Grand Jury Returns No True Bill in Bluefield Officer Shootout
The Mercer County Grand Jury declined to indict Bluefield City Police Officer John C. Gillespie after a shooting on Bluefield Avenue that left Terry Wayne Poynter dead. Prosecutor Charles Smith said there was no probable cause for a trial after six hours of evidence from 15 to 20 witnesses.
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Mercer County
Grand Jury
Hardee
Bluefield Avenue
Charles Smith
Bluefield City
John C. Gillespie
Terry Wayne Poynter
Bluewell
Poynter
Gillespie
Irvin Sopher
St.ate
State Police Criminal Investigations Bureau
WVVA
Loretta Budd
Bluefield
James Dent
Bill Huffman
Smith
Weather Update: Sunny and Humid With Warm Day Ahead
Today will be sunny and humid with warm conditions. Highs will reach the 80s, creating a hot and sticky afternoon. Stronger sun may persist into the early evening with light breezes.
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Betty Crocker
Public backs patient choice on dying amid Kevorkian case
Eight of 10 Americans support allowing patients to die in some circumstances. About half say the incurably ill have a moral right to die by their own action. The Times Mirror Center poll, ahead of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's highlighted case, cites 80 percent in favor of some death permission and 55 percent endorsing suicide if suffering.
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Washington
Times Mirror Center For the People and the Press
Jack Kevorkian
Pontiac
Mich
Janet Adkins
Diane Colasanto
Times Mirror Center
Princeton
N.J
Kevorkian
Patient rights survey on end of life decisions
A survey shows 80 percent believe some circumstances allow a patient to die while 15 percent say medical staff should always try to save a life. Forty nine percent support a moral right to end one’s life with incurable disease. Fifty five percent support self‑initiated death for extreme, unrelieved suffering.
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Gallup
Bush Seeks Quick Flag Desecration Amendment Vote
President Bush urged Congress to pass a constitutional amendment restoring flag protections by the Fourth of July. House Speaker Foley pledged a vote within two weeks and criticized the move as political posturing, stating the First Amendment should not be partisan. Bush marked his 66th birthday with a replica IW Memorial flag tribute.
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Washington
Bush
Congress
House
Thomas S. Foley
Foley
White House
Iwo Jima
Senate
D-Wash
Wilder backs flag amendment in Va. after court ruling
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said he would support a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. He spoke after the Supreme Court struck down a federal flag desecration ban, saying his wartime service and feelings on the flag justify backing tighter protections as Congress considers a constitutional fix.
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Richmond
L. Douglas Wilder
Wilder
U.S. Supreme Court
Congress
Drowning at Stone Quarry Near Beeson Identified as Jer ome Carter
Mercer County sheriff reports Jer ome Carter 22 of Bluefield found dead in a quarry pond near Athens on West Virginia Turn pike property. Investigators view as accidental drowning with possible alcohol involvement. no foul play expected. Carter former Bluefield Beavers football player. Rescue squads retrieved body at 9:10 a.m. after 3:49 a.m. alert from Jason Muncy.
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Athens
Bluefield
West Virginia Turnpike
Beeson
Mercer County Sheriffs Department
Jerome Carter
Cartwell Street
Don Meadows
Toby Gills
Meadows
Carter
Bluefield Beavers
Princeton
Jason Muncy
Straley Avenue
Muncy
Denise Butcher
Adoptee seeks roots after 1972 Princeton abandonment
Stephanie Benton of Dayton Ohio searches for biological parents after learning she was found May 18 1972 abandoned in a trash can beside Old Oakvale Road Texaco near Princeton West Virginia. Adopted at 18 months as Rebecca Dean she recalls days at Princeton Community Hospital and follows records across Mercer County and Charleston seeking her origins.
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Princeton
Oakvale Road
Texaco
West Virginia Turnpike
Stephanie Benton
Dayton
Ohio
Princeton Community Hospital
Benton
Mercer County
Princeton Times
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Craft Memorial Library
Charleston
Rebecca Dean
Justice Neely’s remarks anger fellow jurists on state court
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Neely drew sharp rebukes after a Sunday night speech to 11th grade boys in which he suggested one parent should stay home for the children. Justice Margaret Workman called the comments outrageous and offensive, saying many mothers work out of necessity or by choice and that the idea is out of touch with reality.
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State Supreme Court
Richard Neely
Margaret Workman
Neely
Rearaena
Workman
Supreme Court
Dominion Hardwoods property auctioned near I77 site
Dominion Hardwoods In. plant near Carper Industrial Park was auctioned Tuesday with about 250 items, including fine china, silverware, heavy equipment and office furniture. Banks took possession after its June 12 1989 closing. the plant had opened January 1989 and aimed to employ 85 to 100.
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Greg Jordan
Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Dominion Hardwoods
Carper
U.S. 460
Interstate 77
Max Rouse & Sons, Inc
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