http://www.mwcsun.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:40:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_238134147.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_238134147.html Last month, Gov. Joe Manchin said he would like to see year-round schools in every county in West Virginia.“It’s something that I think has a lot of promise and shows great results,” Manchin said. “If our main goal is to provide children with skill sets for the 21st century workforce, we’ve got to make sure they’ve got that opportunity. If it gives them a better platform to learn and compete, it’s something we should be serious about changing.” Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_238133949.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_238133949.html For drivers and farmers, CountryMark hasgone one better than “Made in America.” Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:46:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_196104837.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_196104837.html Keith Berneburg says dressing as “Harry the Hobo” normally makes people laugh and just have a good time.But two bank tellers who mistakenly thought Harry was a robber Wednesday afternoon thought the situation was dead serious. Thu, 29 May 2008 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_150173047.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_150173047.html Leslie Persinger said when he took over Country Roads Exxon 10 years ago he never thought much about the gas station’s analog gasoline pumps. Wed, 28 May 2008 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_149130258.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_149130258.html Ethanol is a flawed source of energy that is intensifying global hunger as more corn is being converted into motor fuels, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., says. Wed, 21 May 2008 10:45:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_142104704.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_142104704.html Polls indicate Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton will score a big win in Kentucky Tuesday over Barack Obama. Kentucky fits the demographic profile of those states where Clinton has fared well – it’s less educated, less affluent, whiter, and more rural than many states. Wed, 14 May 2008 14:44:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_135143742.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_135143742.html More refineries and more crude oil to process are among solutions to the energy crises proposed by Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer, R-4th. Sun, 11 May 2008 20:55:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_132205226.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_132205226.html Society seems eager to replace things. Compact discs have replaced cassettes tapes, while coal-powered energy is slowly being phased out by renewable sources. The same trend can be observed in parenting. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:13:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_119100156.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_119100156.html They may not have been the fish that saved Johnstown, but the untimely death of some ornamental koi Wednesday may have helped prevent a major fire at a local shopping plaza.An electrical fire in the Szechuan East restaurant apparently was extinguished when the 80-gallon fish tank ruptured, dousing the blaze. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:29:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_114132456.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_114132456.html When 23-year-old Faith Johnston of Haverhill, Mass., looked into the eyes of Pope Benedict XVI last week, she saw sorrow and regret. She also saw tears — and when she tried to speak about being abused by her parish priest, she also cried. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:17:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_098151827.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_098151827.html Cockfighting is a centuries-old blood sport that pits roosters bred for aggressiveness in a pit for the purposes of gambling and entertainment. The problem in Alabama and some other states is that law-enforcement officials have to catch cockfighters or those keeping a cockpit in the act to punish them. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_093164225.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_093164225.html No one in Iowa has reported lead poisoning from deer meat but the possibility has prompted the state to pull donated venison from food pantries.Iowa’s decision to halt distribution of frozen venison affects up to four food pantries in the Oskaloosa area and several more across southeast Iowa serviced by the Food Bank of Southern Iowa. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_091102939.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_091102939.html After weeks of tough winter weather and holding physical education classes inside, school children in Massachusetts finally got to go outdoors this week. But few had the surprise that awaited the students at a Haverhill school. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_086151028.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_086151028.html A suspected drug mule who became seriously ill after swallowing 47 bags of heroin, some of which burst inside her stomach, has been arrested following five days of hospital treatment. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:13:00 +0000 http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_079180209.html http://www.mwcsun.com/nationalnews/local_story_079180209.html Impromptu and thunderous chants of “yes, we can” were commonplace at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s town hall meeting Saturday at Plainfield High School.That mantra is a response to Obama’s official presidential campaign slogan: Change we can believe in. But that change can only happen, Obama told the packed gym, if we’re united as a country.