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The state headquarters for a coordinated Democratic campaign for Barack Obama is scheduled to open Monday in downtown Charleston, state party director Tom Vogel confirmed Thursday.
Some Republicans say investigation method is too secretive
A legislative commission is investigating how Gov. Joe Manchin's daughter got a master's degree she didn't earn from West Virginia University, but some Republican lawmakers said Thursday the probe is too secretive. They said they'll probably renew calls for the Legislature's joint Judiciary Committee to probe the matter.
Man suspected in 40 bank heists
After a string of up to 40 robberies, including three in West Virginia, police arrested the so-called "Plaid Shirt Robber" Thursday on an interstate in Missouri in a car that couldn't get near the speed limit.
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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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Video: The disaster still felt, 30 years later
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December marked the 100th anniversary of the Monongah mining disaster, which took the lives of at least 362 men. Read the Gazette's coverage of the Monongah disaster: 100 years later.
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