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Melissa Adkins, the legislative coordinator for WVFL told the 200 people who attended the event that the outcry by abortion advocates helped raise awareness about the dinner. She even told attendees they should thank pro-abortion Delegate Carrie Webster, who caused the biggest stir.

In the weeks leading up to the event, Webster blasted Manchin for planning to attend.

She said attend...

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Brailer said, "This is a hands-off government approach. We're not operating these networks, and we're not procuring them." Brailer said he hopes that the four contracts will "guide further investment over the next several years," adding, "We want to stimulate a lot of capital investment" (New York Times, 11/11). Robert Cothren, chie...

Notre Dame juniors Greg Dalby (Poway, Calif./Poway) and Ian Etherington (Temecula, Calif./Chaparral) have been named to the All-BIG EAST First Team for men's soccer and sophomore Joe Lapira (Lake Charles, La./Saint Louis Catholic) was a third team selection as voted on by the league's 16 head coaches. This is the first selection for both Dalby and Etherington to the conference's first team. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As many as 20 million acres of public land could be sold under a proposed change in mining law that is tucked into a budget bill in the House.

At issue is the possible overturning of a congressional ban that has prevented mineral companies and individuals from "patenting," or buying, public land, including some in national forests and parks, at cheap prices if the land ...

During World War II, the skies over Monterey Bay buzzed with blue Navy aircraft carrier planes whose pilots and crews trained for the epic battles that would be fought in the Pacific against the Imperial Japanese Navy.

In 1943, six Navy fliers perished when their lumbering torpedo bombers crashed into Monterey Bay, and a seventh joined them in death in 1945 when his Hellcat fighter disapp...

— Lloyd Brown remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as few — ever so few — veterans can.

"For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses," recalls Brown, of Charlotte Hall, Md., a teenage seaman aboard the battleship USS New Hampshire, in port stateside when the fighting stopped. "We were so happy that the war was over."

Now 104, Brown adds, "There's not too m...

"Everything that was pointed out in this investigation and in our own investigation has already been corrected," said Virgil Renzuli, Arizona State vice president for public affairs.

Gene Marsh, a law professor at Alabama, chaired the investigating committee. In a statement, Marsh said Arizona State should be commended for responding quickly when it found the violations and reporting them...

Pitt can't take UConn lightly By: Dale Grdnic - Times Sports Correspondent 11/11/2005

PITTSBURGH - As the University of Pittsburgh's Big East title hopes and a second straight BCS bid faded with every disappointing loss this season, the Panthers have had to readjust their goals.

With two games remaining, Saturday's noon matchup with Connecticut at Heinz Field and a Thanksgiving n...

Dallastown High School graduate Emily Roth has earned more honors for her efforts on the women's volleyball team at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

The senior outside hitter was named the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Player of the Year yesterday. The voting was conducted by the conference's 12 head coaches.

Roth was a first-team All-CACC performer in 200...

In the wake of last week's shocking upsets of previously undefeated Virginia Tech and UCLA, only two teams control their own destiny in the Bowl Championship Series standings: no. 1 USC and no. 2 Texas. Alabama, third in the BCS standings, is undefeated but trails the top two by a significant margin in the human polls, and will need either the Trojans or Longhorns to lose in order to snatch a ...