Charleston Daily Mail back issues from March 2007:
Bill's effect on research at issue: Drug representatives say measure harms collaboration between companies, universities
Mar 01, 2007; ... Opponents of a prescription drug bill awaiting Senate action fearit could sever collaborative research agreements betweenpharmaceutical companies and medical schools in the state. Wayne County Delegate Don Perdue says that argument is untrue andessentially a scare tactic used by ...
Chase Tower changes hands
Mar 01, 2007; ... JPMorgan Chase has sold its downtown Charleston office tower to aToronto-based real estate investment fund. The sale price was not disclosed. Chase spokeswoman Nancy Norrissaid the bank sold a total of 33 buildings, including Chase'sbuildings in Huntington and Clarksburg, for $460 ...
Simmering dispute lingers over Wood County circuit judge post
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Colonnade Restaurant is an elegant establishment in Viennawhere things are alleged to have gotten rather ugly in a simmeringdispute between newly appointed Circuit Judge J.D. Beane and MicheleRusen, his rival for the job. Rusen is a former Wood County prosecutor who now ...
Trucker carries on after gunshot wound, apartment fire: He won't give up on helping people
Mar 01, 2007; ... Truck driver Randy Tomblin is living in a Barboursville apartmentfull of donated furniture after his house burned last month. Tomblin,of ...
Charley West says ...
Mar 01, 2007 ... Porker of the Year, eh? I wish someone would call me ...
Trucker carries on after gunshot wound, apartment fire: He won't give up on helping people
Mar 01, 2007; ... HUNTINGTON - For nearly all of his adult life, Randy Tomblin was atruck-driving good Samaritan who routinely stopped for people needinghelp along the roadside. He never expected that he would one day be the one in desperateneed of assistance. The trip that would forever ...
Mollohan named 'Porker of: the Year'; Congressman says he doesn't mind designation
Mar 01, 2007; ... A nonpartisan Washington, D.C., watchdog group has recognized WestVirginia Congressman Alan Mollohan as its "Porker of the Year." Citizens Against Government Waste gave Mollohan the distinctionfor steering $250 million in congressional earmarks to five nonprofitorganizations he ...
ATV safety bill has little chance of passage
Mar 01, 2007; ... CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Barring an unlikely, last-minute maneuver inthe Legislature, legislation aimed at improving the state's all-terrain vehicle safety record is dead. The Senate Rules Committee declined Wednesday to put the bill onthe upper house's calendar, ratifying a decision ...
Priest sentenced for trespassing: Lewis, four other war protesters spent hours at Capito's office Feb. 16 to support Iraq resolution
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Rev. Jim Lewis has been sentenced to a $50 fine or one day ofcommunity service after he pleaded guilty to trespassing. Lewis, an Episcopal minister, was charged with trespassing afterhe and four members of West Virginia Patriots for Peace spent hoursat Congresswoman Shelley ...
Many taxpayers eligible for phone excise tax credit
Mar 01, 2007 ... U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito has urged taxpayers to takeadvantage of a one-time telephone excise tax credit that could beworth $60. The Internal Revenue Service reported that out of 200,000 earlyreturns filed this year by West Virginians, more than 71,000 failedto request the ...
Regional weather
Mar 01, 2007 ... Akron 42 35 Cldy Charlotte 63 48 Clr Cincinnati 48 36 PCldy Cleveland 43 36 Cldy Columbus,Ohio 46 39 PCldy Dayton 43 36 PCldy Daytona Beach 75 66 Rain Greensboro,N.C. 62 49 PCldy Lexington 52 ...
Weather Almanac
Mar 01, 2007 ... Yesterday's high 53 Record high 79, 1918 Normal high 39 Yesterday's low 24 Record low 10, 1906 Normal ...
Forecasts
Mar 01, 2007 ... Tonight Periods of showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 3am, then achance of rain. Friday Partly cloudy, with a high near 55. West wind between 9 and ...
National weather
Mar 01, 2007 ... Anchorage 13 -4 Clr Baltimore 57 43 Rain Boston 39 30 Rain Chicago 35 28 Snow Dallas-Ft Worth 63 36 PCldy Denver 32 14 PCldy Detroit 37 31 Snow Honolulu 82 69 Clr Houston 74 45 Clr Indianapolis 42 34 Cldy Kansas City ...
Iran remains undecided on conference in Iraq
Mar 01, 2007; ... CAIRO, Egypt - Iran's level of participation remained uncertaintoday as Iraq pushed ahead with plans to hold a March 10 conferencewith its neighbors and key Western countries on the Iraqi securitycrisis. Some Arab neighbors like Egypt, for their part, still have gravedoubts the ...
Stocks try to stage recovery on upbeat report
Mar 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK - Wall Street tried to stage a comeback today, with theDow Jones industrials erasing much of an earlier 209-point drop aftera stronger-than-expected reading of the Institute for SupplyManagement's assessment of manufacturing activity in February. Investors showed their ...
Hawking to make weightless flight: Paralyzed physicist to experience zero-gravity in Boeing 727 in Florida
Mar 01, 2007; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Renowned theoretical physicist StephenHawking, who authored the best-selling book, "A Brief History ofTime," soon will experience a brief history with weightlessness. Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely paralyzedby amyotrophic lateral ...
Manned space flight: Budget woes to delay NASA's next moonshot; Space agency chief says new ship, Orion, likely won't fly before 2015
Mar 01, 2007; ... More Time on the Ground The Orion delay is more time the U.S. willgo without any manned spaceflight the space shuttle is slated forretirement in 2010. It will fly 13 or 14 more missions to finish theInternational Space Station and maintain the Hubble space telescope. WASHINGTON - ...
Nation & world
Mar 01, 2007 ... McCain announces candidacy for presidential nomination WASHINGTON - Apparently believing that what's good once is evenbetter twice, Republican Sen. John McCain announced his candidacy forpresident during a TV appearance, and then announced he will announcehis candidacy again ...
Cockfighting is nothing more than animal cruelty
Mar 01, 2007; ... Cockfighting, like dog fighting, is animal cruelty. It is not"natural" as claimed by Logan resident Jason McCoy. It is not natural to tie roosters up, place razors on their legsand pit one against the other. To take pleasure in such a bloody,horrid, so-called sport is just ...
Our views: City council endorsements; Voters should not forget Charleston's levy is on the ballot
Mar 01, 2007; ... WITH few contested races on the ballot - and no contestedRepublican races - some voters might be tempted to skip Charleston'sprimary election on Tuesday. That would be a mistake, because votes are needed FOR thecontinuation of the city's operating levy. It needs 60 ...
Our views: Gambling signs need restrictions; To get a video slot machine license,; one must follow the rules on ads
Mar 01, 2007; ... WHEN he was governor, Bob Wise worked to legalize video slotmachines in adults-only settings. Wise believed that approach waspreferable to tolerating the spreading plague of illegal "graymachines" that were popping up in gas stations and convenience storesacross the state as the 20th ...
Rooting for a vice president's death is evil: Protesters imply dissent is the final refuge of the scoundrel
Mar 01, 2007; ... THE assassination attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney inAfghanistan drew praise from a few members of the antiwar left. Havethese people lost their minds? At the popular Huffington Post Web site, dozens of comments wereposted. Right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin captured them ...
Jerry West: Public figure, private man: What does one do with his cell phone number?
Mar 01, 2007; ... I have Jerry West's cell phone number. Now, what to do with it? Itcame to me easier than I expected, just handed over by a third partywho set me up with an interview. When my producer called the number a few minutes after 10 for theinterview, Jerry West actually ...
Manchin's agenda survives mostly intact after deadline
Mar 01, 2007; ... Having softened his stance on pay raises, Gov. Joe Manchin saw hislegislative agenda survive nearly intact after the deadline for billsto clear their house of origin. Manchin proposed 30 items in the third regular agenda of his term.The session ends at midnight March 10. The ...
Two women plead guilty to insurance fraud
Mar 01, 2007; ... Two Kanawha County women have pleaded guilty on separate chargesof insurance fraud and a Mercer County man has been indicted on afelony charge of insurance fraud, West Virginia InsuranceCommissioner Jane Cline announced. Gloria Dunlap of Elkview and Barbara Bostic of Chelyan ...
Authorities arrest 39 during warrant sweep
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department arrested 39 people on 61outstanding charges during a warrant sweep in the Cross Lanes area. Of those charges, 15 were felonies and 46 were misdemeanors. Atotal of 77 warrants were cleared ...
Candy may have caused students' illness
Mar 01, 2007; ... CLARKSBURG - Health officials are investigating whether a flu-like illness that sent about 20 high school students to the hospitalwas linked to candy bars. The chocolate-covered caramel bars were sold as a fundraiser atLiberty High School in Clarksburg, said Chad Bundy, ...
Prosecution rests in teacher abuse case
Mar 01, 2007; ... Tyrone Persinger, right, listens in a courtroom Wednesday as ayoung woman tells jurors that he touched her inappropriately fouryears ago at Capital High ...
Prosecution rests in teacher abuse case: Three ex-students cried during testimony; defense says women are on a witch hunt
Mar 01, 2007; ... Prosecutors rested their case after bringing three more youngwomen before jurors to testify how a former Capital High Schoolteacher touched them inappropriately when they were students there. Tyrone Keith Persinger is on trial for sexual abuse in KanawhaCircuit Court, charged with ...
Ney set to begin prison term in Morgantown
Mar 01, 2007; ... MORGANTOWN - Disgraced former congressman Bob Ney is set to begina 2 1/2-year sentence at a federal prison in West Virginia, where hislifestyle will be considerably more austere and his wardrobe willconsist mainly of khaki. His $165,200 annual salary will be replaced with a wage ...
State briefs
Mar 01, 2007 ... Controversial library funding bill passes Senate A controversial bill that would change the funding system forlibraries in nine counties has been approved by the state Senate andis now up for passage in the House. Lawmakers are responding to a December state Supreme ...
Prosecutors trying to link drug kingpin to two murders
Mar 01, 2007 ... A Bluefield drug kingpin is being sentenced today, and federalprosecutors have been trying to show the man was involved in twomurders. A jury found Maurice "Mo" Gibson guilty of dealing cocaine,OxyContin and Dilaudid and money laundering in March 2006. On Tuesday and ...
Teacher charged with having sex with boys
Mar 01, 2007; ... CLINTON, S.C. - A middle school teacher accused of having sex withat least five boys - some of them students at her school - wasarrested, authorities said. Police began investigating Allenna Williams Ward, 23, after schoolofficials recovered a note containing inappropriate ...
Lawmakers take time to show support for troops
Mar 01, 2007; ... On one of the busiest days of the legislative session, lawmakerstook time to show support for West Virginians serving in themilitary. Delegates and senators from both parties lined up Wednesday in theCapitol Rotunda to sign a banner welcoming a Nicholas Countyresident, Jacob ...
Police report
Mar 01, 2007 ... Ala. truck driver killed in three-vehicle accident BECKLEY - A truck driver from Alabama died from injuries sustainedin a three-vehicle wreck on the West Virginia Turnpike. Traffic was blocked up in both directions Tuesday night asemergency crews worked to clear the ...
Winfield girls send Sissonville home in overtime thriller to win Region 5
Mar 01, 2007; ... For girls basketball fans, it is still the best ticket in town. On Wednesday night, Winfield and Sissonville staged one of theirbest in a long line of entertainingly dramatic contests. Like heavyweight boxing champs, the defending state championGenerals and All-State point ...
Steelers team doctor probed for buying hormones: Art Rooney:There's no evidence Steeler players took illegal or banned substances
Mar 01, 2007; ... PITTSBURGH - A doctor for the Pittsburgh Steelers has beenquestioned by federal regulators about hormone purchases from aFlorida pharmacy, but there is no proof he provided the substances toany players, a team official said Wednesday. Dr. Richard Rydze has acknowledged that ...
It's win or go home for UC women: Golden Eagles beat Shepherd, keep dream of fourth straight NCAA regional berth alive
Mar 01, 2007; ... WVC Championship Charleston Civic Center Womens results *Glenville State 68, Salem Intl 48 * Concord 53, Fairmont State 50 *West Liberty 69, Wheeling Jesuit 62 * Charleston 65, Shepherd 62Tonights games Men * Alderson-Broadus (22-4) vs. Charleston (15-13), 6:30 p.m. * Concord (16-12), ...
Boys Basketball: Class AAA, Region 7, Section 1 Championship: Late shot seals deal; South Charleston wins sectional title after controversial tip-in at the buzzer
Mar 01, 2007; ... There was plenty of doubt about the tip-in at the buzzer by SouthCharleston's Matt Heyliger to beat George Washington (16-7) in theClass AAA Region 7, Section 2 basketball final on Wednesday night atthe University of Charleston. It was especially so from GW Coach Rick ...
Herd steams Rice with pressure on Almond
Mar 01, 2007; ... HUNTINGTON - Down the stretch, Marshall's defense was like whiteon Rice. Think it was a coincidence that Rice star Morris Almond - theleading scorer in Conference USA and No. 3 in the nation - didn'tscore during the final 8:17? It wasn't. Think it was luck that ...
Top of the 2nd
Mar 01, 2007 ... Buffalo boys move into regional final Buffalo High found another reason to say "Great, Scott" onWednesday night. Adam Scott's basket with 32 seconds left lifted the Bison withinone game of another Class A State Tournament berth, as Buffalooutlasted Huntington St. Joseph 46-45 ...
National scoreboard
Mar 01, 2007 ... Basketball College men EAST Dayton 73, Temple 65 Fordham 91, St. Bonaventure 60 Massachusetts 102, La Salle 63 Penn St. 74, Iowa 72 Villanova 78, Connecticut 74 SOUTH Alabama 69, Mississippi 58 Auburn 80, LSU ...
Local scoreboard
Mar 01, 2007 ... Schedule High schools The upcoming athletic schedules for area high schools, assubmitted by the schools: Boys basketball State sectionals schedule on page 4B. Girls basketball State regionals schedule on page 4B. Colleges The ...
West Liberty's Street overcomes injury to spark quarterfinal win for Hilltoppers
Mar 01, 2007 ... By ANDREW J. BECKNER DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER You'd never mistake Charity Street for Willis Reed. She's a thin little white girl, prone to giggling, her shiningbright teeth framed with a shock of blonde hair and a tiny littlestud in her nose. But when she walked ...
Glenville won't sleepwalk through WVC Tourament: Team focused on winning despite already locking up NCAAregional berth
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Glenville State women's basketball team has locked up a spotin next week's NCAA Division II East Regional tournament. Shoot, the 28-2 Pioneers likely will host the East Regional. That doesn't mean, though, that Coach Steve Harold's talented teamis going through the motions ...
Concord enjoying unprecedented success, berth in WVC semis
Mar 01, 2007; ... This season has been a monumental one for Concord women'sbasketball. Fortunately for the Mountain Lions, it will continue for at leastone more game. Fourth-seeded Concord (21-8) advanced to the West VirginiaConference Tournament semifinals Wednesday afternoon with a 53-50 ...
Texas wins Big 12 thriller; Duke falls to Maryland in ACC
Mar 01, 2007; ... AUSTIN, Texas - A sign crowned him "King Durant" and the crowd waschanting "Three More Years." Texas fans knew they just might be watching freshman KevinDurant's last home game for the No. 15 Longhorns. And boy, it was a doozy. Durant had 30 points and 16 rebounds to ...
Red Dragons finally get over the hump, beat Nitro
Mar 01, 2007; ... It's probably a terrible cliche, but the third time was the charmfor St. Albans to get past Nitro. The Red Dragons moved into next week's Region 7 championship game,eliminating the host Wildcats, 82-62 Wednesday night in the Region 7,Section 1 championship game. Earlier in ...
Fan Fare: Homesickness nearly ended West's career too soon
Mar 01, 2007; ... MORGANTOWN - As great as Jerry West turned out to be, thebasketball immortal almost lost out to early homesickness way backthere in 1956-57. He admits he was somewhat shy and quiet and felt uneasy at timesduring his first year at West Virginia University. "I didn't think I ...
Union campaign features teachers who have left profession
Mar 01, 2007; ... A father of two with another baby on the way, teacher Jason Pottsdecided it was time to leave the profession. Potts, his wife Katie and his two children were living paycheck topaycheck on his salary of $40,000. When the 30-year-old learned his wife was pregnant with ...
County posts salaries online
Mar 01, 2007; ... Kanawha County officials have posted the salaries of all countyemployees online, including those who work for the commission, thesheriff's department, prosecutor's and assessor's offices, and thecounty and circuit clerks' offices. County Commission President Kent Carper now is ...
Competition for Toyota is intense
Mar 01, 2007; ... Competition for automobile assembly plants - the big enchilada instate economic development efforts - continues to be keen. Accordingto the Nashville Tennessean, Toyota will receive about $296 millionin incentives from the state of Mississippi to build a plant nearTupelo. Toyota ...
Workers' comp events slated around state
Mar 01, 2007; ... FROM STAFF REPORTS Training sessions and informational meetings have been scheduledaround the state this month for insurance agents and employersregarding the transition of West Virginia's workers' compensationinsurance market from a state-run monopoly to privately ...
Obituaries: Obit
Mar 01, 2007 ... Naomi Ruth Ballengee Naomi Ruth Robinson Ballengee, 84, of Pinch, formerly of the WestSide of Charleston, left this world on Feb. 25, 2007, in the arms ofan angel to go to her heavenly home to meet her Lord and Savior,Jesus Christ, and to be reunited with her loving husband, ...
Calendar of events
Mar 01, 2007 ... Friday AL-ANON: Family Group, Alateens, 8 p.m., 1225 Ohio Ave., Dunbar.For information, 342-4315. AA: Edgewood Group, closed mixed discussion, 7 p.m., St. Luke'sEpiscopal Church, Somerset Drive. AA: Clendenin Community Center, open big book and discussion, 7:30to 8:30 ...
Show's music helps soothe the savage pirate: Dramatic team made play based on Treasure Island into a musical
Mar 01, 2007; ... If you go What: "Treasure Island" When: 7 p.m. Friday andSaturday; 2 p.m. Saturday Where: Civic Center Little Theater Cost: $8adults, $6 children Info: 346-0164 or www.ctoc.org Music has a way of softening a scary story, says composer MarkScarpelli. He hopes the songs he and ...
CD reviews
Mar 01, 2007; ... Watermelon Slim and the Workers The Wheel Man Northernblues If you haven't heard, the blues is dead. But if you need proof,pick up a copy of the latest from the "new 'King of the Blues',"Oklahoman Bill Homans, a.k.a. "Watermelon Slim." Everything aboutthis release - ...
Entertainment listings for March 1-7: Quick takes
Mar 01, 2007 ... Concert series features jazz duo Charleston Jazz Series will feature the Thompson D'earth Band at8:30 p.m. Friday at Wellington's at Scarlet Oaks. The band is becoming known for its rare combination of exploratoryimprovisational, evocative song-writing and riveting ...
Entertainment listings for March 1-7
Mar 01, 2007 ... Concerts * KANAWHA VALLEY JAMBOREE: Exit 89 off I-64-77 at Marmet. Avariety of country, bluegrass and gospel music with a special walkthrough the 1950s featuring the Mark IV Band with Jerry Frye,Stephanie Moore and guests, 7-10 p.m. Saturday. 545-2693. * MOUNTAINEER OPRY ...
Dear Abby: Sleep study leads to solution for wife's snoring problem
Mar 01, 2007; ... DEAR ABBY: I'm writing in response to the letter from "Teresa inDaytona, Fla." (Jan. 14), who said she loves her husband dearly inthe daytime, but at night she'd like to file for divorce. She saidthat the night before she wrote you, she'd had a nightmare that agrowling animal was ...
Horoscope
Mar 01, 2007; ... FORECAST FOR FRIDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19). You don't mind being incorrect once ina while. In fact, today you'd prefer it if a loved one proved youwrong. You would even be gracefully silent as this person said, "Itold you so!" rTAURUS (April 20-May 20). Getting work or ...
'Moan' director makes old themes new again: Some viewers may be angered by movie, but it becomes a nice tale of redemption
Mar 01, 2007; ... Black Snake Moan (R) HHH Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describinga film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to aradiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of allplaces. Sweet, however, is what "Black Snake ...
Historian, Kennedy insider Schlesinger dies: Pulitzer Prize-winning author died at a N.Y. hospital at the age of 89
Mar 01, 2007; ... NEW YORK - In his 89 years, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was aPulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Kennedy insider, and aninfluential thinker who helped define mainstream liberalism duringthe Cold War. "(He had) enormous stamina and a kind of energy and drive whichmost people don't ...
W.Va. spring forest fire season begins today
Mar 01, 2007; ... West Virginia's spring forest fire season starts today. Through May 31, outdoor burning will be permitted only between thehours of 4 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the chances of a fire getting out ofcontrol are reduced by cooler temperatures and calmer winds. About 35 percent of the ...