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<title>State unemployment debit cards frustrate some users</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Mike Hoover visited an ATM earlier this month to get his unemployment benefits with his state-issued Chase Visa debit card, he had $88.53 in his account. But after he withdrew $80, his balance was $5.78. The machine had charged hi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[alisonk@wvgazette.com (Alison Knezevich)]]>
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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>City paving may begin next week</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Paving crews will soon hit the streets of Charleston, probably next week, now that City Council members have approved the citys annual contract with West Virginia Paving Inc.  Two dozen streets and street segments will get new coat...]]></description>
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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Work-from-home scams cite reputable news organizations</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Jerald Marshall was searching for jobs online when he came across an ad for a Google work-at-home business. The ad featured a &quot;Chicago Tribune News&quot; story about Mike Steadman, a college drop-out from North Carolina, who was earning buc...]]></description>
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<title>EPA to scrutinize dozens of mining permits</title>
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Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:36:18 -0400
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<title>State board gets stuck with $475,000 phone bill </title>
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<title>Government mortgage partners sued for abuses</title>
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:43:34 -0400
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<title>Jay asking strong insurance questions of CIGNA</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. --    Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, wants CIGNA to provide information to his committee about &quot;purging&quot; small businesses from buying its health insu...]]></description>
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:08:07 -0400
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<title>PSC limits participation by power line intervenors</title>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>PEIA board votes to eliminate retiree health benefits -- again</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A second vote Thursday to slash retiree health care benefits for future state and public school employees turned out the same as the first vote - but with a six-month delay before the cuts take effect.At the end of a 50-minute meeting ...]]></description>
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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:17:21 -0400
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<title>New GI Bill to take effect Saturday </title>
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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:46:49 -0400
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<title>PEIA board to vote on retiree benefits again</title>
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<title>State attorney general sues Ohio debt collector</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State Attorney General Darrell McGraw has filed a lawsuit against an Ohio debt collection agency alleging that it used illegal strong-arm tactics to bully West Virginians. The suit, filed Tuesday in Kanawha Circuit Court in conjunc...]]></description>
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Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:22:45 -0400
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<title>Bridge contract includes unusual incentive payment</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Department of Transportation put a &quot;special provision&quot; inside a 241-page document soliciting bids to repair the Winfield Bridge in Putnam County.  The winning company would earn &quot;a one-time lump sum...]]></description>
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<title>Will you lose your post office. </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Several post office branches in the Charleston area have been targeted for possible consolidation or closure by the U.S. Postal Service.Stations on Ohio Avenue on Charlestons West Side, at 1579 Washington St. E. on the citys East End a...]]></description>
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<title>Report says W.Va. roads and bridges among nations deadliest</title>
<description><![CDATA[                    SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia will need to find nearly $5 billion over the next 10 years to maintain roads and bridges that are already &quot;among the deadliest in the nation, according to a report released Wednesday.  <a hr...]]></description>
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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:44:53 -0400
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<title>State official resigns amid workforce grant probe </title>
<description><![CDATA[State employment programs manager Mary Jane Bowling has resigned amid an investigation into federal grant money that was ultimately used by her son, convicted felon Martin Bowling.  Mary Jane Bowling submitted her resignation after the state Workforce West...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ericeyre@wvgazette.com (Eric Eyre)]]>
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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Department of Education to roll out public Web site </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. --   Parents, principals, school staff and other members of the public could have more access to student data this fall, with a new Web site <a href="http://wvde.state.wv.us/" target="_blank">state Department of Education</a> officials wi...]]></description>
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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:39:53 -0400
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<title>Feds: DEP does not properly oversee mining flood prevention</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia regulators and coal operators have not properly implemented state rules meant to keep strip mining from contributing to flooding during heavy rains over narrow mountain hollows, according to a new federal report.Mine ...]]></description>
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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:54:40 -0400
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<title>Guardsmen struggle after alleged chemical exposure in Iraq</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Larry Robertas every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He cant walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep.James Gentry came home with rashes, ear ...]]></description>
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:55:10 -0400
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<title>Four W.Va. sites on high-hazard coal-ash dam list</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/" target="_blank"><em>  Read more in Coal Tattoo.</em></a><em></em>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Four coal-ash impoundments in West Virginia -- including one near the John Amos Power Plant -- are among the 44 &...]]></description>
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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:37:35 -0400
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<title>Historic tract for Mon Forest clears funding hurdle</title>
<description><![CDATA[        WASHINGTON -- A 448-acre parcel of Pocahontas County woodland bordering the historic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike in the vicinity of several Civil War encampments and battle sites could soon be added to the Monongahela National Forest.  U.S. Rep. ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com (Rick Steelhammer)]]>
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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:32:50 -0400
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<title>Insurers purposely cloud data, Rockefeller says </title>
<description><![CDATA[      CHARLESTON, W.Va. --   U.S. Sen Jay Rockefeller accused health insurance companies on Wednesday of routinely keeping customers in the dark about payments for their health care.  Rockefeller, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, believes insuranc...]]></description>
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<title>Customers blast power rate hike request</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Appalachian Power customers railed against the companys rate hike request Monday, saying the increase would devastate low-income and older West Virginians and jeopardize their health and safety.  The residential customers predi...]]></description>
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<title>Jackson Kelly faces lawsuits alleging black lung evidence cover-up</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Lawyers at the firm Jackson Kelly are facing a disciplinary case and new lawsuits that allege they covered up evidence that proved coal miners had deadly black lung disease.  Earlier this year, an investigative panel of the...]]></description>
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<title>Gambling with credit cards: With each purchase, consumers vulnerable to hackers, ID theft</title>
<description><![CDATA[            Every time you swipe your credit card and wait for the transaction to be approved, sensitive data including your name and account number are ferried from store to bank through computer networks, each step a potential opening for hackers.While y...]]></description>
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<title>Supreme Court appoints judge in rehearing of Massey case</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- James O. Holliday, a retired Putnam County judge, has been selected to replace state Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin in the rehearing of a case ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week.Late Thursday afternoon, the Supre...]]></description>
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Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:37:14 -0400
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<title>Va. Tech paper sues for documents in probe of missing student</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Virginia Techs student newspaper is suing the West Virginia State Police to obtain documents related to the investigation of a graduate students disappearance in September 1998.The lawsuit filed by Educational Media Co., operator of Th...]]></description>
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Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:05:18 -0400
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<title>Supreme Court wont hear Camp Lejeune water suit </title>
<description><![CDATA[                    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a Marines lawsuit blaming the governments dumping of toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for his sons illnesses.The high court declined to hear an appeal by Donal ...]]></description>
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:03:38 -0400
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<title>Product recall: Baby cribs</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following recalls on Tuesday:  - About 2,000 Bonavita &quot;Cabana&quot; drop side cribs, manufactured in Vietnam and imported by LaJobi Inc. of Cranbury, N.J., because the s...]]></description>
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<title>Supreme Court says Benjamin should have recused himself</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin should have stepped aside from a case involving the man who spent more than $3 million to put Benjamin on the court.    In <a href="http://www.s...]]></description>
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<title>Judge bars Texas company from operating in W.Va.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Texas company that helps consumers resolve debt is barred from doing business in West Virginia -- at least temporarily.In issuing Thursdays decision, Kanawha County Circuit Judge Irene Berger also ordered Able Debt Settlement Inc. to...]]></description>
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Thu, 14 May 2009 16:50:22 -0400
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<title>Bayer safety lapses could have eclipsed Bhopal</title>
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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:16:59 -0400
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<title>Workforce grant suspended amid probe </title>
<description><![CDATA[                        <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/workforcewv"><img height="15" src="/images/icons/moretext.gif" title="cnImage" width="15" /> Read more about Workforce West Virginia. </a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginias workforce training ...]]></description>
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<title>Pratt children drank possibly tainted water</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  Pratt Elementary School Principal David Anderson can only hope that no students get sick after drinking possibly tainted water at the school.Students and staff at the school and residents of Pratt were apparently not informed of a boi...]]></description>
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Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:16:23 -0400
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<title>State moves to delist Blair Mountain from historic register</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Manchin administration officials moved this week to have Blair Mountain - site of the landmark 1921 coalfield labor battle - removed from the National Register of Historic Places.Randall Reid-Smith, director of the Division of C...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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<title>State sought grant for convicted computer executive</title>
<description><![CDATA[                    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginias employment programs agency worked to secure a $900,000 federal grant in February for convicted Cross Lanes computer executive Martin Bowling and his employer, Comar Inc., even though Bowling had pleade...]]></description>
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<title>C8 exposure linked to birth defects, preeclampsia</title>
<description><![CDATA[    VIENNA, W.Va. -- A three-person science committee has found evidence that could connect the toxic chemical C8 to human birth defects and high blood pressure in pregnant women, according to the latest reports made public Thursday.  Babies whose mothers ...]]></description>
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<title>Treasurer paid now-convicted computer whiz for unusable work</title>
<description><![CDATA[                CHARLESTON, W.Va. - At about the same time Cross Lanes computer wizard Martin Bowling was stealing credit card names and numbers, he worked as a contractor with the West Virginia Treasurers office. Bowling, former chief technical officer wi...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ericeyre@wvgazette.com (Eric Eyre)]]>
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:53:00 -0400
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<title>Grant paid Bowlings girlfriend $5,000</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The live-in girlfriend of convicted felon Martin Bowling received part of a $100,000 grant distributed by Bowlings mother, an administrator with the state employment programs office. Mandi Felty, who lived with former Comar ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ericeyre@wvgazette.com (Eric Eyre)]]>
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:18:41 -0400
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<title>DuPont to pay $1.1 million for water pollution fines</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- DuPont Co. will pay more than $1.1 million in fines for repeated water pollution violations at its Washington Works plant south of Parkersburg, under a proposed deal with the state Department of Environmental Protection.   ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:03 -0400
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<title>Voting advocates, county clerks debate election bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[                CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The League of Women Voters and West Virginias county clerks are at odds over the major election-related bill of the ongoing legislative session.The bipartisan House measure would allow residents to register to vote with...]]></description>
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Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:57:50 -0400
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<title>Domestic violence list launched</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - With nine counties on board, the state Supreme Court announced the launch of its domestic violence registry and statewide database of scanned, electronic versions of domestic violence protective orders on Monday.&quot;The main goal ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[aclevenger@wvgazette.com (Andrew Clevenger)]]>
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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:56:15 -0400
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<title>C8 Science Panel finds link to immune changes</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Exposure to the toxic chemical C8 appears to be linked to changes in the human immune system, according to the latest findings of a scientific panel studying the chemical.The three-person C8 Science Panel found &quot;several significan...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>State official distributed grant to sons firm</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/watchdog"><img height="15" src="/images/icons/moretext.gif" title="cnImage" width="15" />Click here for more Watchdog stories.</a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A state employment programs administrator distributed feder...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ericeyre@wvgazette.com (Eric Eyre)]]>
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:46:54 -0400
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<title>EPA official might have conflict over C8</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When President Obama named Lisa Jackson to be his Environmental Protection Agency administrator, advocates for tougher regulation of the toxic chemical C8 were optimistic. Read more in the <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/wa...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Online records: Survey finds many states lagging </title>
<description><![CDATA[        Americans can easily learn about their state songs and state flowers with a quick search on the Internet, but most will have a harder time checking whether their childrens school buses are safe or a local gas station is charging too much.A 50-state...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (The Associated Press)]]>
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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Ex-Putnam doctor John Kings bankruptcy denied</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal bankruptcy judge learned last week that John A. King, the osteopath who generated 124 medical malpractice lawsuits during his seven months on the staff of Putnam General Hospital, has been hiding hundreds of thousands of doll...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[pjnyden@wvgazette.com (Paul J. Nyden)]]>
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Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>State says fusion center enhances public safety</title>
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<![CDATA[alisonk@wvgazette.com (Alison Knezevich)]]>
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Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:00:00 -0400
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<title>Paint Creek sewer work set to start today</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="/story/wvgazette.com/watchdog" target="_blank">For more Watchdog news, click here </a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Work crews probably will start today to fix a major sewer leak on Paint Creek.Kanawha County emergency officials and representatives of ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[rustymarks@wvgazette.com (Rusty Marks)]]>
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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>C8 might damage sperm, study says</title>
<description><![CDATA[        <a href="/story/wvgazette.com/watchdog" target="_blank">For more Watchdog news, click here </a>CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Men with higher levels of C8 and similar chemicals in their blood have lower sperm counts and fewer normal sperm, according to a new...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500
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