Arizona mom freed after Mexican drug smuggling charge
Yanita Maldonado 42, a naturalized U.S. citizen, walked free from a Nogales Mexico prison after a judge dropped drug smuggling charges following a video review. She had been jailed a week after authorities said 12 pounds of marijuana were found under her bus seat on a bus from Mexico to Arizona. Her husband Gary and seven children await back in Goodyear as she plans to drive home and cautions reforms in drug enforcement.
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Avondale, Ariz
Mexico
Yanita Maldonado
Phoenix
Nogales
Gary
Maldonados
U.S
Maldonado
U.S. State Department
Arizona
Beloved Bluefield beauty educator remembered for aid and service
Martha Smith known as Little French ran a renowned beauty academy and helped hundreds of students and inmates with hairdressing training. She was active in the National Cosmetology Association, local chamber, and WHIS-TV telethons for the March of Dimes. Funeral services set for Bland Street United Methodist Church with visitation at Mercer Funeral Home.
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Mercer County
Smith
National Cosmetology Association
National Association of Accredited
Bland Street
Hal Carmack
Daily Telegraph
Hildabrand
Federal Correctional Institution For Women
Alderson
Martha
Stewart
Mercer Funeral Home
United Methods Church
Quality Inn’ & Conference Center
Bluefield
Logan County Coal facilities praised for safety records
Pinnacle Prep Plant and related Logan County coal facilities earned safety honors. The Saunders prep plant and load out facilities and the Toney Fork plant each logged two years without a lost time accident. The Lower War Eagle mine received a Mountaineer Guardian Award for miner safety in 2012.
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Pinnacle Prep
Logan County Coal
Toney
Logan County
War Eagle
Mountaineer Guardian
West Virginia
Office of Miner’s Health, Safety and Training
History Alive program at Bluefield State College
Joseph Bundy will present History Alive at 11 a.m. June 11 in the Boyd Conference Room Conley Hall Bluefield State College. He portrays Osborne Perry Anderson, abolitionist and Civil War U S Colored Troops member, in a West Virginia Humanities Council program. Donations offered at chamber office Grundy or by calling 276-935-4147.
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Chamber
Walnut Street
Grundy
Joseph Bundy
Bluefield
Boyd
Conley Hall
Bluefield State College
Bundy
Osborne Perry Anderson
John Brown
Harpers Ferry
Anderson
U.S
West Virginia Humanities Council
Houseboat community life on Sutton Lake West Virginia
The Sutton Lake houseboat community thrives each summer with families like the Shaffers and Blossers returning weekly for weekends on floating homes. Residents describe a close knit, camping like atmosphere, with dock gatherings, shared dinners, and lasting friendships in Braxton County.
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Sutton Lake
Shaffers
Steve
Gina Silbaugh
Hurricane
Delbert
Zerelda Blosser
Spencer
Dave Shaffer
Braxton County
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