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A1 ONET SECTION —10he PAGES Vol. 125 No. 175LoganTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 BUSPSanner 317-620 www.loganbanner.com — 50 CENTS nside today Manchin, Tomblin re-elected SportS proposed repeal of county sheriff Republican John Raese made We just need to reach out,” Man- I House Dems take hit term limits. Obama a big part of his campaign chin told The Associated Press. Local sports Lawrence Messina Though registered Democrats against Manchin for a full six-year “Forget about our party politics. The Associated Press outnumber Republicans by nearly term in the Senate. Manchin was Start thinking about our future.” coverage 2-1 in West Virginia, GOP presi- governor when he defeated Raese, Read all Tomblin’s GOP opponent, Bill CHARLESTON — West Vir- dential hopeful Mitt Romney eas- a Morgantown multimillionaire Maloney, also invoked Obama a b o u t ily won the five electoral votes in and industrialist, in a 2010 special ginia voters on Tuesday re-elected while blaming the incumbent for y o u r the state where Obama suffers election prompted by the death of l o c a l U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. the state’s chronically poor rank- some of his lowest approval rat- U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd. ings in economic and education t e a m s Earl Ray Tomblin, both Demo- ings. Still, Romney lost the overall Manchin said whoever wins the categories. Their race marked an- a n d crats, even as they rejected Presi- race. presidency must work to unite the college dent Barack Obama’s bid for a sec- In other races, Republican can- nation. He proposed a 50-state other rematch. Tomblin was Sen- and pro ond term, but also nearly erased didates worked to link Democratic healing tour, inviting the winner ate president acting as governor games in the Democrats’ majority in the incumbents to the unpopular pres- to come to West Virginia first. following Manchin’s departure today’s Sports section! House of Delegates and rejected a ident. “I’m just so committed to that. See MANCHIN | 5 commentary Superstorm Fountain Place Sandy See what The Logan companies sued Banner has to say in to- Demolition resumes on old hospital day’s column on page 4. for flood damage Index Obituaries..................2 Staff Report Horoscope................10 LOGAN — Flooding that Classifieds.................8 occurred in the Mud Fork Opinion.....................4 Creek watershed in March prompted a Logan couple Sports........................6 to file suit against Fountain Place companies. Listed as defendants are Weather Fountain Place Shopping Thursday Center, LLC, Fountain Sunny. Highs in the low- Place, LLC, and Fountain er 50s. Northwest winds 5 Place Holdings, LLC do- to 10 mph. ing business as Ellis Branch Quarry. The civil action Thursday night filed by Kermit and Tamra Clear. Cold with lows Johnson cites negligence in the lower 30s. North- and unreasonableness in east winds around 5 mph conducting surface mining, in the evening becoming mining reclamation and light and variable. post-mining construction. See DAMAGE | 5 Friday Sunny. Not as cool with highs in the lower 60s. WV Democrats Light and variable winds becoming southwest around 5 mph in the after- cross party Photos by Jerry Fekete noon. An icon in the Man area is rapidly being demolished after several delays. The Old Man Hospital, built in 1956 under the UMWA and the late John L. Lewis, was later taken over by ARH Regional Hospital. The hospital, which was closed lines in election Friday night nearly ten years ago, became a public eyesore and health hazard to the residents of the town. Demolition of the Debbie Rolen Mostly clear. Lows in structure has been a slow process due to the cost of asbestos removal. It is not known what will be built on the Staff Writer the upper 30s. Light and property after the structure has been removed. variable winds. LOGAN — The much- awaited election of 2012 is Saturday through now history and voters in Veterans Day West Virginia crossed party Mostly clear. Highs in lines as they made their the upper 60s. Lows in the choices. lower 40s. West Virginia has 1,246,559 registered vot- Sunday night ers, of which 640,532 (51 percent) are Democrats. Partly cloudy. Lows in Voter turnout was less the mid 40s. than half of the total reg- istered voters, but only Monday 10 percent less than vot- Partly sunny. A chance See LINES | 5 of showers in the after- noon. Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30 per- cent. C-ville Water Dept. Monday night lifts advisory Mostly cloudy with a 50 Martha Sparks percent chance of show- Society Editor ers. Lows in the lower 40s. CHAPMANVILLE — The Chapmanville Water/ Tuesday Sewer Department has Mostly cloudy with a lifted a boil water adviso- chance of showers in the ry for their customers on morning then partly sun- Wednesday, November 7. ny in the afternoon. Much The advisory was issued cooler with highs in the on Sunday due to a break upper 40s. Chance of rain It’s a 50-50 nation, give or take in a water line on Garretts 40 percent. Fork. Calvin Woodward and healing are coming from leaders McConnell of Kentucky was grudg- Tuesday night and The Associated Press on both sides, starting with the plea ing in interpreting the election as any Wednesday from defeated Republican rival Mitt kind of mandate for Obama, saying Coal jobs returning Partly cloudy. Lows in WASHINGTON — The election Romney that his crestfallen support- voters “have simply given him more the upper 20s. Highs in laid bare a dual — and dueling — na- ers pray for the president. time to finish the job they asked him to Pike County the lower 50s. tion, politically speaking, jaggedly to do together” with Congress, and But after the most ideologically PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) split down the middle on the presi- polarized election in years, Obama’s did not endorse his “failure or ex- — An eastern Kentucky onlIne edItIon dency and torn over much else. It assertion Wednesday morning that cesses.” seems you can please only half of the America is “more than a collection of In New York’s bustling Times official says nearly 150 Photos and people nearly all of the time. red states and blue states” was more Square, hope, skepticism and famil- coal jobs are returning to Americans retained the fractious of an aspiration than a snapshot of iar polarities were all to be found the area. balance of power in re-electing Presi- where the country stands. when people talked about the presi- Pike County Judge- more online! dent Barack Obama, a Republican Compromise was a popular notion dent. “He may not have done a great Executive Wayne T. Ruth- House and a Democratic Senate, al- in the hours after Obama’s victory job in my mind but I kinda trust erford said in a statement You can buy photos together serving as guarantors of the and an unavoidable one, given the re- him,” said Jerry Shul. “I have faith he on Tuesday that two dif- from local events on our gridlock that voters say they despise. ality of divided government. But the will get with the Republicans and get ferent coal mines are Web site and read Slender percentages separated win- familiar contours of partisan Wash- something done.” bringing a total of about A less-flattering George Dalle- The Logan Banner ner and loser from battleground to ington were also in evidence, espe- 150 miners back to work. everyday at: battleground, and people in exit polls cially the notion that compromise mand called this “a moment of truth” for the country. “I guess we have to He cited new orders for www.loganbanner.com. said yea and nay in roughly equal means you do things my way. coal as the reason the measure to some of the big issues of As Democratic Rep. Steve Israel wish for the best now, but I still think companies are bringing the day. of New York put it, “If you refuse to he is socialism.” Democracy doesn’t care if you compromise, we are going to beat In Miami, Karen Fitzgerald, 55, back workers. win big, only that you win. Tues- you.” Israel, chairman of the Demo- wore a black dress and said she was Rutherford said he day was a day of decision as firmly cratic Congressional Campaign Com- in mourning over Romney’s defeat. hopes the move helps as if Obama had run away with the mittee, said the election showed “if “It’s an upsetting day,” she said. “boost our local econo- race. Democrats are ebullient and, you are an extremist tea party Re- But she took some comfort from her my” and is a sign that the after a campaign notable for its raw publican, you are going to lose.” Democratic friends on Facebook, trend of cutting jobs in smackdowns, words of conciliation Senate Republican Leader Mitch See NATION | 5 the industry is over. A2 Page 2 — The Logan Banner, Thursday, November 8, 2012 Obituaries Sarah Cook, Ray Bryant, Clinchco, Va., she was a Freeman Funeral Home ANGIE DAVIS Collins Funeral Home of Randy Bryant, Brian Keith daughter of the late Wiley of Chapmanville is in SOUTH CHARLES- Switzer is in charge of the and Stephanie Ward; 15 and Adeline Roark. Also charge of the arrange- TON, W.Va. — Angie Ei- arrangements. great-grandchildren, and preceding her in death was ments. leen Davis, 84, of South DILLON JR., William two great-great-grandchil- her husband and father of Charleston, formerly of “Paps” — 1 p.m.