Auditing Practice Penalized in Keystone Bank Collapse
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency imposed its stiffest sanction to date over the First National Bank of Keystone failure. An order signed December 7 by Comptroller John C. Dugan imposes a $300,000 civil penalty on Grant Thornton LLP and limits future insured bank auditing arrangements. The OCC deemes Grant Thornton to have recklessly engaged in an unsafe practice in Keystone’s business, with a 14 page order detailing compliance steps and supervisory actions.
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Keystone
USS
Comptroller of the Currency
First National Bank of
John C. Dugan
OCC
US Treasury Department
Grant Thornton LLP
Grant Thorton
FNB Keystone
Grant
Family of four loses Mercer County home in fire
A Bluewell Volunteer Fire Department official said a Saturday morning blaze at a Route 102 residence likely started in a rear bedroom. No injuries were reported. owners and renters could not be named. The home, Christmas decorated, was a total loss with a Bluefield Virginia unit assisting.
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Brushfork
Mercer County
Alvin Chilco
Bluewell Volunteer Fire Department
Chilco
Route 102
Virginia State Line
Bluetop Bluegrass
Bluefield
Jim Barlow
Barlow
Bill Archer
Barcher
Bottonline
Health officials urge residents to get flu shot
Health officials in the Cumberland Plateau Health District urge Mercer County residents to get a flu shot as the holiday period nears. They report sporadic influenza activity in the region with a few confirmed influenza A cases, but no widespread spread or local influenza B cases yet.
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Tazewell
Mercer County
Cumberland Plateau
Virginia
Buchanan
John Dreyzehner
Cumberland Plateau Health District
Mercer County Health Department
Green Valley
We Are Marshall screening invites tenacious families
Surviving family members of Marshall University players and coaches invited to a matinee screening of We Are Marshall ahead of the December premiere. About 360 relatives will attend, representing 60 to 63 families, with attendees including Dennis Blevins’s kin and Rick Tolley’s sister Peggy Perry.
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Untington
Marshall University
We Are
Marshall
Steve Chapman
Dennis Michael Blevins
Bluefield
Park Central
Peggy Tolley Perry
Tazewell
Rick Tolley
Donna Jean “Cokie” Sutherland Moss
Shorty Moss
Thundering Herd
Brownie
Needa Sutherland
Augusta Street
James H. “Smokey” Shott III
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Concord
Banjo
Tom Bone
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Bramwell
Jim Bishop
Perry
Family of
By Bill Archer
Charles Owens
Ly Bill Archer
Luefield
Atlanta
Memphis
Columbus
Kathy Wides
Becky Stowers
Over the Summit Art Center
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Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick
Hugh I. Shott Jr
Wilkinson
Elliott Blaydes
East River Mountain
Virginias
Bethesda
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Ronald Reagan
Henry Kissinger
Bluefield State College
Dan Quayle
Bluefield College
William J. Bennett
Homeland Security
Tom Ridge
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Myers Tells Life
Sylvester C. Myers
Coal Fields
John Singleton
Myers
Janice
Janice Myers
Community Foundation of the
Sylvester Myers
Oak Grove Cemetery
Ali Shumate
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