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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 2004
Page
1
Weather briefing notes a morning record-cold start followed by a cool day under sunny skies with a few high clouds. High temperatures forecast from the upper 40s to lower 50s.
Sports brief notes the 4th annual women's conference opens and highlights safety tips for Easter egg hunts on public property. It urges participants to avoid trespass while searching for prize eggs and directs winners to deliver clues to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph office at 928 Bluefield Avenue across from Hardee's.
Delegate Eustace Frederick of Mercer joins eight lawmakers in seeking to intervene in a West Virginia Supreme Court case brought by Kanawha County women denied a marriage license. Two additional male couples later filed to intervene. Frederick cites biblical beliefs and says the state ban should stand.
More than 170 exhibits lined the Mercer Mall corridor as 259 students from Mercer County schools presented research on major historical events including the worst epidemics. Kayla Thomas and Sahara Stanley from Mercer Intermediate School explored flu deaths and epidemic spread in their project.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians mourn Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City after an Israeli missile killed him. Militants pledge retaliation including against the United States while world leaders condemn the strike and Israel tightens security measures in the region.
Transcripts from a 1990 sentencing hearing indicate Charles Wesley Gilmore was forthright and truthful with federal investigators. Gilmore's attorneys seek to introduce an admission by a party opponent as evidence in the Pocahontas triple homicide trial, where Gilmore and Walter Lesight Church face three counts of capital murder for the April 16 1989 shotgun slayings of Robert Davis Una Mae Davis and their son Bobby Hopewell Jr in Pocahontas Virginia. Church's lawyers rested their case as proceedings continue.
After a cold snap and Sunday night snowfall, residents wonder if spring will come. National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Hudgins notes March is a fickle month with rapid swings and layers of cold weather before warm days or new snow. Weather, A-10.
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