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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 2005
Page
1
Brief items from BDN detail continuing community events and local notices on December 28 2005. Highlights likely include civic updates, public meetings and service announcements affecting residents in the BDtonline coverage area.
Today brings a morning of partial clouds followed by increasing cloud cover and a chance of afternoon rain showers. Highs reach the mid 50s as temperatures hover in the lower to mid 50s with a light breeze.
LA MARQUE Texas Abundant Life Christian Center will award a $120000 three bed room house to one worshiper on New Year’s Eve in a game show style fundraiser. Since 2003 the church has given away a car motorcycle and furniture. Pastor Walter Hallam says the prize draws people to services and aims to keep revelry off the streets.
West Virginia Daily 3 numbers are 1 0 7. Daily 4 numbers are 2 6 2 6. Virginia Pick 3 numbers are 3 1 9. Pick 4 numbers are 6 7 8 5.
Information for solving delivery problems directs readers to the Telegraph re delivery line at 304 327 2802, available 7 AM to 12 PM seven days a week. Call by noon to ensure timely delivery within the limited re delivery area.
The Associated Press ranked Hurricane Katrina’s Gulf Coast devastation as the top news story of 2005, receiving 242 first place votes from 288 ballots. Pope John Paul II’s death and Benedict XVI’s election followed as the No. 2 choice, with Iraq coverage also high on the list.
The list highlights Katrina and the Lower Ninth Ward scene from the Claiborne Avenue Bridge showing levee breaches in New Orleans. Also featured are Papal transition, Iraq, Supreme Court, oil prices, London bombings, Asian quake, Terri Schiavo, CIA leak, and Bush struggles.
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph notes 2006 brings higher West Virginia Turnpike tolls with passenger vehicles up from 1.25 to 2.00 and trucks from 4.25 to 7. Commuters should prepare for a 5.56 percent Comcast rate rise about 2.25 per customer. Postage stamps jump two cents to 39 cents on January 8 under new congressional mandates.
In Richlands Virginia four candidates Daniel Bowling Shea Cook Brian Wright and G L Jerry Elkins faced off in their sole forum days before a January 3 2006 special election to fill the seat vacated by Jackie Stump Gov Mark Warner scheduled the vote and all candidates pressed for jobs and Coalfields Expressway funding with Bowling urging Richmond action and a bipartisan push for Section A in Buchanan County
A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted Billie Eugene Stiltner of Jenks Oklahoma and Dr Doyle Stuart Steele of Las Vegas on three counts including drug conspiracy firearm offenses and perjury. The case alleges Stiltner arranged transport of people from Tazewell and Buchanan counties to Las Vegas to obtain oxycodone and other drugs and bring them back to sell in southwest Virginia. Steele allegedly received cash payments and dispensed drugs tied to sexual relationships for a share of prescriptions.
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