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Suspicious fire guts warehouse

Photo by Roger Adkins A Parkersburg firefighter feeds a hose line into a warehouse on Seventh Street that caught fire Wednesday.
August 28, 2008

PARKERSBURG — A warehouse was gutted Wednesday by a fire that investigators believe may have been intentionally set. A firefighter sustained minor injuries during the incident at Bear Run Auto Wrecking, 625 Ryan St., Parkersburg, said Capt. Jason Kuhl of the Parkersburg Fire Department. The warehouse is owned by Ron Vaughan and is located off of Seventh Street behind the Dairy Queen. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 7:30 p.m., and saw flames and heavy smoke coming from the building, Kuhl said. Half of the building’s interior was engulfed in flames, he said. It is unknown where inside the building the fire started. “We made entry and the guys knocked down the fire pretty quickly, in about a minute and a half,” he said. After the fire was out, officials called for investigators because there are no utilities in the building, Kuhl said. “If there’s nothing to start the fire accidentally, something else must have caused it,” Kuhl said.

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Search warrant led to animal rescue effort

August 28, 2008

PARKERSBURG — Complaints about pollution and animal living conditions led to a what has become the largest animal rescue effort ever conducted in West Virginia.

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Any and all doubts erased by Clinton

August 28, 2008

Editor’s note: Robert Rupp, a political historian at West Virginia Wesleyan College, is providing a daily journal of analysis and happenings from the Democratic National Convention.

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Car hits school bus

August 27, 2008

MARIETTA — A combination of speed and too many occupants in a car may have contributed to a Tuesday afternoon crash on Jennings Hill Road involving a carload of teens and a school bus.

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Humane Society officials in town prior to raid

August 27, 2008

PARKERSBURG — Humane Society officials from all over the country were in town a few days prior to the weekend raid of a local dog kennel.

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Dog rescue operation remains under way

August 27, 2008

PARKERSBURG — For the past five days a rescue operation for man’s best friend has been under way at a local warehouse manned by volunteers from the Mid-Ohio Valley and elsewhere.

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