Internet crime crackdown may spawn new computer units
Princeton police detective C N Poe warns that the Internet’s reach brings both opportunity and risk as narcotics units handle drugs crimes while computer crime detachments emerge. He urges parents to educate children about adult sites and to use filtering software, noting chats can expose youth to unsafe material and that logging out may reveal new site listings.
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Snowstorm Strains Bluefield Area Plow Crew
BLUEFIELD Mac Estep complained after plowing his lot twice only to have city plows push snow back in. Storm froze into sleet and snow totaling about three inches with .63 inches of liquid equivalent. Police reported numerous minor wrecks and several fires across McDowell County as firefighters battled three incidents.
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Sothebys Sells Rubens Portrait for 8.2 Million at Auction
Sothebys in New York sold Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Man as Mars for a record 8.2 million dollars. The work, tied to CenTrust Savings and Loan losses from 1989, was recovered by Florida bank examiners and put up for auction by the FDIC.
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West Virginia Governor’s 1959 education forecast proves prescient
Gov Cecil Underwood predicted that technology would erase school barriers and spur lifelong learning with larger, consolidated schools. His NEA time capsule entry, buried in 1959 and retrieved decades later, contrasted with peers whose notes were brief or era shaped by Cold War concerns.
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Cecil Underwood
National Education Association
Underwood
West Virginia
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