Inside Wednesday Highlights Global Summit Clash and Stamp Plan
The United States is labeled as a Earth Summit villain as ecologists and Brazilian officials warn the Bush administration will curb progress on the eve of the conference. A stamp reveal plans list a Memphis rocker or a Las Vegas star as potential imagery. Announcement set for Thursday. Virginia unemployment drops to 6.2% in April as tourism gears up for peak season. Mercer County Literacy Volunteers seek funds and volunteers as 200,000 West Virginians are illiterate.
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United States
Memphis
Las Vegas
Mercer County
Bluefield
Publicity Stunt Tags The Hollywood Sign
A bare chested man identifying as a performance artist affixed a 15 foot cross to the Y of the Hollywood sign and hung from it for two hours before firefighters aided his descent. James Wilkinson, 34, of Los Angeles was arrested for trespassing. He described the act as art and publicity.
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Hollywood
James Wilkinson
Los Angeles
Charles Roper
Roper
Wilkinson
Holywood
Rain Forecast With Showers Likely Today and Tonight
Partly sunny skies give way to a 40 percent chance of showers today with highs in the mid 70s. Tonight, rain is likely with an 80 percent chance and low temperatures in the upper 50s.
Premium hike won’t ease West Virginia workers’ fund deficit
Charleston AP A 8 percent premium rise next month will barely affect the 900 million deficit in the state Workers' Compensation Fund. The shortfall, about 690 million in 1990, grew due to 123 million in permanent disability payments from 1991 to 1992. The fund handles about 72,000 claims yearly, with 5,000 appealed.
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Charleston
State Workers’ Compensation Fund
John Kozak
Kozak
Caperton
Krulich Aims for Naprin Fitness Gold in Denver
Bluefield Regional Medical Center Wellness Center director Lynne Krulich is one of 12 women nationwide to compete in the Naprin Fitness Challenge in Denver. The event offers 13 000 in gold coins overall with five events including obstacle course and swimming. Krulich and her twin sister Anne Jones, a Virginia Tech tennis coach, are frequent fitness competitors.
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Bluefield
Lynne Krulich
Denver
Colo
Krulich
Bluefield Regional
United States
BRMC
Anne Jones
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
Wal-Mart opens seventh Virginia store in Bluefield
Officials and hundreds celebrate the Wal-Mart No 1763 grand opening on College Avenue Bluefield amid ceremonial gifts to local groups including Bluefield Union Mission. District Manager Ed Hudnall notes Wal-Mart as a major employer in Virginia and West Virginia with significant charitable giving totaling millions to hospitals and United Way. The event features a Bluefield Junior High Band and Choir with a large morning turnout.
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Bluefield
College Avenue
Wal-Mart
Dors
Virginia
West Virginia
Allen
Hammond
Girl Scouts of America
United Way of the
Virginias
Greater Bluefield
Hudnall
United Way
Coopers face child abandonment charge in Bland County
Bland County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge William F. Thomas ordered Cassandra Cooper and Lorne Cooper held on the charge after their 11 year old daughter Candice testified the couple left her on Interstate 77. The March 21 incident near Beckley led to their arrest eight hours later with their five year old son in the car.
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Bland
Woodbridge
William F. Thomas
Cassandra Cooper
Lorne Cooper
Bland County
Coopers
Candice
Jacob
Beckley
Marion
Allen D. Shupe
Lorne
Court of Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Church denies involvement in Pocahontas and Anawalt slayings
Walter L. Church 39 of the Montcalm area, jailed on first degree murder charges in the April 5 slaying at Kelly's Bar Anawalt, denies any role in the Davis family killings in Pocahontas in 1989. He says he and his brother John were attacked and robbed at the bar and has rejected links to Gilmore drug operations and Ealy trial insinuations.
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Welch
Mercer County
Pocahontas, Va
Walter L
Pete” Church
Montcalm
McDowell County
Dennis J. Farmer
Pag
Eton
Church
Farmer
John
Kelly's Bar
Anawalt
Robert Davis
Pocahontas
Samuel S. Ealy
Ealy
Davis
Una Mae Davis
Robert Hopewell Jr
Merrick Lane
Tom Scott
Peatedly
Sam Ealy
Sam
Tom Bowen
Commonwealth
Scott
Charlie Gilmore
Gilmore
Fred and
Jack
Princeton
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Virginia Employment Commission
New Graham Pharmacy
Music In the Square
Johnston's Inn
Maples Nursing and Retirement Home
Ruth
Tee
Abby
Monroe
Arch A. Moore Jr
Gaston Caperton
Fitness
Greg Jordan
Babette Pascasio
Daily Telegraph
Shupe
Sharon Powers
Avese
Mickey Brock Newberry
Barbara Hawkins
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