Bishop Schmitt submits resignation on 75th birthday
Bishop Bernard Schmitt filed a mandatory retirement letter on reaching age 75. Diocese officials say it is unclear when a replacement will be asked to step down. Schmitt has led West Virginia Catholics since May 1989 and is the first Wheeling Charleston bishop to reach retirement age while in office.
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Wheeling
Bernard Schmitt
Wheeling-Charleston
Schmitt
West Virginia
Wheeling- Charleston
GOP invites miss on lawmakers sparks party switch talk
Charleston AP report notes State Republican Party Chairman Kris Warner urged conservative Democrats to switch before 2004. Sen Billy Wayne Bailey said no Democrat reported receiving Warner's letter. GOP Executive Director Gary Abernathy said the invitation was an open letter misread by media.
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Charleston
Kris Warner
Billy Wayne Bailey
Wyoming
Gary Abernathy
Fire investigated as suspicious in Bluefield apartment blaze
A 3:36 am fire at a garage apartment behind 309 Hillcrest Drive in Tazewell County is being treated as suspicious. Firefighters found petroleum products and gasoline odor. the blaze damaged an upstairs area. A male resident was taken to Princeton Community Hospital for observation. Investigators from Bluefield Police and Fire are pursuing charges as the probe continues.
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Bluefield
Tazewell County
Hillcrest Drive
Jim Hardy
Hardy
Princeton Community Hospital
Jack Asbury
Asbury
Mike Brown
Charles Owens
Cowens
Bottonline.com
James Benjamin Wagner
Princeton
Village Green
Silas Vester
Cora Shilling Wagner
C&n Parts Co
Princeton High School
Bluefield Business College
U.S. Navy
Ella Jane Wall
Union Dr
Willowton
Everett and
Minnie Nunn Robertson
Hecks Department Store
Lilly Grove Community Church
Oakvale High School
Kaila Wall
Woodrow
Russell Robertson
Louise Reed
Deloris Ostrow
Frank Wall
Noel Wall
Dorthea
Mark Wall
Pam
Lexington
N.C
Jeff Wall
Christiansburg
Gloria Hurt
Jimmy
Glen Lyn
Graham Robertson
Ruth
Fairmont
Olen Robertson
Clarksburg
Izetta Neely
Blackstone
Margaret Macris
Angela
Staten Island
N.Y
Shirley Hollowman
Colonial
Court drops two defendants from federal drug case
A Mercer County woman’s federal civil complaint against multiple defendants over a 2002 drug indictment names two remaining defendants after the city of Beckley was dismissed. U S District Judge David A Faber granted motions to dismiss Princeton and McDowell County defendants for failure to state a claim.
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Bluefield
Mercer County
Rebecca Sue Tiller
Montcalm
Billy Edward Tiller
Tiller
Charles Smothers
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Smothers
McDowell County
Michael F. Gibson
Mercer
McDowell
Raleigh
Beckley
Princeton
Rudolph J. “Rick” Marensky iI
Rate hike faces Mercer County seniors and small firms
About 14,000 Mercer County residents over 60 fear water and sewer rate increases. Local figures including Charles Kales and Darrell Blake call the hike unjustified and catastrophic for fixed incomes. Princeton City Manager Doug Freeman and senior residents oppose the plan, while water company president Chris Jarrett cites geography as a cost driver.
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Mercer County
Charles Kales
Hinton
Huntington
Princeton
Doug Freeman
Jake Hatcher
Prosecutor to Seek Death Penalty in Charlottesville Killing
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against three Washington DC men charged in the slaying of Kevin Lee Hester in Charlottesville. Hester was shot in the head and stabbed in the chest and throat on August 9, 2002. The trial, moved from July, is now set for February 9 with all defendants held without bond.
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Charlottesville, Va
Washington, D.C
Charlottesville
U.S. District Court
Kevin Lee Hester
Panel proposes income tax changes in Virginia
The Tax Reform Commission proposed broad changes to personal income tax brackets to aid the working poor. It urged eliminating hundreds of millions in sales tax exemptions and taxing services as well as goods, generating over 2 billion annually while enabling phasing out or cutting other taxes and finishing the rollback of the local personal auto tax.
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Richmond
Tax Reform Commission
Obituary notices and services in multiple Virginia and West Virginia towns
Obituaries list survivors for several individuals with detailed family connections across Roanoke Harpers Ferry Churchville and Princeton. Services scheduled in Richwood Maplewood and Roselawn cemeteries with graveside or chapel rites conducted by local ministers. Donations and flower offerings requested. arrangements by Oakey s South Chapel Seaver Funeral Home Cravens Shires and others.
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Eleanor Gatherum
Nancy McLaughlin
Jim
John McLaughlin
Roanoke
Dotty Flannery
Pat
Kim Flannery
David Flannery
Alexis Knott
Mary
Kasey Elton
Harpers Ferry
Bill Vass
Barbara
Jim Vass
Susan
Evan Vass
Kara Vass
Churchville
Sheri Leiber
Ohio
Beth Shires
Bowie
G. Russell
Slick’ Ingle
Salem
Richwood Cemetery
Nicholas County
Richard Hill
Bluefield High School
Cumberland Road
Bluefield
Oakey
South Chapel
Norma Morgan
Nancy Dove
Bill
Lois Gillespie
Kenneth
Tazewell
Joyce Bandy
Mt. Vernon
Sam Sweeney Jr
Martha Lee
Lynchburg
Bobby Sweeney
Lois
Peery & St.Clair Funeral Home
Don Elswick
Maplewood Cemetery
Keith Buck
Gary Morgan
Justin Dove
Steve Crawford
John Hodnett
Tyler Scarlett
Steve Gillespie
Gene Bandy
Princeton
Derrick Wilson
Seaver Funeral Home
American Cancer Society
Jefferson St
John H. Bridgman
Mullins & Thompson Funeral Service
Stafford
Stafford Memorial Park
Frances Coleman
Gilliam Funeral Home
Big Stone Gap
Phyllis Jean Davis
Virginia Funeral Home Chapel
Grundy
Lester Cemetery
Paynesville
Margaret Cleo Enstone
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Bluewell
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Lydia Whited Hess
Honaker Funeral Home
Honaker
Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery
Richlands
Robert Wilson Mabe
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Beulah Caldwell Morehead
Rocky Gap United Methodist Church
Rocky Gap
Bishop's Chapel
Clear Fork
Mary Ellen Nelson
Jesus Church of
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Charles Sweeney
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Martinsville
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Botetourt County
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Paula Mullins
Gastonia
Diana Lynn Key
Johnny Underwood
Columbus
Jim Blevins
Woodlawn Memorial Gardens
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Wayne Wagner
Nancy Tucker
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