Archive for December, 2010

Illegal dump site in Guyandotte burns – Herald

December 31, 2010
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HUNTINGTON Contents of a carport near the old Showboat Marina in Guyandotte caught fire Friday evening just before 5:30 p.m. Huntington Fire Department Captain Carl Eastham said it appeared the contents were lawn furniture or a swing that had been dumped there. The fire is under investigation, he said. The area has become a...
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Wait For It

December 31, 2010
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Wait For It

I have known some impatient people over the years who couldnt wait for the end of the world. So they killed themselves. Eric and his mom lived in a one-room rental with a carport and no fence. Eric and my little brother and I all went to school together. My brother said people used...
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Winter warning: Is it the flu, or a ‘silent killer’

December 31, 2010
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With the colder temperature comes the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Firefighters are warning people of the silent killer that’s already claimed a few lives across the country this month. Five teens in a motel room died when a car was left running beneath their room in the carport. The odorless gas kills 450...
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SeattleCrime: Police investigate Cap Hill carport threesome assault

December 31, 2010
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This crime tale has three half-naked people (yes, that converts to one and a half fully naked people), a scooter and a Capitol Hill apartment building in it. It also has some violent ashtray throwing and a less funny threat of more violence. SeattleCrime with the crime report scoop: Seattle police were called to...
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Police: Man upset over losing money at casino assaults another patron

December 31, 2010
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DURANT A Choctaw Casino customer is accused of hitting another patron with a beer bottle after he became upset about losing his money, according to a court affidavit. Tommy Neil Davis, 22, Quinlan, Texas, was charged this week with felony assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor public intoxication. Choctaw Tribal Police...
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Today and Saturday’s Sports Calendar

December 31, 2010
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Today. Hornets at Celtics, 2 p.m. (TV: CST; Radio: 100.3-FM) Saturday. Hornets at Wizards, 6 p.m. (Radio: 100.3-FM) * TV, radio and Internet listings in parenthesis. UPCOMING AREA EVENTS Today. The Southern Blast 7- and 8-year-old travel baseball team is looking for players. For information, call Trey Lottinger at 860-6174 or Josh Fabre at...
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Detectives puzzled by gifts left in shed

December 31, 2010
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ORANGE CITY — A stack of wrapped Christmas gifts that seemed to appear out of nowhere and ended up under an elderly couple’s shed has sheriff’s detectives baffled. Equally puzzled is 91-year-old Osmer Crippen, owner of the shed that once housed his recreational vehicle. Neither his family nor anyone he knows left the presents...
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Cleanup of oil-tainted Gulf Coast nears end – WWL

December 31, 2010
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EAST GRAND TERRE ISLAND, La. — Dig 2 feet into the sand on this wind-swept beach and up comes the foul smell of oil. The unmistakable whiff of crude eight months after the BP spill is one of the last in-your-face reminders of the long, tainted summer on the Gulf Coast. For months, in...
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Dieting resolution works best if done in stages

December 31, 2010
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“Instead of making the number on the scale the focus, look for other ways to measure success,” Stefanie C. Barthmare, a psychotherapist at the Methodist Weight Management Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston, said in a hospital news release. When you set your goal, take the time to create for yourself a vision of...
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New lease of life for the holiday caravan

December 30, 2010
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New lease of life for the holiday caravan

Is the caravan – that holiday icon of the ’70s and ’80s – experiencing something of a renaissance? Everywhere I turn, people are telling me about their van plans for the holidays. I don’t mean the grey nomads either. I’m talking married friends in their 30s. A CEO who lives in a million-dollar house...
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