Just a Story About a Dog at a Retirement Home
Margaret Hutchison, 79, cares for Blackie a six year old dog living with her at Glenwood Park United Methodist Home. Blackie, loyal and well behaved, shares meals, snoozes on the couch, and keeps loneliness away for the residents, while Dr. Jim Bailey offers free checkups.
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Princeton
Blackie
Margaret Hutchison
Mrs. Hutchison
Jim Bailey
Bluefield
Kiwanis Club
Ex-police chief sought in school coach shooting case
A former Northfork police chief sought by local officials in a shooting death case is believed to be hiding outside the state. The War assistant police chief retracted claims of seeing William Lucien Johnson at a Dec wedding, admitting he did not attend and was not the police chief. Trooper Sylvester said authorities acted fully, and Dillon apologized, saying he mis spoke about the wedding and his role.
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Johnson
Dillon
Ellis Taylor
F.D. Sylvester
National Criminal Investigation Center
John van Dyke
Snowy visit warms Bluefield relatives from Atlanta
Snow touched Bluefield as Timmy Hart and relatives from Atlanta joined Arnold and Betty Nowlin. The visitors, many of whom had never seen snow, spent time together while forecasts say temperatures should be warmer today.
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Timmy Hart
Atlanta
Arnold
Betty Nowlin
Bluefield
Finley to remain education secretary in Baliles cabinet
Governor elect Baliles completes his six member cabinet by keeping Donald J. Finley as education secretary. Finley, 46, has served since August after replacing John T. Casteen III. He will join other appointees including Vivian Watts as secretary of transportation and public safety and Carolyn Jefferson-Moss as secretary of administration. The full funding debate for standards of quality remains under review with estimates differing between the Education Department and JLARC.
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Richmond
Gerald L. Baliles
Donald J. Finley
Finley
Charles S. Robb
John T. Casteen III
University of Connecticut
Doctor Finley
Baliles
Capitol
Fairfax del
Vivian Watts
E Stuart Connock
Robb Administration
Finance
Del
Richard Bagley
Hampton
Commerce and Resources
Bagley
House
House Appropriations Committee
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg
Babiles
Department of Education
Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission
Education Department
JLARC
Heir to tea bag fortune jailed for fraud
Dexter Drake Coffin III, heir to the Dexter Corp fortune, was sentenced to four years in prison for fraudulent prescriptions. A judge cited his good looks and wealth as factors, noting his troubled path from privilege to addiction and crime. Coffin, 37, owns Charlottesville computer stores and faces more fraud charges in Albemarle County and Richmond.
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Charlottesville
Dexter Drake Coffin III
Coffin
David Brown
Dexter Corp
Connecticut
Brown
Virginia
Albemarle County
Richmond
Pennington suit over bank drive-through accident filed
Jearlean and Hubert Pennington of Bluewell sue First National Bank of Bluefield in Mercer County Circuit Court for 600000 claiming negligence after a chain gate fell on their van at the drive-through in May 1984. Mrs Pennington seeks 250000 compensatory and 250000 punitive damages. her husband 50000 compensatory and 50000 punitive. Trial by jury demanded. represented by William J Akers of Princeton.
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Princeton
Bluewell
Mercer County
First National Bank of
Bluefield
Jearlean
Hubert Pennington
Pennington
William J. Akers
Parole Reform Suggested To Ease WV Penitentiary Overcrowding
A West Virginia reform proposal from Donald Puffenberger urges changes to parole procedures to cut prison crowding at the West Virginia Penitentiary and Huttonsville. The plan calls for written notice of parole board determinations, two thirds release presumptions, parole hearings for life inmates, and conferences to guide release, aiming to balance liberty with public safety.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Huttonsville
Monongalia County
Larry Starcher
Starcher
Del
Sam Love
D Hancock
Donald Poffenberzer
Prisoner and
Parole Board
Poffenberger
Flooding in West Virginia may be worst in 2000 years
Archeologist Janet Brashler of the U S Forest Service ties the November floods along the Potomac River to possible 2000 year record. The deluge across 29 counties wiped out five prehistoric Indian sites near Seneca Rocks, exposing a 2000 year old projectile point and threatening others. Federal aid crews plan mobile homes while Brashler notes the flood plain is active and artifacts shift with little protection.
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Elkins
West Virginia
Janet Brashler
U.S. Forest Service
Potomac River
Brashler
Seneca Rocks
Federal Disaster Assistance Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Elaine Thompson
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Fred Brown
Buddy Hart
Love
Puffenberger
Associated Press
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