Budget tightens as lawmakers weigh pork versus projects
Charleston AP reports state leaders face a lean budget as House Speaker Bob Kiss explains the annual budget digest guiding agency spending. The document, not law, aims to balance priorities with about 25 million in allocations and half directed to fairs and festivals. Delegates critique the process, arguing it favors certain members and districts while funding remains short.
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Charleston
Bob Kiss
Kiss
D-Raleigh
House
Senate
Finance Committee
Digest
Arley Johnson
Dcabell
Johnson
Tazewell county budget crisis sparks potential cuts
Tazewell County faces a 2000-2001 budget shortfall estimated at 2 to 3 million dollars inherited from the previous Board of Supervisors. Officials discuss possible personnel reductions and consider a 15 million courthouse and jail project, with costs previously cited between 11.1 and 12.9 million. The panel seeks balance without raising taxes.
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Tazewell
Tazewell County
Rasnick
Richard Farthing
Farthing
Earl Griffith
Donnie Lowe
Lowe
Rescue Operation Saves Dozens of Nemours Farm Animals
Officers conducted a third raid at the Nemours farm to free approximately 24 cats and dogs amid more than 60 animals found starving and abandoned. Humane officer Shawn Stewart details ongoing rescues, capture challenges, and foster efforts as state troopers and animal groups monitor the case.
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Emours — Humane N
Nemours
Humane
Shawn Stewart
Stewart
R.A. Maddy
Maddy
Faber allows counsel to stay on in Keystone case ruling
U S District Judge David Faber denied disqualifying defense attorney Charles Love III for conflict in the McDowell County Bank obstruction case. He pledged a week end ruling on remaining pre trial matters as defendants Terry Church and Michael Graham face three counts each for obstructing federal bank examiners. Church and Graham allegedly hid bank records at Burke Mountain estate to thwart an OCC FDIC joint examination.
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U.S. District B
David Faber
McDowell County
Faber
U.S
Susan Arnold
Robert C. Byrd
Beckley
First National Bank of Keystone
Charles M. Love III
Bowles Rice
Terry L. Church
FNB Keystone
Church
Keystone
Michael H. Graham
Bluefield
Graham
Burke Mountain
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Key
Mullins trial postponed in Mercer County court
Judge Donald R. Mullins of the Tazewell County Circuit Court faced a DUI and leaving the scene charge. His trial was postponed at Mercer County Magistrate Court at the request of his attorney, now rescheduled for 11:30 a.m. April 26. He remains free on a $600 bond. The incident occurred November 4, 1999 on Airport Road near Bluefield with minor injuries reported.
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Tazewell County
Mercer County
Donald R. Mullins
Mike Flanigan
Mullins
Airport Road
Bluefield
C.T. Lowe
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