| February 1, 2008 | -
West Virginia was considering a bill that would require gym classes to teach middle-schoolers how to handle a gun.
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US state weighing gun lessons for schoolchildren
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| January 4, 2007 | - The 110th Congress convened on Capitol Hill, and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California kicked off her tenure as America's first female speaker of the House with four days of parties dubbed “Pelosi-Palooza.” The festivities included a performance by singer Tony Bennett and an honorary street-naming in Pelosi's hometown of Baltimore. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia disrupted the Congress's opening prayer with shouts of “Yes, Lord!” and “Mmmhmmm!” and Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts mimed tipping a bottle to his mouth. Congress's first Muslim member took his oath on a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson, and a Buddhist representative swore in on no book at all.
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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CBS News
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AZ Central
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| May 30, 2006 | -
Ted Nugent denied both poking his erect penis through a map of West Virginia and urinating on a nun.
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Belfast Telegraph
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| April 22, 2006 | - Representative Alan B. Mollohan (D., W.Va.), whose real estate holdings and other assets reportedly rose in value from $562,000 to at least $6.3 million between 2000 and 2004, temporarily stepped down from the House
ethics committee after being accused of misusing funds.
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The Washington Post
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| January 23, 2006 | - Two more miners died in West Virginia.
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Democracy Now!
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| January 17, 2006 | -
Astronomers in West Virginia discovered a superbubble.
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SFGate.com
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| January 4, 2006 | - The 12 men trapped in a mine in West Virginia were reported alive; all but one of them, however, were actually found dead.
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ABC News
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| January 2, 2006 | - In West Virginia 13 miners were trapped underground.
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ABC News
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| December 6, 2005 | - In West Virginia five deer leaped to their deaths from the top of a five-story garage.
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The Mercury News
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| December 5, 2005 | - The House Ethics Committee had not opened a new case in the last 12 months. “I would say by the early part of January, we will be fully organized,” said Representative Alan Mollohan (D., W. Va.). “Or should be really close to that.”
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The Washington Post
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| September 11, 2005 | - It was revealed that evacuees from Hurricane Katrina had been flown to Charleston, West Virginia, where no one expected them, instead of Charleston, South Carolina, where accommodations and doctors were waiting.
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The Scotsman
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
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U.S. Department of Defense
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| May 19, 2005 | - In West Virginia, a 1,500-pound camel sat on a woman as she painted a fence.
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USA Today
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| September 18, 2004 | - Republicans in West Virginia told voters that Democrats will ban the Bible if John Kerry wins the presidency in November.
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Associated Press
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| August 6, 2003 | - A recent Powerball lottery winner recovered more than $500,000 that was stolen from his pickup, which was parked outside a strip club in West Virginia.
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Associated Press
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