Tomblin pushes food tax cut as session nears end
West Virginia acting Gov Earl Ray Tomblin signals two bills could be amended to shave a penny from groceries sales tax, a move seen as affordable due to improving revenues. He notes 80 percent of his bills have cleared at least one chamber but faces opposition on a broader repeal and road tolls for U S 35.
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Federal actions in Mercer court cases in West Virginia
Federal authorities revoke supervised release for Mercer County man Christopher Umburger and sentence him to 24 months in prison. George Cooke also loses supervised release and is sentenced to four months with 15 more months to follow. Four defendants from a 2010 federal drug indictment plead guilty. sentencing set for four Bluefield and Welch residents on June 21.
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Concord senior wins West Virginia Literary Symposium honor
Concord University senior Michael Lilly, 23, of Beckley, won first place at the West Virginia Undergraduate Literary Symposium held at Wheeling Jesuit College for his essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Lilly’s analysis, titled The Book of Pym and Mock Biblical Elements, tackles puzzling endings and race themes in Poe’s era. He plans graduate study at Radford or Marshall University.
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Judge Denies Separate Trials in Virginia Tech Lawsuit
Franklin County Circuit Judge William Alexander refused a defense bid for separate trials in a suit by families of Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde over the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. The ruling keeps all claims, including allegations against counseling staff and Tech administrators, before a single jury at a Sept. 26 Montgomery County trial.
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Four more plead guilty in federal drug roundup
In Bluefield, four defendants in a federal drug roundup pleaded guilty on February 24 at U S District Court. Paul Winebush Quincy Stevenson Deago Reed and Derick Williams face scheduled June sentencing in Bluefield with varied times. Winebush and Reed were remanded to U S Marshals, Stevenson and Williams have $10 000 unsecured bonds.
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