholesale prices, the motor fuel tax willincrease from 6.5 cents to 11 percents per gallon ....
Police investigating Dunbar deaths
Jan 01, 2007 ... Police are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and twowomen at a Dunbar apartment. The victims were identified as Lori Ann Francis, 33; PatriciaFrancis, 64; and Richard Francis, 63, said Chief E.E. Whittington ofthe Dunbar Police Department. They were found dead ...
Thousands of Turks injured while sacrificing animals
Jan 01, 2007; ... ANKARA, Turkey - Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of theMuslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards after stabbingthemselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startledanimals. At least 1,413 people - referred to as "amateur butchers" by theTurkish media - ...
Jacket DB could sit out Gator Bowl after wreck that claims family friend
Jan 01, 2007; ... THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Georgia Tech cornerback Jamal Lewis might sitout the Gator Bowl after being involved in a car crash that killed afamily friend. Lewis was riding Saturday with Corey L. Russ, an off-dutyJacksonville police officer. Russ drove ...
MU BASKETBALL: 'Great' fans help Marshall in its upset of Virginia Tech
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER HUNTINGTON - Every time that everybody starts to write thisMarshall basketball team off ... Well, the Herd does something so totally unexpected, so totallyinexplicable it stops everyone in mid-pencil. The first time it happened was against ...
Tech backup turned starter 'ready'
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Taylor Bennett had only one day to preparethe last time he found himself in this situation. He had two weeks this time. Did that make a difference for Bennett? He isn't sure, but itdoesn't matter now because today is the day ...
All Colson wants is the 'W': WVU backup running back hopes for a chance, but savors his situation
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Maybe this story will have a happy endingafter all. Perhaps Jason Colson can cap his up-and-down college career withhis sixth and final 100-yard rushing performance today when he andhis West Virginia University teammates face ...
Beilein likes competitive nature of Mountaineers
Jan 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER MORGANTOWN - Yeah, yeah, the Gator Bowl is on today. We get it. And in all the hubbub and hoopla - will Steve Slaton play? WillWest Virginia's secondary get torched ... again - you might forgetthere's more to this town than football. There's ...
NFL PLAYOFFS: The Jets are going to the playoffs
Jan 01, 2007; ... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - So, Kerry Rhodes, how does it feel to hearthat the New York Jets are going to the playoffs? "Say it for me one more time," the second-year safety said. The New York Jets are going to the playoffs. "That's it," he said, grinning. "It sounds real ...
Top of the 2nd
Jan 01, 2007; ... BOISE, Idaho - Larry Coker went out a winner, just as his playerspromised. Kirby Freeman threw for 272 yards and two long TDs, ran foranother score, and Chavez Grant made a diving interception with 18seconds left in the Hurricanes' 21-20 victory over Nevada in the MPCComputers ...
National scoreboard
Jan 01, 2007 ... basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New Jersey 13 18 .419 - Toronto 13 18 .419 - New York 13 20 .394 1 Boston 10 19 .345 2 Philadelphia 8 22 .267 41/2 Southeast ...
Local scoreboard
Jan 01, 2007 ... area schedule High school The upcoming athletics schedule for area high schools, assubmitted by the schools: Boys basketball Tuesday - Buffalo at Wahama, 7:30 p.m.; St. Albans at Capital,7:30 p.m.; Fairhaven Christian at Elk Valley Christian, 7:30 ...
NFL Report
Jan 01, 2007 ... Wild-card Saturday Kansas City at Indianapolis, 4:30 p.m. (NBC) Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.m. (NBC) Sunday New York Jets at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) New York Giants at Philadelphia, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan ....
NFL Report: Final standings
Jan 01, 2007 ... AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div y-New England 12 4 0 .750 385 237 5-3-0 7-1-0 8-4-0 4-0-0 4-2-0 z-N.Y. Jets 10 6 0 .625 316 295 4-4-0 6-2-0 7-5-0 3-1-0 4-2-0 Buffalo 7 9 0 .438 300 311 4-4-0 3-5-0 5-7-0 2-2-0 ...
NFL Report
Jan 01, 2007 ... packers 26, bears 7 In Chicago, the Packers totally outplayed the Bears even thoughGreen Bay (8-8) had been eliminated earlier in the day. The 37-year-old Brett Favre was superb in what he said could behis finale. "If this is my last game, I want to remember it," Favre ...
Top-ranked UCLA wins
Jan 01, 2007; ... LOS ANGELES - The Washington Huskies never knew what hit them. Top-ranked UCLA stunned the 14th-ranked Huskies with a game-opening 16-6 spurt and two big second-half runs in a 96-74 victorySunday. Arron Afflalo equaled his career high with 27 points and tied ...
WVU's success spearheaded by long-distance plan
Jan 01, 2007; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - West Virginia football has brought newmeaning to "going long." It's not like the good ol' streetball play design, where you'dsprint to the curbside telephone pole, then run a post. As theMountaineers play the 62nd Gator Bowl today, they've gotten a lot ...
Gwaltney will be back at WVU next week
Jan 01, 2007; ... Don't write off former West Virginia University running back JasonGwaltney just yet. Others may have given up hope for one of the best high schoolfootball players in Long Island history, but Gwaltney says he's farfrom done. West Virginia Coach Rich Rodriguez confirmed on the ...
Winning comes down to 'execution and fundamentals'
Jan 01, 2007; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - If the 62nd Gator Bowl today mirrors many ofthe pre-Jan. 1 postseason college football games, then West Virginiawill have to change a recent trend. WVU Coach Rich Rodriguez and Georgia Tech's Chan Gailey were askedSunday to distill their teams' matchup this ...
Boise State must deal with Sooners' speed
Jan 01, 2007; ... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Boise State Coach Chris Petersen says Oklahomais probably the biggest team his Broncos have faced, and the fastest. That size and speed loom large in tonight's Fiesta Bowl, where theunbeaten and ninth-ranked Broncos of the Western Athletic Conferenceare decided ...
WVU GATOR BOWL NOTEBOOK: WVU linemen weakest on the links
Jan 01, 2007; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelsonneed not worry. Dan Mozes, Jeremy Sheffey and Jake Figner won't replace thoseprofessional golfers on the PGA Tour in the near future. That didn't stop the West Virginia University offensive linemen -none of whom ...
Minnesota fires coach after losing 31-point lead
Jan 01, 2007; ... MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota fired Coach Glen Mason on Sunday, two daysafter the Gophers blew a 31-point third quarter lead and lost 44-41to Texas Tech in the Insight Bowl. Mason was 64-57 in 10 years at Minnesota and led the Gophers toseven bowl games. But he was just 3-4 in those ...
COMMENTARY: This is what you'd call real Gator experience
Jan 01, 2007; ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - West Virginia thinks its six trips to theGator Bowl is a lot? Please. In doing pregame research for today's 62nd annual game, with WVU(10-2) facing Georgia Tech (9-4), I figured out I've tied a record ... well, sort of. This is my eighth Gator ...
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: Dragons make progress against former powerhouse
Jan 01, 2007; ... While the college football bowl season is dragging out all the wayto next Monday, the holiday girls high school basketball tournamentshave all finished. Locally, Capital defeated Wheeling-based private school Mount deChantal to win the St. Albans tournament, Charleston Catholic ...
Tongue-in-cheek yearbook raised lots of eyebrows: UCs 1962 edition came with a disclaimer in an attempt to quell controversy of comical captions and silly photos
Jan 01, 2007; ... The Satanic Verses. Catcher in the Rye. The 1962 Harveyan? Several books have sparked censorship and controversy over time,and the University of Charleston's 1962 yearbook is one of them. Then known as Morris Harvey College, the school produced ayearbook titled ...
A matter of resolve: Keeping goals small and simple key to successful New Year's resolutions
Jan 01, 2007; ... Ah, the joy of New Year's. The parties, the food, the football games. The empty hope that comes with making a resolution you know you'llnever keep. The goals people sometimes set for themselves can bevague and lofty: to lose weight, to get on track financially, or justto be a ...
My Turn: As prose goes, this poem can't be verse
Jan 01, 2007; ... Greetings, friends! In rhyme I beckon In the new year, but I reckon Verse I owe to old '06 Helped by RhymeZone's dot com fix Hello to readers, one and all And Hoppys - Shores and Kercheval To Danny Jones, by ballot free To pave our streets by ...
Scientists focus on sharks for human genome research
Jan 01, 2007; ... Humans have more in common genetically with elephant sharks thanwith some other fish species, according to a new paper publishedFriday in the journal Science. Twelve scientists in Singapore and the United States havegenerated a genome sequence for the elephant shark, one of the ...
Dear Abby: Let the dawn of new year drive out past darkness
Jan 01, 2007; ... DEAR READERS: Rise and shine, my friends, and welcome a brand-newyear! This is our chance for a new beginning. It is the day wediscard destructive old habits for healthy new ones. With that inmind, I am printing Dear Abby's often-requested list of New Year'sresolutions - adapted by my ...
Horoscope
Jan 01, 2007; ... FORECAST FOR TUESDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19). Potential loves seem to actdifferently with you than they do with others. Think of a newrelationship as a fragrance that'll develop its own character incontact with your skin and personality. rTAURUS (April 20-May 20). People ...
Tom Petty says he doesn't plan to go into retirement
Jan 01, 2007; ... LOS ANGELES - Looks like Tom Petty won't back down after all. The veteran rocker says he's not retiring, despite a Rolling Stonearticle in July that suggested otherwise. Petty said 2006 was one of the most rewarding years in his ...
Shoppers flock to outlet store next to ribbon factory
Jan 01, 2007; ... Judy Toland and her friends have a secret source for ribbons, andoften they head north on Interstate 270 toward Hagerstown, Md., tostock up. Sixty-five miles north of Washington is one of the nation'sbiggest ribbon factories. The operation came to Hagerstown in 1922, begun ...
Celebrations: Charleston rings in the new year with parties, performances
Jan 01, 2007; ... A tugboat pushing coal on the Kanawha River passes by paddleboatsthat moored at Haddad Riverfront Park to celebrate the New Year. Members of the River City Youth Ballet Ensemble perform at the CivicCenter Little Theater. The performance was part of Good Nightfestivities ...
Mich. church prepares for Ford funeral
Jan 01, 2007; ... EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Rev. Nixon McMillan started hearingthe jokes soon after becoming interim rector of Grace EpiscopalChurch, where a funeral will be held for former President Gerald R.Ford. "As I remember, they said, 'Isn't it funny that Ford pardonedNixon and now ...