Charleston Gazette back issues from October 2007:
U.S., Iraqi forces kill 60 insurgent: U.S. Embassy criticizes Senate resolution
Oct 01, 2007; ... BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent andmilitia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most ofthe casualties believed to have been al-Qaida fighters, officialssaid Sunday. The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile, joined a broad swath of Iraqipoliticians ...
School test results hard to compare, educators say
Oct 01, 2007; ... davinwhite@wvgazette.com State and county educators say comparing counties' success basedon standardized test results is often difficult. More than 82 percent of Kanawha County schools, for instance, made"adequate yearly progress" based on annual WESTEST results and ...
Much cancer 'knowledge' based on myth
Oct 01, 2007; ... CHICAGO - On the eve of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, anew survey suggests raising awareness of the disease is a misplacedpriority. The vast majority of women already consider themselves quiteknowledgeable about the disease, which is expected to kill 40,000women in the ...
U.N. girds for showdown with NRA
Oct 01, 2007; ... UNITED NATIONS - Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushingfor an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in acampaign sure to last years and to pit them against a determinedAmerican foe, the National Rifle Association. In what U.N. officials say is an ...
Cast a long shadow
Oct 01, 2007; ... The early autumn sun creates long shadows Sunday at the CoonskinPark skateboard park ...
Businesses prep for changes in video lottery ads
Oct 01, 2007; ... sarahkwinn@wvgazette.com Jean Angle, owner of The Pour House Sports Bar in NorthCharleston, was excited Sunday to hear that she could now expandadvertising for her bar's video lottery machines. "A lot of people don't know that I have them," she said. "[Before]we were allowed ...
State braces for worst: Drought leaves forests more vulnerable to fires
Oct 01, 2007; ... If conditions remain unchanged, West Virginia faces the worst fireseason in 20 years and could lose as much as 4 percent of its foreststo flames. The hottest, driest summer in recent memory has left a big chunkof West Virginia's 11.8 million acres of forest dangerously ...
Catholic group wants stem-cell research
Oct 01, 2007; ... DETROIT - The Michigan Catholic Conference will launch a majoreducation campaign this week aimed at promoting support for researchusing adult stem cells and clarifying the church's opposition toembryonic stem-cell research. The campaign "Finding Cures & Protecting Life," described ...
At 89, Byrd keeps his fighting spirit
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 last weekby issuing an ultimatum to ...
Schools overlook 'Little Rock Nine,' one member says
Oct 01, 2007; ... CHICAGO - Fifty years after Minnijean Brown Trickey and eightother African-American high school students made history as "theLittle Rock Nine," forging the way for desegregation in the capitalcity of Arkansas, Trickey stood before a Chicago church congregationon Sunday and said that ...
Pa. man throws new record: for stone-skipping on water
Oct 01, 2007; ... FRANKLIN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man cast a stone that skipped onwater a whopping 51 times, shattering the old world record of 40. Russell "Rock Bottom" Byars' feat happened July 19, where theAllegheny River meets French Creek in Franklin, about 70 miles northof Pittsburgh. He ...
Mich. budget stalls, shuts part of government
Oct 01, 2007; ... LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's state government partially shut downearly today with no budget deal in place for the new fiscal year. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm was still awaiting key votes inthe Democratic-led House and Republican-controlled Senate after 12:01a.m., the deadline ...
Iraq vote shows experience, Obama says
Oct 01, 2007; ... COLUMBIA, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obamasaid Sunday that the frontrunner for his party's nomination, HillaryRodham Clinton, does not offer the break from politics as usual thatvoters need. Both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband, ...
Readers' voice
Oct 01, 2007 ... * A lot of us senior citizens are complaining that we have to gounder the interstate to get our garbage bags. We need betteraccommodations because they put those barriers too close together andit is too dark in there to actually see what is going on. Please tellour mayor to do something ...
State briefs
Oct 01, 2007 ... Mine owners weigh state, federal rules WHEELING - Everyone from owners to regulators wants improvedcommunications in underground coal mines, but nearly two years afterthe Sago mine tragedy, there's little consensus on the best way toproceed. In particular, mine owners are ...
Dems need clarity on saving jobs
Oct 01, 2007; ... The General Motors contract with the United Auto Workers shows howcompanies and workers can come together when both understand theeconomic threat facing American manufacturing, and when workers havea place at the table to protect their most important interests. But few American ...
Readers' forum
Oct 01, 2007 ... Blood donors always needed Editor: On Sept. 5, extremely low blood supplies forced our 100-countyAmerican Red Cross Blood Services region to issue an emergency appealfor blood donors. Since then, increased donor turnout has enabled us to replenishlow supplies at our ...
Potpourri
Oct 01, 2007; ... LAST week, we noted that West Virginia has 1.2 million working-age adults between 18 and 65, and the state has an official total of780,000 jobs - therefore, the real unemployment rate is around 35percent, not under 5 percent as state agencies claim. Conni Lewissays we forgot to subtract ...
Waste: High-tech flop
Oct 01, 2007; ... WHILE Congress debates various proposals to fence the entire 1,952-mile border with Mexico, the White House launched a $20 milliondemonstration program of electronic detectors to block undocumentedaliens on just 28 miles of the vast border. The project included a chain of costly ...
Up close and personal: Tony Bennett sings praises of Clay Center
Oct 01, 2007; ... TONY Bennett came to Charleston and beautifully articulated injust a few classic moments what West Virginia's shining jewel, theClay Center, means to our state. His comments on Sept. 21 emphasizedin a profound way the return on investment the state is beginning torealize from the vision ...
Mountain wisdom: Be responsible for your health
Oct 01, 2007; ... SINCE Mountaineers allegedly lead the nation in health sins anddiseases, 20 presidential candidates are "one upping" the others'plans to save us inbreeding, redneck, gullible backwoods moonshinersfrom ourselves with their universal medical salvage plans. That's whysome West Virginia ...
Equal time: Two parents better than one
Oct 01, 2007; ... A COMMENTARY by Judy Hale and Jackee Long discussed the growingproblems of discipline, drugs and bullying in our schools (Sept. 12).They promote a safe schools initiative called Discipline WithoutDelay. Our group, Men and Women Against Discrimination, has the realsolution. Put fathers ...
Election safeguards: Touch-screen voting is vulnerable to tampering
Oct 01, 2007; ... IN RESPONSE to Secretary of State Betty Ireland's commentary(Sept. 11), it is possible with due diligence to conduct a reliableelection with paper ballots, even including early ballots. Wyomingand Braxton counties do just fine, on time and all. But let's stick to the crucial issue, ...
Readers' forum
Oct 01, 2007 ... Blacks deserve special protection Editor: When black students sat under the "White Tree" in Jena, La., whitestudents reacted by hanging three nooses from the tree in an apparentnod to the over 5,000 African-Americans who were lynched in thiscountry between 1890 and 1960. The ...
Blennerhassett Bridge opening may be delayed
Oct 01, 2007; ... PARKERSBURG - The opening of the Blennerhassett Bridge across theOhio River on U.S. 50 might be pushed beyond the planned date inNovember. A report by the state Department of Transportation said stateofficials are currently considering whether to open the bridge beforefinal ...
CHARLESTON crime report
Oct 01, 2007 ... The following crimes were reported to the Charleston PoliceDepartment between Sept. 20 and 26: East district Jackson Street 1500 block, burglary, Sept. 20 at 12:20 a.m. Oakridge Drive 2100 block, theft of motor vehicle, Sept. 20 at 3a.m. Lakin Street 100 block, ...
On file: Kanawha and Putnam counties
Oct 01, 2007 ... Marriages 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, 28, both ...
Police chase leads to arrest of 3 city men
Oct 01, 2007 ... A police pursuit in Charleston late Friday led to the arrest ofthree Charleston men on gun and drug-related charges. Scotty M. Vaughn, 41, is charged with simple possession of crackcocaine, marijuana, fleeing and fleeing in a vehicle. All the chargesare misdemeanors. Vaughn ...
20th Century Images: The big fire, 1946; by Richard Andre
Oct 01, 2007 ... Stand on the corner of Capitol and Virginia streets and look easttoward Hale Street and you will see the same scene as over 60 yearsago. The bitter January cold turned the fire hose water to ice, andfireman had icicles hanging from their helmets. The combination offire and ice ...
Enso String Quartet brings world of 'pop' music to city: Review
Oct 01, 2007; ... Composers' engagements with the popular music of their day havebeen lynchpins for the creation of new works, and not just in thelast 170 or so years when nationalism became a hot-button issue.Saturday night at Christ Church UnitedMethodist, the Enso StringQuartet's concert for the ...
Former chess champion enters presidential race in Russia
Oct 01, 2007; ... MOSCOW - The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov enteredRussia's presidential race on Sunday, elected overwhelmingly as thecandidate for the country's beleaguered opposition coalition. Kasparov has been a driving force behind the coalition, which hasunited liberals, leftists ...
Open burning restrictions
Oct 01, 2007; ... Today is the start of West Virginia's fall fire season. The stateDivision of Forestry says the following precautions must be takenduring the season, which ends Dec. 31. * Outdoor burning is prohibited between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4p.m. Burning is only permitted between the hours ...
LOTTERY: LOTTERIES
Oct 01, 2007 ... Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007 The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa - One of the tickets sold in Louisiana for thePowerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, whichwere: 31-33-38-49-55: Powerball 39 (x3) The player matching all five numbers and the ...
World weather
Oct 01, 2007 ... Amsterdam 57 53 Rain Athens 86 60 Clr Baghdad 100 73 Clr Berlin 57 48 Rain Bermuda 84 75 Rain Cairo 90 69 Clr Calgary 50 33 Snow Dublin 58 50 Rain Hong Kong 91 81 PCldy Jerusalem 86 72 PCldy London 64 51 ...
National weather
Oct 01, 2007 ... Anchorage 49 38 Cldy Atlanta 82 59 Clr Boston 64 50 Clr Charlotte,N.C. 80 52 Clr Chicago 84 64 PCldy Cincinnati 81 59 PCldy Cleveland 76 57 Rain Dallas-Ft Worth 92 73 PCldy Denver 80 44 PCldy Detroit 78 57 Rain Elkins ...
Mountaineers tumble to No. 13
Oct 01, 2007; ... West Virginia's 21-13 loss at South Florida Friday night knockedthe Mountaineers out of the Top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25poll. WVU (4-1) began the season No. 3 in the AP poll and carried a No.5 ranking into Friday's Big East opener against the Bulls. Followingthe loss, ...
NL playoff race goes extra innings: Rockies, Padres to decide wild-card winner today
Oct 01, 2007; ... Jimmy Rollins backed up his boast and buoyed by a historiccollapse, the Philadelphia Phillies can relax. Jake Peavy and the SanDiego Padres can hardly afford to rest - they've got a date at CoorsField. A wild finish Sunday gave fans an extra treat: A one-gametiebreaker between ...
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL: WVU QB day-to-day; White suffering from thigh bruise; status for Syracuse game unknown
Oct 01, 2007; ... dphickman1@aol.com MORGANTOWN - Patrick White may or may not be available when WestVirginia travels for a game at Syracuse Saturday. His coach says hedoesn't know. "He won't practice [Sunday evening] and we'll see how it getsbetter during the week," Rich Rodriguez said ...
Slate showing no signs of sophomore slump
Oct 01, 2007; ... dougsmock@wvgazette.com HUNTINGTON - Preparations to take on Memphis spur warm memoriesfor Marshall tight end Cody Slate, who had his breakout game lastyear against the Tigers. The freshman from Chipley, Fla., had shown flashes of brilliancein the Thundering Herd's first ...
Patience with coaches can pay dividends
Oct 01, 2007; ... THIS ISN'T groundbreaking news, or even news for that matter, butcoach Mark Snyder isn't going anywhere. I know the just-concluded month of September didn't exactly gowell for his third Marshall team, and I heard the wolves howlingafter that 48-35 loss to New Hampshire. That's ...
INSIDE
Oct 01, 2007 ... Record-setting day Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre ...
TWO-MINUTE DRILL
Oct 01, 2007 ... Today's quote "I learned a long time ago about coaches. They'realways going to do what they want to do. It's usually an ego thingrather than trying to be better. Football is easy. It's not a chessgame. It's checkers." Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson Names in the ...
Today's area schedule
Oct 01, 2007 ... HIGH SCHOOL Boys soccer South Charleston at St. Albans, 5:30 p.m. Girls soccer Huntington at South Charleston, 6:30 p.m. Volleyball Poca, Logan at Winfield, 6 p.m. Riverside at Capital, 6 ...
Phillies finish NL East rally; Padres, Rockies to break tie
Oct 01, 2007 ... Baseball playoffs DIVISION SERIES American League Wednesday, Oct. 3 Los Angeles (Lackey 19-9) at Boston (Beckett 20-7) Thursday, Oct. 4 New York (Wang 19-7) at Cleveland (Sabathia 19-7) Friday, Oct. 5 Los Angeles (Escobar 18-7) at ...
Prep football
Oct 01, 2007 ... Saturday's scores Bishop Donahue 51, Hundred 14 Capital 42, Nitro 36 Hannibal River, Ohio 42, Gilbert 6 Linsly 54, Bellaire St. John, Ohio 7 Robert C. Byrd 20, Bridgeport 16 This week's schedule Thursday's game * Richwood at Tygarts ...
NHL
Oct 01, 2007 ... REGULAR SEASON Saturday's game Los Angeles 4, Anaheim 1 Sunday's game Anaheim 4, Los Angeles 1 Wednesday's games Anaheim at Detroit, 7 p.m. Montreal at Carolina, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Colorado, 9:30 ...
Baseball today
Oct 01, 2007 ... 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 y-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 34-47 6-12 Tampa ...
Golf
Oct 01, 2007 ... Presidents Cup At Royal Montreal Golf Club (Blue Course) Yardage: 7,153; Par: 70 UNITED STATES 19 1/2, INTERNATIONAL 14 1/2 Singles International 7, United States 5 Scott Verplank, United States, def. Rory Sabbatini, International,2 and ...
Phillies finish NL East rally; Padres, Rockies to break tie
Oct 01, 2007; ... PHILADELPHIA - Believe it, Philly. The Fightin' Phils are going tothe playoffs. Ryan Howard hit his 47th homer, 44-year-old Jamie Moyer pitched 51/3 gutsy innings and the Phillies beat Washington 6-1 Sunday to end a14-year playoff drought. Considered all but out of contention ...
College football
Oct 01, 2007 ... The AP Top 25 First-place votes in ( ) Record Pts Pvs 1. LSU (33) 5-0 1,593 2 2. Southern Cal (32) 4-0 1,591 1 3. California 5-0 1,475 6 4. Ohio St. 5-0 1,420 8 5. Wisconsin 5-0 1,271 9 6. South Florida 4-0 1,203 18 7. Boston ...
Transactions
Oct 01, 2007 ... BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB-Suspended Florida C Miguel Olivo five games and fined him anundisclosed amount for his role in a brawl against the New York Metson Sept. 29. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES-Fired Tom Trebelhorn, bench coach. Announced ...
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Oct 01, 2007 ... Career passing touchdowns 1. Brett Favre 422 2. Dan Marino 420 3. Fran Tarkenton 342 4. John Elway 300 5. Warren Moon 291 6. Johnny Unitas 290 7. x-Peyton Manning 283 8. Joe Montana 273 9. Vinny Testaverde 270 10. Dave ...
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE - WEEK FOUR: NFL standings, summaries
Oct 01, 2007 ... AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 3 0 0 1.000 114 35 Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 41 93 N.Y. Jets 1 3 0 .250 72 103 Miami 0 4 0 .000 78 119 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 4 0 0 1.000 131 74 Tennessee 2 1 0 ...
COUCH SLOUCH: Tearing down the myths of all those commercials
Oct 01, 2007; ... I WATCH AN avalanche of college and pro football every weekend.Inexplicably, it has taken me all of my adolescence and most of myadulthood to reach a somewhat obvious conclusion: Boy, there are a lot of commercials. If you watch enough games on TV, you realize that all we do ...
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE - WEEK FOUR: Favre sets TD mark, leads Packers to 4-0
Oct 01, 2007; ... MINNEAPOLIS - Brett Favre was as good as ever, becoming the NFL'scareer leader in touchdown passes with a couple of vintage third-down zingers to help Green Bay stay unbeaten. Favre was the obvious difference in Sunday's 23-16 victory by thePackers (4-0), who hung on against the ...
Biffle wins as Chasers implode: Championship standings shuffled after wet, wild race at Kansas
Oct 01, 2007; ... KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Darkness finally ended the disaster at KansasSpeedway, where the Chase for the championship field imploded and thefinish of Sunday's event was in question long after winner GregBiffle crossed the finish line. Biffle scored his first win of the season by winning ...
Rodriguez not flipping lid over hat flap
Oct 01, 2007; ... dphickman1@aol.com MORGANTOWN - In hindsight, it obviously did nothing for WestVirginia and was at least used as some bit of motivation for SouthFlorida. But Rich Rodriguez scoffed Sunday at the notion that when his teamgot off the bus at Raymond James Stadium Friday night ...
Sports briefs
Oct 01, 2007 ... Germany defeats Brazil 2-0 to keep World Cup SHANGHAI, China - Behind its trademark smothering defense and acrafty save by its goalkeeper on a penalty kick, Germany defeatedBrazil 2-0 in the final of the Women's World Cup Sunday. It became the first women's soccer team to ...
Barna has Hurricane back in state golf tourney: Golf
Oct 01, 2007; ... jrider@wvgazette.com As a freshman last season, Hurricane's Aaron Barna qualified forthe state golf tournament as an individual and nearly walked offWheeling's Speidel Golf Course with Class AAA medalist honors. This year, Barna's back at Oglebay Park - and he's brought along ...
Kennedy Award watch list
Oct 01, 2007 ... Here's a look at some of the leading candidates for the KennedyAward, which goes to the top high school football player in the stateas voted on by members of the West Virginia Sports WritersAssociation. This is not intended as the definitive list; players areadded and deleted as the ...
Capital defense delivered in clutch against Nitro: PREP Football Notebook
Oct 01, 2007; ... rickryan@wvgazette.com It was more than perceived; it was palpable. When Nitro threw a 70-yard touchdown pass on the final play of thethird quarter Saturday night, Capital's players could feel it allslipping away - their four-game winning streak, their potential home-field ...
MU men's soccer team extends win streak to six
Oct 01, 2007 ... Marshall University extended its winning streak to six games witha 2-1 overtime victory against Florida Atlantic in men's soccerSunday. The Owls grabbed an early lead on a penalty kick, but Marshallresponded with a pair of scores off the foot of senior John Daniele.Daniele's ...
STATEHOUSE BEAT: Maynard event venue unsettling
Oct 01, 2007; ... Too bad supporters of Supreme Court Justice Elliott "Spike"Maynard's re-election campaign couldn't line up any big-name hostsfor a fundraising reception Oct. 8 in Charleston. According to the invitation, they had to settle for Gov. JoeManchin, Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, ...
INNERVIEWS: 'I hope he's proud of me'
Oct 01, 2007; ... He runs a thriving home medical supply business, just like the onehis dad owned. But Jeff Boyd didn't follow in his father's footstepswithout a major detour. Apples don't fall far from the tree, but somecan sure roll around a lot. He started with his dad's fledgling company as a ...
Look who's drowning in debt now: Experts say price of student loans could add to economy's problems
Oct 01, 2007; ... The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decadehas produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that couldhaunt the U.S. economy for years. While scholarship, grant money and government-backed student loans- whose interest rates are capped - have taken up ...