Stocks Fall as Greenspan Hints at Higher Rates
Markets worldwide tumbled after Federal Reserve Chair Greenspan questioned investor optimism about inflation. The Dow fell 55.16 to 6381.94 as declines outweighed advances on the NYSE by more than four to one. Bond yields rose with the 30 year Treasury peaking at 6.64 percent as investors priced in tighter policy.
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RON Campbell Investment Planning
Robert Thomas Securities, Inc
Abbott Labs
Allegheny Power
Electric Power
AM. Family Corp
Ameritech
At&t Corp
AM. Water Works
Anheuser-Busch
Apple Computer
Ashland Coaling
Ashland Oil Inc
Atlantic Richfield Baker-Hughes Inc
Baltimore Gas & EL
Bearings Inc
Bell Atlantic
Bellsouth Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing CO
Cabot Oil & Gas
Carolina Power
Chevron Corp
Chrysler Corp
Chubb Corp
Citizens Utilities
Coca-Cola CO
Columbia Gas Sys
Columbia Healthcare
CON
Nat'l Gas
Corning Inc
Crestar Financial
CSX Corp
Detroit Edison
Dominion Res
DOW Chemical
Dupont
Eastern Ent
Eastman Kodak
Emerson Electric
Ethyl Corp
Exxon Corp
First Union Corp
Virginia Bank
Flowers Industries
FMC Corp
Food Lion Inc
Ford Motor CO
GEN. Electric CO
Gillette CO
Glaxo Holdings
Goodyear Tire
Ingersoll Rand
K-Mart Corp
Kroger CO
Lowe's CO
Mapco Inc
McDonald's Corp
MCI Communications
Merck & CO. Inc
Mobil Corp
Monsanto CO
Yy Mylan Labs
Nash Finch CO
Nationsbank Corp
Navistar Int'l
Nike, Inc
Norfolk Southern
Occidental Pete
Valley Bank
Pacific Telesis
J.C. Penney CO
Philip Morris Cos
Phillips Petroleum
Pittston Minerals
Potomac Elec
PWR
Praxair, Inc
Pulaski Furniture
Reebok Int'l
RJR
Nabisco Hldg
Rockwell Int'l
Sara Lee Corp
Williams
INC
Signet Banking
Southern CO
Tenneco Inc
Texaco Inc
Trimental
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
Unisys Corp
Universal Corp
Usair Group
Usx-Marathon Oil
U.S. Steel
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney CO
Wendy's Int'l
Westinghouse EL
Ee Westmoreland Coal
Westvaco Corp
Xerox Corp
DOW Jones
NEW York
Federal Reserve
Alan Greenspan
New York Stock Exchange
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Treasury
Grand theft auto charges issued in Tazewell County case
Three people face grand theft auto charges and related counts after a joint law enforcement operation by the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department and Virginia State Police. Timothy Lester, Crystal Coleman, and Orvil Jackson are linked to thefts tied to a Sears credit card fraud scheme and a stolen Plymouth Sundance. Coleman remains jailed. Lester faces a preliminary hearing December 13.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Cedar Bluff
Crystal Lynn Coleman
Big Rock
Orvil Jackson
Pike County
McCarty
Lester
Sears
Iaeger
Claypool Hill
Stinston
Stinson
Coleman
Georgia
Jackson
Kentucky
Police blotter highlights from Bluefield Virginia and Mercer County
Notable incidents include a shoplifter at Dollar General arrested by Officer J. Altizer, a breaking and entering on Kimble Avenue, and various calls in Mercer County. Entries cover a drunken driver on Route 460, two female juveniles found after joyriding, a deer spotter misreported as an accident, a disoriented elderly pedestrian on Route 460, a suspected drunk driver on Blue Stone Road, and an abandoned blue Ford pickup at East River Mountain Tunnel lot. Deputy C J Smothers and others investigated respective items.
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Bluefield
J. Altizer
Dollar General Store
Kimble Avenue
Mercer County
Greasy Ridge Road
C.J. Smothers
U.S. Route 460
East Oakvale Road
Bluestone Road
R.A. Hill
East River Mountain Tunnel
W.W. Worley II
Weather wrecks traveling in Mercer County roads
No fatalities reported after snow and ice caused multiple crashes in Mercer County. Police handled incidents on Egeria Road near Flat Top and Eads Mill Road near Princeton with no injuries. a 19 year old Montcalm man overturned on Route 71 and was treated and released. Four others were injured in a single vehicle crash on Cone Street near Princeton, with three occupants also treated and released.
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Princeton
Mercer County
West Virginia
Oakvale
Egeria Road
Flat Top
Eads Mill Road
Tony Jay Lindamood
Montcalm
Route 71
Lindamood
Bluefield
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
M.T. Smith
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Clayton Giles Bowden
Matoaka
Cone Street
Hatcher Street
W.C. Wilburn
Bowden
Annette Bowden
Two Arrested on Drug Charges in Mercer County
Mercer County authorities arrested George Daniel Justice 40 of Montcalm on charges of two counts delivery of hydromorphone and one count possession with intent to deliver marijuana. A search warrant at Justice's Tabernacle Hill home yielded marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and over $200. In a separate case James Curtis Rogers 56 of Lee Street Princeton was arrested on possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine after Valium was found in the Acme Supermarket parking lot. he was released on personal recognizance.
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Princeton
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
George Daniel Justice
Montcalm
Mercer County
A.D. Beasley
Justice
Tabernacle
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