Democratic candi dates scrap for votes in SD showdown
Tuesday Inside notes Democratic candidates Kerrey and Harkin scrapping for votes ahead of their party's second primary in South Dakota. They must win to challenge front-runners Tsongas and Clinton as the contest tightens. General Motors posts a $4.5 billion yearly loss and starts closing 12 plants, including Willow Run in Michigan and an engine plant in Flint.
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South Dakota
Farm Belt
Bob Kerrey
Tom Harkin
Paul Tsongas
Bill Clinton
General Motors Corp
Willow Run
Ypsilanti
Mich
Tarrytown
N.Y
Flint
United Auto Workers Union
al Barnes
Gibraltar
Robert C. Stempel
Boucher Bill Moves Through Subcommittee in Virginia
Ninth District Rep Rick Boucher proposed B-1 legislation to bolster southwest Virginia coal economy. Mercer County teachers plan a 5 30 p m meeting today to discuss recent budget cuts and lost positions.
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Ninth District
Rick Boucher
Southwest
Virginia
House
Mercer
Mercer County
Clearasil Bandit seeks purge of FBI nickname
Mark Chirico, 24, says the FBI coined the nickname the Clearasil Bandit after a bank robbery and he seeks legal action to clear it. He claims the label causes mental duress and mockery from jail officers and fellow inmates, while FBI officials declined to comment.
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Mark Chirico
Chirico
FBI
San Diego Union-Tribune
Calendar items include speaker at breakfast and music program
At 7:30 a.m. Charles A. Simmons of Appalachian Power Co. speaks at the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Point of View Breakfast at the Holiday Inn on 765kv transmission line reinforcement. Voter registration at Matoaka High School from 9 to 11 a.m. Mt. Zion Young Adult Choir performs in Bluefield State College Basic Science Building for Black History Month.
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Charles A. Simmons
Appalachian Power Co
Greater Bluefield
Mt. Zion
Bluefield State College
Cloudy Skies With Rain Likely Today And Tonight
Cloudy conditions with a 30 percent rain chance today and a high in the mid to upper 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight, rain chances rise to 60 percent with a low in the upper 30s. Weather package A-8.
Sheep display at Craft Memorial Library chaperoned by local farmers
A live sheep was displayed Monday at Craft Memorial Library in Bluefield as part of the After School Special series. Robert and Katherine McGlothlin of Sheep to Shaw! and In Between in Tazewell, Virginia presented the program for children from ages three to five through fifth grade who enjoyed petting the animal.
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Craft Memorial Library
Bluefield
Robert and
Katherine McGlothlin
Shaw
Tween
Tazewell
Peery Hired to Reconstruct PSA Financial Records
Tazewell County officials appoint Gene Peery as special consultant to reconstruct PSA financial records. Peery, a PSA board member, will be paid 15 per hour up to 10,000 total for two months, reporting to the PSA while remaining on the PSA board. The action followed a special supervisors meeting and PSA request to hire a consultant.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County Public Service Authority
Board of Supervisors
PSA
Gene Peery
Peery
Ben Barringer
Cmse
Robert Wade
Jimmy Jones
Jim Hale
Don Payne
Barringer
Wade
Robert Galumbeck
Payne
Falls Mills
Bond set for man charged with shooting sister
Bond was set at 40000 for George Wesley McGrady 21 of Bluefield charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his sister Imogene McGrady Willis 27 Friday night at about 1120 p.m. in Bluefield McGrady surrendered and told police it was an accidental shooting authorities said Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Charles R. Smith called the case relatively strong and noted continued investigation with evidence of a verbal altercation prior to the shooting.
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Princeton
Bluefield
John R. Frazier
George Wesley McGrady
McGrady
Imogene McGrady Willis
Frazier
David Smith
Willis
Mercer County
Charles R. Smith
Hostage freed after 4 hour ordeal in Pennsylvania
A fugitive who escaped West Virginia prison abducted Richard Porter of Benwood at gunpoint near Moundsville. Porter, 60, was released outside a Millcreek Township convenience store near Erie after about four hours. The kidnapper forced a woman from her car, fleeing in a white Plymouth Sundance. Police identified a Glen Dale woman’s license found at the suspect’s home.
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Benwood
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Richard Porter
Erie
Pittsburgh
Millcreek Township
Kenneth Kensill
Porter
Millcreek
William Storten
Moundsville
David Williams
Matt Clark
Clark
Glen Dale
Mercer legislators push School Aid Formula change
Two Mercer County House Finance Committee members Richard Flanigan and Gilbert Bailey focus on education funding during budget talks for 1992 93. They seek 741000 more for Mercer County schools and call for higher education funding. Bailey backs Gypsy Moth program to aid tourism and wood industry growth.
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Mercer County
House
Ci Tinaing
Dels
Richard Flanigan
Gilbert E. “Gene” Bailey
House Finance Committee
Bailey
Senate
Flanigan
SWA to draft formal reply over Mercer landfill closure fee
Mercer County Solid Waste Authority plans a formal response to a letter by Delegate William G. Carper. The meeting approved drafting the reply with Dr. Allen Dyer Joyce Nego and attorney Debra Kilgore. The dispute centers on a $4.31 closure fee and the adequacy of funding to meet regulations, with call for a roughly $12 per ton target and clarification of state funding.
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Princeton
Mercer County
William G. Cocon
Cain Collee
Solid Waste Authority
Bob Barnett
Paul Canterbury
Allen Dyer
Joyce Nego Err] Dent
Butch Joyce
Debra Kilgore
Dre Carper
Joyce
Carper
SWA
Dyer
Kilgore
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