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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 2002
Page
1
Action in regional venues features multiple games with notable performances by local teams and key players. Highlights include tight finishes, surprising upsets, and standings shifts shaping upcoming fixtures across the district. Weather notes indicate warmer, breezy conditions at several sites impacting play.
Gov. Bob Wise’s mobile office schedules two public visits, Wednesday March 6 at Monroe County Courthouse Union and Friday March 8 at Princeton Mercer County Courthouse. The governor’s rep will accept Golden Mountaineer Discounts card applications, explain PROMISE Scholarship, answer state government questions, and help constituents. Call (888) 438-2731 for more information.
West Virginia Daily 3 numbers are 9 3 2 and Daily 4 numbers are 4 1 8 3. Virginia Pick 3 is 8 8 4 and Pick 4 is 7 5 8 2.
Seven American soldiers died and 40 were wounded when two U S helicopters came under fire during a major allied offensive in Afghanistan. The operation named Conda marked a shift to direct U S leadership with support from Afghan, Canadian, Australian, German, Danish, Norwegian and French forces amid high elevations and severe winter conditions.
Bluefield report states Terry Church former senior vice president of First National Bank of Keystone admitted guilt to bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Church, 49, from Alderson Federal Prison Camp, acknowledged involvement alongside the late J Knox McConnell as the bank collapsed on September 1, 1999, triggering FDIC insurance fund losses exceeding 750 million dollars.
In Grundy Virginia a district judge granted a motion to appoint a defense psychiatrist to examine former student Peter Odighizuwa, 43, charged in the fatal shooting rampage at a local law school. Dr Seymour Halleck of UNC to perform the examination amid claims of mental illness on January 16.
William "Bill" Turner of Bluefield died at age 76 after a lifetime as a dynamic business leader and community supporter. Turner was remembered by Bluefield Mayor R. E. "Bob" Perkinson Jr. as a pioneer and entrepreneur who shaped the region. His passing was mourned by civic leaders and residents alike.
Editor notes third installment on the Appalachian Regional Commission, tracing ARC origins in 1965, the era of mass outmigration, and regional poverty. The piece outlines ARC’s goal to raise living standards across 13 states, including West Virginia and parts of 11 others, with 22 million residents in 406 counties and a lower per capita income than the nation.
At 7 p.m. Disabled American Veterans Mercer County Chapter No 31 holds a meeting in the Memorial Building Princeton. Also at 7 p.m. the Mercer County Humane Society gathers at Western Sizzlin Steakhouse in Princeton.
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