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Big 12 delays baseball tournament after tornado
The Big 12 is delaying the start of its baseball tournament in Oklahoma City after this week's deadly tornado. The league announced Tuesday that the tournament will change from a double-elimination format to pool play and start on Thursday instead of Wednesday. Conference spokesman Bob Burda says Oklahoma City leaders ...
Organic sheep farm tucked away in Jefferson County
On the winding trails off Bakerton Road sits one of Jefferson County's unique treasures, Good Faith Farms. Taken from the idea when starting out on a new path in life, Charles Barton thought of making the first payment on a mortgage, known as a "good faith" payment, and modeled his ...
20 Wayne High students barred from grad ceremony
About 20 Wayne High School students are barred from the school's graduation ceremony because of a senior prank that damaged the building. Media outlets report that the Wayne County Board of Education suspended the students from school property at a special meeting Monday night. The graduation ceremony will be held ...
Protesters rally at FirstEnergy meeting in W.Va.
At least 200 union workers picketed FirstEnergy's annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a year. Chuck Cookson, FirstEnergy executive director of ...
W.Va. gets reprieve from No Child Left Behind law
West Virginia won limited freedom Monday from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, gaining approval of its own method for identifying struggling schools and then devoting resources to improve them. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin was joined by state education officials and representatives of teacher organization to ...
Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans. The addition of Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia brings to 37 the ...
Wayne school board cancels meeting on vandalism
The Wayne County Board of Education has canceled a special meeting that was set to consider whether to pursue charges in the vandalism of a high school. Board members had planned to meet Monday to discuss the vandalism that occurred Thursday night at Wayne High School. State police say windows ...
One Jackpot Winner
One of the tickets sold in Florida for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 10-13-14-22-52 Powerball: 11 (ten, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-two, fifty-two; Powerball: eleven) The player matching all five numbers and the Powerball won the $600 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated ...
Winning numbers drawn in 'Hot Lotto' game
The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Hot Lotto" game were: 04-08-11-13-23, Hot Ball: 2 (four, eight, eleven, thirteen, twenty-three; Hot Ball: two)
3-D printers an emerging industry
3-D technology isn't just for movie theatres and comic books anymore. In fact, it may very well reshape the landscape for American manufacturing. It's all thanks to advances in 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, which has seen tremendous growth in the last few years. "It's a quiet revolution," said ...
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