Recently added articles from Charleston Gazette:
Hearing held for pair charged in killing: ; South Charleston slaying headed to grand jury
Dec 01, 2009; Andrew Clevenger ... Two teenagers accused of killing a South Charleston man in hisMacon Street home will have charges against them heard by a grandjury. Michael Shane "Mikey" Thompson, 18, and Jimmy Eugene Thompson,19, are accused of beating, stabbing and choking James AndrewGillespie, 51, to death ...
SENTENCED TO PROBATION: ; Driver pleads no contest; in Veterans Memorial crash
Dec 01, 2009; Andrew Clevenger ... A Roane County man pleaded no contest to destruction of propertycharges for crashing his car into the West Virginia VeteransMemorial at the state Capitol Complex in March 2007. Howard Roland Gentry, 61, of Newton, was sentenced to up to oneyear of probation by Kanawha Circuit ...
Grand jury to hear about Perdue grades: ; MU professor says treasurer, wife made their offices known
Dec 01, 2009; Lawrence Messina ... A Marshall University professor plans to tell a federal grandjury today that State Treasurer John Perdue and his wife both madesure she knew they were state officials when they contacted her onbehalf of their daughter. The subsequent handling of the grading for Emily Perdue ...
SATURDAY EVENTS: ; AARP cards to be burned in protest; Group's support of health-care reform angers organizers
Dec 01, 2009; Alison Knezevich ... West Virginians upset with AARP's support of health-carelegislation plan to protest the seniors group this weekend at "Burnyour AARP Card" events around the state. Event organizer Fred Joseph called AARP "disingenuous" and saidprotesters feel the group is not acting in senior ...
Gazette Charities Christmas Fund: ; Loss of husband puts woman in financial straits
Dec 01, 2009; Karin Fuller ... Life was going well for Steve, Cindy, and their three children.Steve had a good-paying job, and while his work occasionallyrequired him to travel to other states, they were doing well enoughfinancially that Cindy was able to be a stay-at-home mother. Their children were doing well ...
W.Va. man sues over mugshot use
Dec 01, 2009; ... MCMECHEN - A McMechen man whose mugshot won a measure of Internetfame is planning to sue companies he says are profiting from theimage. Patrick Tribett was arrested in Bellaire, Ohio, in 2005. Police say he had been huffing the fumes from gold spray paint,and the lower half ...
General H1N1 vaccine access coming soon: ; Kanawha providers should be supplied in next few weeks
Dec 01, 2009; Kathryn Gregory ... General health-care providers in Kanawha County should haveaccess to the swine flu vaccine in the next few weeks, according tothe Kanawha-Charleston Health Department. So far, only a small portion of private doctors within KanawhaCounty have had access to the vaccine and were only ...
School numbers: departments
Dec 01, 2009; ... Here is a list of contacts for problems or questions concerningKanawha County schools. Eddie Ivy, attendance director and schools social worker, 304-348-1343. Brenda Isaac, lead school ...
DUI checkpoint
Dec 01, 2009; ... Putnam County: The West Virginia State Police will conduct a DUIcheckpoint from 8 ...
Correction
Dec 01, 2009; ... The phone number for Children's Home Society in the GazetteCharities Christmas ...
Water advisory
Dec 01, 2009; ... The Department of Health and Human Resources has reissued a boil-water advisory for Anawalt Municipal Water. The advisory wasoriginally issued on Sept. 18 and is being reissued because ...
WVGAZETTE.COM
Dec 01, 2009; ... Nov. 30 traffic report MOST POPULAR 1. Later, Gator: Mountaineers focused on Rutgers 2. 85 miners collect checks in Massey settlement 3. WVU wins 76 Classic 4. Snyder resigns at Marshall 5. W.Va. man sues over use of ...
Snowshoe delays skiing, snowboarding until Saturday
Dec 01, 2009; ... SNOWSHOE - With a mixed bag of weather in the forecast for thisweek, executives at Snowshoe Mountain Resort have decided to put offthe opening day of their 2009-2010 skiing and snowboarding seasonfrom Friday to Saturday. At least seven trails and three lifts in the Snowshoe Basin ...
Two to be honored by W.Va. labor history group
Dec 01, 2009; ... The West Virginia Labor History Association will honor GroverMarion, a longtime Teamster activist, and Davitt McAteer, who onceheaded the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, onSaturday. The association will induct the two into the Labor Hall of Honorin a noon ceremony ...
Slayings suspect has help, Wash. police say
Dec 01, 2009; ... SEATTLE - Authorities believe the man sought in the slaying offour police officers is still alive and has been aided by a networkof friends and family, a police spokesman said Monday night. Officers believe Maurice Clemmons was shot in the abdomen duringthe attack on the officers ...
STATE Briefs
Dec 01, 2009; ... Four still in hospital in Greenbrier house blast RAINELLE - One week after a series of explosions rocked a westernGreenbrier County home, one person remains in critical condition,while two others are serious. A spokeswoman for Charleston Area Medical Center said ...
Fighting extremism with civility and courage
Dec 01, 2009; E.J. Dionne ... WASHINGTON - The most surprising and disappointing aspect of ourpolitics is how little pushback there has been against the vile,extremist rhetoric that has characterized such a large part of theanti-Obama movement. President Obama's administration has largely ignored ...
Myths about mining
Dec 01, 2009; Roger Nicholson ... The Gazette's coverage of the meeting between Gov. Manchin andother governmental leaders and some coal industry officials on Nov.10 was noteworthy in a couple of respects. First, anti-mining activist Judy Bonds candidly revealed the trueextreme agenda of groups like the Sierra Club ...
Readers' forum
Dec 01, 2009; ... Don't trust numbers on global warming Editor: On the front page of the Nov. 23 Gazette was an AP piece onclimate change. As I read it I got angrier and angrier. I am ageophysicist with a natural gas production company, so I have someskin in the game. My geological ...
Climate: ; Debate is warming
Dec 01, 2009; Gzedit ... President Obama, heading to next week's world climate summit inCopenhagen, pledged that America will reduce its carbon pollution -a promise contingent upon Senate passage of the controversial cap-and-trade bill previously approved by the House of Representatives,a cleanup proposal ...
