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julier@wvgazette.com
Growing up in Elkview, Bobby Hodges dreamed of playing woodwinds in New York for Broadway musicals.
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For four years, Earl Newcomer has waited, with increasing impatience, for justice.
On Thursday afternoon, in a courtroom on the sixth floor of the York County Judicial Center, the aging Manor Township farmer finally saw light at the end of an exceptionally long and convoluted legal tunnel.
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Harley-Davidson of West Virginia officials want to introduce people to the basics of motorcycle riding.
They're staging an event at 6:15 p.m. Thursday at the dealership at 4924 MacCorkle Ave. in South Charleston.
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Joseph Frazier, a Calabasas High assistant basketball coach, is still in a coma following an accident in which he was struck while on his motorcycle in a hit-and-run incident last week.
Frazier, who also played at Cal State Northridge, was wearing a helmet, which his mother, Tai Whaley, said had only a scratch on it.
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I've loved motorcycles since I was a teenager. Today, I'm a regular, avid motorcycle commuter. Motorcycles are more and more popular these days. They're fun and economical.
On summer evenings, I pass quite a few on my way to and from work. This all changes in winter.
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An at-fault driver's lapsed automobile insurance policy led to a $550,000 payment for underinsured motorist coverage from the insurer of a man who was injured while riding his motorcycle.
After 10:30 p.m. on June 5, 2009, Bradford Scott Bradley was riding his motorcycle in downtown Rolla, and Patsy Carroll Dotson allegedly failed to yield the right-of-way. Bradley, now 47, was thrown from his motorcycle and suffered serious injuries, including a compound fracture of his leg. He was taken by helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia, where he had several surgeries, said his attorney, Stephen Aton.
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Her name, as much of the world knows, is Lisbeth Salander. She is the great feminist superhero of modern fiction.
Instead of a cape and brightly colored comic book tights, Lisbeth is a motorcycle-riding Goth chick with studs in her face and a dragon tattoo down her back from the nape of her neck to her rump.
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Niki Yeaton has seen too many motorcycle deaths and accidents this summer.
Yeaton, a 31-year-old clinical nurse at University Hospital, sees motorcyclists in and out of her emergency room on a regular basis. Most wound up there due to driving under the influence. But the deadly cases have something else in common -- the driver not knowing their limits, or the bike's, because of a lack of safety training. Most, she says, also weren't wearing a helmet.
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Original travel experiences are an endangered species in high- altitude Cuzco, Peru.
The thin-air region is home to savvy local travel agents and pushy street vendors who sell the city and nearby Machu Picchu as enchanting places that paradoxically exist outside of time and history, but not the global economy.