They called it Homecoming, though suspicions were raised as to how many actually came home. Officially, 44,223 paid for tickets, but the wandering eye suspects less than 40,000 actually showed up to watch.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. — Residents of eastern North Carolina evacuated beach towns for the third time in two months as Hurricane Irene churned up the coast Sunday, bringing heavy rains to a region still saturated by record floodwaters.
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CHARLESTON — Lost and unwanted pets that land in the Kanawha-Charleston Animal Shelter have entered the computer age.
But it’s too soon to know if a new Web site will increase the facility’s adoption rate.
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ell, it’s official. CNN has reported that Pat Buchanan will leave the Republican and become a member of the Reform Party at his press conference on Oct. 25.
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Suburbia is usually thought of as a haven in which the benefits of living a normal, structured life are able to flourish. The brilliant new film American Beauty shows that suburbia is not always what it seems.
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On Friday, the Mountaineers (10-4-1, 6-2-1) won the first in a four game homestand that will decide the conference title. The 3-0 victory over No. 23 Seton Hall (8-5, 4-4) was the first time West Virginia ever defeated the Pirates.
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