Abandoned Structure Burns as Firefighters Battle Blaze
Firefighters from Bluefield and Bluefield Virginia battled a well involved fire at an abandoned Essex Street structure. Water was stretched 1000 feet and tanker and pumper units from Bluefield Virginia Green Valley Glenwood and mutual aid departments assisted. One firefighter was injured when a vehicle hit Bluefield No 3 Station but he returned to work after one day. The building appeared occupied though later reports said it had been vacant for some time. The initial call came around noon and authorities battled the blaze into the afternoon amid a nearby woods fire and a distant hydrant roughly 2200 feet away.
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Bluefield
Essex Street
Essex and
Union Street
Kevin Scanlon
Scanlon
Richard Hodge
Jimmy Perkins
Perkins
Cumberland Road
Jim Hardy
Green Valley-Glenwood
U.S
Bluefield-Tazewell
Two-Vehicle Crash Closes Bluefield Ave Injures Two
A two-vehicle wreck on Bluefield Avenue prompted police to close the street Thursday afternoon. One vehicle pulled out from Grants Supermarket in a T-bone collision with forceful impact. Victims were taken to Bluefield Regional Medical Center and Princeton Community Hospital. each car carried a driver and a passenger.
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Bluefield Avenue
Bluefield
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Princeton Community Hospital
Shrewsbury
Walters
Bluefield PD
Bill Archer
Barcher Bottonline.com
Mine void bill advances in Virginia Senate committee
BLUEFIELD Va A bill to expand mineral lessees ownership of space left after extraction cleared the Senate Agriculture committee though reenactment delays push it toward a conference before a full vote. Senator Puckett says the bill delays execution to July 1 2013 and could be vetoed by the governor.
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Bluefield
Virginia
Senate Committee On Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
Phillip P Puckett
D-Russell
Senate
Del
Terry Kilgore
R-Scott
Puckett
Buchanan County
Con
Toll credits used to fund Bluefield Colonial Intermodal Center
Bluefield will use turnpike toll credits as a 20 percent local match for 600000 dollars in federal funds secured for the Colonial Intermodal Center project. U S Rep Nick Rahall announced the state will apply toll credits, enabling pre planning and master work for a centralized transit center in downtown Bluefield.
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Bluefield
U.S
Nick Rahall
D-W Va
Linda Whalen
West Virginia
Rahall
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Colonial Gateway
Gateway
Mattox
Whalen
West
Paul) Mattox
Rahtall
Failing to register leads to potential five year term
TAZEWELL Virginia convict and sex offender Terry Oscar Rollins 63 found guilty of failing to register as a convicted violent sex offender. Jury recommends four years. judge sets sentencing for May 1. Rollins previously served 12 years for two counts of aggravated sexual battery of a minor and was released in 2006.
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Tazewell
Thailand
Virginia
Tazewell County
Terry Oscar Rollins
Teresa Chafin
Rollins
Bluefield
Virginia State Police
United States
Lisa Rasnick
Commonwealth
Southwest
Rasnick
Dennis Lee
Melanie Menefee
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