Photo By: M.K. McFarland
Enter your average coffeeshop and maybe you'll hear the wail of a singer-songwriter or the whirr of an espresso machine. You'll hear something different most Tuesday nights at the Java Joint, across the street from Marshall University's campus on Hal Greer Boulevard: a massed choir of harmonicas.
Paula Stewart began playing in 2005, and now has a Web page that showcases her playing.
Louisville metro mayor: 'We are better off today'1:00 am EDT
Small-town leaders tell Kanawha colleagues system works
After reaching consensus that metro government is probably a good idea for Kanawha County, representatives from most of the county's towns and cities, county officials and leaders of the local business community started talking about how the sell the idea to voters.
With students in hotels and lounges, colleges seek more housing1:00 am EDT
Some students are spending their first college days sleeping in dorm lounges and hotel rooms.
MSHA: Test coal miners for drugs and alcohol1:00 am EDT
UMW and state resisted previous attempts at testing
The Bush administration will propose a rule early next week to require drug testing of miners who work in "safety sensitive" jobs in the nation's coal and non-coal mines.
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  • Bayer withheld details of fatal blast in calls to 911
  • Residents fuming over lack of details from Bayer plant
  • McGraw files election complaint concerning ads
  • 'Change is coming'
  • Simpler sales tax sought
  • World's most powerful 10-year-old1:00 am EDT
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
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    Analysts say Massey woes isolated
    The troubles that prompted Massey Energy Co. to warn investors that average prices and production might be less than expected appear limited to the Richmond, Va.-based coal company.
    Auto execs upbeat after summer slump
    Nearly every major automaker saw its U.S. sales drop in August, but many are seeing signs that the worst slump in recent history may have bottomed out.
    Boil water advisories issued in Cabell, McDowell
    W.Va. American Water lifts boil water advisory
    West Virginia American Water has lifted the boil water advisory for customers in Five and Twenty Mile in Mason County.
    Alaska trooper probe put on fast track, may end by election1:00 am EDT
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Legislature is hastening its ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner, making it far more likely it will be completed before November's election.
    Palin solicited librarian's views on censoring books1:00 am EDT
    WASILLA, Alaska - Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so.
    Clinton backers say Palin's too far a stretch1:00 am EDT
    Sandy Goodman was deeply disappointed when Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't get the Democratic nomination, then again when she was bypassed for the VP spot. So Goodman, a longtime Florida Democrat, flirted with thoughts of shunning Barack Obama, and perhaps even voting Republican.
    Obama scales back 50-state strategy1:00 am EDT
    DILLONVALE, Ohio - So much for the 50-state strategy.Barack Obama, who once pledged to compete in every state, has shifted his thinking. Now, he'll pick and choose where to spend time and money.
    Palin pounds Obama, media
    ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed her historic spot on the Republican ticket Wednesday night, uncorking a smiling, slashing attack on Barack Obama and vowing to help presidential candidate John McCain bring real change to Washington. Scarcely known a week ago, she drew tumultuous cheers from the Republican National Convention.
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