Wayward Emu Captured at W.Va. School
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St. ALBANS, W.Va. - No kids, that's not Big Bird from Sesame Street. It was an emu that wandered onto the Anne Bailey Elementary School grounds near St. Albans Thursday afternoon.
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By Jerry Allegood, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--SWANSBORO -- With hundreds of colorful birds already visiting and calling Eastern North Carolina home, the state is encouraging bird lovers to bring their binoculars and billfolds to watch them.   The N.C.
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Skip Holtz clearly remembers his father's landmark victory against a highly ranked West Virginia team. Now he wants one of his own.
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Joe Alexander scores 20 points and No. 24 West Virginia beats Canisius, 77-54, on Saturday, delivering coach Bob Huggins' 600th career victory in the process.
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By Cindy Clayton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 20--CHESAPEAKE -- Police are looking for vandals who caused $100,000 worth of damage at Sparrow Road Intermediate School during the weekend.
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By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Dec. 12--LaDainian Tomlinson celebrates breaking NFL TD record on Sunday.  West Virginia University's football team has received a verbal commitment from Eain Smith of Charminade Madonna College Prep in Hollywood, Fla.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The defiant tone was set the moment Boston College's motorcade arrived at the foot of West Virginia's campus yesterday and began chugging its way up the hill on Patteson Drive, escorted by four State Police cruisers, sirens blaring. The caravan of four buses streaked past a queue of cars waiting to make a left turn onto University ...
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 4--This is the first of two parts.   Back in 2001, Cumberland County officials decided they didn't need the Luther P. Jackson Elementary School on U.S. 60. The 32 classrooms had been empty for years and the building was a wreck.
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Stern and unsmiling, the professorial portraits lining the hallways of the University of Missouri-Rolla's chemical engineering department project a singular message: science is serious stuff. The graybeards in those photos would likely be aghast at the scene unfolding inside a nearby Schenk Hall classroom.
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Western Michigan makes two free throws with 52 seconds left to hold on for a 71-68 victory over Virginia Tech on Thursday night.
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HAMPTON, Feb. 10 -- Beneath an oak tree on the campus of what is now Hampton University, historians say, Virginia blacks heard a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation and began to dream of a better life.
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By Kristin Davis, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 27--Science students at Manteo Middle School helped turn two rather unattractive detention ponds into rain gardens last fall.
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DODGEVILLE, Wis. - Iowa County sheriff's deputies have searched in the past for the occasional wandering emu or bobcat - but never a kangaroo, until now.
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Jake Stephens, a senior in my AP English class at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., is hooked. &quot;The narrative is so exciting you lose all track of time,&quot; he said to me last week.
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By Cody Lowe, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 20--The insistent shush of the little stream was clear and bright, even though it was well out of sight and probably 100 vertical feet below the wooded path.
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Jeff Paquette of Billerica graduated from Fitchburg State College last month with a degree in industrial technology and architecture. After a few job interviews, he had a couple of promising leads.
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By By J. Miles, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Sep. 15--There was vibrant energy in the air as the Mountaineers rolled over rival Maryland, 45-24, on Thursday.  "Sax Man" Reggie Howz, 38, played John Denver's "Country Roads" as thousands of fans invaded Milan Puskar Stadium.