11 Feb 1997
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1997
Page
1
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In Santa Monica a jury awarded 25 million dollars in punitive damages against O J Simpson after finding him liable for the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The verdict followed 8.5 million in compensatory damages awarded earlier, reflecting continued legal action despite his acquittal in a separate case. Jurors cited oppression and malice in their decision.
Tuesday today at 5 p.m. the Princeton Community Hospital Association board of directors will meet in the hospital board room. At 6 p.m. the Mercer County Board of Education will convene a special session in the Seminar Center at the Mercer County Technical Education Complex in Princeton for School Improvement Councils input sessions and bids for site drilling and core work.
Mostly cloudy today with a chance of flurries and a high in the lower 30s. Tonight remains mostly cloudy with a low in the lower 20s. Weather package A-10.
Daily Million draw results list numbers for three color groups Red White and Blue. Red numbers are 12 and 14, White numbers are 4 and 9, Blue numbers are 7 and 20, associated with West Virginia and Virginia on the stated day.
SARA COLEMAN reports Council High School in Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District is adding an electronic classroom via a fiber optic network connecting 84 high schools community colleges and four year colleges. Rep. Rick Boucher announced the expansion linking Grundy Lee Wise Russell Dickenson and Tazewell counties with interactive courses in math science and foreign language. The system enables real time two way audio and video among sites and aims to reduce funding disparities through statewide national and international information access.
Southwest Virginia officials meet with state legislators in Richmond to press for better education funding and policy. Tazewell County superintendent Woodrow Mullins praises bipartisan effort while lawmakers Jack Reasor and Tom Jackson outline budget focus and upcoming challenges amid population decline and policy issues like demutualization and parental notification.
Public hearing slated in Mercer County reaffirms the state Division of Highways plan to upgrade Route 20 with widening and straightening. DOH Commissioner Fred Van Kirk said funding will be federal matching and better than the proposed I 73 74 project, with no impact on other Mercer projects. The Valley Route proposal from local residents remains deemed financially unfeasible.
Crews from the Tazewell County Public Service Authority knock on doors to enroll residents in the Greater Tazewell Regional Water Project. PSA warns 980 signups are needed for federal funds, with early signups saving tap fees from 350 to 100 dollars plus costs. Security deposits of 75 dollars residential and 100 dollars commercial apply. Authorities aim to advertise bids by May 11, 1997.
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