Warner budget boosts school funding in Virginia plan
Gov. Mark Warner unveiled a fiscal budget that raises elementary and secondary aid by about 65 million from lottery profits and the Literary Fund while avoiding state police layoffs. The plan trims 12 agencies, ends state mortgage lending, and sells 35 Corrections rental homes, with limited public safety cuts and a tax amnesty proposal.
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Mark Warner
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Virginia Housing Development Authority
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Raleigh County Board votes to close two elementary schools
The Raleigh County Board of Education voted to close Institute Elementary School and move students to a new school at Grey Flats along with Central Elementary. Students named the new Beckley Elementary School and chose Bobcats as mascot with black and orange colors.
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Union Halts Greenbrier Picketing After wage concessions
Heavy equipment operators at The Greenbrier end a protest after Lynch Construction Co. agrees to union representation and union wages for site work on the hotel property. The International Union of Operating Engineers had picketed the main entrance over nonunion contractors for an 18 hole golf course and housing projects.
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White Sulphur Springs
International Union of Operating Engineers
U.S. 60
Sporting Club
Lynch Construction Co
Rodney Marsh
Charleston
Wise vows PROMISE grants safe from cuts in WV budget
West Virginia Governor Bob Wise assured parents and students at a Fairmont workshop that the PROMISE scholarship and higher education grants will not be reduced beyond last year's level. He emphasized the programs remain available next year and highlighted multiple college funding options such as grants loans and tax credits.
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Armont
West Virginia
Bob Wise
Wise
Roanoke man accused of funneling money overseas
Malik Almaliki, 34, a Roanoke car washer since 1997, allegedly sent about 133000 in 500 installments to Alshafei Family Connect Inc. of Seattle as part of a scheme moving at least 12 million in money and goods to Iraq in violation of an embargo. He denied illegal activity. case to be transferred to Seattle after Roanoke appearance.
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Malik Almaliki
Alshafei Family Connect Inc
Seattle
Craig J. Jacobsen
AFCI
Iraq
U.S
Jacobsen
Almaliki
Glen E. Conrad
Conrad
David Nixon
New York
West Virginia hospitals weigh smallpox vaccine plan
West Virginia hospitals are weighing risks and benefits of offering smallpox vaccinations to their workers. Up to 5000 hospital staff are eligible, with participation voluntary. Some facilities elsewhere have declined, but no WV hospitals have rejected the plan yet.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Bush
James Kranz
West Virginia Hospital Association
Kranz
Former Va. officer arrested after Montpelier pharmacy heist
Susan W. Beitzel, 49, of Bumpass was arrested in Hanover County minutes after a Montpelier pharmacy robbery. She faces robbery and possession of OxyContin charges. The suspect handed a note demanding the drug and threatened to blow up the building. No explosives were found.
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Hanover
Susan W. Beitzel
Bumpass
Hanover County
Montpelier
Goodman
Custody extended for insane man in Virginia
Staunton Virginia AP A man found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting his brother and nephew in December 2000 will remain in state custody at Central State Hospital Petersburg for at least another year. Mark Zawhorodny 37 diagnosed with multiple schizophrenic disorders and had several prior felonies.
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Mark Zawhorodny
Michael Anthony Zawhorodny
Joshua Michael Zawhorodny
Augusta County Commonwealth
A. Lee Ervin
Zawhorodny
Central State Hospital
Petersburg
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