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Smoking ban battle rages1:00 am EDT
Complaints about smokers lighting up in local bars often can't be proven
There's a file at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department marked "The Blitz." Health inspectors planned to fan out across Kanawha County one night last month and check bars and gambling parlors for smoking violations. However, "The Blitz" was called off. Someone had warned the bar owners about the expected sweep.
Approaching his 86th birthday on Oct. 11, restaurateur Joe Fazio looks back on his bootstrap success story with a mix of pride and wonder. He started in 1951 with six stools, three booths and 15 cents in his pocket.
W.Va. lawmakers eye new ways to pick judges1:00 am EDT
BRIDGEPORT - West Virginia may be hard-pressed to remove politics and the appearance of conflicts of interest from the ranks of its judiciary.
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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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