http://www.timeswv.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:23:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_324032430.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_324032430.html Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats’ newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader Harry Reid crisply rebutted the Republican charges. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:11:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_323031211.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_323031211.html Setting up a historic year-end health care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to all but 6 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:06:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_323030730.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_323030730.html Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history’s longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and President Barack Obama for his nearly 57 years of service.“I’ve loved every precious minute of it,” the frail West Virginia Democrat, who turns 92 on Friday, said during a day of floor tributes to him, and moments before the Senate passed a resolution marking the milestone. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:28:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_322003105.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_322003105.html With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are tricking consumers into signing up for subscription services they don’t want.Internet companies Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty are using aggressive sales tactics to scam millions of customers, the Senate Commerce Committee said. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:18:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_322001918.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_322001918.html President Barack Obama’s first visit to China underscored a shifting balance of power: two giants moving closer to being equals.In this week’s choreographed show of U.S.-Chinese good will, Obama’s pledge to treat China as a trusted global partner won a return promise of shared effort on world troubles — but not much else. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031605.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031605.html Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.And in Oklahoma, a newlywed grieved for her husband of nearly three months. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:14:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031514.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031514.html Sarah Palin is embarking on a book tour. Tim Pawlenty is building a national political operation. Mitt Romney is weighing in on the recession.They’re all jockeying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — even if they won’t say so. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:13:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031436.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_319031436.html A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.The 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum brought Obama to Singapore, but he is focusing on individual meetings Sunday with Medvedev and with Indonesia’s Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of the world’s largest Muslim nation and Obama’s home as a boy. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317230003.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317230003.html President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe’s fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners “will not be cowed” by North Korea’s continued defiance over its nuclear weapons and other provocations.Obama also said a robust China should be welcomed, not feared, as a powerful partner on urgent challenges. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317222351.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317222351.html In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:22:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317222259.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317222259.html Suddenly, the moon looks exciting again. It has lots of water, scientists said Friday — a thrilling discovery that sent a ripple of hope for a future astronaut outpost in a place that has always seemed barren and inhospitable.Experts have long suspected there was water on the moon. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:55:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025546.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025546.html The Army psychiatrist in the Fort Hood massacre was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder Thursday as he lay in a hospital bed and President Barack Obama ordered a review to determine if the government fumbled warning signs of the shooter’s contacts with a radical Islamic cleric.Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could face the death penalty if convicted. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:53:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025455.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025455.html President Barack Obama’s drawn-out decision-making on Afghanistan is sending messages. To the Afghan government: Clean up your act. To the Pentagon: I’m no rubber stamp. To the American public: More troops can’t be the sole answer.Obama has been accused by some Republicans of “dithering” about whether to send more troops and deepen U.S. involvement in an increasingly unpopular war. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:51:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025243.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317025243.html Fewer people are claiming unemployment benefits — but still too many to signal that the economy is close to gaining jobs.First-time claims for jobless benefits dropped last week to a seasonally adjusted 502,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That’s the fewest claims since the week ending Jan. 3, and below economists’ estimates. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:46:00 +0000 http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317024740.html http://www.timeswv.com/headlinenews/local_story_317024740.html The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson’s life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.There’s the myth he sold his soul to the devil to create his haunting guitar intonations. There’s the dispute over where he died after his alleged poisoning by a jealous man in 1938. Three different markers claim to be the site of his demise.