Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from October 2006:
Former N.M. treasurer convicted
Oct 01, 2006; ... ALBUQUERQUE - Former state Treasurer Robert Vigil was convicted ofone count of attempted extortion Saturday and acquitted of theremaining 23 counts of extortion and racketeering in his publiccorruption trial. The attempted extortion carries a possible sentenceof up to 20 years, but the ...
New ABC fall hostage drama has 'Nine' lives to cover each week
Oct 01, 2006; ... They have no idea what's coming when they walk into a Los Angelesbank. After enduring a 52-hour hostage crisis, they become "The Nine." A clever storytelling structure - bolstered by an intriguingensemble cast that merges familiar faces and relative newcomers -fuels the dense ...
MIND YOUR MANNERS: rudeness rules; Complaints mount against inconsiderate grocery shoppers
Oct 01, 2006; ... For the Sunday Gazette-Mail While standing in the "15 Items or Less" express checkout line atthe grocery store, the lady behind me started counting out loud,"TWENTY-SIX, TWENTY-SEVEN, TWENTY-EIGHT," so that the lady checkingout in front of me (with the obvious item overload in the ...
SMELL THE COFFEE: Kids say the funniest things
Oct 01, 2006; ... My friend Mary Ellen has a 9-year-old daughter, Amelia, who isnaturally funny, although I'm not sure she's funny on purpose. Each year, the grade school Amelia attends holds a celebration torecognize the 100th day of school. The students in her grade classwere to complete a ...
Magazine features SC home
Oct 01, 2006 ... The South Charleston home of Doris and Steve Moses is the subjectof a four-page spread in the September issue of Southern Livingmagazine. The couple bought a farm on the outskirts of South Charleston andengaged the ...
Albom printing huge; 63-city tour planned
Oct 01, 2006; ... No more days to wait before Mitch Albom's second novel, "For OneMore Day," hits stores. According to Hyperion, the publisher, 2.2 million copies ofAlbom's tale of a suicidal ex-ballplayer and a visitation from hisdead mother will be fanned out over the country. That's the ...
Narrative unravels web of terrorism
Oct 01, 2006; ... If 373 pages of nonfiction narrative ever deserved to be doubledin number, they are found in Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." Wright's "Tower" is not just fine reportage and writing, althoughboth are exceptional. It's also an invaluable peek ...
They were workin' on the railroad
Oct 01, 2006 ... "A Visible Past: Portraits of Work on the Baltimore & Ohio" willopen at the Parkersburg Art Center, 725 Market St., Oct. 8, the sameday the three-day National B&O Railroad convention winds up in thatcity. "Of the millions of railroad images created over the past 180years, only a ...
Our Art: That's my line
Oct 01, 2006 ... A NATIVE of Kyoto, Japan, Matazo Kayama created "The Moon andRhinoceros" in a traditional form of Japanese painting callednihonga, where ink and natural pigments depict the beauty of naturein simple lines and shapes. As a nihonga artist, Kayama moved beyondthe physical artwork into ...
BOOK NOTES
Oct 01, 2006 ... Cross Lanes memoir Just My Best has published Michael Spencer's first novel, "TheMemoirs of Someone Awesome." Told in the first person, this 116-pagesemiautobiographical book traces the growing-up and early adult yearsof the author. The stories are true but the names have been ...
the MONDAY BOOK CLUB: Banned-book talk continues
Oct 01, 2006; ... rholbert@wvgazette.com Mondays Book Club meeting was a busy one,with the group discussion of Septembers selection, The Satanic Versesby Salman Rushdie, and also a discussion of ideas for the 2007 booklist. Carol Campbell opened the book talk by offering up a summary ofthe global outrage ...
Whatever you say, boss: Told to 'dream bigger,' N.C. curator lands 50 Monets
Oct 01, 2006; ... RALEIGH, N.C. - When David Steel floated the idea of a ClaudeMonet exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, he dreamed ofhosting a show featuring 15 paintings by the Impressionist master. Museum director Larry Wheeler wasn't interested. His advice:"Dream bigger." The ...
Carved in stone ... and foam: Natural Bridge, Va., offers budget-friendly family fun
Oct 01, 2006; ... ON THE NET Natural Bridge, Monster Museum, Dinosaur Kingdom andFoamhenge: www.naturalbridgeva.com Lexington ghost tours:www.lexingtonvirginia.com /attractionsb.asp?id=34 Virginia GoldOrchard: www.virginiagoldorchard.com Virginia Safari Park:www.virginiasafaripark.com Natural Bridge ...
Pendleton County rocks: Fall color also plays a major role in getaway destination
Oct 01, 2006; ... If you go * Seneca Rocks Discovery Center 45 miles east of Elkinsalong U.S. 33 Open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through the end of October *Germany Valley Overlook Cabins Along U.S. 33, 9.3 miles west ofFranklin Open year-round Call (800) 481-5680 for rates andavailability or visit ...
DO IT YOURSELF: Call in a bricklayer if damage is extensive
Oct 01, 2006; ... Q: I live in a 50-year-old brick house. The material surroundingsome of the bricks has disintegrated and the surface of some bricksalso shows damage. How can this be fixed without replacing thedamaged areas? - E. Cunningham A: The damage is caused by moisture penetrating the wall ...
Open planning: Human brain is the best tool to make a house really cool
Oct 01, 2006; ... WHAT makes a house a dream home? It's more than custom woodworkand granite countertops. It's an electrical outlet that's right whereyou need it, kitchen storage that makes things easy to find, maybe acubby for the dog's dishes so you don't trip over them coming in theback ...
Pansy prep: Proper soil maximizes large showy varieties
Oct 01, 2006; ... THE crisp fall mornings turn my thoughts to the planting seasonthat is upon us. During a program last spring, I saw some unbelievable beds ofpansies and tulips that I wished every gardener could have seen fromthe standpoint of pansy companions. With pansy season upon us, we ...
GARDENSCAPE: Hungry slugs are searching for food - in your garden
Oct 01, 2006; ... "The petunias in the pots have no leaves whatsoever," my husbandtold me. "It's slugs," I responded. Autumn is slug reproduction time, sothere are lots more slugs at this time of year, and they are hungry. Slugs hide under groundcover, so the pot that sits in a patch ofajuga ...
Living Well
Oct 01, 2006 ... Tying one on The West Virginia Symphony League, with some help from CharlesRyan Associates, is offering fancy neckties (photo above) emblazonedwith the symphony's watermelon-playing mascot, Melonious, so well-dressed concertgoers can show their support for the orchestra.Vineyard ...
CINDY SAYS: Teammates give impressive effort to get heart-healthy
Oct 01, 2006; ... The past 3 1/2 months covering the American Heart Association'sHealthy Life Challenge has given this health and fitness columnist afascinating look inside five people's lives - two women and threemen, including the mayor of Charleston - all dissatisfied with theirpersonal health ...
Horoscope:
Oct 01, 2006; ... Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006 Your birthday today: You're exceptionally attractive this year,decisive and intelligent. The challenges you face involve home andfamily. Proceed with confidence and curiosity. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiestday, 0 the most ...
Must-haves: Unique items available nearby or online
Oct 01, 2006 ... ITS not enough for a woman to be pretty in pink. She can cookwith pink, clean with pink, exercise with pink. Now that the color isso closely associated with the breast cancer prevention movement, itseems that pink products are poppin up everywhere. As October isNational Breast Cancer ...
Attention, early shoppers: Dresses are top pick for spring
Oct 01, 2006; ... NEW YORK - It's easy to declare dresses a key item in fashion fornext spring. They were the most consistent thing on the runways atlast month's New York Fashion Week. The fashion editors, retailers and stylists saw every shape dressfrom sacks to chemises. Some were trapezes and ...
Eat for Life: The right peanut butter allows you to snack wiser
Oct 01, 2006; ... The choices used to be straightforward: smooth or crunchy. But these days, the world of peanut butter brims with choices. There are natural, reduced-fat, whipped, honey-roasted and omega-3-enriched varieties. And that doesn't even take into consideration all the other ...
The Main Ingredient: Crustacean sensation; Freshness and a well-timed steaming are keys to lobster
Oct 01, 2006; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com tara@wvgazette.com I SHOULDN'T admit this, because Rob will now be a lot lessimpressed with his birthday dinner this year, but: If you can boil anegg, you can cook a lobster. Try it and wow your sweetie. Rob's 37th was on a weeknight, soafter ...
Popular, once-plentiful papaws make comeback
Oct 01, 2006; ... Nearly 500 years ago, the infamous Spaniard Hernando de Sotofeverishly trekked through two continents, trading, killing andlooking behind rocks and in streams for gold. In what is today theUnited States, he made his way north and west from Florida, not quitemaking it to West ...
Israeli pullout from Lebanon complete today
Oct 01, 2006; ... MOSHAV ZARIT, Israel - Israeli military officials said the armywithdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early today, fulfillinga key condition of the cease-fire that ended a monthlong war withHezbollah guerrillas. The pullout ended a nearly three-month troop presence and ...
Spinach scare aside, food safer than ever
Oct 01, 2006; ... FYI Each year, from germs in food: 76 million Americans get sick323,000 go to hospitals and 5,000 are killed CDC report: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pre view/mmwrhtml/mm5514a2.htm?s--cidmm5514a2 --e Food safetytips: www.fightbac.org SAN FRANCISCO - Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, ...
Survivors unlikely in Brazil crash: Rescuers search remote jungle site
Oct 01, 2006; ... BRASILIA, Brazil - Military helicopters lowered a rescue team byrope Saturday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airlinerslammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope offinding survivors among the 155 people on board. The team began clearing dense ...
Putnam General suits take ever-weirder turns
Oct 01, 2006; ... cshumaker@wvgazette.com WINFIELD - The medical malpractice lawsuits pending against formerPutnam General Hospital surgeon John King continue to be surroundedby mystery and conflict. There has been an alleged push poll conducted by the hospital. A lawyer has sued former ...
Pollsters' new tactic: profiling: Right-leaning surveys 'micro-target' voters
Oct 01, 2006; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com You might have received a phone call in the last few days askingif you want to repeal the food tax, or if you would vote for acandidate who wants to loosen the penalties for drunken driving. Three campaign consultants contacted by the Sunday ...
INSIDE
Oct 01, 2006 ... UC beats WV State, 42-29 Golden Eagle defense comes ...
INSIDE
Oct 01, 2006 ... Big picture The Battle of Point Pleasant is coming to life in ...
La. voters approve of downsizing levee boards
Oct 01, 2006; ... NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana voters on Saturday approved consolidatingthe New Orleans area's levee boards, the generations-old agencieswhose politically appointed members took criticism after HurricaneKatrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls. The constitutional ...
U.S., EU air traffic deal fizzles
Oct 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - The United States and the European Union failed toreach a new deal on sharing air passenger data by Saturday'sdeadline, though officials disagreed about the impact on trans-Atlantic air travel. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the failure toagree ...
Getting it right
Oct 01, 2006 ... Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006 Daily 3 516 (white ball) Daily 4 0879Hot Lotto 6-11-17-27-37: 15 Night Pick 3 783 Night ...
Today's News
Oct 01, 2006 ... AP photo Musician Willie Nelson (left) speaks at the Farm Aidconcert in Camden, N.J., Saturday. When Nelson, John Mellencamp, andNeil Young (right) founded the charity in 1985, they were mostlyconcerned with saving family farms, but the mission has changed overthe years. Musicians talked ...
Famous restaurant in Big Easy reopens
Oct 01, 2006; ... NEW ORLEANS -This morning, another slice of life is scheduled toslide back into place as New Orleans slowly regains its culturalbalance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Commander's Palace, a mainstay of haute Creole cuisine and elegantdining, has been closed since Katrina's wind ...
Sunday Times has previously unseen Atta video
Oct 01, 2006; ... LONDON - A previously unseen video made by Mohammed Atta,ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, hasbeen obtained by Britain's The Sunday Times, the newspaper reportedSaturday. In editions available late Saturday, the paper said it hadbeen handed the so-called ...
Congress leaves much work unfinished as election nears
Oct 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - As Congress began its final week before the midtermelections, a veteran Senate chairman was asked the questionricocheting all over town: Will Congress finish its work before lawmakers leave? "No, just leave," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said with a grin. Not ...
Foley resignation complicates district race
Oct 01, 2006; ... WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democratic candidate Tim Mahoney seizedthe opportunity created by scandal and criticized GOP leadersSaturday for not fully investigating Rep. Mark Foley when his raunchycommunications with a teenage boy came to light about a year ago. Foley resigned Friday ...
Outside groups spending millions on ads: GOP supporters have the edge
Oct 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - The images are searing, violent. Smoke and flamespouring from the World Trade Center towers. Bullets ripping throughmilitary protective vests. The scenes are from this year's campaign ad wars, waged outsidethe control of candidates or political parties. Heading ...
Software finds missing 'a' in astronaut's quote
Oct 01, 2006; ... HOUSTON - That's one small word for astronaut Neil Armstrong, onegiant revision for grammar sticklers everywhere. An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing "a"from Armstrong's famous first words from the moon in 1969, when theworld heard the phrase, "That's one ...
Mollohan slammed for child abuse votes
Oct 01, 2006; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan's Republican challenger is attackinghis voting record on bills to protect abused children, althoughMollohan sponsored legislation to create a nationwide system fortracking missing kids. "Alan Mollohan has spent so much time ...
Afghan leaders debate using herbicide on poppy crop
Oct 01, 2006; ... JALALABAD, Afghanistan - With profits from this spring's recordopium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities saythey are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge:spraying poppy fields with herbicide. Afghans including President Hamid Karzai are ...
U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Oct 01, 2006; ... As of Saturday, at least 2,711 members of the U.S. military havedied since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according toan Associated Press count. The figure includes seven militarycivilians. At least 2,158 died as a result of hostile action,according to the military's ...
Captured suspect was planning attack, military says
Oct 01, 2006; ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspectand members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning anattack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by thearrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home Saturday withoutsupplies during the ...
Suicide bomber kills 12, wounds dozens in Afghanistan: American released from prison after serving 2 years
Oct 01, 2006; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busypedestrian alley next to Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday,killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens, officials said. It was the second major suicide attack in Kabul this month,underscoring the rising ...
Prisoners guide wayward dogs back to the straight and narrow
Oct 01, 2006; ... LANSING, Kan. - The prison yard is filled with the sounds of mengrunting as they lift heavy barbells that clang noisily when ironhits concrete. But Jerry McMullin is oblivious, focused only on ayoung German shepherd named Tess. On his hands and knees in the nearby grass, McMullin ...
2 men sought in West Side robbery
Oct 01, 2006 ... Two men with at least one shotgun robbed people inside The ParkPlace bar on the West Side just before 7 p.m. Saturday and then fledon foot. Police searched for one white man and one black man that theybelieved to be about 5-feet-10-inches tall and about 200 pounds each.The men ...
The Killer Cure: Methadone played role in death of celebrity's son
Oct 01, 2006; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com A combination of methadone and two anti-depressant drugs killedthe 20-year-old son of celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, according to apathologist hired by the family. Daniel Smith died accidentally from the "cumulative effect" oftaking methadone, Zoloft and ...
Selective memories keep Reo alive
Oct 01, 2006; ... LANSING, Mich. - It is time once again to journey to the past. And so, as they have for one afternoon each of the past 21 summersnow, the old autoworkers flock to Moose Lodge 288 on the fringes ofthis car capital, collecting name tags at the door. For a few,treasured hours, this is ...
Google struggles to stay in lead
Oct 01, 2006; ... MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif. - With its heft, power and sizzle amongeveryone from term-paper researchers to Wall Street financiers,Google Inc. has made an astonishing ascent from little-known start-up to Internet icon. But even with its stratospheric market value of $123 billion,Google ...
Efforts underway to cut college textbook costs
Oct 01, 2006; ... Ways to save * Book swaps: Trade books with other students oncampus through online book swaps. If one doesnt exist yet on yourcampus, try setting it up through CampusBookSwap.com s Check libraryreserves: If theres only one chapter being used from a priceytextbook, try using the copy on ...
Weather data
Oct 01, 2006 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 71 Low 44 Sept. 30 record high 94 set in 1953 Sept. 30 record low 34 set in 1947 Saturday's precipitation Midnight to 5 p.m.: ...
State & regional weather
Oct 01, 2006 ... W.Va. Today - Monday Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower70s. Tonight, partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-40s. Monday, mostlysunny. Highs around 80. Monday night, mostly clear. Lows in the lower50s. Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Putnam: ...
World weather
Oct 01, 2006 ... Amsterdam 69 57 PCldy Athens 78 64 Rain Baghdad 102 79 Clr Berlin 75 52 Clr Bermuda 84 77 PCldy Cairo 106 74 Clr Calgary 77 42 Clr Dublin 64 50 Clr Hong Kong 91 78 Clr Jerusalem 104 70 Clr London 77 53 ...
U.S. weather
Oct 01, 2006 ... Anchorage 48 36 Rain Atlanta 75 59 PCldy Boston 63 51 Rain Charlotte, N.C. 74 52 PCldy Chicago 67 48 Clr Cincinnati 65 48 PCldy Cleveland 60 49 Cldy Dallas-Ft Worth 94 71 Clr Denver 86 49 Clr Detroit 59 48 PCldy Elkins ...
Environmental tour hits state: Nation-trekking activists rally with mountaintop removal foes at Capitol
Oct 01, 2006; ... sarahkwinn@wvgazette.com Though the debate over mountaintop-removal mining has played outmostly in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, it was clear Saturdaythat it resonates with activists from across the country. The Environmental Justice For All tour, a nationwide effort ...
Mollohan not alone in helping to start and fund nonprofits
Oct 01, 2006; ... Mollohan's child-abuse votes. 5A Mollohan organizations The Associated Press Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., has created several nonprofit organizations since 1990,earmarking at least $202 million for them within the last decade.Among them are: * Canaan Valley Institute: to help local ...
'I knew I needed to live there': George Washington graduate finds spark to write in the City of Light
Oct 01, 2006; ... sandyw@wvgazette.com Talk about love at first sight. "I remember walking up out of the metro station and seeing thePlace de la Concorde and saying, 'I have to live here. There'ssomething here for me, a connection.'" Ah, Paris! Three years ago, on a gray day in ...
Pa. not very likely to fold 'em
Oct 01, 2006; ... Some random thoughts from a scattered brain: With fivePennsylvania racetracks soon to be rigged - better make that equipped- with thousands of slot machines similar to those found at MountainState racetracks, West Virginia racetrack operators are clamoring forlegislation to legalize ...
THE WILD SIDE: A new migration record
Oct 01, 2006; ... I stand corrected. A few weeks ago I wrote a column about birdmigration in which I identified the arctic tern as the grand championmigrant. "Individuals that nest in Greenland and the eastern Canadianarctic," I wrote, "travel south along the coasts of Great Britain,Spain and ...
The Big Picture: 300 feet of; floodwall depicts the Battle of Point Pleasant
Oct 01, 2006; ... rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com POINT PLEASANT - The Battle of Point Pleasant is coming to life abrushstroke at a time on the floodwall surrounding the site of theOct. 10, 1774, struggle that helped set the stage for theRevolutionary War. A 300-foot section of floodwall facing ...
The Way It Was: First bridge; By Richard Andre
Oct 01, 2006 ... Andrew Brown was the Charleston City engineer for years, and hehad a delightful memory of the capital city's history. Not long before he passed away, Andy asked if I would like a goodphoto of the old 1891 South Side Bridge. Of course I said yes. Unfortunately, we ...