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Manny Alvarez IV, project manager for contractor MEC; James Lassinger, project superintendent for MEC; and Fairmont Utility Manager David Sago have a chat on the freshly completed clarifier tank at the city’s water treatment plant. Clean, pretreated water will rise up through the blue screen and be sucked up through those troughs before being fed into Fairmont’s water plant. The clarifier tank and other new features are part of a Corrective Action Plan designed to make sure the plant never fails, as it did five years ago.

• Preventing failure: VIDEO

  Five long years of struggle and construction is almost at an end for the Fairmont Water Plant.
  Next month marks the five-year anniversary of Fairmont’s water crisis, an unpleasant time for the utility and residents alike.

  January 27, 2012 1 Photo

• Saturday filing deadline for May primary
• Probation on Horton’s drug charge is revoked
• Man flown to hospital after crash: VIDEO
• 17th annual Beekeepers classes scheduled to start next Thursday

Sports

• Bees on ‘D’: VIDEO AND PHOTOS

  East Fairmont head coach Bill Malone said many times throughout this season that he wants his team to play more like it practices, and on Thursday the Bees did just that.
  Caitlin Fluharty scored 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to help lead East to a 51-31 win against visiting Grafton.

  January 27, 2012 6 Photos

• Glenville completes season sweep of Falcons
• Streaking Lady Pioneers hold off late FSU rally
• HERTZEL COLUMN: Bottom teams getting better in Big East
• East Fairmont girls beat Grafton, 51-31

West Virginia

• Ex-foreman who faked safety records sues Patriot

  An ex-mine foreman who admitted faking safety inspection reports is suing Patriot Coal Corp. and the Federal No. 2 mine bosses who he claims pressured him to falsify data.

  January 27, 2012

• Airports gain traffic, hope subsidies last
• Maloney renews challenge to Tomblin
• Governor promotes state in Houston for ‘cracker’ plant
• W.Va. lawmakers revive driver texting-ban bills

Headline News

• Romney aggressor in final Florida debate

  An aggressive Mitt Romney repeatedly challenged Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich in a fast-paced campaign debate Thursday night, ridiculing the former House speaker’s call to build costly projects in key primary states and to colonize the moon.

  January 27, 2012

• CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe
• Pentagon: Army, Marines to shrink as budget slows
• Upbeat and on a roll, Obama showing a little more swagger
• Fed unlikely to raise rates until at least 2014

World News

• Egypt bans travel for U.S. official’s son and nine others

  Egypt banned at least 10 Americans and Europeans from leaving the country, including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood, hiking tensions with Washington over a campaign by Egypt’s military against groups promoting democracy and human rights.

  January 27, 2012

• Iran ready to return to nuclear talks, but takes hard line
• After daring raid, hostages on way home
• Islamists, liberals square off in Egypt’s Tahrir Square
• Karzai says he’s met with Afghan insurgent faction

Business

• Finalists work toward next round of business competition

  The 10 teams remaining in the 2011-12 West Virginia Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition are gaining “phenomenal experience.”
  Those finalists were announced in December following round two of the competition, which was held Nov. 15 at the University of Charleston.

  January 22, 2012

• Auto parts focus of Shaffer’s Recycling Center
• Rider Pharmacy marking 45th anniversary
• Unemployment rate falling in most state counties
• Whitney Helms relocates to Les Cheveux

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