Lawrence Pierce
Thousands arrive in W.Va. for soccer tournament
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.
Politics
  • McDowell delegate vows to stop traffic to protest tolls 6:37 pm
  • West Virginia charitable pharmacy gets mail-order drug license 6:29 pm
  • Judge orders monitor on mental health issues 6:14 pm
  • Carte Goodwin may run for Congress
  • New prisons, shorter sentences recommended to reduce Corrections system overcrowding
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    Police Blotter
  • Man charged with sending obscene photo via cell phone 2:29 pm
  • Teen's body recovered from Jackson County lake
  • Putnam man faces six counts of sexual abuse
  • Hinton residents wonder if suspect is behind arson spree
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  • W.Va. man gets life in girlfriend's murder
  • State Police to beef up holiday highway patrols
  • As economy drops jobs, paychecks drop some weight
  • Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War
  • W.Va. judge orders monitor on mental health issues
  • WVa judge orders monitor on mental health issues
  • Obama confident in recovery despite jobs report
  • Putin has 'one foot in old ways,' Obama says
  • West Virginia Rx gets mail-order drug license
  • Court upholds rehiring of union miners in W.Va.
  • Court 'moving ball' on racial hiring, Obama says
  • Obama keeps door open for NKorean nuclear talks
  • WVU to play Pitt, Seton Hall, Villanova twice
  • WVa Railroad Museum finally gets its turntable
  • Obama: More work needed to create new jobs
  • WVa lawmaker vows to stop traffic to protest tolls
  • Utility seeks WVa approval to sell $105M in bonds
  • 467K jobs cut in June; jobless rate at 9.5 percent
  • WVa city's workers threaten daily pickets
  • WVa violinist fights Internet sex charge
  • WVa court to consider mental health care issues
  • Teen's body recovered from Jackson County lake
  • WVa's oldest heritage fair kicks off Thursday
  • Lewis County group revives, renames annual jubilee
  • Cars, not planes, will be flying at Elkins airport
    • News
  • State gets nearly $1 million to teach history 6:51 pm
  • 'Hard to ignore' serious themes on Brad Paisley's new CD 5:31 pm
  • Voting underway for Meals on Wheels volunteer of the year 4:58 pm
  • Legal Aid Society of West Virginia elects new board members 3:16 pm
  • Things to Do: July 3, 2009 3:12 pm
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  • WVU grads launch engineering scholarship program
  • Kim named dean of Marshall's business school
  • W.Va. ends tough budget year on hopeful fiscal notes
  • BrickStreet Insurance repays state loan
  • Boy Scouts to acquire Fayette land for adventure camp
  • Soccer tournament will kick $12 million into region's economy
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    Opinion
  • Terry Gossard 6:11 pm Demand insurance reform
  • Hate crime 6:08 pm Protect all victims
  • Readers' forum: July 3, 2009 5:50 pm
  • Readers' voice: July 3, 2009 3:02 pm
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    Sports
  • Soccer tourney kicks off today
  • The end of the line GW's Thistlethwaite closes soccer career close to home
  • State title in hand, SC starts anew
  • Frank Pergolizzi named AD at WVU Tech
  • Dobson catches TD pass, U.S. routs Mexico
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    Prep Sports
  • Sissonville's strength on line
  • College coaches mining for talent at St. Albans Shootout
  • Girls basketball -- St. Albans Shootout schedule, results
  • GW picking up momentum
  • U.S. vs. Mexico tonight
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    Entertainment
  • Charleston's explosive Fourth of July events
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  • Characters drive Les Claypool's music Bass virtuoso returns to the hills for All Good Music Festival
  • What's happening at the Mountain State Art & Craft Fair
  • 'Instant' fine art photos available at Mountain State Art and Craft Fair
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    Special Reports
    W.Va. and the Mortgage Crisis
    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?
    Workforce West Virginia
    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.
    Hidden: On the trail of a bank robber
    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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