Weekend Weather: Sunny Skies and Cooler North Winds
Friday sees mostly sunny skies with a high near 62 degrees. East winds of 6 to 13 mph shift to a cooler north breeze later in the day.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 2012
Page
1
Friday sees mostly sunny skies with a high near 62 degrees. East winds of 6 to 13 mph shift to a cooler north breeze later in the day.
Market closes with Dow Jones industrials near 13,060 while Nasdaq composite sits around 3,080 and S&P 500 holds about 1,398. Advances outnumber decliners slightly as volume reaches roughly 3.2 billion shares. Industrials edge higher while tech listings show varied momentum.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph promotes its online exclusives at bdtonline com with sections Seriously sister blogs barbecue My Way pet talk newsroom chatter and a Titanic centennial docu ment. It also points readers to odtvideo com odtbounce com and odtblitz com for local videos and sports coverage while editor Samantha Perry touts the combined print and online experience.
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Bluefield City Board weighs whether to demolish the Princeton Avenue Parking Garage after Empire Salvage offered to tear it down at no cost to the city. City Manager Andy Merriman says steel prices enable a no cost removal with no public reading required. The board will hear the presentation Tuesday and decide options.
An Associated Press analysis shows oxycodone and hydrocodone distribution rising dramatically from 2000 to 2010 across regions from New York to Santa Fe. Some areas saw sixteenfold increases, tied to overdose deaths and pharmacy robberies. Opioid pain relievers caused 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008, with 69 tons of oxycodone and 42 tons of hydrocodone dispensed in 2010.
Two years after the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster near Whitesville in Raleigh County claimed 29 lives, four Norfolk Southern trains paused for a moment of silence at 3 p.m. on Thursday. An eastbound coal train, an eastbound grain train, another eastbound coal train, and a westbound unit train halted to honor the miners. The pause occurred on NS’s mainline through the Bluefield yard as mourners remembered the tragedy.
The West Virginia Parkways Authority agreed to a 7.21 million dollar contract with WVa Paving Co for milling and resurfacing the Turnpike. The bid includes 10 percent added for change orders and inspections. Manager Greg Barr said priorities target rough sections with existing overlays and noted aging concrete highway 30 to 40 years old needing treatment over two years.
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