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Methadone Clinics Unfairly Targeted?

The complaints were just too much for Huntington Mayor David Felinton: residents blamed a drug-treatment clinic for panhandling, prostitution and even some fires. "I've never been one of these 'not in my back yard' people, but this is a case where I really don't want this in our back yard," Felinton said.

Effort to Catalog All Living Species Tops 1 Million

WASHINGTON - A worldwide scientific effort to catalog every living species has topped the 1 million milestone. Six years into the program the total has reached 1,009,000, researchers report. They hope to complete the listing by 2011, reaching an expected total of about 1.75 million species.

City Tackles Highway Strip

balow@wvgazette.com The folks at City Hall might not like to admit it, but South Charleston seems to be doing a better job than Charleston in maintaining the strip of land between MacCorkle Avenue and the CSX Corp. railroad tracks.

Cleric Urges Iraq to Unite Against U.S.: ; 10 Soldiers Killed Over Weekend

BAGHDAD - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy." The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday. Security remained so tenuous in the capital on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. capture of Baghdad that Iraq's military declared a 24-hour ban on all vehicles ...

Inside

Masters upset Unheralded Zach Johnson scores a surprise victory over Tiger Woods and matches a record set in 1956 for highest-winning score.

A Somber Easter Address: ; Pope Laments World's Violence and Suffering

VATICAN CITY - On Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the "continual slaughter" in Iraq and unrest in Afghanistan as he denounced violence in the name of religion. In his message for Easter, Benedict said suffering worldwide puts faith to the test.

7 Nato Troops Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005.

Iraqi Official's Book Details U.S. Blunders

NEW YORK - In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country - a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would- be liberators." "The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale Unive...

British Sailors Given Permission to Sell Story Rights

LONDON - The 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran for nearly two weeks have permission to sell their stories to the media, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday, making an exception because of what it called "exceptional" interest. Acting service personnel are usually not allowed to enter into financial arrangements with media organizations, but exceptions are allowed, the defense ministry said in a statement.

Easter Celebrants Brave Cold Weather

ATLANTA - An unseasonable cold snap put a chill on Easter Sunday services across the Southeast and much of the rest of the country, moving some events indoors and adding layers over spring frocks. Even baseball had to take another time out - because of snow.

Readers' Voice

* Congratulations to the "Take Back Tech" committee for their efforts in helping to obtain the $3.2 million from the West Virginia state Legislature for upgrades to the four-year engineering program on the West Virginia Tech Montgomery campus. Keep up the good work. Your efforts at the state Capitol really paid off. * Public school employees, listen up. You have my kids in your care eight hours or more every day. The state laws give you great authority over them. I insist that each and every ...

Charleston Crime Zones

The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department. East district

On File

Kanawha and Putnam counties Marriages

Volunteering Helps Poor Teens, Study Says

WASHINGTON - Volunteer work gives poor teenagers a boost in confidence that can propel them to college, but other teens are more likely volunteers, a federal study finds. Youths from low-income backgrounds have a volunteer rate of 43 percent, compared with 59 percent for other youths and are less likely to participate in other service or school civic clubs, the Corporation for National and Community Service said Sunday.

Obituaries: ; Obit

Harry Adkins Jr. Harry Adkins Jr., 83, of Chesapeake, passed away Sunday, April 8, 2007, after a long illness at CAMC Memorial Hospital, Charleston.

Sunday's Weather in Charleston:

Eyewitness News: ; Stormteam Weather; Wchs/Fox 11; Steve Borecky's Outlook

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