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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 2017
Page
1
The forecast for Wednesday March 15 2017 calls for a chance of snow showers mainly before 10 a.m. with mostly cloudy skies and a high near 24 degrees. The day begins unsettled and cool with a gradual clearing expected later.
France's Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station received a birthday surprise a saxophone delivered by SpaceX on February 23. Crews hid the instrument until his 39th birthday on February 27, and Pesquet shared the moment on Twitter with colleagues mentioning his upcoming launch from Kazakhstan next month.
West Virginia Daily 3 draw was 8 6 with Daily 4 3 2 8 4. Virginia Pick 3 produced 7 9 4 and Pick 4 0 4 9 8. Additional sequence shown as 1075 000u appears as a trailing alphanumeric entry.
The West Virginia House approved HB 2007 in a 58 to 41 vote to end the Courtesy Patrol, with funds redirected to the State Road Fund by July 1 and the Parkway Authority barred from operating the service. Lead sponsor is Delegate Marty Gearheart with several co sponsors. Critics call the bill job killing, citing local losses though noting CCC executives’ salaries as context.
Mercer County plans to file a suit against drug wholesalers blamed for distributing opioid pills to West Virginia. Prosecuting Attorney George Sitler told the county commission they are selecting a law firm to represent Mercer in the litigation. Attorney Truman Chafin cited a 2009 study and noted a pharmacist case in Drug companies shipped nine million pills to Kermit, population about 400, with $500,000 monthly in opioid prescriptions. The commission weighs contracts from firms to pursue damages in criminal justice and emergency response.
Route 19-460 in Tazewell County now carries higher speed limits after VDOT studies. Most of the four lane stretch between Bluefield Virginia and the Russell County line is posted at 60 mph, up from 55. Two limited access sections near Bluefield and Tazewell rise from 55 to 65, with Bluefield four miles at 65 from exit 1 to exit 3.
The Bluefield Board of Directors gave first reading to an ordinance to borrow up to 2 million dollars for sanitary system improvements. They also discussed pursuing a lawsuit against large pharmaceutical manufacturers and their middlemen, considering joining existing suits on behalf of Mercer and nearby counties.
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