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(Charleston) - A group of men and women from the Charleston Air Force Base are on their way to breaking a world record.

Seventeen of the cargo planes flew over the Cooper River Tuesday morning in attempt to break the record for the most C-17s flying in formation at one time.

The planes took off from Charleston Tuesday morning. They're next mission is a refueling exercise over West ...

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., right, accompanied by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., gestures during a Capitol Hill news conference to respond to President Bush's earlier news conference Monday, Dec. 19, 2005 where the president said he approved domestic spying on suspected terrorists without court orders. "Where does he find in the Constitution the authority to tap the wires and the phones of American...

Some Democrats say they never approved a domestic wiretapping program, undermining suggestions by President Bush and his senior advisers that the plan was fully vetted in a series of congressional briefings.

"I feel unable to fully evaluate, much less endorse, these activities," West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said in a handwritten le...

The November data are the sum of the number of unduplicated new first-time online job ads posted each day of the month. This figure is down 9.2 percent from October. The November decline, which reflects in part the effect of the Thanksgiving holiday, follows a dip of 1.7 percent in October.

In November there were 1.21 online job ads per 100 persons in the U.S. labor force, compared with 1...

Villanova gets one first-place vote and 51 points in coaches' vote

The Big East Conference released its preseason poll of league coaches this week, and Villanova was chosen to finish in seventh place out of 12 teams in the conference, which now includes newcomers Cincinnati, Louisville and University of South Florida. The Wildcats were tied for seventh place with West Virginia. Both team...

Last April, the winter season had ended but the snow wasn't melted at Liberty Mountain.

Things were pretty dead. The ski lifts stood still and the mountain was empty.

But last year's ski season wasn't over for Zachary Marlowe. The 24-year-old ski patroller hiked up the mountain until the third week of April just so he could ski down.

"If there's snow, I'm gonna be skiing,...

THE idea that peace cannot return to Vietnam because of Chinese aggressiveness – an idea so sedulously spread by the imperialists and echoed by many including government leaders in our country – has been effectively refuted by a quite respectable gentleman – Dr Malcolm Caldwell, Lecturer in Asian Economic History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

In his ...

CHARLESTON, WV -- The West Virginia Parkways Authority voted Wednesday to up the tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike starting in January. That decision is getting a lot of attention because the hikes are significant.

Prices for tractor trailers are also going up from $4.25 to $7.

At least one legislator thinks there should have been a public hearing on the matter.

Delegate Sal...

Indications suggest that George Oppong Weah and his "followers" are making systematic efforts to destabilize Liberia and subject Liberian people to untold suffering, if he is not awarded the presidency. This cunning design is being hatched by a consortium of opportunists, hustlers, tribalists and ethnic politicians. A prominent figure among these known tribalists and ethnic politicians is Tarty...

Picturehouse, 's new big kid on the specialty block, gets enormous leverage out of its closely integrated relationships with and . But looking at the few pictures the distributor has released this year, you'd think the company was a minor-league indie: 's "," which made under half-a-million dollars, as well as the family comedy "" and the Israeli orthodox Jewish drama "," both of which hover...