During the opening event, all 268 teams paraded around the stadium in an Olympic-type procession. Following that, the only state team to win the tournament, the West Virginia U-12 rowdies from 1997, carried a torch onto the field.
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As the mortgage crisis shakes the national economy, what about West Virginia? What is the state's real foreclosure rate? Are there warning signs? What can policymakers do to protect West Virginia homeowners? West Virginia lenders foreclose far less often than out-of-state lenders do. What can be done to bring down the out-of-state rate?
A mess hangs over Workforce West Virginia, the state's employment training office. An ongoing Gazette investigation shows that a state official funneled grant money to her son's computer firm – even after the son was on his way to prison for making lavish purchases on the Internet with stolen credit card numbers.
Roy Plummer robbed at least 14 banks in the 1980s. He fooled, among others, his first wife and baseball star John Kruk. When Plummer got out of jail, he started robbing again. His second wife Kathy Plummer believed he had been wrongly imprisoned and says she had no idea he resumed his life of crime.
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