Monday Inside Highlights Local Culture Exchange and School Shifts
Local Bland County family and a 14 year old Japanese girl exchange lessons on culture. West Virginia elementary schools test skill based grouping reducing letter grades across kindergarten to fourth grade. Tazewell welcomes Sonic Drive-In in Four-way area as new dining option. Eric Perkins wins Men’s Open singles and Corky Sarver takes 35 and over final in Bluefield Area Tennis Championships.
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Bland County
West Virginia
Eric Perkins
Corky Sarver
Bluefield
Three-car crash on U S 52 near Bluewell. fatalities feared
Eyewitnesses report two deaths and five injuries in a three-car collision on U S 52 between Bluewell and Brushfork Sunday night. Police could not confirm. rescue squads and state police remained at the scene as traffic remained blocked around 10:50 p.m. Injured were taken to St Luke's and Princeton Community hospitals.
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Bluewell
U.S. 52
Brushfork
Mercer
Bluefield’ Rescue Squad
St. Luke's
Princeton
Unforgiven Debuts Strongly as Western Breaks Weekend Box Office
Eastwood's Unforgiven opens with an estimated 14.6 million dollars over the weekend while Death Becomes Her with Meryl Streep Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis is poised to finish its second weekend around 7.5 million.
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Eastwood
Meryl Streep
Goldie Hawn
Bruce Willis
Craft Memorial Library Book Mobile Stops Schedule
The calendar lists Book Mobile routes for today and Tuesday August 11 with stops at Bramwell Nemours Wee Tots Day Care Deskins Duhling Rock Post Office Haven's Store Montcalm Shield's Chapel and a Noon Music in the Square Committee meeting at Johnston's Restaurant Princeton to discuss grant applications for the Princeton Town Square project.
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Craft Memorial Library
Bramwell
Nemours
Wee Tots
Deskins
Duhling
Rock Post Office
Haven’s
Montcalm
Shield’s
Music In the Square Committee
Johnston’s
Princeton
Princeton Town Square
Weather Forecast Calls for Hazy Warm Humidity
The National Weather Service expects hazy, very warm and humid conditions with west winds of 5 to 10 mph. Daytime highs will reach the mid-80s, with mostly clear skies tonight and overnight lows in the mid-60s. Weather package A-8.
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National Weather Service
Chemical leak cleaned at I-77 truck stop near Princeton
A leaking barrel from Isaacs Inc. freight lines trailer at the I-77 Truck Stop near Princeton was contained by East River HazMat Team after about an hour. N N-Dimethyl-p-toluidine, an aromatic amine, posed inhalation and skin absorption risks, with the leak active from Saturday 6 a.m. to Sunday 1 a.m. Local authorities traced the delay in alarm and the driver Paul Revel of Mississippi said the trailer carried First Chemical cargo en route from Greer South Carolina to Bridgeville Pennsylvania.
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Princeton
East River Volunteer Fire Department
Route 460
East River Department
Isaacs Inc. Freight Lines
East River
Nelson Short
Chemtrac
Washington D.C
D.D. Baker
Charleston
Princeton Community Hospital
Poison Control Office
East River Fire Department
Mercer County Emergency Services
Department of
Paul Revel
Waveland
Miss
Revel
Virginia- West Virginia
First Chemical of
Pascagoula, Miss
Greer
S.C
Bridgeville
Union suspends telephone talks with Bell Atlantic
Union negotiators halted bargaining with Bell Atlantic while 52 000 workers represented by the Communications Workers of America met to discuss a possible strike. Talks at Ameritech and Pacific Telesis resumed, and tentative agreements were reached with Southwestern Bell and BellSouth.
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Washington
Bell Atlantic Sunday
Ameritech
Pacific Telesis
Baby Bells
Southwestern Bell
BellSouth
Vince Massano
Communications Workers of America
Serb Leaders Agree to Camp Inspections
In Bosnia Herzegovina tensions rise as Western powers edge toward force if needed to secure aid. Red Cross gains permission to inspect Serb detention camps holding Muslims and Croats, though concerns remain that prisoners could be moved before inspectors arrive. Brent Scowcroft says a U.S. role would likely emphasize air power.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
Red Cross
Claudia Grassi
International Committee of the Red Cross
Belgrade
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Bush Administration
U.N. Security Council
Brent Scowcroft
Scowcroft
U.S
Settlement softens view on coal dust sampling tampering claim
The Mine Safety and Health Administration backs away from its earlier claim that deliberate tampering was the sole cause of abnormal white centers in coal dust samples. The Massey settlement notes that abnormal centers may result from factors other than reckless disregard and cites scientific evidence from 1991 hearings. The dispute centered on sampling cassettes used to measure miners dust exposure amid widespread fines against operators.
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E Federal Mine Safety Agency
A.T. Massey Coal Co
Mine Safety and Health Administration
West Virginia
Kentucky
U.S
Lynn Martin
Massey
Labor Department
William Althen
Oen
D.C
Jeppar Massey
Wildfire losses top one billion in West Virginia
BECKLEY AP estimates put the damage from wildfires in southern West Virginia at more than 1 billion dollars after fires burned over 350000 acres last fall. Forester Jim Circle says recovery could take a century with 84000 acres of timberland destroyed and surviving trees harmed by bark damage, insects, and rot while soil organic duff was removed.
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Beckley
West Virginia
State Division of Forestry
Jim Circle
Circle
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Tazewell
Sonic Drive-in
Four-way
Inside Book
Esnae
Dear Sone
Lewis Grizzard
Barbara Hawkins
Charles Short
Glen Sutphin
Atlanta
Barcelona
Spain
Maisano
Jay Grossman
Massano
By Martha Bryson Hodel
Associated Press
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