Wellspring of 2015: Downturn and layoffs across coal sector
A retrospective on 2015 notes counties abolishing non pension benefits for thousands while Cliffs Natural Resources halves payroll at Pinnacle and Oak Grove mines and later sells both sites to Seneca Coal Resources. Arch Coal warns of bankruptcy as demand sinks and market conditions worsen amid cuts and restructuring. An armed robbery attempt targets two downtown banks with a device resembling a bomb.
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Cliffs Natural Resources
Pinnacle
McDowell
Wyoming County
Oak Grove
Alabama
Seneca Coal Resources
Arch Coal
U.S. Securities
West Virginia Senate Picks Bill Cole President
West Virginia gains a pro business leadership with Bill Cole, R-Mercer, elected Senate President by a 19-15 vote in early January over Jeffery V. Kessler. Patriot Coal plans asset sales in October likely to trigger over 2000 coal miner layoffs in the state. Appalachian Power halted three coal plants in WV and two in VA in June to meet federal emission standards, with Glen Lyn plant closing after ceasing coal use in April.
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Mountain
West Virginia Senate
Bill Cole
Mercer
Cole
Senate
Jeffrey V. Kessler
West Virginia
Virginia
Giles County
Glen Lyn
John Shepelwich
Appalachian Power
Virginia Senate
Jeffrey W. Kessler
Mercer County
Charleston
Marty Gearheart
R-Mercer
House Roads and Transportation Committee
John Shott
R Mercer
House Judiciary Committee
Joe Ellington
Health and Human Resources Committee
Bank robber killed in downtown Bluefield standoff
Cedric Maurice Williams, 33, of Bluefield, died after an exchange of gunfire with Bluefield police at First Community Bank following a robbery. A fake bomb device was detonated later and found nonexplosive. Windows were shot out. Williams wielded an AK 47, a .45, and a .38. Police cruiser sustained bullet damage. officers credit Dawson Dillon with disabling the suspect’s weapon. The broader report touches on naloxone distribution efforts and political figures in Mercer County.
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West Virginia
King Coal Highway Project
Stoney Ridge
Bluefield
Cedric Maurice Williams
M.T. Baylous
First Century Bank
First Community Bank
Williams
Mercer County
John McGinnis
McGinnis
Dillon
The
Daily Telegraph
Missing kayaker's body recovered in Mercer County
The body of Guillaume Bonnet, 36, of Athens, was found March 12 about 8.25 miles upstream in Camp Creek, Mercer County. He and an unidentified woman entered Camp Creek around 5:30 p.m. the previous day during flood conditions. The search faced dense fog as agencies including the Princeton Rescue Squad Bluestone Valley Fire Department West Virginia State Police and others worked the scene.
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Mercer
Camp Creek
Mercer County
Guillaume Bonnet
Athens
G.W
West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
Bonnet
Wood
Daily Telegraph
Bluestone
Princeton Rescue Squad
Bluestone Valley Fire Department
West Virginia State Police
Three Hicks brothers found dead in Montcalm home
Mercer County Sheriff's Department opened a July 10 investigation after three men Lesley Joe Hicks 39 Joseph Dean Hicks 52 and Ernest David Hicks 57 were found dead in a Tabernacle Hill residence. Autopsies ruled deaths due to combined drug and alcohol intoxication with heroin as the specific substance.
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Montcalm House
Mercer County Sheriff's Department
Tabernacle Hill
Montcalm
Lesley Joe Hicks
Joseph Dean Hicks
Bluewell
Ernest David Hicks
Ernest
Joseph Hicks
Joe Parks
Mercer County
Murphy
Daily Telegraph
Barack Obama
West Virginia
U.S
Trust For America’s Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Obama
GOP advances legal reforms in West Virginia
The new Republican majority in Charleston moved quickly in 2015 with numerous bills aimed at boosting business activity. Lawmakers passed several legal reforms during the legislative session including changes to regulatory and business practices.
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GOP
W.va
Cole
Charleston
West Virginia
Death of John Nash and wife in New Jersey Turnpike crash
Mathematician John Nash and his wife Alicia Nash died May 24 in a two vehicle crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Nash, 86, famed for A Beautiful Mind, had just received the Abel Prize in Oslo. The couple were pronounced dead at the scene after their taxi collided with another vehicle.
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John Nash
New Bluefield
John Forbes Nash, Jr
New Jersey Turnpike
Nash
Bluefield
Alicia Lorde Nash
Oslo
Norway
Alicia
Help for the long-delayed King Coal Highway
The report highlights a pro business push in the Mountain State led by the newly erected West Chrysler Concorde near the 72.4 mile marker in Monroe Township New Jersey. It mentions First Sgt. Gregory Williams of the New Jersey State Police as a leading figure and references Nash born in Bluefield on June 13 1928, son of Virginia Martin Nash and John Forbes Nash Sr. The text also notes themes of fair fault allocation asbestos trust transparency trespasser liability and exemplary damage fairness in a broader policy context.
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Ing
Mountain
West
Chrysler Concorde
Monroe Township
N.J
Gregory Williams
New Jersey State Police
Nash
Bluefield
Virginia
Martin) Nash
John Forbes Nash Sr
Appalachian Power
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Booth Goodwin
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Commonwealth
Congress
Princeton Community Hospital
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