Miners approve Pittston contract ending 11 month dispute
United Mine Workers ratify deal with The Pittston Co ending an 11 month labor dispute and will return about 1,700 miners to work next week. UMW leaders announce a 63 percent vote yes during a conference call from Castlewood Virginia with AFL CIO, Labor secretary Elizabeth Dole and others expressing support.
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Coal Miners Union
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Pittston, UMW Reach New Years Eve Agreement Ending Dispute
Provisions Health provides full medical coverage for employees pensioners and families. Retirement mirrors the 1988 UMW plan. Job security allows Pittston to hire contract help if no miners are laid off with four of every five openings filled by laid off miners at non union mines. Flexible hours include four day weeks and 10 hour days. Retirements will be reviewed. Workers will be retrained, safety inspections required before return. Roberts and Odom praise contract and the end of a long dispute in southwest Virginia.
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Mike Odom
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Weather Threatens Shuttle Launch Delay Likely
Weather threatens a U S space shuttle Atlantis launch planned for Thursday on a secret military mission with a 70 percent chance of delay due to high winds clouds and thunderstorms NASA said. Countdown began Sunday and continues smoothly despite forecast said NASA spokeswoman Lisa Malone.
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Sunny Warmer With Increasing Clouds Tonight
The National Weather Service forecasts sunny and warmer conditions for today with a high in the 50s. Tonight will bring increasing cloudiness and lows near 40.
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East German reunification talks urged by Modrow
East German Premier Hans Modrow urged immediate reunification talks under a wartime Allied framework. Chancellor Helmut Kohl pressed for a social security system matching West Germany to curb emigration, as more than 400,000 East Germans fled west in the past year ahead of March elections. Kohl met industry leaders to plan solidarity with East Germany and hinted at start-up financing for benefits while signaling uncertain underwriting for the transition.
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Hans Modrow
Helmut Kohl
Modrow
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Kohl
East Germany
Bonn
Social Unity
Memorial honors West Virginia soldier Kenneth D. Scott
Pvt Kenneth D Scott of Princeton died in the Panama invasion and was honored in Charleston with a memorial at the state capitol. Gov Gaston Caperton led the service as family, military organizations, and locals paid respects amid photos, carnations, and a JROTC color guard.
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Panama
West Virginia
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Mercer County
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American Legion
State Order of the Purple Heart
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Pearl Harbor
Burdette
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Ruth Palmer
William Hall
Thomas Hall
Michael Hall
Melissa Scott
Princeton to ask end to audit of sanitary board
Princeton council voted to request the end of the Public Service Commission management audit of the Princeton Sanitary Board. Eight members participated. three supported terminating the audit and four opposed with Mayor Moon voting to table previously.
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Earlie Moon
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Princeton Sanitary Board
Joe Vicars
George Johnson
Paul McManaway
PSC
Gary Christie
Betty Hutchens
Jack Scott
Mike Stafford
Moon
Hutchens
Vicars
Mike Saffel
McManaway
West Virginians Split Over School Consolidation
The West Virginia Poll shows residents nearly evenly divided on encouraging public school consolidation with 49 percent backing better education and taxpayer savings, while 46 percent oppose. Among those with children 54 percent oppose, and 53 percent of those without children favor consolidation.
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Associated Press
Charleston Daily Mail
Wsaz-Tv
Ryan
Mercer spelling bee ends with co-champions Beasley and Vasudevan
In Princeton the Mercer County Schools Annual Spelling Bee crowned Leah Beasley of Athens Elementary and Arvind Vasudevan of Bluefield Junior High as co-champions after a tense final rounds. The pair will advance to Charleston on April 7 to compete for the state title.
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Athens
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Bluefield
Rick Ball
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Charleston
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Crystal Comer
Oakvale
Levette Douglas
Straley
Angie Fulkerson
Spanishburg
Scott Yuhasz
Glenwood
Carol Alley
Tarragon
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