Reports
of H1N1
may be
slowing
The region’s number of reported H1N1 cases appears
to be slowing, but it’s hard to say for sure, according
to health officials. Read
more ...
Defense:
Hit-and-run arrest based on gossip
Jon D. Morris was charged with the hit-and-run-death of Erin Keener based on “gossip,” his
attorney said Friday. Read
more ...
Ice arena plans
30th anniversary celebration
The Morgantown Ice Arena is about to celebrate its 30th birthday and is looking
for help from area residents. Read
more ... Potential
problems found at 20 W.Va.
coal ash dams
WASHINGTON — Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee
voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S.
citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. Read
more ...
Blacksville
blues Clay-Battelle
football team loses to Weirton Madonna 28-2. Read
more ...
Hawks
take
2nd
shot
at
a
state
title BECKLEY — “Here
we
go
again.”
Those
were
the
first
words
out
of
University
High
girls’ soccer
coach
Ray
Petrisin’s
mouth
following
the
Hawks’ 1-0
victory
against
George
Washington
on
Friday,
in
the
Class
AAA
state
semifinals. Read
more ... ‘Good,
fast, still Louisville’
The WVU football team’s mission for Game 9: Shut down the big play. That’s
what hurt the Mountaineers most against South Florida this past week, when the
Bulls completed passes of 49, 69 and 45 yards and racked up 421 yards of offense. Read
more
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One-third
able to get vaccine,
poll shows ATLANTA — Only
about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able
to get it, according to a new national poll released Friday.
Read
more ... Woman passes
driver’s exam
on her 950th try SEOUL,
South Korea — A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam
for a driver’s license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally
succeeded on her 950th time. Read
more ...
WVU
holds off on raises WVU
is taking a wait-and-see approach to a request for more pay for
classified staff. Read
more ... BOG
info
Column:
Rowlesburg
gets deserved
attention It
seems like only yesterday,
but it was exactly 24 years
ago this month that Rowlesburg
and other Preston County
communities along Cheat River
were devastated by a once-in-a-century-type
flood. Read
more ...
United
Way at 79%
of fundraising goal More
than 75 United Way volunteers, representing 45 local companies
and organizations, gathered this week at Ali Baba’s for
breakfast and to track the annual campaign progress. Read
more ...
Fort
Hood suspect said methodical
goodbyes FORT
HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli
to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common
courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities
say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort
Hood, Texas, dead. Read
more ...
Fla.
office shooting
suspect
was in
financial trouble ORLANDO,
Fla. — A man who
was so deep in debt that
he did not have the money
to visit his son 30 minutes
away opened fire Friday
at the engineering firm
that fired him two years
ago, killing one person
and wounding five, authorities
said. Read
more ...
Obama
signs
homebuyer,
jobless
bill
assistance WASHINGTON — President
Barack Obama signed a $24
billion economic stimulus
bill into law Friday, giving
tax incentives to prospective
homebuyers and additional
jobless benefits to those
idled by the business slump. Read
more ...
Brown:
U.K. will stay,
but wants
Afghan reform RAMALLAH,
West Bank — The Palestinian
president said Thursday he
does not want to run for
another term in January elections,
blaming a stalemate in Mideast
peace talks on Israel and
the United States. Read
more ...
Rights
group says Iran
covered up rape of detainees CAIRO — An
international human rights group said Friday it has documented
three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested
during Iran’s postelection turmoil, including one that
was supported by an official report but not investigated
further. Read
more ...
Swimmers
sweep
Cincinnati
The
WVU
swimming
and
diving
teams
combined
for
17
first-place
finishes
in
a
sweep
of
Cincinnati
on
Friday,
at
the
WVU
Natatorium.
The
Mountaineers
men
(1-1)
defeated
the
Bearcats,
120-98,
while
the
WVU
women
(3-1)
earned
a
122-97
victory. Read
more ...
Column:
Dunlap:
Diversity
explains
football
game
mismatches Steve
Dunlap is full of wonderful ideas.
After three decades spent in any profession, it’s quite easy to become
beaten, worn and bitter. Read
more ...
Eagles
shut
down
WVU,
make first Big East final WVU’s
women’s soccer team dropped its Big East semifinal match to Marquette,
1-0, on Friday, at Storrs, Conn. Read
more ...
Gordon
on
pole
for race at Texas FORT
WORTH, Texas — Jeff Gordon is suddenly having all kinds of success
at Texas Motor Speedway, a track where he had never won until earlier
this season. Read
more ...
Tiger
shares
lead at HSBC
SHANGHAI — The gallery kept growing until it stretched along
all 603 yards of the eighth hole at Sheshan International. It took
a little longer before Tiger Woods gave them what they came to see
Friday, in the HSBC Champions. Read
more ...
Rams
coach
sticks
with Bulger at QB ST.
LOUIS — Marc
Bulger
has
thrown
just
three
touchdown
passes
and
has
a
passer
rating
of
68.2
for
the
scuffling
St.
Louis
Rams. Read
more ...
Massacre
at Fort Hood When
soldiers die on the battlefield, it’s a tragedy, but a
normal one, if violent death can ever be thought of as normal.
And then there are war-zone outrages, such as this week’s
murder of five British soldiers in Afghanistan at the hands of
a treasonous Afghan police officer, which are particularly shocking.
But Thursday’s massacre at Fort Hood was a tragedy of another
magnitude entirely. Read
more ...
True
conservatives
still just
want a
crack at
government If
there’s
one thing
liberal
pundits
are experts
on these
days it’s
the sorry
state of
conservatism.
The airwaves
and op-ed
pages brim
with more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger
lamentations
on the
GOP’s
failure
to get
with President
Obama’s
program,
the party’s
inevitable
demographic
demise
and its
thralldom
to the
demonic
deities
of the
right — Limbaugh,
Beck, Palin. Read
more ...
Letters
to the editor Floodplain
ordinance
needs to be rethought
Karaoke
and
More ELITE
ENTERTAINMENT
BY
MIKE
RIFE
karaoke
and
DJ
at
Lojak’s. Read
more ...
Events Today
CHRISTMAS
AT
THE
CABIN
in
New
Geneva,
Pa.,
10
a.m.-3
p.m.
at
470
Fallen
Timbers
Road,
Point
Marion,
Pa.
Find
unusual
gifts.
Directions:
U.S.
119
north
through
Point
Marion,
left
of
Pa.
166
North,
follow
3.7
miles,
right
on
Fallen
Timbers
Road,
1.5
miles
to
cabin.
Public
welcome.
Outdoor
event,
dress
for
the
weather.
Info:
christmasatthecabin.com
or
724-725-9236. Read
more
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