Kentucky River Recedes After Worst Flood On Record
The Ohio River near Louisville stays high as upstream cleanup begins. Governors and officials assess damages across Kentucky with 17 counties declared disaster areas. Private property damage tops four million dollars, and roads and bridges exceed seven million. river traffic remains halted as floodwaters recede.
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Steve Swift
Associated Press
Ohio River
Louisville
Ohio
National Weather Service
Frankfort
Julian Carroll
Kentucky
Carroll
Carter
Cincinnati
Weather Service
Flood Protection Department
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Ind
Utica
Gordon Nichols
Kentucky Disaster and Emergency Services
Carrollton
Carroll County
Harry Cummings
McAlpine
The
Red Cross
Governor's Mansion Not Cheap
Gov Jay Rockefeller’s 30 room Executive Mansion cost taxpayers 172730 last year including staffed salaries 967?6 for staff and 3976 for liquor. The Charleston Daily Mail notes 32 470? groceries 4717 telephones 10000 utilities 6096 laundry and energy conservation by keeping thermostats at 65 degrees.
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Charleston
W.va
Jay Rockefeller
Sharon Rockefeller
Arch Moore
Rockefeller
Scott Widmeyer
Widmeyer
Highway Violence Again Reported in Erie County
Four highway violence incidents were reported by state police on Wednesday including an axle bearing that damaged a truck cab and slightly wounded driver James McLaughlin of Lisbon Ohio on Interstate 90. Federal court arguments tied the attacks to a steel haulers strike, with a $3 million suit seeking to end the shutdown and daily fines of $300,000 against FASH. McLaughlin was treated at Hamot Medical Center for a head wound.
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Pittsburgh
Erie
Fraternal Association of Steel
FASH
James McLaughlin
Lisbon
Ohio
Hamot Medical Center
Coal Company Must Hire Expert To Stem Mine Water Discharge
Fayette County injunction requires New River Co to pay for an expert to assess borehole failures at Lochgelly No 1 and No 2 mines and propose repairs. State alleges polluted water from Dempsey pump boreholes flowed into Laurel Creek, a trout stream feeding the New River, threatening property and road damage.
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Coal Company
Fayetteville
W.va
New River Co
W. Robert Abbot
Fayette County
New River
Lochgelly
Dempsey Branch
Laurel Creek
Woman Drowns As Truck Plunges Into Tug Fork
At Chattaroy West Virginia a parked pickup rolled into Tug Fork, dragging Irene Lockhart 70 to her death. Three passersby leaped in to rescue her but could not reach her as the truck, pulled by a wrecker, was recovered from eight feet of water. The late morning accident followed a stop to gather firewood near Wayne. Roy Lockhart, husband, and three men who tried to save her identified as John Stacy 23 Mack Tuffland 20 and Everet Tuffland Jr. 21.
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Gilman
Mrs. Lockhart
John Stacy
Lick Creek
W.va
Mack Tuffland
Everet Tuffland Jr
Turkey Creek
Potomac Edison OK’d to raise Western Maryland rates
The Potomac Edison Company won permission to lift Western Maryland rates by 12.3 million dollars annually. The utility had sought 16.9 million, saying higher revenue was needed to fund new power plants and meet demand from about 250,000 Maryland customers by the 1980s.
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Hagerstown, Md
Potomac Edison Co
Western Maryland
Maryland
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New Richmond
Owen County
Monterray
Ry Day
John Gantley
Charleston Daily Mail
Chauncey H. Browning
David W. Robinson
State Water Resources Division
Dempsey ‘Branch
Maryland Bluefield
Potomac Edison
Lockhart
Chattaray
Thriftway
Bluefield Avenue
Bluefield, W. V
Gye Can
Galton
LUX
Efeggelt
Princeton
Bluefield
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