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WVU gets past GeorgetownDaSean Butler scored 22 points infinal home game to beat Hoyas 81-68Sports / 1B
By BILL ROSENBERGERThe [email protected]
HUNTINGTON TheCabell County Board of Education will vote at its
5:30 p.m. meeting Tuesday,March 2, on plans to closetwomiddle schools andcon-solidate the student bodiesinto a new facility.
Superintendent WilliamSmith is recommending toclose Enslow Middle Schoolat26th Street andCollis Ave-nueafterthe 2010-2011school
year and move the cou-plehundred studentstoBeverly Hills MiddleSchool. The plan wasthesubjectof twopublichearingsin January.
The Beverly Hills buildingon Saltwell Roadwouldcon-tinue to house the roughly750to 800students untilthenew school is completed,with a move anticipated in
the middle of the 2012-2013school year.Naming of the middle
school and mascot wouldlikely be done early in theschool year.
The proposed middleschoolis expectedto bebuiltat the former UniversityHeights property, off U.S.60behind theWestVirginiaState Police Barracks.
The board also will voteon changing the dates of
Board to vote on plansto close middle schools
From staff, wire reportsCHARLESTON West Virginias unemployment rate topped
10percent in Januaryas thenumberof joblessresidents increasedby 15,300.
WorkforceWestVirginia saidMonday thatJanuarys 10.5percentrate was nearly 2 percentage points higher
thanDecembersrate. Joe Jarvis,a dataana-lyst for Workforce West Virginia, said thelast time the states unemployment rate wasat current levels was in March 1994.
A recession, Jarvis said, was also the rea-son for high numbers in the early 1990s.
Seasonal declines contributed to a loss of 16,500 jobs in theservice-providing sector and 5,800 jobs in the goods-producingsector. The seasonal losses included 4,500 construction jobs and5,300 jobs in trade, transportation and utilities.
The states seasonallyadjustedunemployment rateincreasedbythree-tenthsof apercentage pointto 9.3 percent. The national ratefell by three-tenths of a percent-agepoint to9.7 percent.
W.Va. unemployment ratetops 10 percent in January
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An Olympic journeySnowshoe Mountaincommunicationsmanager LauraParquette spent aweek working out atWhistler Blackcomb,Snowshoes sisterresort inVancouver,Canada, during theWinter Olympics.Life / 4C
Get to knowthe candidatesThe W.Va. PrimaryElection is Tues-day, May 11, and
The Herald-Dis-patch will publishprofiles from areacandidates whofilled out a ques-tionnaire, startingin todays paper.Community / 1C
States mayban employercredit checksSixty percent of employers recentlysurveyed said theyrun credit checkson at least some jobapplicants, but 16states proposed leg-islation outlawing it.Nation & World / 5A
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By CURTIS JOHNSONThe [email protected]
HUNTINGTON The begging and
pleading of a defense attorney could notkeepa former MarshallUniversity footballplayer out of prison.
Hiram Joseph Moore, 25, received onMonday an indeterminate, one- to five-year prison sentence, the maximum pun-
ishment for possess-ing marijuana withintent to deliver. Thesentence was orderedby Cabell Circuit Judge Alfred Fergu-son.
A sheriffs deputyimmediately placedMoore in handcuffsand led the formerwide receiver outof the courthouse
moments later. Moore had entered a pleain May 2009 clearing thewayforthe felony
drug trafficking conviction. Sentencingwas delayed nine months to allow Mooreto pursue a masters degree, but he nevercompleted any classes.
Ferguson admitted to losing track of the case. He then scolded the defense forits failure to update the court as to thestatus of Moores education at Universityof Nevada at Las Vegas.
UNLV officials sayMoore never attend-ed class. He told a differentstoryMonday,saying he attended class in the fall, butproblematiccredittransfersand paymentissues ledUNLVto drop him fromits rollsin October.
Either way, Ferguson voiced frustra-tion.
Hes been out of pocket all of thistime. I thought he was in grad school atUNLV ... Now I find out that he hadntbeen out there. There was somebodysobligation to contact me and let meknow what was going on, he said. Wehave a convicted felon out there whoIve lost track of.
Hesaidhe wasgoing tobetterhimself.Im looking for that. I havent seen that,Ferguson added.
FormerMU playerorderedto prisonHiram Moore receivesone- to five-year sentence
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Enslow Middle School will consolidatewith Beverly Hills Middle School in a newbuilding during the 2012-13 school year.
Photos by Toril Lavender/For The Herald-Dispatch
Gov. Joe Manchin, center, talks with Cabell County Commissioner Scott Bias, left, and Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfeas he tours dilapidated structures in Huntington on Monday.
By BILL ROSENBERGERThe [email protected]
HUNTINGTON As Gov. JoeManchintoured several dilapidated structures inHuntington on Monday morning, he saidthere is plenty of evidence supporting twobills he wants legislators to pass.
House Bills 4034 and 4038 both providecities legal tools to eliminate abandoned orburned-out properties and recover some of theirexpenses.
Every city, I dont care how big or small,has these problems, Manchinsaid. We aretrying to give you all the ability to clean upand make things happen as quickly as pos-sible.
Gov. pushes legislation to help clean up properties
Gov. Joe Manchin talks with Boston College students working on a Habitatfor Humanity home in Huntington on Monday.
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ON 2A: House approves bill allowing cities toapply liens to burned homes
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