Charleston Gazette back issues from January 2000:
Bowled over: ; BC blasted by Colorado 62-28
Jan 01, 2000; ... TUCSON, Ariz. - Cortlen Johnson led Colorado's powerful runningattack with a career-best 201 yards and two touchdowns, and BenKelly set an Insight.com Bowl record with an 88-yard punt return asthe Buffaloes routed No. 25 Boston College 62-28 Friday. It was Colorado's sixth ...
Computer bug fears don't faze city's revelers
Jan 01, 2000; ... About 1,500 people crowded together on Kanawha Boulevard atmidnight to watch the city's New Year's Eve fireworks ....
2000:Y-OK: ; World greets new yesr with cheers, sighs of relief; Y2K prep pays off in silent night
Jan 01, 2000; ... As the celebrated and feared dawn of 2000 spread across the globetoward West Virginia, dozens of New Year's celebrations played outon television and computer screens in countless living rooms andoffices. And each time, in each far-off city, the dreaded Y2K glitchwas beaten back, ...
Cavaliers foiled by Illini 63-21
Jan 01, 2000; ... MIAMI - The unrehearsed celebration by Illinois was welldeserved. Moments after dousing coach Ron Turner with water, severalIllinois players jumped into the stands at Pro Player Stadium. Theyfrolicked with their fans, hugging and high-fiving them. As typical as it might seem, ...
Murphy leads Irish to win
Jan 01, 2000; ... SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Troy Murphy scored 17 points and Ivan Karteloadded 11 as Notre Dame broke away in the second half to defeat St.Peter's 85-67 Friday. Up 39-34 at the half, Notre Dame (8-5) outscored the Peacocks 22-4 in the first 10 minutes of the second half to take a ...
University of Charleston men lose in holiday tourney
Jan 01, 2000 ... Zaid Al-Khas piled up 28 points and 15 rebounds and blocked fourshots Thursday evening to lead unbeaten Gannon to a 78-70 victoryagainst the University of Charleston in the championship game of thePorreco Cup Tournament in Erie, Pa. Al-Khas hit on 12-of-13 free throws and his team ...
Cottrill's hot hand leads Poca to title
Jan 01, 2000 ... Senior Ricky Cottrill tossed in 35 points, connecting on 8-of-9 3-pointers as undefeated Poca claimed the championship of the PocaRoundball Classic with a 67-60 win against Ravenswood Thursday nightin boys basketball. Robbie Hardt and Jason Hall also had solid games for Poca ....
At the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, the people of planet Earth did not stop driving cars and start teleporting.
Jan 01, 2000; ... But when advertisers rushed out not so long ago to secure "2000"and "millennium" as catchwords for projects, the possibility of thelatter did not seem that far off. As millennium hype continued to gain ground, people were urged tobelieve that the year 2000 would usher in a ...
First person singular: ; When we dream about the future, we miss out on lot
Jan 01, 2000; ... George Washington High School If only I could stop thinking about the future. If only I couldignore all the proverbs and beat the customary pots and pans atmidnight on New Year's Eve with the wild abandon that the occasiondeserves. If only I didn't think the future was the most ...
FUTURE FOCUS
Jan 01, 2000 ... A double dose ...
Shepherdstown readies for Mideast peace talks
Jan 01, 2000; ... SHEPHERDSTOWN - The last time 1,000 visitors came to this quainttown for any length of time was during the Civil War. This time, thecause is Mideast peace, and some folks are fretting about trafficjams and the threat of terrorism. The venue for a new round of peace talks opening ...
Pope greets millennium at midnight
Jan 01, 2000; ... VATICAN CITY - Making his first midnight appearance on New Year'sEve, Pope John Paul II welcomed the new millennium as fireworks litup the sky above St. Peter's Basilica and tens of thousands ofpeople packed the giant square. "The clock of history strikes an important hour. At this ...
Religious celebrate millennium
Jan 01, 2000 ... As the world celebrated, time zone by time zone, the rollingstart of a new millennium calculated by the birth of Jesus Christ,Christians and non-Christians alike added prayers and spiritual songto the global revelry. Among the first to greet Jan. 1 were white-clad Tongans in ...
Not a party day for staff at hospital
Jan 01, 2000; ... Emergency room physician Greg Burnette examines AdrienneBrowning, 17, of Hurricane on Friday as her mother, Pat, waits. Forthe second consecutive year, a ...
Three movies that have a little - not a lot - going for them top this week's list of new movies on video.
Jan 01, 2000; ... - BETTER THAN CHOCOLATE HH1/2 (Trimark, '99) 101 minutes. WendyCrewson, Karyn Dwyer. Freewheeling lifestyle comedy about two youngwomen, an artist and an aspiring writer, who meet cute and are evencuter. Too episodic to sustain buoyancy and interest. R (nudity,sex, sexual candor, ...
Church activities
Jan 01, 2000 ... Music - The Joy Beams will sing at 9 a.m. Sunday on WOAY TV, Oak Hill,and at 3 p.m. on WSCW Radio 1410 AM. They will also sing at 7 p.m.Jan. 8 at Stickley Community Church, Stickley. - A benefit gospel sing will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 in theauditorium of Capital High ...
2000 The age of science
Jan 01, 2000; ... HURRAH - humanity finally has exited the 1900s and stepped intothe unknown, the tantalizing realm of the 2000s. We can't guess all the wonders to come, but we're confident thatscience will continue transforming human life at an ever-fasterpace. Look at the amazing ...
Compliant computers roll over
Jan 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Americans jubilantly greeted the dawn of the 21stcentury with fading concerns over a computer glitch that oncethreatened to disrupt everyday life. Computers controllingeverything from airlines and electric power grids to militaryoperations rolled over ...
Airport prepared, experiences nothing
Jan 01, 2000; ... Reba Johnson chatted on the telephone with her mother in Oklahomaon Friday night at Yeager Airport, 20 minutes before her flight wasscheduled to take off. "I don't have any fears," said Johnson, a forward on the OklahomaState University women's basketball team. "I have God, if we ...
Cash registers ring in healthy New Year's
Jan 01, 2000; ... The trail of people stepping through the doors at 7-Eleven onWashington Street West on New Year's Eve was so constant that SaraBurdette and Quita Andrews, the two cashiers working until 10 p.m.,never heard a moment's silence. Each time the door opened, ding. Ding, ding, ...
Putnam Aging Program workers OK contract
Jan 01, 2000; ... WINFIELD - Negotiators have reached a new contract with thePutnam County Aging Program, ending a 15-day strike by home health-care workers. About 50 striking members of Service Employees InternationalUnion Local 1199 voted unanimously Thursday to ratify the three-year ...
Mylan wins FDA approval for transplant drug
Jan 01, 2000; ... PITTSBURGH - The Food and Drug Administration has grantedapproval for Mylan Laboratories Inc. to manufacture Azathioprinetablets in 50-milligram strength. Azathioprine is the generic equivalent to Imuran, which is usedin kidney transplantation. It is also used for the management ...
Ann offers a wealth of resolutions
Jan 01, 2000; ... Dear Readers: If some lines in today's column sound vaguelyfamiliar, you have a good memory. They appeared in this space lastyear. Not much about New Year's Day has changed, so thank you forallowing me to loaf a little. Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to ...
'Fantasia' concert continues at 75 IMAXs
Jan 01, 2000; ... When it came to "Fantasia/2000," the six-decades-later sequel tothe 1940 Disney classic that married animation to classical music,invention actually did have multiple mothers. "The original idea of continuing 'Fantasia' was Walt's, ofcourse," says Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E ....
2000:Y-OK: ; World greets new yesr with cheers, sighs of relief; Not a party day for staff at hospital
Jan 01, 2000; ... A young, dark-haired woman stumbled into Charleston Area MedicalCenter's General Division emergency waiting room at 6 p.m. on NewYear's Eve, crying. The triage nurse gently lowered her into achair. "Bleeding really bad," the young woman half-screamed, panic inher voice. A nurse ...
Nixon's AG Richardson dies
Jan 01, 2000; ... BOSTON - Elliot Lee Richardson, who resigned as attorney generalin the Saturday Night Massacre, the historic 1973 showdown withPresident Nixon over the Watergate investigation, died Friday at 79. Richardson died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Massachusetts GeneralHospital after being ...
Assignment West Virginia: ; Count your lucky stars, West Virginia
Jan 01, 2000 ... Know how many counties West Virginia holds? Right, 55. But thatwas an easy one. How about which county is the state's largest, orwhich county was named for a famed New England orator and statesman?A little tougher, huh? During the next year, we'll look at each of the ...
Count your lucky stars, West Virginia: ; Astrologer tells state residents they should feel positive about future
Jan 01, 2000; ... West Virginia will be growing and the entire world will betransforming in the coming millennium, according to astrologerJeanne Mozier. "My general overview of West Virginia for 2000 is that no oneshould panic and that our future is very positive," said Mozier ofBerkeley Springs ....
It's a new munglennium
Jan 01, 2000 ... The first three winners for the Great Munglennium Contest are ofa timely nature. They are: - Linda Gargano of South Charleston, responsible for Munging in aNew Year. - Sandra Squire, also of South Charleston, for her Pokemung. (Wereceived a drawer full of Pokemungs, ...
Planes appear unaffected by Y2K
Jan 01, 2000; ... HERNDON, Va. - Man's first century of flight drew to a closeFriday, and the airplanes that now carry anyone anywhere in theglobe within a day's time flew on unaffected by the year 2000computer bug. There also were no immediate reports of problems with theearthbound computer ...
The Readers Quilt
Jan 01, 2000 ... Before Christmas, we asked readers to send us word pictures oflife in 20th century West Virginia. Their memories make a patchworkof images of our wonderful, frustrating, much-loved, contradictorystate. It was just a bit of earth I kicked up with my shoe. It was 1978,and I was ...
World
Jan 01, 2000 ... Amsterdam 40 37 Cldy Athens 62 58 Rain Beijing 34 16 Clr Berlin 38 31 Cldy Bermuda 72 63 Cldy Cairo 73 55 Cldy Calgary 38 18 Cldy Dublin 50 42 Cldy Hong Kong 73 60 Clr Jerusalem 72 52 Clr London 45 41 ...
National
Jan 01, 2000 ... Anchorage -1 -13 Clr Atlanta 60 47 Cldy Boston 37 27 PCldy Charlotte 62 43 Cldy Chicago 44 36 PCldy Cincinnati 48 36 PCldy Cleveland 38 30 Clr Dallas 68 44 PCldy Denver 56 25 PCldy Detroit 41 29 PCldy Elkins 46 25 ...
WVU women: ; Short memory goes a long way for WVU's Annie
Jan 01, 2000; ... Christin Annie is like any good basketball shooter or footballcornerback. "You have to have a short memory," West Virginia's senior forwardsaid Friday afternoon. "For the good and the bad, you have to forgetabout it." Friday against Oklahoma State, Annie's memory lapse was ...
NBA
Jan 01, 2000 ... EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Miami 19 9 .679 - New York 18 12 .600 2 Philadelphia 17 15 .531 4 Orlando 15 14 .517 41/2 Boston 12 16 .429 7 New Jersey 12 18 .400 8 Washington 10 20 .333 10 Central ...
Sports briefs
Jan 01, 2000 ... Boxer: Offered $30,000 to lose to Duran MIAMI - A retired boxer says he was offered $30,000, the biggestpurse of his career, to throw a fight to Roberto Duran when thelegendary fighter was years past his prime. Sanderline Williams said associates of Duran made the offer in ...
NFL
Jan 01, 2000 ... AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct. PF PA x-Indianapolis 13 2 0 .867 417 302 y-Buffalo 10 5 0 .667 289 223 Miami 9 6 0 .600 316 315 N.Y. Jets 7 8 0 .467 289 300 New England 7 8 0 .467 279 281 Central y-Jacksonville 13 2 0 .866 ...
College football
Jan 01, 2000 ... All Times EST Saturday, Dec. 18 Las Vegas Bowl At Las Vegas Payout: $1.2 million Utah 17, Fresno State 16 Wednesday, Dec. 22 Mobile Alabama Bowl Payout: $750,000 Texas Christian 28, East Carolina 14 Saturday, Dec ....
Dayne a pain for Cardinal
Jan 01, 2000; ... PASADENA, Calif. - Stop Ron Dayne? Stanford coach TyroneWillingham dismisses the idea as ludicrous. The Heisman Trophy winner wraps up a record-breaking collegecareer today as Wisconsin seeks a second straight Rose Bowl victory.Dayne needs 75 yards rushing against Stanford to reach ...
2000:
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gazette photos Juliana Soltis, a Class of 2000 member fromCapital High School, hopes to pursue a musical career with hercello, an ...
Upside down year for the NFL Have-nots rise to the top in 1999: ; Analysis
Jan 01, 2000; ... The up teams were down, the down teams were up, and the entireNFL season was upside down. How else can you explain the possibilitythat the Super Bowl might well feature two teams, Indianapolis andSt. Louis, that combined for seven wins last year? "I don't know. I don't get it," ...
CRITICAL CHOICES
Jan 01, 2000 ... All About My Mother H H H H H H American Movie l H H H H Anna and the King H l l l H l Anne Frank's Diary H H Any Given Sunday l l l H H l l Bicentennial Man l l The Bone Collector l l lH l l Boys Don't Cry H H ...
Future focus: ; A double dose from the Class of 2000
Jan 01, 2000; ... Every spring, seniors march to the stage of their friendlyneighborhood auditorium to grasp the ultimate symbol of theirtransition into the adult world: the high school diploma. The spotlight will shine a little brighter on this year'sseniors, the members of - drumroll, please - The ...
[NEWS]
Jan 01, 2000; ... As senior class president at Fort Worth's North Side High Schoolin 1974, Steven Green was expected to read Scripture each morningover the public-address system. So one day, he decided to read from a Hindu text, the Bhagavad-Gita. It was not what the principal had in mind, ...
AMEX: ; 100 most active stocks
Jan 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - American investors made their biggest bets on thefuture in 1999, embracing any technology company - whether it earneda profit or not. But while major indexes soared to new highs on thelast day of the year, the overall market did not share in the greatfortune. "The ...
New Year's baby boy
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gazette photo Joanna Isaac said, "I just saw a beautiful baby boy!" The ThomasMemorial Hospital spokeswoman was happy to announce that EthanRussell made it into the world at one minute after midnight. He isthe son of Angie and Eddie Russell, but ...
A global celebration: ; Those with ties to Mountain State describe scenes from around the world
Jan 01, 2000; ... staff writer By the time clocks chimed midnight in West Virginia, much of theworld already had experienced the first moment of the 21st century.To get a sense of what it was like around the globe, the Gazettecontacted people with Mountain State ties who are living in ...
Computer bug fears don't faze city's revelers
Jan 01, 2000; ... As the seconds ticked down to the new millennium, some folks onKanawha Boulevard whooped and hollered while others just shiveredand waited for the ball to drop. Finally, the moment came, without an official countdown, as alarge ball attached to a crane descended to the ...
Yeltsin resigns, turns over powers to Putin
Jan 01, 2000; ... MOSCOW - Pleading for forgiveness, Boris Yeltsin resigned Fridayas president, clearing the way for his hand-picked successor to takeRussia into a new age and fix the mistakes he admitted having madethrough eight chaotic years. Yeltsin, apologizing for failing to fulfill Russians' ...
Fireworks, prayers,: ; as world looks to 2000
Jan 01, 2000; ... Millions joyously packed the city streets of Europe and theAmericas to join in a worldwide welcome for the new millennium,ignoring fears of terrorist attack and computer collapse to revel ina shimmering spectacle of song, light and fireworks. From South Sea islands to the ...
Hijacking crisis ends peacefully; hostages released
Jan 01, 2000; ... KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Waving pistols in the air, five hijackerssped off in waiting cars Friday with two Islamic militants and aMuslim cleric released from Indian jails and were given 10 hours tofind freedom - ending a tense eight-day standoff. All 155 hostages on the Indian ...
Dog lessons on love, devotion
Jan 01, 2000; ... Would you excuse me if I hang back in the old century for just afew minutes? I feel that with all the treachery going on both withtechnology and humans, I would mention a few dogs I saw over theholidays who embody the loyalty, concern, good will to men and otherqualities that are not ...
Smiles
Jan 01, 2000; ... Smile To thousands of generous West Virginians who helped less-fortunate families during the holidays - such as the hundreds whodonated to the Gazette Charities Christmas Fund. Smile To Cheryl Blechl of Charleston, who showed extremeselflessness of love by donating half her liver ...
Readers' forum
Jan 01, 2000 ... Troopers hurt by 'hostile argument' Editor: Although the charges filed against Neal Rose were dropped byprosecutor Sid Bell, they were dropped with prejudice. This seems tohave been forgotten. Rose entered into a "hostile argument" with troopers, whichcaused a ...
Yawn2K 'We were expecting non-event,' governor says of New Year's Eve
Jan 01, 2000; ... STAFF WRITER At the stroke of midnight, the state's Emergency OperationsCenter looked and sounded more like Party Central than a nervecenter ready to deal with a potential crisis. Two dozen representatives of state and federal agencies on dutyin the Capitol in the event of a ...
World has only a couple of hiccups
Jan 01, 2000; ... Computers silently switched to 2000 in country after anxiouscountry Saturday, but the dreaded Y2K bug's first bite was barelyfelt. Japan reported the failure of a computer linked to radiationmonitoring devices at a nuclear plant, but said it wasn't consideredserious enough to ...
Putnam was prepared, but '99 went out without hitch
Jan 01, 2000; ... WINFIELD - Putnam County emergency dispatchers settled in behindtheir communications consoles on Friday to wait for the Y2K bug tobite. It proved to be an excrutiatingly long wait. Midnight came andwent in the rural and suburban county without so much as a flicker. "I was ...
'Relatively quiet' for city police, fire departments
Jan 01, 2000; ... Like most of the police officers, firefighters and emergencypersonnel out on New Year's Eve, Patrolman T.E. Thompson had a quietevening. "We've got the ball dropping and a lot of people out herefreezing," Thompson said from his post on the steps of the UnionBuilding on Kanawha ...
New millennium actually a year away
Jan 01, 2000; ... Millennial excitement aside, today technically is NOT the startof a new millennium. The actual event is 12 months from now. Think about it: When counting to 10, we tend to start with one.And that's exactly what Dionysius Exiguus did back in the 6thcentury. A pope had assigned ...
Stars shine at White House
Jan 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - At the end of the very long line of White Houseguests who greeted host President Clinton at a lush, fin-de-millennium dinner Friday night, came, in quick succession: Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sophia Loren and CarloPonti. Oh, and Sen. Charles ...
Deaths around the state
Jan 01, 2000 ... AVEY - Frances M., 82, of Oak Grove, Dec. 29, 1999, MeltonMortuary Chapel. BUMGARNER - Floyd D., 88, of Pecks Mill, Dec. 30, 1999, FreemanFuneral Home, Chapmanville. BURDETTE - Almeda B., 66, of Valley Fork, Dec. 31, 1999, CarlWilson Funeral Home, Clay. CALFEE - ...
Stabbing suspect ordered held in psychiatric unit
Jan 01, 2000; ... LONDON - As George Harrison recovered from a knife wound to hischest, the man accused of stabbing the former Beatle was sent to apsychiatric unit Friday for immediate treatment. Michael Abram was charged with the attempted murder of thereclusive guitarist and his wife of 21 years, ...
Funerals today
Jan 01, 2000 ... ANDERSON, Paulina M. - 1 p.m., Rhodell Church of God. BROOKMAN, Howard L. - 2 p.m., Broyles-Shrewsbury Funeral Home,Peterstown. CALVERT, Jethro - 1 p.m., Williams-Blue Ridge Funeral Home,Sophia. CARTER, Leah - 11 a.m., Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlor, ...
OBITUARIES
Jan 01, 2000 ... Norma Baucom MONROE, N.C. - Norma Lee Murdock Baucom, 70, of Monroe died Dec.30, 1999, in Union Regional Medical Center. She was a native of Kanawha County, W.Va., a retired supervisorfrom the mailroom at Delmar Studios and a member of Shiloh AdventChristian ...
State briefs
Jan 01, 2000 ... Diesel fuel cleanup could cost $700,000 ELKINS - It could cost up to $700,000 to clean up a 6,200-gallondiesel fuel spill on U.S. Route 250 near the HuttonsvilleCorrectional Center, a fire official says. The fuel spilled Wednesday when a trucker lost control of histanker ...