| DIRTY MINE WATER ON CABIN CREEK - A dirty black water discharge from an abandoned underground mine
darkened about one-and-a-half miles of Cabin Creek yesterday. DEP Spokeswoman Jessica Greathouse says the mine is so
old there is no longer any particular company responsible for it.
Greathouse says the discharge is not dangerous and will dissipate on its own.
TWIN BOYS DROWN IN POOL - Fairmont Police are investigating the apparent drowning deaths of 27-month-old twin
boys. The pajama-clad twins were found floating in the pool by their grandmother at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday.
No one knows how long the boys were in the water.
Neighbors performed CPR and emergency workers at an area hospital worked for several hours to resuscitate the boys.
Police Chief Ted Offutt said it's not clear how they got in the water.
COLLEGE ENTRANCE SCORES IMPROVING, BUT ... Scores on college entrance exams in 16 southern states have
improved over the last decade, according to a new study released this week by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional
Education Board.
The study looked at ACT and SAT scores from 1992 to 2002 in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
West Virginia.
Most had better test scores than ten years ago.
Still, scores in 12 of the states were among the bottom 15 in the nation -- including West Virginia, which was 41st of the 50
states.
SCHOOL RULES IGNORED IN PUTNAM - Cutting spring break short is not working in the Putnam County school
system.
Students and teachers were supposed to be off all week for spring break, but snow days cut spring break days.
Fewer than 67 percent of students were at school Thursday and Friday, with many parents having already made plans to go
out of town. .
The Putnam Superintendent says there's no room in the school calendar this year to schedule additional instructional days. He
says state code requires school to be out by June 9.
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