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R.E.M. Celebrates ‘A Very Radical Departure’ 25 Years Ago With Their Album ‘Up’

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn’t sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band’s 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and challenging collection that split fans and critics alike but reveals more interesting things with each listen. A newly remastered reissue out Friday offers a chance to reevaluate. “A lot of people may not have liked it because it didn’t sound like ‘R.E.M.,’ whatever that is. But that was not the point. We were not trying to sound like R.E.M. We were trying to sound like the ...

Black Hawk Helicopter Makes Special Landing at Wheeling Park High School

Wheeling Park High School Ra’myah Askerneese has her photo taken in the cockpit of a Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter that was landed on the WPHS track infield by West Virginia Army National Guard pilots. CW2 Dane Van Zyl, left, of the WVANG looks on. The exhibition was done in part to ...

Success of the Greedy Always Has Come From Audacity

In the past, as in the present, the greedy succeed through audacity. That’s what I found myself thinking as I rewatched “The Name of the Rose,” a mystery set in 1327. Based on a historically accurate book by Umberto Eco, the movie follows William of Baskerville, a Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of murders in an Italian monastery. At one of the tensest parts of the film, amid hunger, deprivation and death, a papal delegacy arrives to engage in a theological debate. The topic: Did Jesus own the clothes he wore? As ridiculous as it might seem, the movie soon ...

Time To Face the Political Truths

While campaigning in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the surge of migrants at the border. “When I’m president,” the former Republican governor of South Carolina said, “we’re going to stop catch-and-release, and we’re going to start catch-and-deport.” No president has put forth such a stern-sounding policy on illegal immigration since Democrat Barack Obama. His administration deported over 2.5 million undocumented entrants, concentrating on those who had committed crimes. Obama was dumped on by immigrant advocates who called him “deporter in chief.” ...

Getting the Tiger by the Tail

Antisemitic attacks in the United States have increased over 100% since Oct. 7, according to a Reuters report. Globally attacks against Jews have surged after Hamas attacked innocent Israelis. As a result, President Biden announced a new “U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia in the United States.” Islamophobia? It is because the Democrats have the tiger by the tail. Recently, a reporter asked the dimwitted White House press secretary, who makes Kevin Malone of “The Office” look Mensa worthy, a question about rising antisemitism in the United States. Karine ...

Marshall County Crash Causes Multiple Injuries

From STAFF REPORTS Five people were injured, including four flown out for medical care, after a two-vehicle head-on crash on Fork Ridge Road in Marshall County on Monday afternoon. Marshall County Sheriff Bill Helms said the crash between a truck and a car occurred around 4:30 p.m. Monday about 5½ miles out Fork Ridge Road. There was one occupant in the truck and five in the car. Four were flown from the crash site for medical care, while one was driven by EMS. That section of Fork Ridge near the Williams Energy Oak Grove Plant was closed for several hours. Helms said sheriff’s ...