PROMISE Scholarship Signed At Capital High School
Governor Bob Wise signed HB3238 at Capital High School launching the PROMISE Scholarship program to fund merit based college tuition and book fees for West Virginia students with at least a B average. Funding scheduled through HB102 will begin in 2002 with escalating amounts through 2005.
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Charleston
Capital High School
Mark Javins
Bob Wise
Javins
Wise
West Virginia Tech
Javvis
Capital High
Laura Kelly
West Virginia
Capital
Kanawha County School Board
Senate Education
Lloyd Jackson
D-Lincoln
Melanie Young
Carla Foster
Wednesay
Governor signs alternative sentencing bill in West Virginia
AP reports Gov. Bob Wise signed a bill to allow nonviolent offenders to serve time in alcohol or drug counseling training or work programs instead of probation or home confinement. The plan extends funding and aid to other counties and follows a Hancock Brooke and Ohio counties pilot that began in January with judges assigning offenders to counseling and community jobs.
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Harleston
Bob Wise
Hancock
Martin Gaughan
Gaughan
Jim Lee
Brooke
Ohio
Wise
Northern Panhandle
Third ex Klansman in 1963 church bombing faces trial
In Birmingham a jury convicted Thomas Blanton Jr. of four counts of murder for the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, 1963. He received a life sentence as attention turns to pursuing Bobby Cherry, whose trial was delayed over mental competency questions.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cherry
Abraham Woods
FBI
U.S
Doug Jones
Blanton
Garrett
Ett
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Boyd
Bill Jones
Bethel Baptist Church
Jones
Julian Bond
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Movement For Democracy
Bond
John Robbins
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