Charleston Gazette back issues from December 2002:
Paper money to get another redesign
Dec 02, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The last time Andrew Jackson got a makeover, he endedup with a big head, slightly off-center. This time, he will get alittle color. The most noticeable features of the last redesign of U.S. currency- the oversized, off-center portraits - produced all kinds ofderisive ...
Native color
Dec 02, 2002; ... A dancer shows his colors during the grand entry Sunday at theCanadian Aboriginal Festival in Toronto. The event is the ...
Miranda faces court challenge: Coerced information OK if not used in court, Calif. city argues
Dec 02, 2002; ... LOS ANGELES - For five years, Oliverio Martinez has been blind andparalyzed as the result of a police shooting. Now he is at the centerof a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine whether decades ofrestraints on police interrogations should be discarded. The blanket ...
'Standing up for himself': Recovering from abuse, Jimmy Null bags a buck
Dec 02, 2002; ... gregstone@wvgazette.com JIMMY Null puts up all the canned goods in Charles and BeckyBlake's house. He has a key to each lock in the place. Those were two privileges Null asked for when the Blakes took himin back in early 1998. The requests were modest, ...
Ground Zero supplier not authorized: Hazmat program won't say how much it paid for equipment used in 9/11 cleanup
Dec 02, 2002; ... ericeyre@wvgazette.com sfinn@wvgazette.com The Charleston company that sold thousands of respirators toGround Zero rescue workers is not an authorized distributor for threemanufacturers of the equipment. According to officials at safety manufacturers 3M, North and ...
Diabetes education has served hundreds
Dec 02, 2002; ... joydavia@wvgazette.com Vinny, 28, had trouble keeping his job because he lacked healthinsurance to keep his diabetes in check. He couldn't afford hismedicine. He missed a lot of work. After several trips to the emergency room, Vinny finally wasreferred to West Virginia ...
Evidence possession in Kenya attacks disputed
Dec 02, 2002; ... MOMBASA, Kenya - Kenya will not heed Israeli demands to turn oversome evidence in the attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel and an Israelijetliner, saying Sunday it would conduct the probe alone. The Israelidefense minister said al-Qaida was the main suspect in the attacks. The dispute ...
Mass. senator may challenge Bush in 2004
Dec 02, 2002 ... Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, a leading Senate liberal anddecorated gunboat officer during the Vietnam War, said Sunday he istaking a first step toward running for president in ...
Fire in Venezuelan nightclub kills 47
Dec 02, 2002; ... CARACAS, Venezuela - A fire in an overcrowded downtown Caracasnightclub killed 47 people and injured 12, and blocked emergencyexits may have trapped the victims in the basement discotheque, thecity fire chief said Sunday. As many as 400 people were packed inside the tiny La ...
World briefs
Dec 02, 2002 ... U.S. B-52 joins combat after Afghan attack KABUL, Afghanistan - A mammoth B-52 bomber was called into combatfor the first time in five months Sunday to protect U.S. specialforces battling armed Afghans outside an American base. No U.S. soldiers were injured during the shootout ...
Palestinians jump from car, escape Israeli missiles
Dec 02, 2002; ... JERUSALEM - Palestinians in a car near Gaza City Sunday narrowlyescaped an Israeli helicopter missile attack on their vehicle,blasted into a heap of smoldering metal seconds after they jumpedout, witnesses said. The attack was an apparent attempt to kill Palestinian ...
National briefs
Dec 02, 2002 ... 9/11 commission vows nonpartisan query WASHINGTON - Henry Kissinger, chairman of the commission toinvestigate the Sept. 11 attacks, said Sunday he will have no qualmsrecommending an examination of possible involvement by foreigncountries if facts point that way. "If they lead ...
Asbestos found at agency which first outlined danger
Dec 02, 2002; ... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Asbestos has been found at the homeof the federal agency that helped educate the world to the dangers ofthe fibrous mineral. Officials of the National Institute of Environmental HealthSciences say there is no evidence that any of its workers ...
Senator takes steps toward presidential run
Dec 02, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, a leading Senateliberal and decorated gunboat officer during the Vietnam War, saidSunday he is taking a first step toward running for president in2004. He took aim at President Bush's policies on taxes, education, Iraqand the ...
ACLU sees post-9/11 upswing: Group is 'useful and productive force,' former foe says
Dec 02, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Whether protecting the disenfranchised or standing upfor the right to offend, the American Civil Liberties Union has sidedwith those claiming they were wronged, even if it meant a distinctlyminority stand. But since Sept. 11 and the government's expansive campaign ...
Talk radio's hostility has helped to increase threats to lawmakers
Dec 02, 2002; ... It finally happened. Someone dared take on the king. Tom Daschleunmasked Rush Limbaugh as the merchant of hate. The Senate majority leader made his comments while discussing theincreased security threats against members of Congress. Daschle,first to receive an anthrax-laden letter ...
Readers' forum
Dec 02, 2002 ... News slanted in favor of GOP Editor: The liberal media is a myth. We have a conservative media. Themajor TV news organizations are owned by the following: GeneralElectric (NBC, CNBC), Microsoft and General Electric (MSNBC), RupertMurdoch (Fox News Channel), Westinghouse ...
Mark Russell's views
Dec 02, 2002; ... The demonizing of SUVs accelerates with an ad campaign labelingthe vehicle owners as "supporting terrorists" because of their gasconsumption. I think somebody's brain is running on empty. *** Pity the poor owners of Jeep Cherokees. Not only are they beinglabeled as soft on ...
Potpourri
Dec 02, 2002; ... WEST Virginia's Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a lover of the Classic era,has become a symbol as virtually the only Democrat in America tostand fiercely against President Bush's militaristic overreaching.The New York Times printed a front-page report headlined: "Byrd, at85, Fills the Forum with ...
Clean elections: Leave special interests out
Dec 02, 2002; ... CLOSE YOUR eyes and imagine just for a minute that West Virginiaelected a governor who had taken absolutely no money from the coalindustry, or from labor unions, or trial lawyers, or doctors, orpharmaceutical companies, or any other special interest that mightsway him or her from doing ...
Readers' forum
Dec 02, 2002 ... Wind power better than fossil fuel Editor: I admit to some confusion over my fellow mountain lovers' concernsover large electric-generating windmills. I begin with thepresumption that the oil- and coal-controlled politicians will neverwillingly put money into other types of ...
Plan B: State troopers' benefits package was inadequate
Dec 02, 2002; ... On Jan. 17, 1999, my husband and I found out that I was pregnantwith our first child. The following day, my husband died in a trafficcrash in Pocahontas County while responding to a highway accidentcall. His name was Douglas Wayne Bland. He was a West Virginia state trooper and he ...
Religion in politics: Christians misunderstood; Fundamental belief wrongly compared to terrorism
Dec 02, 2002; ... Perry Mann's column "Religion, politics don't mix" (Nov. 25) wasfilled with a puzzling disdain for devout Christians. Like many liberals, he cannot resist comparing those with a strongfundamental belief in the Bible to those who commit acts of terror inthe name of Muslim beliefs ....
Energy source: W.Va. should use reserves of coal seam natural gas
Dec 02, 2002; ... If I told you West Virginia has a natural resource with thepotential to help meet our nation's growing energy needs - and thatproduction and use of said resource would help reduce greenhouse gasemissions and help ensure underground coal mining safety whileboosting the state's economy - ...
Archdiocese may have plans for bankruptcy
Dec 02, 2002; ... BOSTON - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is preparing tofile for bankruptcy rather than face a costly legal battle that coulddrag on for years, according to a published report. A spokeswoman forthe archdiocese called the report "speculative and premature." Senior advisers ...
Today's chuckle: by Harlan collins
Dec 02, 2002 ... You know you're getting old when ...
Lottery: Lotteries
Dec 02, 2002 ... Saturday, Nov. 30, 2002 Hot Lotto: 16-17-27-28-37: 11 *** The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - None of the tickets sold for the Powerball gameSaturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 1-4-19-21-29: Powerball 8 ...
World
Dec 02, 2002 ... Amsterdam 49 41 Cldy Athens 65 58 Cldy Beijing 46 25 Clr Berlin 41 35 Rain Bermuda 74 65 Cldy Cairo 74 56 Clr Calgary 55 30 Cldy Dublin 53 42 Cldy Hong Kong 73 68 Cldy Jerusalem 56 45 Cldy London 54 48 ...
National
Dec 02, 2002 ... Anchorage 37 30 Cldy Atlanta 55 27 Cldy Boston 35 22 Clr Charlotte,N.C. 52 24 PCldy Chicago 31 24 Cldy Cincinnati 38 23 PCldy Cleveland 30 23 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 68 43 Cldy Denver 50 32 Cldy Detroit 24 23 ...
Democrat wins special election in Hawaii
Dec 02, 2002; ... HONOLULU - Democrat Ed Case, who lost in his party's primary forgovernor, won the free-for-all election to fill the remaining fiveweeks of the term of the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink, electionofficials said Sunday. He got 51 percent of the votes cast Saturday for 38 candidates ...
Disabled S.C. man faces murder trial in DUI death
Dec 02, 2002; ... SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Jerry James Carruth was indicted in 1984 on acharge of driving under the influence of alcohol, but he wasn'tprosecuted because, a note written on the indictment says, he was"severely handicapped and paralyzed. He will not be able to drive acar again." But the ...
Prestige could elevate Irish to BCS bowl: Analysis
Dec 02, 2002; ... Call it the Notre Dame factor. The Fighting Irish are perhaps the only team in college footballthat could lose its final game by 31 points - and still get aninvitation from the Bowl Championship Series. They could even get in ahead of Southern California, the very teamthat ...
Names in the games
Dec 02, 2002 ... O'Meara steals the show at Skins Game Mark O'Meara stole the show from Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson atthe Skins Game Sunday in Indio, Calif., collecting three skins with a2-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole and securing his second Skinstitle by holing a 20-foot birdie putt on the ...
Gator decision very iffy: Pastilong taking optimistic view
Dec 02, 2002; ... dphickman1@aol.com MORGANTOWN - Ed Pastilong is an optimist. In fact, given thecircumstances, even he admits he might be too much of one. Still, he can't shake the feeling that with all the good thingsthat have happened to West Virginia's football team this fall, onemore ...
Morgantown plays defense, too: PREP Football Notebook
Dec 02, 2002; ... rickryan@wvgazette.com When you hear someone talking about Morgantown High's footballteam, chances are the subject is offense - since the Mohigans sportDivision I prospects at both running back (Geremy Rodamer) andreceiver (Seth Fogarty). But Morgantown's defense is just as ...
WVU fans deserving; MAC magic acts
Dec 02, 2002; ... A championship edition of the Smock Market Report: What's up West Virginia: After this crew got badgered by Wisconsin andturtle-shelled by Maryland, it ends up 9-3. Can you say RichRodriguez, national coach of the year? I've always wondered what Quincy Wilson and Avon ...
College basketball
Dec 02, 2002 ... Sunday's scores EAST Columbia 78, Colgate 63 Fairmont St. 102, Columbia Union 48 George Washington 78, Va. Commonwealth 37 La Salle 65, Drexel 64 Marist 70, American U. 56 Providence 77, Lamar 57 Vermont 83, St. Peter's ...
Louisville accepts bid to GMAC
Dec 02, 2002; ... MOBILE, Ala. Louisville accepted a bid Sunday to play Marshall inthe GMAC Bowl in Mobile Dec. 18. Louisville (7-5, 5-3 Conference USA)has appeared in five straight bowl games. We were expecting a biggeryear, coach John L. Smith said. But there a lot of teams in thecountry whod like to ...
NHL
Dec 02, 2002 ... National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L T OL Pts GF GA New Jersey 13 6 1 1 28 57 47 Philadelphia 11 6 6 0 28 58 53 Pittsburgh 11 6 3 3 28 75 64 N.Y. Rangers 11 12 4 0 26 71 86 N.Y. Islanders 8 13 3 0 19 62 ...
Golf
Dec 02, 2002 ... Nedbank Golf Challenge Sunday's results Final round Ernie Els 70-65-69-63-267 Colin Montgomerie 74-69-65-67-275 Chris DiMarco 68-68-72-70-278 Jim Furyk 69-71-72-69-281 Retief Goosen 68-72-70-71-281 Sergio Garcia ...
Sports history
Dec 02, 2002 ... Dec. 2 1907 - Tommy Burns defends his world heavyweight title by knockingout Gunner Moir in the 10th round at London. 1944 - Ohio State quarterback Leslie Horvath wins the HeismanTrophy. 1947 - Notre Dame quarterback Johnny Lujack wins the HeismanTrophy. 1993 ...
The AP Top 25
Dec 02, 2002 ... The Top Twenty Five teams in The Associated Press college footballpoll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 30,total points based on 25 points for a first place vote through onepoint for a 25th place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Miami ...
Sports briefs
Dec 02, 2002 ... Thome decision expected today CLEVELAND - Jim Thome spent part of his holiday weekend hunting -and being hunted. Thome, baseball's most coveted free agent slugger, is expected toend a monthlong, two-team courtship today by announcing whether hewill stay with the Cleveland ...
Sports on TV/radio
Dec 02, 2002 ... TELEVISION (ESPN2) 7 p.m. - men's basketball: Marquette at Notre Dame (ESPN2) 9 p.m. - men's basketball: Iowa at Florida State (8) 9 p.m. - NFL: Jets at ...
College basketball
Dec 02, 2002 ... MEN Sunday's scores EAST American International 87, St. Michael's 80 Army 75, Sacred Heart 73 Assumption 70, St. Anselm 56 Carnegie-Mellon 76, Elmira 66 Delaware 87, Long Island U. 58 Fairmont St. 83, Columbia Union 80 Holy ...
College football
Dec 02, 2002 ... BIG EAST CONFERENCE Conference Overall W L PF PA Pct. W L PF PA Pct. Miami 6 0 241 95 1.00 11 0 447 172 1.00 West Virginia 6 1 212 115 .857 9 3 374 251 .750 Pittsburgh 5 2 185 138 .714 8 4 293 219 ...
NBA
Dec 02, 2002 ... EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 14 4 .778 - Boston 11 5 .688 2 New Jersey 11 7 .611 3 Orlando 10 7 .588 31/2 Washington 6 10 .375 7 New York 4 10 .286 8 Miami 4 12 .250 9 Central ...
NFL
Dec 02, 2002 ... AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Miami 7 5 0 .583 287 228 New England 7 5 0 .583 303 251 N.Y. Jets 6 5 0 .545 235 243 Buffalo 6 6 0 .500 315 338 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 8 4 0 .667 257 206 Tennessee 7 ...
Top AFC quarterbacks face off: Pennington leads Jets into Oakland to battle Gannon, Raiders tonight
Dec 02, 2002; ... OAKLAND, Calif. - Rich Gannon has been around long enough to knowhe's not competing with the opposing quarterback. And that's the case even if he's playing against the only AFCquarterback with a better rating than his. Expect plenty of completions tonight when Gannon's Oakland ...
NFL: WEEK 13: Packers clinch NFC North
Dec 02, 2002; ... GREEN BAY, Wis. - The Green Bay Packers clinched their first NFCNorth title in five years by forcing five turnovers and getting anoutstanding performance by rookie running back Tony Fisher to beatChicago 30-20 Sunday. Fisher, an undrafted free agent from Notre Dame, replaced ...
Kennedy Watch
Dec 02, 2002 ... NOTE: Here's a look at some of the leading candidates for theKennedy Award, which goes to the top prep football player in thestate as voted on by members of the West Virginia Sports WritersAssociation. This is not intended as the definitive list; playershave been added and deleted as the ...
Give Poca the edge in experience
Dec 02, 2002; ... When you break down the impending Class AA title game between Pocaand Bluefield, put a checkmark in the Dots' column for superior gameexperience. Poca will be trying to repeat as state champs, and ninth-seeded Bluefield has won three straight road playoff games with asquad dominated by ...
Georgia Tech bound for Charlotte ?
Dec 02, 2002; ... ATLANTA - Georgia Tech could be headed to the Seattle Bowl for thesecond year in a row, but the new Continental Tire Bowl in Charlotte,N.C., where it could face West Virginia, is still a possibility. Clemson (7-5) accepted an invitation to the Tangerine Bowl onSunday, following ...
E. Kentucky surges past Herd: Roundup
Dec 02, 2002 ... Eastern Kentucky opened the second half on a 16-3 run and cruisedto a 95-73 win over Marshall Sunday in women's basketball inHuntington. The game was tied at 40-all at halftime. Ida Dotson led the Herd (2-2) with 18 points. Cassie Hackworthadded 16 and Amy Smith chipped in ...
Hoosiers set sights on a title: Top 25
Dec 02, 2002; ... With last season's success noted on its Big Ten championship andFinal Four banners in time for the home opener, Indiana is aiminghigher. Hoosiers coach Mike Davis wants a national championship andbelieves this team can win one. His players have done nothing ...
Palmer's passing yards most ever against Irish
Dec 02, 2002; ... When he trotted off to a standing ovation late in his final gameat the Coliseum, Carson Palmer certainly had met - and exceeded -expectations. Palmer, heralded as the school's next great quarterback when hearrived as a freshman, had struggled along with the team for most ofhis ...
Celtics exploit Davis' absence: NBA
Dec 02, 2002; ... The New Orleans Hornets aren't used to playing without BaronDavis, and it showed. Paul Pierce scored 30 points and Antoine Walker added 26 Sunday inthe Boston Celtics' 95-86 victory over the visiting Hornets, who werewithout their All-Star guard for the first time in four ...
Dominant offense carries Toledo to MAC title game
Dec 02, 2002; ... TOLEDO, Ohio - Brian Jones threw for three touchdowns, and TrinityDawson ran for three more as Toledo beat Bowling Green 42-24 onSaturday night to win the Mid-American Conference's West Divisiontitle. Toledo (9-3, 7-1 MAC) will face Marshall (9-2, 7-1) Saturday inHuntington in ...
INNERVIEWS: 'I have my humor back'
Dec 02, 2002; ... She's a well-known Kanawha County magistrate, on the bench since1996. Judge Judy has called her. She's appeared on CNN and "Cops."Last winter, she represented the American judiciary at a conferencein Brazil. She's passionate about her work. It helped her through the ...
Budget cuts won't stop effort to fund pension plans
Dec 02, 2002; ... The state's $30 million budget shortage will complicate but notderail West Virginia's ongoing efforts to pay its debts and properlyfund its pension and benefit plans, state officials and legislativeleaders vow. "As far as I'm concerned, we have no choice. We have to fundthose," ...
Obituaries: Express condolences online at wvgazette.com
Dec 02, 2002 ... Mary M. Bailey GLEN FORK - Mary M. Bailey, 78, of Glen Fork died Nov. 29, 2002.Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Evans Funeral Home,Oceana. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Wayne H. Bollinger Wayne H. Bollinger, 92, of South ...
DMV may expand its mall office
Dec 02, 2002; ... The Division of Motor Vehicles is negotiating with the owners ofthe Kanawha Mall for additional space, so the DMV office in SouthCharleston can be closed and moved to Kanawha City. DMV CommissionerRoger Pritt said he hopes to be in the Kanawha Mall by April 1.Combining the two operations ...
Body of man, car found floating in Mud River
Dec 02, 2002 ... PALERMO - Investigators think slippery roads caused a fatalaccident Sunday in Lincoln County. State Police at Hamlin and Lincoln County sheriff's deputies founda body and an overturned car in the Mud River at about 5 p.m. Sunday,said Trooper R.L. Frye of the State Police at ...
U.N. teams inspect Iraqi airfield
Dec 02, 2002; ... KHAN BANI SA'AD, Iraq - United Nations disarmament teams inspecteda shabby, seldom-used airfield in corn country north of Baghdad onSunday, a place where Iraqi experts engineered devices for bombardingan enemy from the air with sprays of killer microbes. The U.N. inspectors checked ...
Prayers, songs mark World AIDS Day
Dec 02, 2002; ... With songs, stars and prayers, Americans recognized World AIDS Dayas a time to focus on a cure, on making treatment more availablearound the world and on remembering the millions who have alreadydied. In New York City on Sunday, the HIV + Sinikithemba Choir, composedof ...