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When Tom Vasale announced that he was selling his horticultural business, members of the Charleston Beautification Committee immediately wondered who would map out future designs.
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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?
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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It's been 30 years since the worst construction accident in U.S. history claimed 51 lives in Pleasants County. Look back on the disaster, the investigation and the people left behind.
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