Linda Moore loses 12 new forgery charges in Va case
A Tazewell County judge dismissed 12 new forgery and uttering charges against former county school board member Linda Moore as her trial proceeds the week of Aug. 20 on 10 embezzlement counts. The court allowed possible refiling if new evidence arises, while ruling that prosecutors showed insufficient misconduct to drop all charges. Moore has appealed a 1989 conviction for illegally obtaining prescription drugs.
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Tazewell
Linda de Moore
Don Mullins
Gerald Gray
Dickenson County
Commonwealth's
Gray
Moore
Mullins
Commonwealth
Norris Kantor
Bluefield
Greg Matney
Kantor
Matney
Tazewell Family Physicians
Tazewell Drug
Tazewell Family
Valley Branch Library expands Reading and Me program
Valley Branch Library, part of Craft Memorial Library, and Valley Woman's Club continue the Reading and Me summer program for Sukcent school students from Kindergarten to sixth grade. Registration at Green Valley Branch Library Monday to Friday 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Special August programs planned. Prizes awarded in September.
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Valley Branch Library
Craft Memorial Library
Valley Woman’s Club
Green Valley
Parkway Authority to meet in Athens on Aug 13
The New River Parkway Authority will hold its regular monthly meeting August 13 in Conference Room C at Concord College Student Center Athens starting at 7 p.m. A special slide show and progress report on the southern segment plan from Hinton to Mercer County with I-77 linkage will be presented and comments invited from members and the public.
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Athens
New River Parkway Authority
Hinton
Mercer County
Concord College
Bluefield Art Contest Opens for Local Children
Bluefield Woman's Club sponsors an art contest for children ages 5 to 12 during the Fall Jamboree in downtown Bluefield on September 8. Registration is September 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. Exhibit viewing to follow. All Bluefield area children invited to enter.
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Bluefield
Woman's Club of
Crusade Planned Across Richlands Aug 26 30 at High School
Area wide crusade set for August 26 through 30 at Richlands High School with services each evening at 7 30 sponsored by churches in Tazewell Buchanan and Russell County.
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Richlands
Richlands High School
Tazewell
Buchanan
Russell County
Phillips to deliver address at Southwest Virginia CC
Clarence E. Bud Phillips freshman Virginia House of Delegates member will deliver the summer graduation commencement address at Southwest Virginia Community College on August 10 in Richlands Virginia.
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Richlands
Clarence E
Bud” Phillips
Virginia House of Delegates
Southwest Virginia Community College
Two Men Survive 125-Foot Fall From Bridge Rail
PINEVILLE AP Two men Greg Belcher 21 and Jim Bailey 18 of Hanover fell 125 feet from the R D Bailey Lake Bridge after stepping onto the rail about 1 am Monday. They landed in 15 feet of water and were treated and released at Appalachian Regional Hospital for a bruised knee. Witness Joe Walls said Bailey grabbed Belcher as he lost balance. The lake lies in sparsely populated southwestern West Virginia. Federal Judge Elizabeth Hallanan granted summary judgment in Ball et al v Joy Manufacturing, dismissing PCB health claims of about 20 employees. Ball et al may appeal. the judge will issue full reasoning later.
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Pineville
Greg Belcher
Jim Bailey
Hanover
R.D. Bailey Lake
Wyoming County
Ted Riffe
Kendell Simpson
Stafford Emergency Services
Gilbert
Riffe
Appalachian Regional Hospital
Bailey
Joe Walls
Belcher
West Virginia
Federal District Court
Elizabeth Hallanan
Joy Manufacturing
Ball Et al
Rick Monahan
Hallanan
Hartley seeks Democratic bid for Fifth District seat
Giles County Commonwealths Attorney James A Hartley announced a door to door bid to win Democratic nomination for the Fifth District House of Delegates seat in the November 6 special election. He cites education road funding and economic development as top issues, with a Bland convention set for August 18 to decide party backing.
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Giles County
James A. Hartley
Hartley
Del
Jefferson Stafford
Tazewell County
Jack Reasor
Stafford
Virginia
Bland
Giles
Tazewell
Pearisburg
Pembroke
Rich Creek
Commonwealth
Buchanan County votes 1 percent tax hike on gas industry
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors approves a 1 percent increase in the gas extraction tax. Half of the funds go to the county general fund and half to the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority. Methane gas becomes taxable. Reallocation of 1.4 million in revenue sharing funds shifts Skyline Drive work to Route 80 repairs. Additional measures target industrial development with grants, site development at Keen Mountain, and a proposed industrial access road. The Board backs an industrial site request near Diamond with Norfolk Southern.
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Boyd
Buchanan County General Fund
Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority
Skyline Drive
Buchanan County
William P. Harris
Board of Supervisors
Virginia Rural
Buchananshire
Keen Mountain
Island Creek Coal Company
Virginia Department of Family Housing and Community Development
Southwest Virginia
Buchanan Belt
Council
Commonwealth Transportation Board
Industrial Development Authority
Craig Horn
IDA
Town of
Smith pleads guilty in murder for hire case
Johnny Steven Smith admitted guilt in Buchanan County Circuit Court for attempted capital murder for hire and firearm use. He agreed to testify against co-defendants in exchange for a reduced sentence, potentially 60 years with 45 suspended, tied to the 1989 shooting of Francis Colby Smith known as Smitty. Sharon Smith and Frank Eugene Justus face trials later this year.
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Grundy
Johnny Stevenson Smith
Buchanan County
Smith
Francis Colby
Smitty” Smith
Commonwealth
Gerald Gray
Nicholas Persin
Frank Eugene Justus
Sharon Justus Smith
Justus
Sharon Smith
Gray
Johnny Smith
Sonneresny
Virginia
Jack Davidson
West Virginia names San Francisco businessman to Japan trade post
Dale V. Steinmann, a 35 year old private consultant with ties to Fayette County, was named to lead West Virginia’s Japan trade office in Nagoya. He will start Sept. 1, earning $60 000 annually, replacing interim chief Steve Spence. Steinmann said he seeks East‑focused business roles and notes his Japanese business practices knowledge, despite limited fluency.
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Charleston
San Francisco
West Virginia
Japan
Dale V. Steinmann
Nagoya
Ann Johnson
State Department of Commerce, Labor and Environmental Resources
Gaston Caperton
Steinmann
Tokyo
Calpacific Wood Products Inc
Johnson
Martha
Fayette County
Caperton
Steve Spence
East
Osaka
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Joy Dimissed
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Clay Shelton
WHIS
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Fashion Florists
Dennis Thompson Jr
The
Daily Telegraph
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
R. Guy Boyd
Rhea Moore
Tamela Horn
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