West Virginia Wins Federal Welfare Work Waiver
West Virginia joins Utah Texas and California in receiving a federal waiver to run demonstration welfare work programs. President Clinton announced the plan to strengthen work requirements and speed up waiver reviews while stressing a partnership to reduce dependence on welfare. Gov Gaston Caperton praised the approach and its goal of moving people from welfare to work.
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West Virginia
Clinton
National Governor’s Association
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Texas
California
Gaston Caperton
West Virginia wins waiver for demonstration welfare program
Charleston AP reports West Virginia among four states approved to test a Joint Opportunities for Independence Program. About 2,000 of 5,400 AFDC families with unemployed primary earners will be in the two parent households. Participants must work 32 hours weekly and search for a job six hours weekly. Employers will pay $1 per hour for work expenses and participants qualify for an earned income tax credit. Continuous benefits are maintained during participation.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Sue Sergi
Bureau of Children and Families
Steele remains hospitalized after July accident in Bluefield
H Edward Eddie Steele remains hospitalized at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in stable condition and improving after a July 21 single vehicle crash. BRMC public relations director Tammy Graham said he moved from ICU to a private room on Thursday and has begun walking. visitors are limited to family. Mrs Nell Steele thanks well wishers for calls cards and flowers received at the house. Daily Tele
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Steele
Nell
U.S. births dip below 4 million as deaths rise to record high
The Census Bureau reports 1994 births at 3,949,000, down 2.2 percent from 1993, the first under 4 million since 1988, while deaths reached a new peak. Population aging and fewer women aged 15 to 29 drive lower births, though the overall population is not shrinking.
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Washington
America
Census Bureau
United States
Carl Haub
Mostly sunny with hot today across region
Forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with highs near 90 to 95. Tonight should be mostly clear with lows in the 60s to around 70, continuing dry and pleasant.
Sheppard steps down as Princeton Community Hospital CAO
William L. Sheppard resigns Monday as Chief Administrative Officer at Princeton Community Hospital and becomes CEO Emeritus. His new office will be in the Park View Clinic Building with duties including joint projects with Bluefield Regional Medical Center and physician recruitment. An interim CEO is to be named after August 8 committee meetings. permanent hiring is open.
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William L. Sheppard
Princeton Community Hospital
Sheppard
Park View Clinic
PCH Board
Charles Mathena
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
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Mathena
Suzanne Lowry
Tom Lilly
PCH
Robert E. Holroyd
Karen Kephart
Hospital
Osakafumi freed on bond after high court overturns murder conviction
New York man Kanju Osakafumi, whose murder conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court on July 19, was released on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. A new trial date of Oct. 16 was set, but prosecutors say the murder charge may be dismissed due to excluded evidence from the landfill.
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New York
State Supreme Court
Kanju Osakafumi
Circuit Court
David Knight
Bill Saddler
Osakalumi
Supreme Court
Bluefield
Chandel Fleetwood
Beech Street
Marcel Meyers
Fleetwood
David Smith
Harold Wolfe
Osakafumi
Smith
Bluefield Bypass Opens Partially On Four-Lane Route
The Bluefield Bypass four-lane section is set to open today between 1 and 2 p.m. weather permitting, about 2.8 miles from near the Pounding Mill Quarry east of Route 19. Virginia DOT official Brenda Waters notes two thirds of the project is finished with the interchange due in autumn. The $9.26 million project began in spring 1994, built by Battle Ridge Construction of Charleston, and will ease downtown Bluefield traffic once completed.
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Bluefield
Virginia Department of Transportation Public Affairs
Brenda Waters
Pounding Mill
Wal- Mart
Waters
Charleston
Missing Buchanan County man after Flanigan Dam drowning
Rescue crews from Dickenson, Washington, Tazewell and Roanoke counties searched Flanigan Dam near Haysi for a Buchanan County man in his 20s who disappeared after reportedly jumping from a cliff into the water. Thunderstorms hindered dives as investigators await identification and further details.
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Buchanan County
Dickenson County
Dickenson
Washington
Tazewell
Roanoke
Virginia
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