Clinton reshuffles White House staff with Panetta
President Clinton replaces Mack McLarty as White House chief of staff with budget chief Leon Panetta. Panetta, a seasoned insider, is slated to help steer Congress health reform and crime bills as Gergen moves to the State Department. Alice Rivlin will head the budget office, first woman in the role.
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White House
Mack McLarty
Leon Panetta
Washington
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
House
Panetta
David Gergen
State Department
Alice Rivin
James Brown Launches Cookeez Monster Venture
James Brown unveils Cookeez Monster with eight national cookie varieties. Proceeds support his Anti-Violence and Crime Prevention Campaign aiding crime-affected communities. He marks 40th anniversary with nine Apollo Theater shows in Harlem and plans an album and pay-per-view TV special.
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Ames Brown
Cookeez Monster
James Brown
Godfather of Soul
Brown
Harlem
Apollo Theater
Colgan Air Chief Talks Mercer Airport Market
At 7 30 a m Charles J Colgan president of Colgan Air will discuss the companys entry in a new market at Mercer County Airport during the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Point of View Breakfast at the Holiday Inn The talk follows Colgan s long aviation career and Virginia Senate service. Cost is 6 per person and reservations can be made by calling the chamber office. Also today at 7 p m the Mercer County Board of Education will meet in regular session at the Seminar Center Mercer County Technical Education Complex Princeton.
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Charles J. Colgan
Colgan Air
Colgan
Mercer County
Greater Bluefield
Mercer County Board of Education
Mercer County Technical Education Complex
Princeton
Partly Sunny With Showers Possible Today
Partly sunny today with a 30 percent chance of afternoon showers. Tonight will be variable cloudiness with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows dip into the mid-60s as high temperatures reach lower 80s.
Florida man dies in I 77 crash near Ingleside
Kenneth R. Speaker, 30, of Sanford Florida, died from injuries after a morning crash on I-77 near the five mile marker in Princeton. Edwin Conrad Ledbetter, Ra leigh North Carolina, jackknifed his northbound tractor trailer while passing and struck Speakers vehicle. Ledbetter charged with failure to maintain control. he had minor injuries. Trooper Hemetek continues the investigation for state police.
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Florida
Kenneth R. Speaker
Box
Sanford
Fla
Princeton Community Hospital
Speaker
Ingleside
Ledbetter
Rocor Transportation Company
Oklahoma City
Okla
Ohio
D.F. Hemetek
Princeton State Police Detachment
Edwin Conrad Ledbetter
Raleigh
N.C
Princeton Detachment
West Virginia State Police
Coalfield Expressway Study funded to explore extensions
Virginia allocates 500000 dollars for an engineering study to assess extending the Coalfields Expressway into Buchanan Dickenson and Wise counties as part of nearly 1 billion dollars in 1994 95 transportation funding. Buchanan residents pressed for the route at a preallocation hearing, hoping to boost tourism and economic growth including Breaks Interstate Park.
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Buchanan, Dickenson and Wise
Grundy
Buchanan
Dickenson
Wise Counties
Commonwealth Transportation Card
The
Transportation Board
Virginia Department of Transportation
Brenda Waters
Virginia
West Virginia
Waters
Coalfields
Wise
Owens
Buchanan County
Breaks
General Assembly
Disney
America
Mercer County Jail closes and inmates move to Beckley facility
Mercer County shut its jail on Monday and moved 40 county inmates and seven state prisoners by school bus to the new 300 bed Southern West Virginia Regional Jail in Beckley. Sheriff Don Meadows cited liability and lawsuits over jail standards while noting some two weeks of adjustment ahead as the new system begins.
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Mercer County
Southern
Beckley
Don Meadows
Meadows
Reonal
Sheriffs Department
West Virginia
Mercer
Raleigh
Fayette
Greenbrier
Monroe
Summers
Wyoming
Neighborhood Watch meets to tackle juvenile problems in Bluefield
About 30 residents and business owners attended a Bluefield Neighborhood Watch meeting at the Bluefield Community Center sponsored by Main Street Bluefield and the South Bluefield Merchants and Professional Organization. E C Browning described door to door outreach and urged reducing reliance on police. Robert Lockett of Bland Street Exhaust Car Care reported a sharp drop in business after local gang stories aired.
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Leiter- B
Main Street Bluefield
South Bluefield Merchants and Professional Organization
Bluefield
E.C. Browning
Union Street Neighborhood Watch Group
South Bluefield
Robert Lockett
Bland Street
Man jailed for failing to pay child support in Princeton
A Mercer County man Billy Jackson Mathena 43 of Wickham Avenue Princeton was found guilty of contempt for failing to pay 6535 30 in child support for his son. Circuit Judge David W Knight sentenced him to six months in the regional jail unless he makes a substantial payment.
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Mercer County
David W. Knight
Billy Jackson Mathena
Mathena
Child Advocates Office
West Virginia
Department of Health and Human Services
Wickham Avenue
Karen Jean Mathena Sutphin
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Abby Shereee
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Abingdon
Willard Owens
Buchanan County Chamber of Commerce
Eddie Lee
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