Charleston Daily Mail back issues from October 2007:
Garner mentor Pasinetti remains a fan, supporter of young actress
Oct 01, 2007; ... Charleston Light Opera Guild Director Nina Denton Pasinetti poseswith Jennifer Garner last month at a Los Angeles premiere for ...
ALL EYES ON BEING A GOOD SPORT: ; Schools tackle drinking at games
Oct 01, 2007; ... Mitchel Kawash, Lea Remolona, Michael Sattes, Jack Burgess andPeter Gaglio, all seniors at George Washington High School, havecome up with a ...
Garner mentor Pasinetti remains a fan, supporter of young actress
Oct 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF Charleston's sweetheart Jennifer Garner has become a big star inHollywood, but she hasn't forgotten the local woman who supportedher acting dream. Charleston Light Opera Guild Director Nina Denton Pasinettioversaw many productions Garner starred in while she ...
ALL EYES ON BEING A GOOD SPORT: ; Schools tackle drinking at games
Oct 01, 2007; ... Conduct has become so questionable at high school sporting eventsthat students are making extra efforts to improve it. At University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field, where manylocal high school teams play football, more and more students in thepast three to five years have ...
State eyes licensing of elevator workers: ; Auditors say regulation needed to make sure equipment is properly maintained
Oct 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER Lawmakers could end up requiring people who install and repairelevators and escalators to get licensed, following a report by theLegislative Auditor. The state now only requires licensing for elevator inspectors. There are no state ...
New report shows area accounts for almost a quarter of output
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Charleston metropolitan area's economic activity accounts foralmost a quarter of the state's entire economic output, according tonew data released by a federal agency. The United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of EconomicAnalysis has published national and state gross ...
Charles Ryan sold to local investors: ; Company's namesake to stay on as a consultant
Oct 01, 2007; ... A local investment group led by Henry Harmon has acquired thestate's top advertising and public relations firm, Charles RyanAssociates. The deal puts a new spin on the advertising, public andgovernment relations business in West Virginia because it instantlyputs Harmon's group ...
Farmer cancels corn maze after bears nearly destroy it
Oct 01, 2007; ... RENICK - Ron Miller intended sheep to be the theme of his annualcorn maze. Instead, the theme turned out to be bears. Hungry bears, that is, the kind driven by a lack of wild food todevour more than 40 percent of the corn on Miller's 59-acre farm inGreenbrier County. The ...
Nearing 90, Byrd shows fighting spirit: ; Longest-serving senator says he won't back funding for war
Oct 01, 2007; ... Just months after observers suggested age had caught up with him,Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., seemed to answer such questions duringa busy and often contentious week on Capitol Hill. History's longest-serving U.S. senator kicked things off byissuing an ultimatum to President Bush ...
Boy's lawyers want confession thrown out: ; 10-year-old accused of setting house fire that killed mother, sister,; three other children
Oct 01, 2007; ... CINCINNATI - People described Timothy Douglas Byers as shy andeasygoing, someone who liked riding bikes and tossing footballs. Hewould play jokes in the church van, and eat pizza rolls and orangedrink. Now the 10-year-old is accused of deliberately setting the Sept.16 fire that ...
U.S. offers rewards for 'Most Wanted'
Oct 01, 2007; ... BAGRAM, Afghanistan - The U.S. military has launched a new "MostWanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for informationleading to the capture of 12 Taliban and al-Qaida leaders. Posters and billboards are being put up around easternAfghanistan with the names and ...
Death toll hits new low since '06: ; Reports show 63 soldiers died in war in month of September
Oct 01, 2007; ... BAGHDAD - Sixty-three U.S. military deaths were reported inSeptember, the lowest monthly toll since July 2006, according toU.S. forces and a preliminary count by The Associated Press. A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a small-arms attack duringcombat operations in eastern ...
Regional weather
Oct 01, 2007 ... Hi Lo Otlk Akron 75 54 PCldy Charlotte 82 55 Clr Cincinnati 84 56 PCldy Cleveland 76 58 PCldy Columbus,Ohio 83 57 PCldy Dayton 81 55 PCldy Daytona Beach 84 75 Rain Greensboro,N.C. 81 56 ...
National weather
Oct 01, 2007 ... Hi Lo Otlk Anchorage 50 37 Cldy Baltimore 76 53 Clr Boston 71 53 Cldy Chicago 78 57 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 92 75 PCldy Denver 72 49 PCldy Detroit 76 57 PCldy Honolulu 87 73 Clr Houston 90 70 Clr Indianapolis 81 58 ...
Wedding vows float across lake
Oct 01, 2007; ... RACINE, Wis. - Melody Kloska and Matt Behrs take it as a signthey were meant to get married. After tying the knot on a Lake Michigan beach on Aug. 18, theyreleased a bottle containing their wedding vows. A few weeks later,the bottle was found by Fred and Lynnette Dubendorf, of ...
Volcano erupts off Yemen; 8 missing
Oct 01, 2007; ... SAN'A, Yemen - A volcanic explosion rocked a tiny Yemeni islandin the Red Sea, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the airand forcing Yemeni authorities to evacuate a military base. NATO andYemeni ships today were searching for eight missing soldiers. The eruption Sunday ...
Nation & World
Oct 01, 2007 ... Zookeepers fatally shoot chimpanzee on the run LONDON - A runaway chimp was shot dead after breaking out of hisenclosure at an English zoo, his keepers said. Chimpanzees Jonnie and Coco broke out of their compound Friday atthe Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, about 35 ...
Amish opt for silent vigil: ; The New Hope School in Nickel Mines, Pa., will be closed for one- year anniversary of shootings
Oct 01, 2007; ... NICKEL MINES, Pa. - A year ago, this sleepy farm community wasbarely a blip on the map, home to a dusty auction house, a smallprivate swim club and a few modest Amish-owned home businesses. Life here went largely unnoticed by the wider world - and itsresidents liked it that way ....
Our view: ; Forward motion on the West Side; The pieces required for progress in the area are coming together
Oct 01, 2007; ... YOU gotta love Charleston. It works on its problems, and it nevergives up - a spirit that comes both from the bottom up and the topdown. The West Side has been battered by challenges over the past fewdecades, and for a time, the outlook for the area looked bleakindeed ....
Our view: ; SCHIP should focus on the poor; About half of those to be covered would drop private insurance
Oct 01, 2007; ... THE Democratic plan to double the state Children's HealthInsurance Program shows that government will be just as inefficientin providing universal health insurance as it has been in rebuildingNew Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. This program provides Medicaid-type coverage for ...
Don't look like a prostitute in the city: ; Huntington is coming out against that
Oct 01, 2007; ... BOTH Huntington and Charleston are awash with prostitutes whowork the streets with an elan that irritates the gentle people whofrown on the practice. A few weeks ago, I was driving on Ninth Avenue in Huntington,heading toward my branch bank to get money from the ATM, when ...
Your views
Oct 01, 2007 ... Congress must restore habeas corpus The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act will help us return to the ruleof law in America. It is important that we turn away from the path that we have beenon since 9/11. We must not let fear of our enemies push us to give up the ...
Man killed, another hurt in motorcycle accident
Oct 01, 2007; ... A Kanawha County man died and another man was sent to thehospital after a motorcycle accident on U.S. 60 in the Jeffersonarea. Kenny Wayne Dotson, 46, of St. Albans, was traveling west earlySaturday morning when the Suzuki Marauder he was driving struck apedestrian walking on ...
REVIEW: ; Enzo quartet delivers rousing performance
Oct 01, 2007; ... Most of the audience at Christ Church United Methodist werepolitely and calmly enjoying the Enso String Quartet as it playedAlberto Ginastera's String Quartet No. 1 in the opening concert forthe Charleston Chamber Music Society. Not me. With my eyes tightly closed, I was atop a ...
K9 training program
Oct 01, 2007; ... Nitro Police Patrolman Timmy Jarrell, top, leads Bullet, a drugdog, around the St. Albans High School parking lot to practicesniffing vehicles for drugs. Boone County Sheriff's Deputy JamieBarker, right, wrestles with Bullet, who's latching onto ...
Low cholesterol linked to premature births
Oct 01, 2007; ... Pregnant white women who have abnormally low cholesterol levelsare 21 percent more likely to give birth preterm, and both white andblack women with low levels give birth to babies who weigh less thanother infants of the same gestational age, researchers report. Obstetricians ...
Students to celebrate Walk to School Day
Oct 01, 2007 ... Students from Piedmont Elementary will celebrate InternationalWalk to School Day this week. Children, parents and neighbors will start Wednesday at theRoosevelt Community Center at 7 a.m. and walk to Piedmont ElementarySchool by 7:30 a.m. Participants will also get to join a ...
Trial expected to revive racial tension: ; Jury selection begins today in case of shooting that left hunter dead
Oct 01, 2007; ... WAUSAU, Wis. - When a squirrel hunter goes on trial for a fatalclash with another man in the woods, an earlier deadly shootingpromises to loom over the trial. James Nichols, 29, is accused of shooting and stabbing 30-year-old Cha Vang, whose body was found Jan. 6 in a wildlife ...
Anguish led to killing of mother, prosecutors say
Oct 01, 2007; ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Nine months into a faked pregnancy and withher family raising questions about her story, Lisa Montgomery wasdesperate for a baby, authorities allege. Prosecutors say Montgomery's anguish led her to plan the December2004 killing of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, ...
Church plans fall fair
Oct 01, 2007; ... Helen Epps displays some of the goods to be sold at the ChristChurch United Methodist Fall Fair set for 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. The church is located at the corner ofQuarrier and Morris streets in downtown ...
Agreement puts: ; 2 GM plants at risk; Contract between GM, autoworkers; will shutter plants in Indiana and Michigan
Oct 01, 2007; ... DETROIT - The tentative contract between General Motors Corp. andthe United Auto Workers would allow GM to close a plant each inMichigan and Indiana and possibly shut down several otherfacilities, according to a detailed copy of the agreement. The moves are the downside of job ...
Facebook told it may face charges for not providing protection
Oct 01, 2007; ... ALBANY, N.Y. - The social networking Web site Facebook has beenwarned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing tolive up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexualpredators than at most sites and that it promptly responds toconcerns, a spokesman for New York ...
At least 6 cars involved in Interstate 64 crash
Oct 01, 2007 ... Traffic was reduced to one lane after a multiple car accident inthe eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 near Teays Valley. Putnam County dispatchers said about six cars were involved inthe "chain reaction-style" accident. Some of the cars caught fireafter the wreck. The ...
Errors
Oct 01, 2007 ... For more information about the corn maze in Milton, call 743-0548 or ...
Wind, rain, Biffle victory highlight crazy race
Oct 01, 2007; ... KANSAS CITY, Kan. - If you'd seen Dorothy's house flying overKansas Speedway on its way to the Land of Oz, it wouldn't have beena surprising conclusion to Sunday's rain-shortened LifeLock 400. Twice halted by storms that brought fierce winds and drivingrain, the race ended 57 laps ...
Snyder will use all tools he needs
Oct 01, 2007; ... HUNTINGTON - Phillips or flat-head? That's the No. 1 issue with the Marshall secondary this week. As the Herd (0-4, 0-0) heads into its Conference USA openeragainst pass-oriented Memphis (1-3, 0-1) at 8 p.m. Tuesday in theLiberty Bowl, Coach Mark Snyder is convinced Marshall's ...
STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT: ; 'Skins face a dilemma; Six players only two strokes apart gives first-year coach something to think about
Oct 01, 2007; ... The problem that faced first-year Hurricane High golf CoachGlenna Ragle was one of those good ones. With six players that could compete for a spot on almost anyother Class AAA team, the Region 4 champion Redskins seemed poisedfor a run at a Class AAA state championship. Now ...
Syracuse has to maintain its focus
Oct 01, 2007; ... WVU at Syracuse Noon, Saturday WCHS MORGANTOWN - Just when it appeared West Virginia's football teamwas readying itself to not just get over Friday night's loss atSouth Florida, but to face another team turning the competitivecorner, this happened. Miami 17, Syracuse ...
Top of the 2nd
Oct 01, 2007 ... WVU basketball season tickets on sale today MORGANTOWN - Season tickets for West Virginia's 2007-08 men'sbasketball season went on sale today at the Mountaineer ticketoffice in the WVU Coliseum. Single game non-conference tickets alsoare on sale. West Virginia will play 15 ...
National scoreboard
Oct 01, 2007 ... Today's odds NCAAFOOTBALL Tuesday Favorite Open Today Underdog at Memphis 1 2 Marshall Saturday West Virginia Off Off at Syracuse FOOTBALL Major college scores Saturday EAST Army 37, Temple 21 Boston ...
NFL Report: ; Week 4 standings
Oct 01, 2007 ... AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div New England 3 0 0 1.000 114 35 2-0-0 1-0-0 3-0-0 0-0-0 2-0-0 Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 41 93 1-1-0 0-2-0 1-3-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 72 103 1-1-0 0-2-0 1-3-0 0-0-0 1-2-0 Miami 0 4 0 ...
Local scoreboard
Oct 01, 2007 ... Area schedule High school The upcoming athletic schedules for Kanawha and Putnam countyhigh schools: Football (All games 7:30 p.m.) Friday - South Charleston at Cabell Midland; St. Albans at Nitro;Sissonville vs. Herbert Hoover, Oakes Field; George ...
NFL Report
Oct 01, 2007 ... packers 23, vikings 16 Brett Favre is setting records and has the Green Bay Packers atthe top of their conference. The Packers, who beat Minnesota, have company atop the NFC:Dallas also is 4-0 after routing St. Louis 35-7. And Super Bowlchampion Indianapolis also remained ...
American League
Oct 01, 2007 ... mariners 4, rangers 2 TEXAS SEATTLE ab r h bi ab r h bi Guzman cf 4 0 0 0 ISuzuki cf 3 0 1 0 Kinsler 2b 3 1 0 0 Jmrsn cf 0 0 0 0 DaMpy lf 4 0 1 1 Vidro dh 4 0 0 0 Botts dh 4 0 0 0 JGillen rf 3 0 1 0 Cruz rf 4 0 0 0 JReed rf 0 0 0 ...
Baseball P.M.
Oct 01, 2007 ... AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Intr x-Boston 96 66 .593 - 6-4 L-1 51-30 45-36 12-6 xx-New York 94 68 .580 2 6-4 W-2 52-29 42-39 10-8 Toronto 83 79 .512 13 z-6-4 L-1 49-32 34-47 10-8 Baltimore 69 93 .426 27 4-6 L-2 35-46 ...
National League
Oct 01, 2007 ... cardinals 6, pirates 5 ST. LOUIS PITTSBURGH ab r h bi ab r h bi Eckstin ss 3 0 0 0 Morgan cf 5 0 2 1 Looper p 0 0 0 0 Izturis ss 5 0 2 1 Fknbrg p 0 0 0 0 LaRche 1b 3 0 0 0 TJhnsn p 0 0 0 0 Phelps 1b 0 1 0 0 Brnyan ph 0 0 0 1 Nady lf 5 0 ...
Rockies' starter hopes to Fogg-out San Diego: ; Dragon Slayer faces another ace as Colorado seeks wild card spot
Oct 01, 2007; ... DENVER - Josh Fogg's family will have to catch the biggest gameof his career on television after his wife and toddler flew home toFlorida last week. He's still expecting to have plenty of support. "Hopefully, there's 50,000 friends out there rooting for me,"said Fogg, who ...
Status of West Virginia quarterback is still unclear
Oct 01, 2007; ... The question about West Virginia quarterback Patrick Whitedoesn't yet have an answer. WVU coach Rich Rodriguez said Sunday that the Mountaineers'junior quarterback is "day-to-day" with a right thigh bruisesuffered in the second quarter of Friday night's loss at SouthFlorida ....
USF defensive coach didn't change anything from '06
Oct 01, 2007; ... TAMPA - Rich Rodriguez hired two offensive assistant coaches awayfrom South Florida last winter. Maybe the West Virginia football coach got the wrong guys fromthe wrong side of the ball. For a second straight year, the USF defense left theMountaineers' high-octane offense ...
WVU was manhandled where it counts - up front
Oct 01, 2007; ... TAMPA, Fla. - Football, no matter how you define it, was prettyBullheaded for West Virginia this past weekend. If it weren't enough that No. 5 WVU lost at then-No. 18 SouthFlorida on Friday night in a football program-proving game of sortsfor the Bulls, there was more USF-provided ...
Jones is building a program at Marshall: ; Robbie Jackson has impressed first-year coach during workouts
Oct 01, 2007; ... A crowd at the Henderson Center for Marshall men's basketballgames would be something different in Donnie Jones' first season asthe Herd coach, except for one thing. He will have a crowd for practice every day. The Marshall coach and Point Pleasant native, at the ...
Game on despite shooting of Memphis player
Oct 01, 2007; ... Marshall and Memphis will play their schedule football game onTuesday night despite the Sunday night killing of a Memphis player. Officials from both schools met this morning, deciding to playthe game, which is scheduled for 8 p.m. at The Liberty Bowl. Thegame is being telecast ...
It takes a village: ; TO RAISE TRIPLETS; Addition of three little ones meant big changes for mom, dad and older sister
Oct 01, 2007; ... DAILY MAIL STAFF SETH - The home of the Keith family is entertaining these days. The 1-year-old triplets see to it. Trent Martin, Hope Elizabeth, and AnaBeth Marie are definiteextroverts. They hold chubby arms in the air and say "up" awaiting aboost into the arms of ...
Derek Keeling's secret to success is some soaring shoes
Oct 01, 2007; ... A tale of Two Cities The production will take the former PutnamCounty resident from performances in Florida to a stage in New York. Putnam County native Derek Keeling knew he would have to gothrough extreme measures to secure the part of Charles Darnay in thepre-Broadway production ...
Initiative leads to interesting encounters
Oct 01, 2007; ... A personification of the cherished expression self-esteem, theprofessor posed a question: "How many of you have initiative?" He turned and wrote the word initial on the chalkboard, thenadded initialize, initiate and initiative. Years later, I still think about his question, ...
Peace symbol popular symbol again
Oct 01, 2007; ... MELVILLE, N.Y. - The fashion world may have been referencing thepeace symbol for awhile now, but that emblem from an earlier time ofwar and social change has finally trickled down to where it reallymatters: the mall. Take a drive by the school bus stop. You'll seeit on pants, backpacks ...
Dear Abby: ; Only husband decides when couple goes to bed
Oct 01, 2007; ... DEAR ABBY: I am recently married, and every night my husband"tells" me when it's time for us to retire for the night. This canbe anytime from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. If I tell him - which is not often - that I am ready for bedbefore he is, he gets upset. However, if he is ready to go ...
Horoscope
Oct 01, 2007; ... FORECAST FOR TUESDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19. If you accidentally discover where youare weak, it's a blessing. Now you can find the teammate who isstrong in that area. rTAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're a fan of people, and peoplerespond enthusiastically to the attention ...
Car Talk: ; Spilled milk is a problem to cry over
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dear Tom and Ray: Hi. I have a Volvo station wagon, and last week I spilled about ahalf-gallon of milk in the back. The back seats were folded down because I had my dogs in the car. When I went to clean up the milk, I noticed that virtually all ofit had disappeared ....
Nonverbal cues can speak louder than words: ; Experts consider presidential candidates' gestures, expressions
Oct 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - Tim Russert was pressing Hillary Rodham Clinton toanswer a question she was trying to brush off, and three public-speaking coaches were riveted to the television. "No, let me finish - " Russert was saying early in Wednesdaynight's Democratic debate in New ...
Michigan governor calls off partial state shutdown
Oct 01, 2007; ... LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Jennifer Granholm called off a partialshutdown of Michigan's state government earlier today afterlawmakers reached a budget deal aimed at plugging a $1.75 billiondeficit. Senate approval of a measure to expand the state's sales tax toservices was the final ...
Prison population leveling off: ; Decreased popularity of crack cocaine, new policing strategies cited as causes for decline
Oct 01, 2007; ... WASHINGTON - After two decades of massive growth, the U.S. prisonpopulation began to level off in the first six years of thiscentury, according to 2006 census statistics released recently. At nearly 2.1 million, the number of adults in correctionalinstitutions remains at an ...
Smuggling suspects too much for Mexico
Oct 01, 2007; ... MEXICO CITY - Two notorious female drug smuggling suspects fromrival Mexican cartels are now living just feet away from each otherin a Mexico City prison, giving city authorities a bad case of thejitters. The capital's prisons lack the security to hold high-profilesuspected drug ...
Transportation officials look at ways to maintain bridges
Oct 01, 2007; ... MILWAUKEE - Two months after a deadly bridge collapse inMinnesota, state transportation officials nationwide continue towrestle with how to preserve and upgrade thousands of bridges whileshort on money, officials said. With an estimated 74,000 bridges in the country classified ...
For the record
Oct 01, 2007 ... Marriage applications Kanawha County The following people applied for marriage licenses in KanawhaCounty between Sept. 24 and 28: * Charles Michael Pleska, 32, and Meghan Leigh Fyffe, 28, both ofCharleston. * Jason Gray Hamilton, 28, and Diana Virginia Roberts, ...