Oil gushing resumes after robot caps cap again
Uncontrolled oil flows into the Gulf after an undersea robot bumped the containment cap, forcing BP engineers to remove and reattach it. The nine week effort remains hampered as hydrates form and rescue crews monitor for safety issues while Pensacola Beach faces oil slicks and officials pursue a new moratorium response.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Pensacola Beach
Florida
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Deepwater Horizon
Bob Dudley
Coast Guard
Thad Allen
Ed Overton
Louisiana State University
New trial dates set for Mercer man charged with stalking
Thomas Creighton Shrader of Duhring is named in a second superseding indictment that charges two counts of stalking by interstate use and one count of felon in possession of firearms. Judge Irene C. Berger set separate trial dates in Bluefield, with July 13 for the firearms count and August 17 for the stalking counts, after rulings on suppression motions.
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Mercer County
Thomas Creighton Shrader
Duhring
Shrader
Irene C. Berger
West Virginia
FBI
U.S
R. Clarke VanDervort
U.S. District Court
VanDervort
Labor chief calls to scrap broken mine safety screening
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis criticized the Pattern of Violation process used by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as badly broken. An inspector general alert questioned why 21 mines were removed from screening between 2007 and 2009, and MSHA paused the process to revise it after the Upper Big Branch disaster in West Virginia.
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Charleston
Hilda Solis
Labor Department Inspector General
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
Upper
Big Branch
West Virginia
Office of Inspector General
Solis
Suspect extradition set for Ohio fugitive in Mercer incident
Winstar van pullover at Mercer Springs Road and Highway 20 led Athens Officer C T Lowe to evidence scattered along the road. Parks Wallbenchbeck, described as a violent fugitive from Ohio, is to face Mercer County charges before extradition. Mercer County Sheriff's Department continues investigation. Kate Coil at keoitlbdtonline dot com.
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Athens
C.T. Lowe
Mercer Springs Road
Tory
Ohio
Mercer County
Black bear storms into home pantry for breakfast
A 400 pound black bear wandered into the Asbury basement, open doors allowed milk, a chocolate cake, beans, corn and worms to be eaten. The bear smashed a back window, tore a screen, then moved to an outdoor pavilion before fleeing after a warning shot. A state game warden supplied rubber shotgun shells for defense.
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Donnie Asbury
Faye Asbury
Asburys
Act targets mine funds to save UMWA pensions
Rahal notes 2006 amendments unlock Abandoned Mine Reclamation money and warns that pensions for about 120000 people, including 38000 West Virginians, are at risk without action to secure current and future miners pensions.
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West Virginia
UMWA
West Virginia population up 4,904 in 2009
State population rose to 1,819,777 as Charleston remained the largest city. Morgantown posted the biggest gain with 691 new residents while Parkersburg Weirton and Wheeling reported declines. Employment growth appeared in manufacturing with retail steady.
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Bluefield
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Huntington
Martinsburg
Beckley
Morgantown
Parkersburg
Weirton
Wheeling
Princeton
West Virginia
Pocahontas Town Revitalization Tied to Funding and ATV Bill
Moorefield touts funding to revitalize Pocahontas with clean water projects and town preservation. He notes legislation allowing ATV use on roads to connect to the Hatfield McCoy Trail System and mentions Bluefield College using Pocahontas High School for a revived football program. Moorefield travels to Virginia Beach for an Oil and Gas Association conference and will tour a TMT Corp oil skimming vessel with Secretary Connaughton.
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Pogahontas
Leg
Hatfield- McCoy
Bluefield College
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Pocahontas
Cle
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Virginia Oil and Gas Association
Sean Connaughton
Virginia Secretary of Transportation
TMT Corp
Bill Archer
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