Charleston Gazette back issues from February 2000:
Flight 261 down: ; 88 on board ; bodies found
Feb 01, 2000; ... OXNARD, Calif. - An Alaska Airlines jet carrying 88 peopleplummeted into the Pacific Ocean on Monday after its pilot reportedmechanical problems and was diverted to Los Angeles for an emergencylanding. Several bodies were recovered from the chilly water, butthere was no sign of survivors ...
Sports briefs
Feb 01, 2000; ... Jordan finds a coach WASHINGTON - Michael Jordan still has plenty to learn aboutrunning an NBA team. Jordan's first big management move with the Washington Wizardsturned out to be a confusing and bitter change of coaches. As aresult, Darrell Walker, who has been coaching a ...
The Men's Top 25
Feb 01, 2000 ... The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's collegebasketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, recordsthrough Jan. 30, total points based on 25 points for a first-placevote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1 ....
PRIMARY MISSION Candidates mug for N.H. crowds: ; Voters cast ballots today
Feb 01, 2000; ... NASHUA, N.H. - The presidential candidates shoveled snow, flippedpancakes and trudged through the slushy streets of New Hampshire onMonday, waging handshake-to-handshake combat to the finish of theirhard-fought primary races. With the field puzzling over ways to get supporters to ...
W.Va. State gets: ; past Bluefield
Feb 01, 2000 ... Jevon Green scored 23 points and Tyrwone Still added 21 to leadWest Virginia State past host Bluefield State 82-81 in a WestVirginia Conference men's basketball game Monday night. Green contributed seven rebounds and three assists and Stillhelped out with landing six boards for the ...
Prep basketball
Feb 01, 2000 ... Staci Kinder led Scott with 16 points as the Class AA Skyhawksupset Class A No. 9 Charleston Catholic 53-45 in a girls high schoolbasketball game at the South Charleston Community Center Mondaynight. The Skyhawks pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring theFighting Irish ...
Blizzard to battle for playoff positioning
Feb 01, 2000 ... The Huntington Blizzard will take on in-state and NorthwestDivision rival Wheeling at 7 p.m. today in an East Coast HockeyLeague game at the Huntington Civic Arena with playoff positioningat stake for both teams. The Blizzard (21-18-8, 50 points) are holding down the sixth spotin ...
Just do it
Feb 01, 2000 ... "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible ...
Tomorrow, the world: ; Boone County students blend science, history, art for problem- solving contest
Feb 01, 2000; ... RACINE - Their mission: Transport five eggs safely past fiveobstacles. Neatness and creativity count. The seven Boone County students who accepted the challenge inthis year's Destination ImagiNation competition started by amassingmaterials they know they will need - blocks, foam, ...
Laidley Field locker room to be closed
Feb 01, 2000; ... The locker rooms at Laidley Field won't be available for the restof the week because a large water pipe broke on Sunday. "Hopefully, we'll have it fixed by next Monday," said Lou AnnLanham, facilities manager at Laidley Field. "It's a pretty good-sized line that broke, and of ...
Snow creates emergency for poultry farms
Feb 01, 2000; ... Gov. Cecil Underwood declared a transportation emergency Mondayto help truckers blocked by recent snowstorms make deliveries toEastern Panhandle poultry farmers and others. The declaration allows truckers to work longer than 80 hours overa seven-day period, said Tom Burns, with the ...
'Extreme fighting' bill: ; Legislature to limit non-standard boxing sent to House
Feb 01, 2000; ... As a hedge against future promoters of "extreme fighting events,"the House Government Organization Committee sent a bill to the floorMonday that would give the State Athletic Commission authority toregulate fights that do not conform to standard boxing rules. "We always thought we ...
Pritt in debt for '96 race
Feb 01, 2000; ... Charlotte Pritt, who filed Saturday to run for secretary ofstate, still owes $124,658 from the gubernatorial race she lost toGov. Cecil Underwood. According to the most recent finance report for Pritt's 1996gubernatorial bid, filed last year, the campaign still owes $92,000in ...
Schedule
Feb 01, 2000 ... Senate 9:30 a.m.: Finance Committee 10 a.m.: Judiciary Committee 11 a.m.: Floor session 2 p.m.: Education Committee 3 p.m.: ...
Changes to judicial ethics
Feb 01, 2000; ... SENIOR-status Judge C. Berkley Lilly has suggested major changesto the Code of Judicial Conduct, covering both judges' and lawyers'activities dealing with campaign funds. "I sincerely believe that ifmy proposals or similar ones were put into effect that criticism ofthe judiciary would be ...
Union Carbide 4th quarter profits up 40%
Feb 01, 2000; ... DANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. announced Monday thatprofits rose 40 percent in the fourth quarter, driven by strongsales and improved pricing in chemicals and polymers. Net income was $94 million, or 68 cents per share, compared with$67 million, or 49 cents per share, in the ...
Steel imports down for 1999
Feb 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Steel imports increased slightly in December, forthe first time in five months, but were down overall in 1999, theCommerce Department reported Monday. The import level of 2.7 million metric tons, an increase from 2.5million November but a decrease from 1.1 billion ...
Man to testify against fellow break-in suspects
Feb 01, 2000 ... WINFIELD - One of three men accused of breaking into a bar inPliny pleaded guilty to petit larceny on Monday and is expected totestify against the other two. Bobby Hatfield, 25, of Kermit, pleaded guilty in Putnam CircuitCourt to his part in the alleged break-in at the bar in ...
DEP schedules hearing on Greenbrier asphalt plant
Feb 01, 2000; ... LEWISBURG - The state Division of Environmental Protection hasscheduled a public hearing next week on a new asphalt plant outsideLewisburg whose production would be three times that of the existingfacility. Lewisburg Mayor DeEtta King Hunter, the ...
Ram-arkable resurgence: ; Vermeil cries once more; -; this time for joy
Feb 01, 2000; ... ATLANTA - Yes, Dick Vermeil cried. A day after his team's Super Bowl victory, he spoke of his latemother Alice and how she was sure he would one day come back andcoach an NFL champion. Other Super Bowl coaches have handled these day-after newsconferences their own ...
World
Feb 01, 2000 ... Amsterdam 50 47 Cldy Athens 62 44 Cldy Beijing 25 0 Clr Berlin 50 35 Rain Bermuda 64 53 Cldy Cairo 63 41 Clr Calgary 43 0 Clr Dublin 53 48 Rain Hong Kong 62 50 Cldy Jerusalem 54 36 Clr London 55 51 Cldy Madrid ...
National
Feb 01, 2000 ... Anchorage 18 12 Cldy Atlanta 52 26 PCldy Boston 40 27 Clr Charlotte,N.C. 44 22 Clr Chicago 28 20 Clr Cincinnati 30 20 Clr Cleveland 29 24 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 46 41 Cldy Denver 44 11 Clr Detroit m m mm Elkins 27 18 ...
Man gets 20 years for slaying of teen
Feb 01, 2000; ... MARTINSBURG - A man who shot a teen-ager to death over a $2 cardgame has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Chad Cordell, 23, will serve 15 years for voluntary manslaughterand five years for using a firearm to commit a crime. At his December trial, prosecutors called the ...
Health briefs
Feb 01, 2000 ... A representative from the West Virginia School of OsteopathicMedicine in Lewisburg will be at area schools today to meet withprospective students. Student recruiter Charles Pritchett will be available from 11a.m. to 1 p.m. in the lobby of Hamblin Hall, West Virginia StateCollege; ...
Deaths in the state
Feb 01, 2000 ... CLANSY - Benjamin F., 85, of Aracoma, Jan. 29, 2000, Pond FuneralHome, Logan. COLE - Zona O., 78, of Beckley, Jan. 30, 2000, Melton Mortuary,Beckley. LUSK - Leola, 86, of Gap Mills, Jan. 30, 2000, Groves FuneralHome, Union. MASSIE - Thomas W., 53, of Glen Rogers, Jan ....
Oak Hill: ; TV station owner dies
Feb 01, 2000 ... OAK HILL - The owner of an Oak Hill television station diedSunday in a Beckley hospital. Helen L. Grose Thomas, 83, of Oak Hill died in Raleigh GeneralHospital, Beckley, following a short illness. Thomas was owner andboard chairwoman of Thomas Broadcasting, which includes ...
Funerals today
Feb 01, 2000 ... BUFFINGTON, Leroy C. - 2 p.m., St. Timothy Lutheran Church, SouthCharleston. BURGESS, Rosie E. - 2 p.m., Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill. BUZZARD, Waldo N. - 11 a.m., Cummings Creek Victory Chapel,Huntersville. CRAFT, Betty - 2 p.m., Logan Church of the ...
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Feb 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - The mother's story mixes heartache with anger: Herseemingly healthy 8-month-old baby died suddenly one morning. Nowarning, just a panicked phone call from the baby sitter that Jimhad quit breathing. Doctors called it SIDS. But Jamie Lazzaro later discovered herbaby ...
Boy dies in sled mishap
Feb 01, 2000 ... A Charleston boy on Monday became the second West Virginia childto die as a result of a sled riding accident in less than a week. Charleston police were not releasing the name of the 5-year-oldHillcrest Drive boy Monday night, pending notification of theremainder of his family, ...
Today deadline for Town Center Monopoly tournament
Feb 01, 2000 ... Any West Virginia residents who want to take a change on goingdirectly to jail without passing Go can sign up for a local Monopolytournament later this month. The tournament, sponsored by the Charleston Department of Parksand Recreation will be held Feb. 12 at the Charleston Town ...
Board split on adding school gyms to bond
Feb 01, 2000; ... Kanawha County school board members will decide next week whetherto tack $3.5 million onto a bond issue to build additional gyms atfive high schools. Board members have pledged to support a $25 million bond issue torenovate St. Albans and George Washington high schools. But ...
Junior high boys
Feb 01, 2000 ... Riverside 8 9 10 10 -37 S. Charleston 11 8 15 6 -40 R: Laughlin 10, S: Crawford 24 Horace Mann 6 5 12 12 -35 Nitro 5 8 14 7 -34 H: McCoy 12, N: Marshall 16 Junior high girls John Adams 9 4 7 4 -24 Hayes 12 8 7 10 -37 J: ...
Todays area schedule
Feb 01, 2000 ... High school Boys basketball Capital at Oak Hill, 7:30 p.m. South Charleston vs. Riverside at South Charleston CommunityCenter, 7:30 p.m. Spring Valley at Logan, 7:30 p.m. Ripley at Herbert Hoover, 7:30 p.m. Winfield at Sissonville, 7:30 ...
Fairmont State students held at gunpoint in dormitory
Feb 01, 2000; ... Two teen-agers are charged with robbing students at FairmontState College late Sunday night, holding guns on 16 people at adormitory before fleeing without firing. No one was hurt, but crisis counselors will be working withvictims throughout the week. The school will review its ...
Candidates file near deadline in Putnam races
Feb 01, 2000; ... WINFIELD - Political races in Putnam County will be contestedafter all. After a slow filing period, candidates came out at the lastminute on Friday and Saturday to fill the ballot for 2000 elections.The deadline for filing was Saturday. Twenty-eight candidates filed for ...
Gaines gets 50, UC upends S-T
Feb 01, 2000; ... SALEM - Archie Talley never played in Salem-Teikyo's T. Ed DavisGymnasium, so scratch all those otherworldly games he had in the1970s from the list of this building's greatest moments. What that means is Ajamu Gaines now officially has the mostoutlandish game in the facility's ...
CHARLESTON CRIME ZONES
Feb 01, 2000 ... The following crimes were reported to the Charleston PoliceDepartment: ZONE 1 Washington Street W. 2800 block, larceny. Jan. 20-21, between 8p.m. and 9 a.m. Zone 2 Livingston Avenue 1400 block, auto theft. Jan. 25-26, between 6p.m. and 6:45 a.m. Walnut ...
McDowell County woman dies in blaze
Feb 01, 2000; ... Fire killed an elderly McDowell County woman Sunday, while twoGilmer County residents were rescued from a burning house by a StatePolice trooper. Firefighters from Northfork and Keystone fought a 4:30 a.m. blazeat Rolfe Bottom, in Northfork Hollow, for hours Sunday but were ...
Ohio congressman suffers broken bones in accident
Feb 01, 2000; ... MOUNT VERNON, Ohio - U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown was recoveringMonday from broken ribs and vertebrae after his car skidded off asnow-covered road. Brown, a Democrat, was in stable condition at MansfieldMedCentral Hospital. Doctors expect a full recovery, hospitalspokesman Brian ...
It's a nice day for a run - in this weather ?
Feb 01, 2000; ... CLOUDS of cold puff from Paul Gebhard's mouth as he chugs downKanawha Boulevard for one of his four-times-a-week four-mile runs. A 25-degree reading on the thermometer and a light snowfall didnot keep Gebhard, a 50-year-old geologist for the state Bureau forPublic Health, from ...
Doctor convicted of 15 murders: ; He may have killed 150 people, British authorities say
Feb 01, 2000; ... LONDON - A once-respected family doctor was convicted Monday ofmurdering 15 elderly and middle-aged women patients, making him theworst serial killer in modern British history, and authorities sayhe may have killed up to 150. After more than a week of deliberation, a 12-member jury ...
NBA
Feb 01, 2000 ... EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Miami 27 16 .628 - New York 26 16 .619 1/2 Philadelphia 24 20 .545 31/2 Boston 20 23 .465 7 Orlando 20 26 .435 81/2 New Jersey 17 27 .386 101/2 Washington 14 30 .318 ...
TV spots promote quality of death
Feb 01, 2000 ... West Virginia University's Center for Ethics and Law iscoordinating a public-service campaign promoting the West VirginiaInitiative to Improve End-of-Life Care. Two public-service announcements, one featuring Sen. JayRockefeller, D-W.Va., and one featuring Gov. Cecil Underwood, ...
HEALTHWATCH: ; Are lesions merely cosmetic?
Feb 01, 2000 ... Are lesions merely cosmetic? Dear Healthline: Five years ago I had lung surgery. Now everything is fineregarding the surgery, but I have a minor problem. When I got out ofthe hospital, I had a blood vessel broken on the tip of my nose andalso on my breastbone. The one on my ...
Brother is tired of parents' favoritism of younger sibling
Feb 01, 2000; ... Dear Ann Landers: My letter is about favoritism in families. Ihope you will print it, because there's a lot of it around. I have two brothers, one older than me, the other younger. Itdrives me nuts the way Mom and Dad always favor our younger brother"Keith." Every time we are with ...
PARENTING: ; Family was our kids' after-school activity
Feb 01, 2000; ... Q. I read the recent column in which you called on parents totake their kids out of all after-school activities. I couldn't helpbut wonder whether your children participated in anything exceptfamily activities. A. As a matter of fact, family was their No. 1 after-schoolactivity ....
Titans expect to stay contenders
Feb 01, 2000; ... ATLANTA - The Tennessee Titans, no longer the NFL's nomads,introduced themselves to the country in the franchise's first SuperBowl. And coach Jeff Fisher said Monday this team doesn't plan on goingaway anytime soon. "This is a team that came from nowhere and did things no ...
McGraw to seek full term to Supreme Court: ; He joins quartet of Democrats vying for 12-year post
Feb 01, 2000; ... Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw, who is serving an unexpiredterm, filed by mail for a full 12-year term on the court. He willcontinue to serve as a justice while running this year in a fieldwith four other Democrats. McGraw was rumored to be considering filing for a full term, ...
Dow industrials rebound
Feb 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average rebounded Monday asinvestors snapped up shares of companies battered in last week'sselloff. The Dow's strength lifted other market measures out of aslump despite lingering worries that interest rates are headedhigher. The Dow rose ...
OBITUARIES
Feb 01, 2000 ... Leland B. Baker Leland B. Baker, 84, of Charleston, formerly of Champaign, Ill.,died Jan. 28, 2000, in Teays Valley Nursing Home after a longillness. He was a retired sales representative from Marathon Oil Co.,Findlay, Ohio, attended Savoy (Ill.) United Methodist Church and ...
GOP, Dem activists file for House
Feb 01, 2000 ... Republican and Democratic activists filed to run for the House ofDelegates from Kanawha County through the mail. Robert J. Gould, a Republican political consultant and failed1992 candidate for attorney general, filed as a Republican candidatefrom District 30. Also arriving in ...
Dying in peace: ; Hospital adopts hospice principles for terminal patients
Feb 01, 2000; ... He fought hard. Now, the war is over. He knows it. "We don'tthink anything is ever going to happen to us," Paul Carpenter said."But suddenly, here it is." Two years ago, he discovered he had prostate cancer. It spread tohis bones. The doctors tried everything. "We've been to ...
Horoscope
Feb 01, 2000; ... Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2000 Your birthday today: A secret passion could become public thisyear. Your vision could be hazy in February. You should have theproblem solved by March and should be ready to move by April.Reality rears its ugly head in May, but the impossible comes ...
Change or lose, Martin tells conference
Feb 01, 2000; ... Change is coming, and West Virginia businesses need to preparefor it, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin told industry leadersMonday night. "It's our century to lose," said Martin, who delivered a shortkeynote address to the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce 30th ...
Basketball highlighted at rec centers
Feb 01, 2000 ... Several types of basketball headline the February schedule atCharleston's three community centers. North Charleston will hold a Charleston Housing basketballtournament Feb. 12. Kanawha City will have wheelchair basketball anda 3-on-3 basketball league each Saturday, and the King ...
Illinois governor orders execution moratorium
Feb 01, 2000; ... CHICAGO - Gov. George Ryan took the unprecedented step Monday ofputting all executions on hold in Illinois, which over the past twodecades has freed more inmates from death row - 13 - than it has putto death. "There is no margin for error when it comes to putting a personto ...
NASCAR license plates could be offered
Feb 01, 2000; ... You could be the proud owner of a NASCAR-approved West Virginialicense plate honoring Dale Earnhardt if a bill introduced Monday inthe state Senate is approved by lawmakers. Of course, if Jeff Gordon is more your type, a Gordon licenseplate also would be ...
Drop permit from case, lawyers urge
Feb 01, 2000; ... The largest mining permit in West Virginia history should bedropped from a federal court case over mountaintop removal, lawyersfor the United Mine Workers and the state Division of EnvironmentalProtection argued Monday. Lawyers for the UMW and the DEP asked Chief U.S. District ...
Smokeless tobacco bill in limbo again
Feb 01, 2000; ... Gov. Cecil Underwood's second push for a tax on smokeless tobaccodoesn't appear to be winning much more support among SenateRepublicans this session than it did last year. A survey of the five minority party members in the Senate showedthat only Minority Leader Vic Sprouse, ...
Putnam principals present wish lists
Feb 01, 2000; ... PUTNAM COUNTY REPORTER WINFIELD - Janet Garrison, George Washington Elementary Schoolprincipal, wants new tile and sinks for the bathrooms. DeborahSpicer, Hometown Elementary principal, needs new computers. And just about all of Putnam County's elementary schoolprincipals say ...
Bush, Bradley finally wake up
Feb 01, 2000; ... MANCHESTER, N.H. - Gov. George W. Bush of Texas started outthinking that New Hampshire is just another primary state. He's beenscared straight on that score by polls that showed a matchingindifference to him. Former Sen. Bill Bradley started out to conducta gentleman's campaign against ...
Readers' forum
Feb 01, 2000 ... Meet basic needs before transpark Editor: How anyone with half a brain or a grain of conscience can justifybuilding a new airport in the Charleston region is beyond mycomprehension. The hollow cry of "economic development" echoesthrough hollows where our citizens have no ...
Tax credit: ; State should start program
Feb 01, 2000; ... THE EARNED Income Tax Credit helps working families. In additionto erasing federal tax obligations, it sometimes provides familieswith substantial refunds - as much as $3,888 for a family of fourearning $10,700. Social researchers say this tax credit may be the most ...
Yeager The state's flagship
Feb 01, 2000; ... STILL trying to ruin Charleston's Yeager Airport and saddle WestVirginians with a giant debt, the state Public Port Authority lastweek released a feasibility study saying its proposed westerlytranspark would succeed. But remember, several such regional jetports around ...
Price tag stalls DMV instant records access
Feb 01, 2000; ... A computer database that would give police officers instantaccess to drivers' auto insurance records sounded like a good idea,until members of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee learnedabout the program's $3 million price tag. The bill would require the Division of Motor ...