Inmates Return to Posts After Work Strike Eases
At Huttonsville Correctional Center more than half the inmates with work assignments returned to their posts Friday morning. Warden Bill Duncil reported about 105 workers on duty and said no one refused work since the call. The story notes unemployment ticking down to 7.7 percent as a temporary jobs program boosts payrolls and President Bush praises the rate improvement while criticizing opponents.
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Huttonsville Correctional Center
Bill Duncil
Bush
Helicopter crash injures Kentucky governor and six aboard
A military A-10 helicopter carrying Gov Brereton Jones and five others crash landed near an interstate in Kentucky. Authorities say all seven sustained minor injuries and are being treated. The governor survived without serious harm as investigators begin assessing the incident.
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Brereton Jones
Escape from McDowell County Jail Shocks Residents
McDowell County Deputies and Welch Police hunted Friday for Willie Cox Jr. 37 of Raysal after he walked away from the McDowell County Jail as a jail kitchen cleanup near 6 p.m. Cox, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 150 pounds, fled through the courthouse door and down the stairs, disappeared, and authorities said he may head home to Raysal. He was jailed on a capias warrant for truancy and faced a 110 to 120 day sentence, due to be released in December.
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Dowell County
Welch
McDowell County
Willie Cox Jr
Raysal
Cox
Capias
Virginia boy finalist in bubble blowing contest
Virginia boy Steven Speen Schleder is named a finalist in the Bubble gum Aladdin's Castle Super Blow Out Contest. He plans to win by blowing a bubble on August 15 in Chicago after preparing by chewing gum and puckering up.
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Virginia
Speen Schleder
Fenee
Steven
Chicago
Baseball card show at Ramada Inn Bluefield on Aug 9
On today’s calendar a baseball card show runs from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Ramada Inn in Bluefield with free promos. Information line is 325-3024. Also at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday Aug 9, Pinnacle Post No. 3856 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars meets in Acme Market community room. On Monday Aug 10 the Craft Memorial Library Bookmobile stops 10:00-11:30 Bramwell, 12:00-1:00 Nemours, 1:30-2:30 Wee Tots Day Care, 2:40-3:30 Deskins.
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Bluefield
Pinnacle Post No
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Acme Market
Craft Memorial Library
Bramwell
Nemours
Wee Tots
Deskins
Showers and Storms Likely With Upper 70s High
Today expect showers and thunderstorms with southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. High around the upper 70s. Tonight a 40 percent chance of showers and storms with a low in the mid-60s. Weather package, A-10.
Teen charged in death of relative in Virginia case
A 16-year-old Red Ash, Virginia youth is charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shotgun death of 13-year-old Rodney Whited of Raven. The suspect appeared in juvenile court and may be tried as an adult. prosecutors have not decided.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Red Ash
Roger Nelson
Dennis
Nelson
Young dancers open Main Street Concert in Bluefield
Zachary Lester age 7 and Roxanne Lester age 6 performed a dance and skit to Alabama's Play Me Some Mountain Music Friday as the opening act at the Main Street Concert in Chicory Square Bluefield downtown. They are Glenwood Elementary students who first showcased the routine in a talent show and preceded Larry Gilpin on stage.
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Zachary Lester
Roxanne Lester
Alabama
Chicory Square
Down
Coal dust scandal sentences totaled in federal case
In Abingdon, Virginia, the sentencing of 13 coal firms and 15 individuals for conspiring to defraud MSHA with fake dust samples continued on Friday. A total of 57 defendants had pled guilty, with 30,000 dollar fines for companies and 5,000 dollar fines plus probation and home confinement for individuals.
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Abingdon
U.S. District Court
U.S. Department of Labor
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Triangle Research
Harman, Va
Tors
U.S
Michael W. Carey
E. Montgomery Tucker
Samuel G. Wilson
MSHA
Capriati Wins Olympic Tennis Gold in Barcelona
Jennifer Capriati of Saddlebrook Florida tears up during the bronze as she wins the Olympic gold by defeating Steffi Graf of Germany 3-6 6-3 6-4 in Barcelona. Graf takes silver in the event.
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U.S
Jennifer Capriati
Saddlebrook
Fla
Barcelona
Capriati
Steffi Graf
Germany
Graf
Five Million Suit Names Coleman Counsel in Libel Case
Buchanan County man Bobby Donnie Ramey sues Arnold and Porter and Kath leen Behan for libel slander and defamation seeking 4 65 million compensatory and 350 000 punitive damages plus costs and interest The suit names Arnold and Porter managing partner James W Jones and several lawyers as defendants with Trey Smith of Roanoke firm Gentry Locke confirming the filing in Buchanan County Circuit Court Ramey previously tied to media coverage of Roger Keith Coleman whose 1992 execution followed a lengthy appeal campaign The case highlights ongoing disputes over Coleman and related murder allegations
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Arnold and Porter
James W. Jones
Phillip Horton
Julie S. Schrager
Sarah J. Williams
Marie Deans
Virginia Coalition On
Trey Smith
Roanoke
Gentry, Locke, Rakes and Moore
Buchanan County
Smith
James Slone
Grundy
Ramey
Rahall plan seeks Corps aid for local water projects
Rep Nick Rahall pushes the Army Corps of Engineers to help design and build water supply and wastewater facilities in 16 southern West Virginia counties including Mercer McDowell Monroe and Summers. The Public Works Committee approved the measure added to the Water Resources and Development Act of 1992. The move would grant the Corps a new mission to assist local communities with drinking water and sewage plants amid widespread water quality violations and boil advisories.
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Washington
Nick Rahall
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
West Virginia
Mercer
McDowell
Monroe
Summers
House Committee On Public Works and Transportation
Rahall
Corps
Cabell
Wayne
Lincoln
Boone
Logan
Mingo
Wyoming
Raleigh
Fayette
Greenbrier
Pocahontas and
Webster
Elderly resident flees nursing home found on railway tracks
An 85 year old man from Mercer County walked away from McDowell Continuous Care Center Thursday, cut through a window screen, took a brown satchel, and spent the night in the mountains before being found on railroad tracks behind the facility the next day. He told staff he was walking home and was checked by a doctor as a precaution.
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Gary
McDowell County
Robert Murphy
McDowell Continuous Care Center
Roger Topping
Topping
Murphy
Ghana
Mercer County
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Arnold and
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Newsweek
New Republic
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McCoy
Coleman
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Barbara Hawkins
Princeton
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