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KISSIMMEE -- While browsing the Internet about four years ago, jewelry being made by a Vicksburg, Miss., man caught Connie Stinebaugh's eye.

Instead of wrapping several strands of wire around a stone or using glue or a fixative, he ...

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BELPRE, Ohio - Ted Johnson worked 35 years for a DuPont Co. chemical plant and believed what company officials said about the safety of the operation. Now, he's not so sure. Johnson and his wife, Barbara, are among more than 43,000 people in the mid-Ohio Valley who have signed up for tests to find out if a chemical used to make Teflon...

SackedUSF's Terrence Royal, center, gets past Syracuse's Steve Franklin (71) to sack quarterback Joe Fields on Saturday.

USF has Big East title squarely in its sights after Syracuse win

Andre Hall wears No. 2 for South Florida. Syracuse must have thought it was 44.

Hall rushed for a season-high 222 yards and three touchdowns and South Florida beat the Orange 27-0 Saturday.<...

Fred Washington scored 17 points, including going 9-of-9 from the free-throw line, and No. 13 Stanford manhandled Division III Cal Poly Pomona, 99-70, on Saturday in its final exhibition game.

Matt Haryasz scored 12 of his 21 points in the first five minutes of the second half as the Cardinal held a double-digit lead for all but the game's opening five minutes.

At No. 14 West Virgi...

EDITOR'S NOTE: After Ryan Gomes' impressive career at Providence College -- he is the program's all-time leading scorer, with 2,138 points, ranks fifth in career rebounds (1,028), was named a first-team All-American as a junior and honorable mention as a senior -- the Waterbury, Conn. native was drafted in the second round (50th overall) by the Boston Celtics in June. We will be checking in...

Mr. Casteel, 51, a construction worker from Annapolis, Md., had rolled in earlier in the day from Clarksburg, W.Va., where he had been fitted for a tuxedo for his daughter's upcoming wedding.

But instead of catching a Greyhound directly from Clarksburg to Baltimore, he was forced to first come north to Pittsburgh on a Mountain Line Transit Authority bus before heading to Baltimore becaus...

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WVU players no longer unknown after NCAA run 11/13/2005

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The days are over for West Virginia catching an opponent by surprise. That showed in the 14th-ranked Mountaineers' first game since last season's improbable run that ended one win shy of the Final Four.

"Today, a couple people called our name. That was strange" said Mike Gansey, who led the Mountainee...

The Carolina Classics series of film screenings will continue Tuesday with a showing of Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein at the Carolina Theatre, 310 S. Greene St.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's classic story, the film stars Gene Wilder as the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein, who inherits the ancestral castle and decides, much as his grandfather did, to create life.

P...

DUE WEST — The men's basketball team at Erskine College has been ranked in the top five in the preseason Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) poll.

That is something quite out of the ordinary for the Flying Fleet, who have recorded 14-15 records the last three seasons. But, the ranking can serve as a motivator for a team that has a roster filled with juniors with experience.