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Sunday, November 15, 2009.

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  • WELCOME
      A NIGHT AT A CLUB TURNS DEADLY FOR A MALE ENTERTAINER AND THAT'S

      .......... OUR TOP STORY.

      GOOD EVENING, IM GILBERT CORSEY

      AND I'M ELIZABETH NOREIKA....WELCOME TO EYEWITNESS NEWS.

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    METH BUSTS
      STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING TWO SEPARATE METH LABS IN ST. ALBANS TONIGHT AFTER A TIP.

      THE FIRST....AS YOU SEE IN THIS PICTURE RIGHT HERE........ WAS FOUND ON COLLEGE AVENUE WHERE TROOPERS FOUND METH MAKING MATERIALS AND ARRESTED THIRTY FOUR YEAR OLD ANTHONY HAWKINS AND 29 YEAR OLD KATRINA CLAPHAM.

      THEN TROOPERS RESPONDED TO ANOTHER TIP ON FIRST STREET IN ST. ALBANS WHERE THEY FOUND MATERIALS USED TO MAKE METH AS WELL AS LARGE AMOUNTS OF HYDROCODONE AND ANTABOLIC STEROIDS.....

      THERE THEY ARRESTED THIRTY TWO YEAR OLD DALE HOLSTEIN, TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD DREW HOLSTEIN, AND THIRTY TWO YEAR OLD SHANE THOMPSON.

      THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS PLANS TO CONDEMN BOTH OF THE PROPERTIES.

      WE'LL BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION ON EYEWITNESS NEWS THIS MORNING.

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    MINGO MURDER
      NOW BACK TO OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT.....

      A NIGHTCLUB TURNED MURDER SCENE IN MINGO COUNTY.......

      ONE PERSON DIED FOLLOWING A TWISTED SERIES OF EVENTS.....LEAVING A FAMILY HEARTBROKEN.

      CLUB 2000 IN THE JUSTICE AREA OF MINGO COUNTY IS A POPULAR NIGHT SPOT.

      SATURDAY, A MALE REVUE MAKING THERE WAY FROM PARKERSBURG TO JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE .....STOPPED BY THE CLUB TO DO A SHOW.

      ONE OF THOSE PERFORMERS WAS 29 YEAR OLD JASON SCOTT OF MYRTLE BEACH SOUTH CAROLINA.

      WE'RE TOLD SCOTT AND THIS MAN.......21 YEAR OLD TOMMY VANCE.....GOT IN AN ARGUMENT OVER A GIRL.........AN ARGUMENT THAT ENDED FATALLY.

      THE INCIDENT SPILLED INTO THE PARKING LOT AROUND AROUND 3 O'CLOCK SATURDAY MORNING. MINGO COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY VANCE GOT IN HIS TRUCK.....AND STRUCK SCOTT.....DRAGGING HIS BODY 20 TO 30 FEET.

      SCOTT LATER DIED AT LOGAN AREA HOSPITAL.

      EYEWITNESS NEWS SPOKE WITH A MOTHER FIGURE TO SCOTT WHO SAYS ......JASON WAS A GENTLE GIANT OF A MAN.....WITH A HUGE HEART. SHE GOES ON TO SAY....HE WAS IN NO WAY PERFECT...BUT HE CONTINUALLY TRIED TO DO WHAT WAS RIGHT BY OTHERS.

      TOMMY VANCE IS BEING HELD IN THE SOUTHWESTERN REGIONAL JAIL ON A SLEW OF CHARGES......OF WHICH INCLUDE FIRST DEGREE MURDER, AND BRANDISHING A DEADLY WEAPON

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    PORTER'S MOTHER TALKS
      TONIGHT THE FAMILY OF THE MAN KILLED BY A HUNTINGTON POLICE OFFICER HELD A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO REMEMBER HIS LIFE.

      ABOUT 20 PEOPLE SHOWED UP OUTSIDE OF CLUB BABYLON TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO JOE PORTER.

      PORTER WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HUNTINGTON POLICE LAST WEEKEND, AFTER POLICE SAY HE PULLED OUT A GUN AND POINTED IT AT AN OFFICER.

      HOWEVER, PORTER'S MOTHER SAYS HER SON DID NOTHING WRONG.

      "joe was not involved in anything that happened out here, not out here shooting. he was inside the club trying to avoid what was going on. in the paper they're saying joe was out here bang, bang with everybody else, it wasnt like that."

      THREE OTHER MEN WERE WOUNDED DURING THE SHOOTINGS.

      THEY HAVE ALL SINCE BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL, AND ONE OF THEM, REGINAL MARBURY FACES ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES FROM THE INCIDENT.

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    SHOTS FIRED
      SHOTS RANG OUT AGAIN IN HUNTINGTON LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.....LANDING ONE PERSON BEHIND BARS.

      POLICE ARRESTED THIS MAN TYRELL HUGHES AND CHARGED HIM FOR ALLEGEDLY FIRING OFF A GUN AT A HOUSE ON THE 1600 BLOCK OF DOULTON AVENUE.

      NO ONE WAS INJURED.

      TONIGHT HUGHES IS IN THE WESTERN REGIONAL JAIL.

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    GALLIA ROBBERY
      POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A MAN WHO THEY SAY ROBBED A DOLLAR GENERAL STORE AT KNIFE POINT.

      IT HAPPENED IN GALLIPOLIS AROUND 8 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT AT THE STORE ON SECOND AVENUE.

      POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT WALKED IN, PULLED A KNIFE ON THE CLERK AND DEMANDED MONEY.

      THE SUSPECT THEN FLED WITH AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF CASH.

      THE ARMED ROBBER IS DESCRIBED AS A MALE, AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A RED OHIO STATE HOODIE, BLUE JEANS, WHITE TENNIS SHOES AND A DARK BALL CAP.

      HE ALSO APPEARED TO HAVE SIDEBURNS.

      IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION YOU ARE ASKED TO CALLT HE GALLOPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 740-446-1313.

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    MASON DRUG BUST
      A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP TURNS INTO A DRUG BUST.

      IT HAPPENED IN POINT PLEASANT LAST NIGHT JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

      MASON COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY WHEN THEY PULLED 61 YEAR OLD EDWARD HUDDLESTON , THEY FOUND MORE THAN JUST TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. HE HAD METH ON HIM.

      HUDDLESTON IS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, NO INSURANCE AND IMPROPER REGISTRATION.

      HE WAS TAKEN TO THE WESTERN REGIONAL JAIL.

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    ROUTE 10 FATAL
      ONE PERSON DIED TODAY IN A CAR WRECK IN CABELL COUNTY.

      IT HAPPENED ON THE 51-HUNDRED BLOCK OF ROUTE 10 NEAR SALT ROCK.

      ANOTHER PERSON WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH UNKNOWN INJURIES.

      THE ROAD WAS SHUT DOWN FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS WHILE CREWS CLEANED UP THE MESS.

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    NOWCAST WEATHER
      WX ANCHOR PITCHES TO WEATHER GRAPHICS

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    BONHAM CONSOLIDATION
      THIS WEEK KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOL LEADERS WILL FACE A TOUGH FIGHT WHEN THEY TAKE A FINAL VOTE ON THEIR SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION PLAN.

      IT'S A PLAN THAT WILL DIRECTLY AFFECT THOUSANDS OF KIDS.

      TONIGHT PARENTS AGAINST THE PROPOSED IDEA SHARED THEIR CONCERNS.

      THE DEABTE OVER THE SISSONVILLE SCHOOL SHAKEUP COMES TO A HEAD THIS WEEK.

      NAT:

      charged by PARENTS LIKE DEBBIE HUGHES AND AIMEE CARPERTER WHOSE KIDS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE CLOSING OF BONHAM ELEMNTARY .

      NAT:

      YEARS OF FLOODING IS FORCING KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOL LEADERS TO CLSOE THE CAMPUS.

      IN RETURN MOST OF ITS STUDENTS K-4 WOULD END UP HERE AT FLINN NEXT YEAR AND ALL AREA 5TH GRADERS WOULD MOVE UP TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL

      16:41:25 first and primary concern is the maturity difference the physical differnece...

      BITE:16:53:00 it's ten year old. Ten years old. That's not a middle schoolers.

      100:00:17 we're building a seperate wing at sissonville middle for fifth grade. They have their own entrance. Do you know schools all over the state have k-8 and no problems,

      16:43:44 We do have concerns about 5th to middle school but that's not our only concern. We have health and safety worries about the kids here at flinn.

      FLINN IS ALREADY ONE OF THE BIGGEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY WITH ALMOST 550 STUDENTS. IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE SMALLEST IN TERMS OF SPACE.

      SO THESE PARENTS WANT THE MONEY ALLOCATED FOR NEW CLASSROOMS HERE AND AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TO INSTEAD GO INTO BUILDING A NEW ELEMENTARY .

      LONGTIME SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER PETE THAW SAYS THE STATE WON'T FUND SUCH A PROJECT BECASUE SISSONVILLE IS LOSING KIDS TO declining ENROLLMENT.

      BITE:PETE THAW.

      THE PARENTS HAVE HERD OTHERWISE.

      HOUSE MINORITY LEADER TIM ARMSTEAND AND DELEGATE PATRICK LANE SENT A LETTER TO KANAWHA SCHOOLS DENOUNCING THE CONSOLIDATION PLAN AND ENCOURAGING THEM TO SEEK OTHER OPTIONS.

      16:53:30 We hope the school board will come with an open mind and here what we have to say.16:55:25 as a parent I will do everything I can to make sure my kids have the best education possible.

      THE FINAL HEARING AND VOTE ON THE SISSONVILLE AREA SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION IS SCHEDULED FOR 6-OCLOCK THIS TUESDAY AT SISSONVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

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    PEIA MEETING
      THE FUTURE OF YOUR BENEFITS WILL BE A HOT TOPIC AT A CONFERENCE THIS WEEK.

      THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BENEFITS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE KICKED OFF TONIGHT IN CHARLESTON.

      THIS CONFERENCE IS A CHANCE FOR BENEFIT PROFESSIONALS TO COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS ISSUES IN THIER INDUSTRY.

      IT COMES AS THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES INSURANCE AGENCY LOOKS AT ENDING RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR WORKERS HIRED AFTER JANUARY 2010.

      GOVERNOR JOE MANCHIN AND CONGRESSWOMAN SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO ARE BOTH SCHEDULED TO SPEAK AT THE CONFERENCE TOMORROW.

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    SUSTBANCE ABUSE PLAN
      GOVERNOR MANCHIN SAYS IT'S TIME TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO TACKLING SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN STATE.

      RIGHT NOW, WEST VIRGINIANS ARE PAYING OUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE COSTS.

      TO DISCUSS THE PROBLEM, AND WAYS TO CURB IT.....A DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE SUMMIT WILL BE HELD IN THE CAPITOL CITY TOMORROW.

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    SPECIAL SESSION
      LOTS OF BUSINESS TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE LEGISLATURE THIS WEEK.

      LEGISLATURES WILL MEET IN SPECIAL SESSION THIS TUESDAY.

      ITEMS ON THE AGENDA INCLUDE, ...HONORING SENATOR BYRD FOR BEING THE LONGEST SERVING CONGRESSMAN IN UNITED STATES HISTORY, THE STATES RETIREMENT SYSTEM,

      FEDERAL RECOVERY ZONE BONDS AND THE MOTOR FUEL EXCISE TAX TO NAME A FEW.

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    VETS HONORED
      A CHURCH IN MILTON DEDICATED THEIR SUNDAY SERVICE...TO THOSE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY .

      EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER BRYANT SOMERVILLE WAS AT THE CHURCH TODAY, AND TALKED WITH A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO SAY SHOWING APPRECIATION TO VETERANS IS A YEAR ROUND EFFORT.

      (nats)

      THE CONGREGATION AT MILTON BAPTIST CHURCH SOUNDED A LITTLE MORE PATRIOTIC SUNDAY.


      THATS BECAUSE THE CHURCH, ALONG WITH AMERICAN POST 139, PUT ON A VETERANS RECOGNITION DAY...SHOWING THANKS TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN IN THE AREA WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY.


      MAJOR GENERAL ALLEN TACKETT WAS THE GUEST SPEAKER...HE SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD SHOW APPRECIATION TO VETS NOT JUST ON VETERANS DAY...BUT EVERYDAY.


      A SERVICE, THAT TACKETT SAYS, IN WEST VIRGINIA...IS GROWING. IN FACT HE SAYS THE MOUNTAIN STATE RANKS NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION...WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING TROOPS READY TO DEPLOY.





      SALUTING THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE...GIVING THANKS TO THE LAND OF THE FREE.


      IN MILTON; BSO; EYEWITNESS NEWS.

      ALL VETERANS IN ATTENDANCE TODAY RECEIVED A FREE BIBLE, COURTESY OF THE MILTON BAPTIST CHURCH.

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    FLAGS HALF STAFF
      MEANWHILE, GOVERNOR MANCHIN ORDERED ALL U-S AND STATE FLAGS AT GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS TO FLY AT HALF-STAFF IN HONOR OF ARMY SPECIALIST JULIAN LEE GUTHRIE BERISFORD--TOMORROW.

      THE 25 YEAR OLD WAS A NATIVE OF BENWOOD.

      HE DIED NOVEMBER 4th FROM INJURIES HE RECEIVED WHEN HIS UNIT WAS HIT IN AFGHANISTAN.

      A SERVICE WILL BE HELD IN MOUNDSVILLE WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS.

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    AMERICA RECYCLES DAY
      TAKING THE OLD AND TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING NEW......... AND HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE SAME TIME

      TODAY IS AMERICA RECYCLE'S DAY.

      GET THIS--THE AVERAGE AMERICAN THROWS OUT MORE THAN FOUR AND A HALF POUNDS OF TRASH EVERY DAY.

      TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU CAN DO--IF YOU RECYCLE ONE GLASS CONTAINER--THAT SAVES ENOUGH ENERGY TO LIGHT A ONE HUNDRED-WATT BULB FOR FOUR HOURS.

      AMERICA RECYCLES DAY BEGAN BACK IN 19-97.

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    FULL WEATHER
      ANCHORS TOSS TO WX ANCHOR FOR WEATHER

      WX ANCHOR PITCHES TO WEATHER GRAPHICS

      Join Steve Borecky and the entire Storm Team at the Weather Center Online for the only regional web site that provides live, local updates, 24 hours a day!
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    I GMA JUNK FOOD
      .. IN HEALTH NEWS......NOW TO STARTLING NEW INSIGHT INTO THE ADDICTIVE POWER OF SUGARY, SALTY AND FATTY FOODS...

      WOULD YOU BELIEVE DOCTORS HAVE FOUND THAT CRAVINGS FOR JUNK FOOD MAY BE AS STRONG AS AN ADDICTION TO HEROIN OR COCAINE? HERE'S ABC'S JUJU CHANG.

      SCRIPT: 3.18.59 (walking to fridge) in the fridge, we've got some cheesecake... CARI BANKS HAS A SERIOUS WEAKNESS. 3.19.24 (opening freezer) and i think we still have ice cream. Cari 3.18.45 I could eat half a pack of oreos and milk and consider it nothing. AND SAYING NO TO THE CRAVINGS? FORGET ABOUT IT. Cari 3.22.06 if i wanted the food and it was available, i would eat it, pretty much without thinking. OBESITY RESEARCHERS BELIEVE CARI'S SWEET TOOTH COULD ACTUALLY BE MORE LIKE SUBSTANCE ABUSE. DR JOE MCCLERNON AT DUKE UNIVERSITY STUDIES THE BRAINS OF SMOKERS OR DRUG ADDICTS AND HIS STUDIES SHOW THAT FOR MANY OBESE PEOPLE JUNK FOOD CAN TRIGGER THE SAME RESPONSE. Dr. McClernon, 2.28.04 (pointing at brain scans) You can see activation // 2.28.31 in both cases in a region called the striatum. // it's the part of your brain that tells you whether something is something you wanna go after or something that you wanna avoid. but it's also the part of the brain that's involved in learning habits. IN A NEW STUDY, SCIENTISTS AT THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUND SIMILAR RESULTS IN RATS. PLEASURE CENTERS IN THE BRAINS OF THOSE FED HIGH-FAT, HIGH-CALORIE FOOD BECAME LESS RESPONSIVE OVER TIME A SIGNAL THAT THE RATS WERE BECOMING ADDICTED. ONCE HOOKED, NOT EVEN AN ELECTRIC SHOCK COULD STOP THEM FROM A JUNK FOOD FIX. Dr. Louis Aronne, 12.44.51 Your brain reacts almost identically to a cocaine addict looking at cocaine. // And the interesting thing is that someone who's obese has even more similarity to the cocaine addict looking at cocaine. Juju, 12.45.42 So somebody who is obese is literally addicted to junk food? Aronne, 12.45.47 In many ways they can be addicted to junk food. nats Cari getting in scanner (loud machine buzz as she slides in) (see pix of junk food on computer near scanner) FOR CARI, THE TRIGGER FOODS MOSTLY ARE HIGH FAT, AND HIGH CALORIE. Nats Dr. McClernon, 2.07.46: ok Cari, are you ready for the first scan? SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO FIGHT HER CRAVINGS FOR THREE MONTHS -- EATING A SPECIAL LOW FAT DIET AS PART OF A STUDY DR. MCCLERNON IS DOING WITH FUNDING FROM THE ATKINS FOUNDATION. Cari, 3.24.28 it was // a month into the diet that I could eat one slice of pizza and be ok with that one slice and not have to eat half the pizza. OBESITY EXPERTS BELIEVE TREATMENTS USED FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY MAY HOLD PROMISE IN FIGHTING OBESITY. McClernon, 1.17.28 we know that people // can learn new ways to live that are healthier. // 1. 17.00 part of the challenge right now is developing new techniques and new diets that help people learn those new ways of responding to food. FOR GMA, JC, ABC NEWS VERBATIM: ADVISORIES/RESTRICTIONS: EDITMASTER#: TIME/INITIAL:

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    IWITNESS NEWS
      IF YOU SEE NEWS HAPPENING, CLICK AWAY, AND SEND US THE PICTURES AT IWITNESS@WCHSTV.COM....

      IF IT'S A GOOD PICTURE OF A GOOD STORY... WE'LL USE IT ON THE AIR!

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    I FORT HOOD FUNERALS
      MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER THE TRAGEDY AT FORT HOOD, FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AROUND THE COUNTRY FOR THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.

      SIX SOLDIERS LAID TO REST IN SIX STATES--- THEIR LIVES CUT SHORT RIGHT HERE AT HOME.... AND ALLEGEDLY BY ONE OF THEIR OWN. ABC'S CLAYTON SANDELL REPORTS.

      SCRIPT: The grief brought on by that single terrible event in Texas... on full display at funerals across the country. Utah for Aaron Nemelka In Keil Wisconsin......Sergeant Amy Kreuger was laid to rest. She joined the military after nine-eleven and vowed to hunt Osama Bin Laden. Set to deploy for the second time to Afghanistan... Kreuger wanted to help soldiers cope with combat stress. In Plymouth Indiana... salutes for a procession carrying thirty-two year-old Sergeant Justin DeCrow. He was thirty two and played football in high school... where he met his wife. NATS - 21 gun salute In San Diego California... full military honors for fifty-six year-old Captain John Gaffaney... who collected baseball cards and liked to ride his Harley. NATS - bell rings No part of America was spared tears Saturday.... Oklahoma for Jason Dean Hunt... Illinois for Michael Pearson. And there will be more. SOT - PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA // THEIR LEGACY WILL BE AN AMERICA THAT IS SAFER AND STRONGER - AN AMERICA THAT REFLECTS THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE IT. The man charged with thirteen murders... fellow soldier Nidal Malik Hasan.. . will have his day in court. Today... however... was for familes... friends... and a nation... to remember those who gave it all. NATS - taps Clayton Sandell ABC News.

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    PESHWAR BOMBING
      .... IN WORLD NEWS....

      VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN PAKISTAN THIS WEEKEND

      WATCH THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN.

      THAT WHITE PLUME OF SMOKE IS A SUICIDE BOMBER BLOWING HIMSELF UP AT A POLICE CHECKPOINT. THE ATTACK HAPPENED SATURDAY IN PESHAWAR (PEH-SHAH-WURR) -- KILLING 11 PEOPLE AND WOUNDING 26 OTHERS. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY THE BOMBING WAS IN RETALIATION TO MILITARY OFFENSIVES ALONG THE AFGHANISTAN BORDER.

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    INDIA TRAIN DERAILS
      AT LEAST 6 PEOPLE DIED AND 20 OTHERS were INJURED, WHEN A TRAIN went OFF THE TRACKS IN NORTHWESTERN INDIA.

      THE NEW DELHI BOUND TRAIN DERAILED AROUND 1:30 AM saturday MORNING.

      AT LEAST 15 CARS TOPPLED OVER.

      INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A CAUSE.

      REPORTS SHOW INDIA HAS HAD 117 TRAIN ACCIDENTS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS.

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    SPORTS TEASE
      WEST VIRGINIA AND MARSHALL BOTH OPEN UP THE 2009 BASKETBALL SEASON TODAY...

      JOSH LEWIS HAS ALL THE HI-LITES FROM MORGANTOWN...

      AND HUNTINGTON...

      NEXT ON EYEWITNESS SPORTS

      ON EYEWITNESS NEWS.

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    WVU HOOPS
      WE'RE SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER....

      AND WITH THE MOUNTAINEER FOOTBALL TEAM STRUGGLING DOWN THE STRETCH....MANY ARE ALREADY THINKING BASKETBALL..

      TODAY BOB HUGGINS AND HIS 9TH RANKED SQUAD OPENED THE SEASON AGAINST LOYOLA...

      LOYOLA HUNG TOUGH EARLY...BUT WVU GETS IT GOING...

      JONNIE WEST'S

      THREE FROM THE CORNER WON'T GO... FRESHMAN DAN JENNINGS WITH THE

      BOARD AND HE POWERS HIS WAY UP AND GETS THE LAY IN TO GO WITH THE

      FOULD... W-V-U STILL TRAILS 20-18...

      THEN MOUNTINEERS ON THE RUN... WEST TO KEVIN JONES IN THE CORNER FOR

      THE THREE.... HOW ABOUT IT... K-J HAD 14 ON THE DAY... W-V-U TAKES

      BACK THE LEAD 21-20...

      HOWEVER THE GREYHOUNDS WOULDN'T GO AWAY BRIAN RUDOLPH DRIVES AND

      DISHES TO JULIUS BROOKS WHO SLAMS IT HOME...

      THE MOUNTIANEERS WOULD GO INTO THE HALF TIED AT 31...

      BUT THE SECOND HALF WAS ALL GOLD AND BLUE...DAY-SEAN BUTLER SWINGS IT

      TO TRUCK BRYANT ON THE WING... NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.... TRUCK ADD 15

      POINTS AND 5 ASSISTS...

      THEN-- BUTLER AGIAN THIS TIME KICKS OUT TO WELLINGTON SMITH...THREE

      BALL CORNER POCKET...THAT WAS PART OF AN 11-OH RUN TO START THE

      SECOND FOR W-V-U AND THEY WOULD NEVER LOOK BACK....

      WVU OPENS WITH AN 83-60 VICTORY....COACH SAYS HE'S GOT HIS WORK CUT OUT KEEPING HIS TEAM'S HEAD FROM GETTING BIG...

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    WVU HOOPS SOUND
      BOB HUGGINS GETS WIN #50 AS WEST VIRGINIA'S HEAD COACH....

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    MARSHALL HOOPS
      -MARSHALL PLAYING ITS FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR AGAINST NC A & T

      -1ST HALF-SHAQUILLE JOHNSON PULLUP JUMPER

      -JOHNSON AGAIN FOR 3....HE WOULD FINISH WITH A CAREER HIGH 22 POINTS

      -OFF THE REBOUND....CAM MILLER TO HASSAN WHITESIDE FOR THE SLAM.....10 POINTS....ALSO 5 BLOCKS....HERD UP 38-33 AT HALF

      -2ND HALF-OFF THE STEAL.....DARYL MERTHIE GOES COAST TOT COAST FOR THE LAYIN....AND ONE.....14 POINTS

      -MERTHIE ONE OF HIS 5 ASSITS....ALLEY OPP TO TIRRELL BAINES.....8 POINTS.....MARSHALL TAKES THE OPENER 79-63.....

      COACH SAYS THEY HAD TO "TOUGH IT OUT" TO GET...

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    MARSHALL SOUND
      HERD BACK IN ACTION TUESDAY NIGHT AGAINST MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE...

      THAT GAME AT 7 AT THE CAM HENDERSON CENTER....

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    STATE-HILLSDALE
      WEST VIRGINIA STATE HOSTING HILLSDALE IN THE JOHN DICKENSHEETS CLASSIC... THE SEASON OPENER-- MEANING THE FIRST CHANCE TO SEE COOKIE MILLER IN A YELLOWJACKETS UNIFORM...

      --FRED HARRIS IN TRANSITION WITH THE DUNK...

      --COOKIE'S 1ST POINTS AT STATE COME OFF A 3 POINTER IN THE CORNER...

      --THEN MILLER ON THE RECEIVING END OF A NICE BOUNCE PASS FROM JUSTIN BANKS....

      --BRYAN POORE SAYS-- DON'T FORGET ABOUT BO KING!!

      -KING-- THE FORMER CHARLESTON CATHOLIC STAR KNOCKS IN THE 3...

      --SHOWTIME.. AS BANKS GOES UP AND GETS THE ALLI-OOP...

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    WVU-CONTROVERSIAL CALL
      THERE WAS SOME CONTROVERSY IN WEST VIRGINIA'S 24-21 LOSS AT CINCINNATI FRIDAY NIGHT...

      IN THE 2ND QTR....BEARCATS RUNNING BACK ISIAH PEAD FUMBLED ON THE GOAL LINE AND THE MOUNTAINEERS RECOVERED....

      BUT THE PLAY WENT TO THE BOOTH WHERE IT WAS REVIEWED....

      AND THE BEARCATS WERE AWARDED A TOUCHDOWN....

      TOUGH CALL...BUT THE MOUNTAINEERS WILL TELL YOU THERE WAS MUCH MORE TO THIS GAME THAN THAT PLAY...

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    CALL SOUND
      BACKYARD BRAWL NEXT... THAT'S SET FOR THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING...

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    MARSHALL FOOTBALL
      MARSHALL LOST MORE THAN A FOOTBALL GAME WHEN SOUTHERN MISS CAME TO TOWN YESTERDAY...

      CODY SLATE WAS KNOCKED OUT WITH A KNEE INJURY-- ONE THAT COULD BE CAREER ENDING...

      WE AWAIT AN UPDATE ON HIS STATUS...

      DARIUS MARSHALL ALSO LEFT WITH AN ANKLE INJURY...

      THE REPLACEMENTS FOR THOSE TWO STARS NOW GET A CHANCE TO PICK UP THE SLACK...

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    MARSHALL SOUND
      EDWARDS-MAYE HAD 12 YARDS ON 3 CARRIES IN DARIUS MARSHALL'S ABSENCE...

      LEE SMITH HAD 6 CATCHES FOR 77 YARDS IN REPLACING CODY SLATE....

      MARSHALL HOSTS SMU ON SATURDAY...STILL LOOKING FOR A 6TH WIN TO BECOME BOWL-ELIGIBLE...

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    NFL1
      TO THE NFL WHERE ACTOR RUSSELL CROWE WAS IN PITTSBURGH TO WATCH THE STEELERS AND BENGALS FIGHT FOR THE TOP SPOT IN THE AFC NORTH...

      ---4TH QTR... CARSON PALMER TO LAVERNIOUS COLES... THAT SETS UP A FIELD GOAL THAT BROKE A 12-ALL TIE.... THE BENGALS GET ANOTHER FIELD GOAL...

      --STEELERS ONE LAST CHANCE.... BUT BEN ROETHLISBERGER CAN'T HANDLE THE PRESSURE.. AND THE INCOMPLETION SEALS IT...BENGALS D COMES UP HUGE AS CINCINNATI TAKES CONTROL OF THE DIVISION...

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    HS FOOTBALL
      ROUND TWO OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS ARE ON TAP THIS WEEK...

      BUT THE FIELD HAS BEEN CUT DOWN IN HALF....

      SOUTH CHARLESTON MOVES ON AFTER YESTERDAY'S WAXING OF LEWIS COUNTY...

      THE BLACK EAGLES NOW IN A REMATCH GAME AGAINST MARTINSBURG-- A TEAM THEY KNOCKED OUT LAST SEASON...

      JOHN MESSINGER SAYS HE KNOWS HIS TEAM HAS A BIG TASK AHEAD OF THEM....

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    UC SOCCER
      THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON'S MEN'S SOCCER TEAM COMES UP WITH SOME MAGIC AT THE DIVISION TWO TOURNAMENT IN SLIPPERY ROCK, PENNSYLVANIA...

      A 3-2 WIN HAS PUT THE GOLDEN EAGLES IN THE ELITE 8!!!

      UC WILL FACE LEWIS-- OF ILLINOIS-- NEXT SATURDAY OR SUNDAY IN THE QUARTERFINALS...

      THE SITE AND TIME OF THE ROUND WILL BE ANNOUNCED EARLY THIS WEEK...

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    NASCAR
      NASCAR WAS OUT WEST TODAY...AND ITS JIMMIE JOHNSON WHO GETS BACK ON TRACK..

      AFTER A ROUGH ONE LAST WEEK...JOHNSON MADE HIS WAY TO VICTORY LANE AT PHOENIX TODAY...

      HE LED 238 LAPS AND WON FOR THE 4TH TIME AT PHOENIX IN FIVE RACES...

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    RESULTS
      THAT MAKES 7 VICTORIES FOR JIMMIE JOHNSON THIS SEASON...

      AND THE 4TH TIME HE'S WON SINCE THE CHASE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP BEGAN....

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    POINT STANDINGS
      MOST IMPORTANTLY... HE STRETCHES HIS LEAD TO 108 POINTS BETTER THAN MARK MARTIN...

      JOHNSON NEEDS TO FINISH 25TH OR BETTER NEXT WEEK AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI IN THE FINALE TO WIN HIS 4TH STRAIGHT CUP CHAMPIONSHIP...

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    TOSS TO BREAK
      STICK AROUND, MORE EYEWITNESS NEWS AFTER THE BREAK.

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    GOATS ON A BUS
      FINALLY TONIGHT....

      YOU'VE HEARD OF SNAKES ON A PLANE

      . BUT WHAT ABOUT GOATS ON A BUS?

      TWO GOATS TRIED THEIR BEST TO GET ON THIS BUS IN VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON . YOU CAN SEE THEM TRY TO FOLLOW TWO WOMEN ON... BEFORE BEING PUSHED OFF REPEATEDLY. THEN, WHEN THE TWO WOMEN MOVE, THEY HOP ON READY TO RIDE! BUT NOT SO FAST. ANOTHER PASSENGER SHOOS THEM AWAY BACK ONTO THE CURB. A LOCAL NEWS STATION REPORTS THE TWO GOATS ESCAPED THEIR FENCE NEARBY, BUT ARE NOW BACK AT HOME.

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    CLOSE
      JAKE AND LIZ

      END OF SHOW

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