Pearisburg Storm Floods Town Causing Evacuations
Pearisburg Virginia faced sudden heavy showers and thundershowers that flooded downtown streets, prompting closures on Mt Lake Avenue Curved and parts of U S Route 100. Residents were evacuated to temporary shelters as homes and businesses suffered flood damage and a transformer was struck by lightning.
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Pearisburg
Giles County
Sheriffs Department
Mt. Lake Avenue
U.S. 100
Roger Perdue
Historic Atlantis launch sends US astronaut home from Mir
Atlantis lifts off from Cape Canaveral on a historic mission to link with Russia's Mir space station and return NASA's Norman Thagard after a record 3 1/2 months in orbit. Launch controller Jim Toohey saluted the crew as weather cooperated after lateweek delays.
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Space Shuttle
Atlantis
Cape Canaveral
Russia
Mir
Godspeed
U.S
Jim Toohey
NASA
Norman Thagard
Iraq
Bluefield High School reunion and Independence celebration schedule
On Thursday June 29 at 7 p.m. a final class reunion for the 1959 1960 and 1961 Bluefield High School classes will be at the Greater Bluefield Community Center. On Saturday July 1 at 6 p.m. a Celebration in the Park for Independence Weekend will be at Graham Recreational Park featuring the Greenes gospel trio and local groups Flame of Fire Singing Taylors The Dillons Heavenly Express and the Patrick Trio. On Tuesday July 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Giles Arts and Crafts Guild 17th annual show and sale in conjunction with the Kiwanis water carnival will be at Narrows Town Park. Exhibitor spaces are available. Call Florine Ferrell or Elva Davis for more info. Weather.
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Bluefield High School
Greater Bluefield Community Center
Graham Recreational Park
The
Greenes
America
Flame of Fire
Singing Taylors
Dillons
Heavenly Express
Patrick Trio
Giles Arts and Crafts Guild
Kiwanis Water Carnival
the Narrows Town Park
Florine Ferrell
Elva Davis
Today's Highs Weather Report A-6
The forecast notes highs in the 70s to 80s today with partly to mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Tonight shows a chance of showers or thunderstorms with lows in the 60s. Weather package A-6.
Interstate crash kills Marshall County truck driver
Ronald Eugene Drake 26 of Moundsville died when his 1986 Mack tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 77 near mile marker 20 around 10 am Tuesday. Witnesses cited excessive speed as the cause. The vehicle, loaded with culvert pipe, slid 622 feet before stopping. Drake died at the scene and was reportedly unbelted. The wreckage was impounded as investigators consider mechanical failure. State Police and Public Service Commission are probing. Drake was transported to Princeton Community Hospital for evaluation.
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Camp Creek
Marshall County
Ronald Eugene Drake
Rd3
Box 169
Moundsville
Mile Marker 20
Drake
Princeton Community Hospital
Cpl
C.E. Donley
Tfc
R.C. Jones
W.P. Pioch
West Virginia State Police
Board waits as West Virginia court weighs Mercer levy appeal
Mercer County Board of Education members wait to learn if the West Virginia Supreme Court will hear an appeal to reverse a Mercer County Circuit Court ruling halting an excess school levy. If denied the levy money could be cut further, affecting 16 counties with similar levies.
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Princeton
Mercer County Board of Education
West Virginia Supreme Court
Mercer County
Bill Seaver
Robert A. Burnside Jr
Board of Education
State Supreme Court
Deborah Akers
Mercer County Schools
Akers
Court
Charleston
Trade talks fail to avert looming US Japan tariffs
Geneva AP reports the United States and Japan failed to resolve access to Japan's car market. If no deal by 11:59 p.m. EDT, Washington will impose 100 percent tariffs on Lexus Honda Acura and other Japanese luxury cars, raising prices sharply. Talks continued with lower officials awaiting the deadline.
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Geneva
U.S
Japan
Clinton
Toyota
Honda
Mickey Kantor
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Hashimoto
Senate OKs I-73 route Blacksburg to Roanoke to Martinsville
The U S Senate approved a bill to create Interstate 73 linking Blacksburg Roanoke and Martinsville in Virginia The Virginia route would follow U S 460 from Bluefield to Blacksburg run along a smart road test segment to Interstate 81 then on I 581 around Roanoke and U S 220 to the North Carolina border south of Martinsville The House pending draft of highway system bill and committee action provides no schedule yet
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Oanoke
U.S. Senate
Michigan
South Carolina
Blacksburg
Roanoke
Martinsville
Virginia
John Warner
R-Va
State Transportation Board
Warner
Tracey Smith
Bluefield
U.S. 220
North Carolina
House
Tim Phillips
U.S
Bob Goodlatte
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Hye
Todd Strin
W.L. Warden
Roger Blevins
Bluewell
Doug Billings
Advance Auto Parts
Warden's Market
Portland
Ore
United States
Kantor
Senate
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