The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) back issues from September 2008:
Wetlands pioneer, unlikely steward.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Chesapeake Emil Viola used to think wetlands were nothing but trouble . Swamps, bogs and wet fields spread over the region have cost him money and given him headaches. They also have proven lucrative for Viola, the developer who has emerged as the region's leader in ...
etc.(Daily Break)
Sep 01, 2008 ... restrooms Click to find a clean one Searching for an acceptable public restroom is always tricky. A new Web service from Cystex - www. thebathroom diaries.com - offers some help, with ratings of bathrooms in every state, and it's specific to local cities. Cystex ...
Plan calls for new zones.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Amy Jeter The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK School officials will consider redrawing decades-old attendance zones for the city's five high schools, a move that could potentially end crosstown busing ordered in 1970 for racial integration. Leaders ...
a VITAL FIRST STEP AT FLY ASH COURSE.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... DOMINION Virginia Power could have balked at the idea that it should pay for some of the consequences of Chesapeake's boneheaded decision in 2001 to build a golf course with fly ash. Fortunately, the company has declared that it would pay the costs of extending city water to ...
Roads can't handle CenterPoint trucks.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Whenever somebody makes a splashy proposal -- as a Chicago-based company did in Suffolk recently -- it's easy to get lost in enthusiasm for the 7,000 jobs, for the 5 million square feet of warehouse space, for the $325 million in investment, for the prestige of a major economic engine. ...
Don't let corporations off the tax hook.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By CHUCK COLLINS and SARAH ANDERSON TAXPAYERS shouldn't have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries. A recent Government Accountability Office study found that two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005 ....
First offshore trip yields a whopper.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Lee Tolliver The Virginian-Pilot Perhaps Jamie Sawyer's father-in-law was looking down on him. Sawyer, a 38-year-old Norfolk resident, didn't fish for a few years after his wife's father - Don Jordan - died. The two were fishing partners and hit the ...
Seven years, going in different directions.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... AFTER ATTENDING the spectacular closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics and feeling the vibrations from hundreds of Chinese drummers pulsating in my own chest, I was tempted to conclude two things: "Holy mackerel, the energy coming out of this country is unrivaled." And, two: "We are so ...
waiting for pols' e-mail response, while crickets chirp.(Daily Break)
Sep 01, 2008 ... "Of course, I use e-mail, Mike." That's what I asked every city council member and mayor in South Hampton Roads to write me. Seems easy enough. But already the issue's been reduced to a joke because in interviews, the presumptive Republican nominee for ...
Have information? Anyone with information on any of these cases is asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. Callers remain anonymous, do not have to testify in court and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000 if the information leads to an arrest. Local police are seeking public assistance in the following cases: crime line.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... CHESAPEAKE Victim fires on robbers On Jan. 28, 2007, two men tried to rob a woman near her home in the 3900 block of Savannah Drive. The victim arrived home about 4:15 a.m. from organizing a function at a Virginia Beach nightclub. She carried her purse, a bank bag containing the ...
Law would protect the right to organize.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By MARK WEISBROT WHILE IT hasn't gotten much attention, one of the most important issues that our elections this November could decide is the future of organized labor in the United States. This is important not just for the 15.7 million workers who happen to be in ...
It violates principle of secret ballots.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By THOMAS J. DONOHUE Labor Day signals the beginning of the sprint toward the November elections, when Americans cast a secret ballot for the candidates of their choice. Sadly, this year -- whether they know it or not -- voters may very well be deciding whether to do ...
Strategies recommended on right to retrieve law.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Lee Tolliver The Virginian-Pilot With the start of Virginia's fall deer hunting season approaching, the battle between landowners and hunters who run dogs is heating up. With landowner complaints up sharply the past couple of years, the state game ...
your views.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Vacant argument So Sen. John McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns. Could you imagine asking John Kennedy how many houses he owned? What does that matter? Could we please deal with the important issues? Bruce Carothers Portsmouth Surge ...
A MACHINE TO FIGHT THE MIGRAINE.(Daily Break)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Joe Burris The Baltimore Sun The first time Howard County, Md., inventor Dr. Robert Fischell experienced a migraine symptom known as an aura, he had no clue what was happening. Images of dancing circles crowded his vision, and when the circles grew larger he ...
Hanging judge, saintly lawyer battle in new Bochco series.(Daily Break)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Dave Shiflett Bloomberg News There's a devil in Steven Bochco's new TV series, and she's not wearing Prada. Judge Trudy Kessler (Jane Kaczmarek) has a heart as black as her robes in "Raising the Bar," which debuts at 10 tonight on TNT . She's a hanging ...
This is a 30-point, 2-line Tidewater Semibold headliney General excellence: 100 years of GM autos.(Auto Weekly)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Over its century of existence, General Motors has shaped the automobile industry though the strength of its cars and trucks. More than mere transportation, they are icons of the past 100 years, part of the fabric of our memories. Presenting 10 of the best. 1. 1957 Chevrolet Bel ...
City launches fresh look at long-term plan.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Jen McCaffery The Virginian-Pilo t PORTSMOUTH City leaders are launching a new set of plans under an initiative they call Destination Portsmouth that will include new looks at transportation, zoning and downtown. The city already has a ...
Bicycle corridor becomes a path to frustration.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Mike Saewitz The Virginian-Pilot chesapeake City leaders thought they had put the $16 million bike path behind them. First, the City Council voted for the pricey Dominion Boulevard bike path last year, thinking it was a part of state and ...
the guy who made $1 million a week in one of the biggest S&L swindles?(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... THE SORDID SAGA of William R. Runnells Jr. ended May 16. He was 67 when he died, according to the funeral home in Farmville that buried him in a family plot there. A "notice of a defendant's death" was placed in his file in Norfolk federal court by Assistant U.S. Attorney James ...
Dove season starts today in Virginia, N.C.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... One of the most popular of hunting seasons - dove season - opens today in North Carolina and Virginia. Each state has three segments to its dove season. According to wildlife biologists in both states, dove populations are healthy. Land where corn or sunflowers have ...
holiday closings.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Courts and Municipal Offices Chesapeake All courts and city offices are closed today. Norfolk All courts and city offices are closed today. Portsmouth All courts and city offices are closed today. Suffolk All courts and city offices are closed ...
The first mile was fine ...(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... When Dr. Tom Childers, a 62-year-old resident of Washington state, stepped off the plane in Virginia on Tuesday, his sister asked him to do a favor. Debbie Hennessy, 52, of Chesapeake, was signed up for the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon and had been training for months, running ...
Practicing what they preach.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Doug Symons didn't go to church Sunday morning. Instead, he and about 50 people from the Bible study class he teaches gathered in front of a Portsmouth elementary school like an army of gardeners. They trimmed back trees that kept the sun from shining into classrooms ...
Portsmouth unit to direct Guard effort.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Virginian-Pilot The Portsmouth-based Atlantic Area Command Center will coordinate the Coast Guard forces heading to the Gulf Coast to help with hurricane relief efforts. Thousands of Coast Guard personnel and dozens of ships from across the country will be sent ...
MORE AMERICANS are living longer - and working longer, too.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Dave Carpenter The Associated Press CHICAGO Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains ...
60-foot putt for birdie on No. 18 gives Beck title.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Rich Radford The Virginian-Pilot Evan Beck's week started off with a bang when he called Wake Forest coach Jerry Haas and told him he was ready to play golf at the Winston-Salem, N.C., college next fall. Beck then went out and showed everyone why the ...
Harvin expected to play this week for no. 5 florida against Miami.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... GAINESVILLE, Fla. | Fifth-ranked Florida expects to have receiver Percy Harvin, linebacker Brandon Spikes and guard Jim Tartt back for this Saturday's game against rival Miami. All three starters sat out Saturday against Hawaii, a 56-10 victory that gave the Gators a 19th ...
Report refutes Palin's 'Bridge to Nowhere' claim.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Mary Pemberton The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was for the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it, a change of position the GOP vice presidential running mate ignored Saturday when she bragged about telling ...
Draft deferments, asthma kept Biden out of Vietnam.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Randall Chase The Associated Press DOVER, Del. Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was ...
Kenyans sweep the men's and women's titles for the fourth time in six years.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Paul White The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH A Kenyan remains king. Queen, too. In other words, there were no surprises in the elite divisions of the eighth annual Virginia Beach Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon on Sunday, as James ...
focus on local stars.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Brewers 7, Pirates 0 CC Sabathia pitched a one-hitter, allowing the Pirates only an infield single by Andy LaRoche in the fifth inning, and visiting Milwaukee got its eighth victory in nine games. Sabathia (9-0) pitched the majors' fourth one-hitter this season. The ...
Wrestler won TV fame for rough stuff in the ring.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Richard Goldstein The New York Times Walter "Killer" Kowalski, one of pro wrestling's biggest stars and most heinous villains when wrestlers offered a nightly menu of mayhem in the early years of television, died Saturday in Everett, Mass. He was 81. ...
KGB defector spent three years in U.S. detention in 1960s.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Walter Pincus The Washington Post WASHINGTON Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet KGB agent whose defection to the United States in 1964 and subsequent three-year detention and interrogation by CIA officials remains controversial, died Aug. 23 under an assumed name ...
Federer, eager to reclaim his No. 1 ranking, rolls.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press New York As if trying to remind himself and everyone else where he's been and where he's quite certain he'll return, Roger Federer thrust his right fist overhead and pointed skyward with his index finger. ...
Veteran lineman Jansen loses starting spot.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Joseph White The Associated Press ASHBURN There was a truly unusual sight Sunday at the first Washington Redskins practice in preparation for Thursday's season opener against the New York Giants. Jon Jansen lined up at left guard. As a ...
Illegal block propels Wilson to the front.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Mike Householder The Associated Press DETROIT Helio Castroneves certainly had another fence-climbing celebration running through his mind as he raced toward victory Sunday at the Detroit Indy Grand Prix. Then came a caution flag that cut his ...
Hampton capitalizes on foe's turnovers to rally in opener.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. Hampton University converted a pair of second-half turnovers into touchdowns to rally past Jackson State 17-13 in the SWAC-MEAC Challenge on Sunday. Hampton's Jerry Cummings scored on a 1-yard run and Jeremy Gilchrist ...
New search starts for adventurer.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Brendan Riley The Associated Press HAWTHORNE, Nev. A year after aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day solo flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged ...
Playing on damaged knee in NFL? Keep a stretcher handy, says area doctor.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Shawne Merriman is a 24-year-old man who should know better. His employer, the San Diego Chargers, has an executive suite full of people who should know better. They all should know that MerrimanAEs announced intention to play this NFL season with not one, but two, torn ...
FDA delves into possible side effect: Suicide.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON Cody Miller was a high school football player who was allergic to ragweed. Douglas Briggs was a doctor coping with pain from an old back injury. Both are now dead, hanging victims ...
Dolphins give Ricky Williams 1-year extension NFL report.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... DAVIE, Fla. | The Miami Dolphins signed Ricky Williams to a one-year contract extension through the 2009-10 season Sunday, putting their faith in the controversial running back. Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland said the team wanted to extend the 31-year-old so he didn't ...
No. 8 Lady monarchs blanked by syracuse in field hockey.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. | The eighth-ranked Old Dominion field hockey team allowed five second-half goals Sunday, losing 5-0 to No. 18 Syracuse at Ursinus College. Lindsey Conrad scored three goals for the Orange (1-0), which outshot the Lady Monarchs 16-2. ODU senior ...
Russia promises military aid to breakaway areas.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW Russia's president said Sunday his country will give military aid to the two separatist regions at the center of the war with Georgia - signaling that Moscow has no intention of backing down in the face of ...
Clemson adds to its big-game frustration.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press ATLANTA For Clemson, it's time to recover. Considered the best team in the ACC with expectations of a national championship run, the ninth-ranked Tigers were humbled by No. 24 Alabama 34-10 on Saturday ...
briefs.(Local)
Sep 01, 2008 ... PORTSMOUTH | Police were asking for assistance Sunday in finding a missing 52-year-old man who failed to return home Thursday. Napolean "Shorty" Cherry was last seen in the 3200 block of Downes St. in Portsmouth shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, a news release said. He was wearing ...
pilot makes a soft landing - in the trees.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... A 1930s biplane glided to a crash landing in the tops of a stand of trees Sunday in East Windsor, Conn., stranding the pilot and his passenger for several hours. No one was hurt. The de Havilland Tiger Moth apparently lost power about ...
Gustav trumps convention coverage.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Matea Gold and James Rainey Los Angeles Times ST. PAUL, Minn. The television networks and national cable news outlets Sunday shifted their top talent and reporters from the Republican National Convention here to the Gulf region to prepare for Hurricane ...
change of plan for gop.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Julian Walker The Virginian-Pilot ST. PAUL, Minn. On the fly, Republicans are improvising their national convention script in response to Hurricane Gustav, storming its way toward the Gulf Coast. At the direction of GOP presidential ...
u.s. marines to begin their drawdown from anbar.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Chelsea J. Carter The Associated Press The drawdown of Marines from the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar will take time because there is still much work to be done, a top U.S. commander said Sunday. He spoke on the eve of the once violent province's ...
Villagers stranded without food in Indian flood.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Gavin Rabinowitz The Associated Press TRIVENIGANJ, India Stranded by hundreds of miles of floodwaters and trapped on rooftops and trees, desperate villagers stormed rescue boats Sunday trying to escape the flooding that tore through a riverbank and ...
Warriors investigate injury of their highest-paid player.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Marcus Thompson II Contra Costa Times OAKLAND, CALIF. According to team sources, the Golden State Warriors have questions about the explanation Monta Ellis gave them regarding how he sustained his ankle injury. The team has launched an ...
getting it right.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Correction An information box accompanying a story in Friday's front section ("GPS tells you where to go, tells cops where you went") was incorrect. The ...
R-Braves slip past Tides on bases-loaded walk in 7th.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Staff report Norfolk's Bob McCrory walked Diory Hernandez with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, forcing in the go-ahead run in Richmond's 2-1 victory Sunday at The Diamond. Two batters earlier, a passed ball by Tides catcher Mike Costanzo allowed the tying run ...
Stewart doesn't mince words in magazine article.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... FONTAN A, Calif. | A Rolling Stone article about Tony Stewart leaves little to the imagination, from his "tighty-whiteys'' to his comments about women. For anyone who might be offended , the two-time series champion has some advice: "Don't read it,'' Stewart said ....
at a glance.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... DETROIT | Lawyers for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have proposed a deal in which he would resign, plead guilty to two felonies, make restitution and serve five years' probation in exchange for avoiding jail time, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Detroit Free Press quoted "a ...
Landfall expected by midday.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... From wire reports NEW ORLEANS With a historic evacuation of 1.9 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city's empty streets Sunday night - as the nation waited to see if ...
Hurricane hanna meanders toward miami.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... McClatchy News Service MIAMI Tropical Storm Hanna is on a wobbly path about 600 miles east-southeast of Miami, but forecasters said it could become a hurricane by Thursday somewhere off the Central Florida coast. Hanna, the eighth named storm of the 2008 ...
Gustav slams Cuba with gusts as high as 212 mph.(Front)
Sep 01, 2008 ... From wire reports LOS PALACIOS, Cuba Some residents of this once-picturesque town, whose name means the palaces, have already rebaptized it: The Ruins. Los Palacios was the first town that lay directly in the path of Hurricane Gustav when it made landfall ...
Johnson makes it look easy at California.(Sports)
Sep 01, 2008 ... By Dustin Long The Virginian-Pilot FONTANA, Calif. Here's what you missed if you couldn't stay up late Sunday to catch the end of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pepsi 500: Nothing. Unless you're a Jimmie Johnson fan. He won. ...
If you've been to First Landing State Park in the past eight years, there's a good chance you were greeted by Tick Thumm.(Daily Break)
Sep 02, 2008 ... By Elizabeth Simpson The Virginian-Pilot Tick Thumm has worked a lot of jobs in his life. The 93-year-old Norfolk man was a captain of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter during World War II. Then, he was a shipping clerk for a bag company. A sheet metal salesman ....
Crossing the line on Blackwater's turf Crossing the line in Blackwater's backyard.(Local)
Sep 02, 2008 ... LAND SURVEYORS and the people who hire them have all the more reason for diligence these days. Someone with a computer and Internet access just might be hovering overhead, as a recent discovery in northeastern North Carolina demonstrates. While preparing for a battle against a ...
As the bells ring, a message for kids A back to school message for kids.(Local)
Sep 02, 2008 ... THEY ARE questions schoolchildren have always asked: Why do we have to trade 10 weeks of summer freedom for an endless 91/2 months of teachers, class schedules and homework? Why do we have to spend time being forced to study things we don't care about and probably will never use ...
Why the next president will disappoint you Why the Next President Will Disappoint You.(Local)
Sep 02, 2008 ... By ANDREW J. BACEVICH ON Inauguration Day, a new U.S. president is a demigod, the embodiment of aspirations as vast as they are varied. Over the years that follow, the president inevitably fails to fulfill those hopes. So the cycle begins anew, and Americans look to the next ...
Blackwater sets its sights on e-learning businesses.(Business)
Sep 02, 2008 ... By Louis Hansen The Virginian-Pilot Need to stanch the bleeding from a gunshot wound? Apply a tourniquet? Or just respond to a dirty bomb explosion in your city? Blackwater Worldwide can help. The North Carolina-based ...