Buffalo Creek flood named West Virginia top story of 1972
The Buffalo Creek disaster in Logan County was chosen as the year's top West Virginia news event by 18 editors. The piece notes related floods, the Moore victory, Hurricane Agnes effects, mining disasters, and political trials, with details on casualties and ongoing recovery.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Buffalo Creek
Logan County
Arch A Moore Jr
West
Buffalo Mining Co
John D. Rockefeller IV
Moore
George McGovern
Consolidation
Blacksville
Consolidations No. 9
Farmington
Itmann
Wyoming County
Itmann Coal Co
Weirton
Weirton Steel
Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Old Guard
Nixon
Ashland
Agnew
Charleston
Sargent Shriver
Edward Kennedy
Rockefeller
Sen
Jennings Randolph
North American
Agnes
Appalachians
Panhandle
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
New Martinsville
Department of Natural Resources
Electric Power
Donald Robertson
Dana
Federal Housing Administration
James F. Haught
Robertsons
Department of Transportation
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Transportation
John Volpe
Patricia Nixon Cox
Shapp Urges Creamer Uralla Dismissal Over Wiretap Row
Gov Milton Shapp and Police Commissioner Rocco Urella held a second meeting at a Philadelphia area home amid a wiretap dispute that could cost Shapp his $25,000 job. Attorney General J Shane Creamer also faces possible dismissal but declined to comment.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Milton J. Shapp
Rocco Urella
Philadelphia
J. Shane Creamer
Arella
Creamer
Shapp
Police Commissioner Urella defies resignation amid wiretap probe
In an early Saturday press conference Arella denied any plan to resign and blamed a defaming plot. Attorney Richard Philips said no competent evidence of wiretapping exists though suspensions remain. Creamer and the Crime Commission deny leaks as Shapp heads to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl.
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Arella
Richard Philips
Philips
Urella
State Police
Tve
Creamer
Crime Commission
Philadelphia
Shapp
New Orleans
Penn State
Oklahoma
Charleroi area school district halts long hair suspensions
A court order requires Charleroi Area School District to reinstate students suspended for long hair after a constitutional rights challenge by parents of five students. The suit says suspensions violated personal liberties. students were briefly suspended between October and December before readmission. The article also notes a jetliner crash in the Everglades and airline condolences.
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Charleroi, Pa
UPI
Charleroi Area
New York
Eastern Airlines
Everglades
Miami
Stephen Hega Jr
Keith Helen
Robert Eberly
Thomas McNeil
Scott Baker
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