Inside today. Several NFL playoff berths are settled
NFL action locks in multiple playoff spots as final weekend results finalize berths. Coaches, teams, and city codes echo in postgame reaction across divisions.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1996
Page
1
NFL action locks in multiple playoff spots as final weekend results finalize berths. Coaches, teams, and city codes echo in postgame reaction across divisions.
A DC-8 traveling from Greensboro to Wilmington crashed into East River Mountain near Narrows Virginia around 6 14 p m in fog with no survivors reported. Rescue teams worked overnight with FAA investigators preparing to search at daylight.
About 600 local and area children will attend today’s Community Christmas Tree event at Bluefield City Auditorium Annex on Stadium Drive. The noon party features Santa Claus and entertainment by Cecil Surratt Don Whitt Jim Nelson and Nancy Tanoukhi and her friends. Donations bring the total to 10,351.10 with 240 raised today and thanks to Four Seasons Country, the goal was met.
Partly cloudy weather with a 30 percent rain chance and highs in the mid-50s. Tonight, rain likely with lows near 40. Lottery results show Red 8 19 White 4 9 Blue 9 20, Powerball 13 16 20 42 44 45, no winner. two $100,000 tickets sold in West Virginia. Wednesday’s estimated jackpot is 45 million dollars.
A 24-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition after her car overturned on I-77 while trying to avoid two Christmas figurines in the road. Slick road conditions caused other crashes including a single-vehicle wreck that left a 40-year-old woman in guarded condition. The incidents occurred near the 8 mile and 16 mile markers, with authorities uncertain about the figurines’ origin.
In Buchanan County Virginia Woodrow McGlothlin, long tied to mining and timber, is named the county Hall of Fame inductee by the Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce. At 82 he advocates a tech and education driven future, noting farms stay his hobby while grandchildren spark his belief in the new economy.
Seaman James Pruitt a 1991 Richlands High School graduate stationed in San Diego sails out on Christmas Eve aboard the USS Lewis B. Puller. He earned a Letter of Commendation after a Caribbean deployment that seized about 5,000 in illegal narcotics and arrested five traffickers. Pruitt's family in Jewell Ridge note his potential for a Navy career as the Puller supported Coast Guard drug interdiction off Haiti.
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