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<title>Counties turn away from $53 million in stimulus bond funds </title>
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<title>Finished budget includes money for Medicaid waiver programs</title>
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<title>$80.4M Charleston budget approved</title>
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<title>Brother and sister sentenced in Hurricane beating</title>
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<title>Wounded Oak Hill officer released from hospital</title>
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<title>Son of Pagans vice president held pending trial</title>
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<title>Woman robbed at knifepoint in downtown Charleston</title>
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<title>Yeager hosts gala over Chicago flights</title>
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<title>Kanawha teachers may choose between early, traditional school calendars</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha County teachers will likely choose between three options for next years school calendar, which involves either starting school early, on August 10, or more traditionally, on August 23.  The third option could call for students ...]]></description>
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<title>House Democrats want Sunday vote for health-care bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[    WASHINGTON -- Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 bil...]]></description>
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<title>SC approves budget; to reopen upstairs of community center today</title>
<description><![CDATA[    SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  South Charleston City Council unanimously approved the citys budget for the upcoming fiscal year Thursday night.    According to Mayor Frank Mullens, the no-frills budget does not include any cosmetic projects because the ci...]]></description>
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<title>Union workers to vote on new contract with ARH</title>
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<title>Live chat about WVU basketball with Mitch Vingle</title>
<description><![CDATA[                    Talk with Charleston Gazette Sports Editor Mitch Vingle at 10:30 a.m. Friday, live from Buffalo, the site of WVUs NCAA Tournament opening-round game against Morgan State.<a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/WVU"><img height="15" src...]]></description>
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<title>Library tower comes down (photo)</title>
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<title>Cemetery moving to make way for state expressway</title>
<description><![CDATA[BECKLEY, W.Va. -- A family cemetery along the Raleigh-Wyoming county line is being moved to make way for a section of the Coalfields Expressway.West Virginia Division of Highways Cemetery Coordinator Ivan Kapp says the project is scheduled to begin Monday ...]]></description>
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<title>State agencies block computer access to NCAA games</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many state agencies in West Virginia have blocked employees from watching NCCA basketball tournament games on their work computers.Office of Technology security chief Jim Richards recommended the move in an e-mail sent last week to the...]]></description>
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<title>Fairmont bridge closed by potholes reopens</title>
<description><![CDATA[FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Fairmont residents arent complaining about the Fourth Street Bridges return to a brick surface.The bridge reopened Thursday after being closed March 5 for repairs. The city removed an asphalt surface that was pitted with huge potholes.Co...]]></description>
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<title>Harpers Ferrys Hilltop House starts to collapse</title>
<description><![CDATA[HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. -- The owners of the Historic Hilltop House Hotel say its no surprise that part of the building has collapsed: Rotting wood, cracked walls and a deteriorating foundation have long been problems for the third structure to sit on the sit...]]></description>
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<title>State DOH says residents not opposed to road taxes</title>
<description><![CDATA[CLARKSBURG, W.Va. -- A series of public forums on highway funding is showing West Virginia highway officials that residents arent opposed to tax increases for roads.Rob Watson with the Division of Highways says the most popular suggestion to come from the ...]]></description>
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<title>Missed February fish stockings being made up in March</title>
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<title>Meetings set to discuss ways to push state tourism</title>
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<title>Crunch-time Eagles</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Pierria Henry didnt have time to sulk.Seconds after air-balling a free throw that could have brought his desperate South Charleston team into a tie, there was Henry rising above the chaos that was the final minute of Thursdays South Charleston-George W...]]></description>
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<title>Raleigh couple cant get off Wood County ballot</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  Stan and Janet Norman are running for office whether they like it or not.  The Beckley couple are in the middle of a mix-up that has them on the ballot for seats on the state Republican Executive Committee in Wood County, about 135 mi...]]></description>
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<title>EPA to study drill method behind natural gas boom</title>
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<title>Hurricane City Council member resigns </title>
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<title>Ad blitz seeks to push Mollohan to vote for health-care bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Several groups are running television advertisements this week urging U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan to vote in favor of the comprehensive health-care legislation before Congress.Congress could vote on the legislation this weekend or early ne...]]></description>
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<title>Technical problems trip up higher education bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State lawmakers last week overwhelmingly approved sweeping changes to West Virginias higher-education system, but the measure might not make it to Gov. Joe Manchins desk. On Wednesday, the Senate clerks office determined that the bill ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    WINFIELD, W.Va. -- The driver of a tractor-trailer involved in a collision that killed an Eleanor teenager pleaded not guilty Thursday to 11 charges, including driving a commercial vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Breazeale W. Norris, 57, was ar...]]></description>
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<title>Cheering on the Irish (photo)</title>
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