Traditional service set for Memorial Day
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Steve Dean, well-known Gilmer businessman and aviation veteran, will be keynote speaker  at  this  year’s Memorial Day service on the south lawn of the Upshur County Courthouse at 9 a.m. Monday. ...
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    Police ponder conspiracy after soldier murder
    By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. ...
    Fri May 24 02:20:26 UTC 2013
    Safe room mandates remain rare in tornado states

    On Thursday, May 23, 2013 Sherry Wells stands near the storm shelter where she took cover when a tornado destroyed her home on Monday May 20, 2013 in Moore, Okla. Wells said she and her husband won a lottery draw to receive a government-subsidized rebate to install the storm shelter. A contractor finished work on the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage about three weeks before the tornado hit. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)MOORE, Okla. (AP) — After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery — for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood.


    Fri May 24 02:19:58 UTC 2013
    Mirror Photo<br> “PUBLICITY HOUND” Major demonstrates how to use the Wag’N 02 Fur Life™ mask to revive a pet overcome by smoke or other toxic fumes. With Major, a 9-year-old German shepherd, is his handler, Longview Animal Control Officer Jacqui Lynch, and Gilmer firefighter Shelby Henderson.
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    Breathing masks give pets chance for survival
    May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
    Upshur County’s pets who are rescued from burning homes will now have a better chance of survival, thanks to the generosity of a number of businesses and individuals. Every volunteer fire departme...
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