W.Va. Turkeys Await Presidential Pardon
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two West Virginia turkeys have been dispatched to Washington to await a presidential pardon on Wednesday.  The National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate were chosen Tuesday from about 30 male turkeys raised on the Hardy County farm of Kevin Foltz.
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President Bush on Tuesday refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, leaving open the chance he may wipe away the former White House aide's criminal record after already erasing his prison sentence.
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President Bush expressed sadness over the conviction of the vice presidentâs former chief of staff, while a spokesman tried to douse speculation about a pardon.
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Administrators are hoping that the victor in this year's presidential election will win by a wide margin. A close race, they fear, will result in more charges of voter fraud and demands for recounts. Kim Zetter reports from Washington.
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Chicago Tribune - For all the clamor about the contested vote in Florida electing President Bush in 2000, one could just as easily say he owes his presidency to West Virginia.
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Tallahassee, FL (Sports Network) - Florida State and West Virginia will meet in the Gator Bowl on New Year&#39;s Day. The Mountaineers accepted a bid to play in their fifth Gator Bowl on Monday, and an invitation
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President George W. Bush spared the life of the nation&#39;s Thanksgiving turkey Wednesday after an election to name the bird, which he reported was &quot;neck and neck.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff...
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MILLWOOD, Va. -- Exactly 50 years ago, a Girl Scout living on a farm near this Clarke County town 60 miles from Washington penned a letter to the White House. It was a time of rising racial tension in Virginia and the country. Drew Gilpin, without telling her parents, decided to seek help from the...
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Just hours before President Bush was to travel to the Middle East, he welcomed Turkish President Abdullah Gul to the White House on Tuesday, praising his country as a friend as well as âa great strategic partner.â
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The Iowa State Fair is a showcase for turkey calling, prized sheep, 600 pounds of butter carved in the shape of heifer and another breed lurking this year &#151; 2008 White House hopefuls.
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Eight years after a lawmaker was thrown  out of Turkey&#39;s parliament for wearing a Muslim-style  headscarf, devout Turks are pinning hopes of more religious  rights on their next president and his headscarf-wearing wife.
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WASHINGTON &#151; He was going to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey anyway, but President Bush figured he really owed the bird this time. His dog had just scared the stuffing out of it.
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The governor has asked President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students during the mass killings at Virginia Tech.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 2--HARRISON COUNTY -- The computer-savvy curious will have to wait to see current detainee listings on the Harrison County jail's online docket.
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President Bush has spared the life of the nation's Thanksgiving turkey after an election to name the bird which he reports was "neck and neck."
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After a Clintonesque selection process, the White House awaits conservative reaction to its choice of Michael Mukasey.