DEP Won’t Pursue Fines From Old Coal Penalties
CHARLESTON AP State mining regulators say they will not pursue 41 million dollars in fines owed by coal companies written off by the Underwood administration as uncollectible. The Sunday Gazette Mail reports the DEP will review 950 current environmental violations to seek 8.7 million dollars in unpaid fines, excluding the previously written-off amounts. Interim Huntington Police Chief Baumgardner says 22 officer layoffs and eight civilian positions are planned to close a 900 thousand dollar deficit, with a reorganization in progress.
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Underwood
Sunday Gazette Mail
State Department of Environmental Protection
Matthew Crum
DEP
Crum
Huntington
Arthur E. Baumgardner
Huntington Police Department
Baumgardner
West Virginia Mourns War Hero Gene Vance Jr
More than 800 mourners gathered at West Virginia University to honor Sgt. Gene Arden Vance Jr. a 38 year old Special Forces officer killed in Afghanistan. Gov. Wise and Sen. Rockefeller lauded his service and presented military honors as his family mourned.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Gene Arden Vance Jr
Vance
Special Forces
Afghanistan
West Virginia University
Gene Vance Jr
June Vance
David
Amber
USS West Virginia
Olgebay Plaza
WVII
David C. Hardesty
McDowell County
U.S. Army Reserve
646Th Quartermaster Company
Kingwood
19Th Special Forces Airborne
WVU
Middle East
Allen E. Tackett
State National Guard
Gene Vance
Tackett
Rockefeller
Bob Wise
Lisa
Army
Navy
Air Force
Lisa Vance
U.S.S. West Virginia
June
Jamie
West
One rescued, one missing in sinking off Virginia coast
A 60 foot fishing boat sank two miles off the Virginia coast, going down in six seconds. One crewman was rescued and a search was under way for the other. The survivor said the vessel vanished rapidly near the No 1 island of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel at about 10 p m Saturday.
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Virginia Beach
Virginia
Coast Guard
Scott Whitney
Whitney
Hampton Roads Bridge
Chesapeake Bay
Bomb tests aid age dating of fish at Old Dominion University
In the 1950s atmospheric nuclear tests released radioactivity now used by Old Dominion University researchers to verify fish ages. Biology professor Cynthia Jones directs the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology and leads work to determine fish age.
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Norfolk, Va
Old Dominion University
Cynthia Jones
Memorial Day events across Princeton area and Tazewell County
Memorial Day activities include the War Museum at the Princeton Memorial Building open 1 to 5 p.m. with Civil War to Desert Storm artifacts. Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park hosts a 2 p.m. tribute at the Thompson Valley log house west of Tazewell on Route 460. Vietnam Veterans group offers free coffee and snacks at the Princeton Tourist Information Center near Route 460 and I-77.
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Princeton Memorial
Tazewell County
Crab Orchard
Pioneer Park
Thompson Valley
Tazewell
Vietnam Veterans of America
Princeton
Mountain Festival Ends With Concerts Rides and Awards
The Mountaineer Lanes Doubles Tournament and First Century Bank Mountain Festival Tennis event ran through the weekend as crowds packed Stadium Drive. Bluefield Elks Club distributed drug awareness info at the festival while a Bluegrass Concert drew 600 attendees. Kids Brandon Short and Kindra enjoyed the carnival rides, and a Scrambler ride was a favored highlight.
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Jackie Barlow
Mike Patton
Greater Bluefield
Cumberland Avenue
Century Bank
Sarver Tennis Club
Brandon Short
Springville
Kindra
Bridge Collapse Traps Barage Beneath I 40 Span
Barge collision with an Interstate 40 bridge near Webbers Falls Oklahoma sent the span plunging into the Arkansas River on Memorial Day. Rescue crews recovered debris and vehicles, with nine to fifteen vehicles submerged. Governor Keating feared seizer or blackout by the captain. divers and NTSB investigators joined the probe as a morgue was set up and affected families searched for relatives.
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Frank Keating
Josef Blann
Marine Corps Reserve
Keating
John Harris
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Webbers Falls
City Hall
Nash remembered in Bluefield event honor
Former Bluefield resident John Nash is cited by classmates and schoolmates from Wade and Whitethorn elementary through Beaver High as he is celebrated at the 97th annual Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Dinner. Rev. Raymond Oliver recalls Nash’s school days and wartime roles in a 1933 closing exercises program.
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Reaford Murphy
Franklin
Mangus
Julian Mangus
Richmond
Murphy
Nash
Raymond Oliver
Newport News
Daily Telegraph
John Nash
Marshal Carper
Beaver High School
Alicia Lorde Nash
John David Stier
John Charles Martin Nash
Bluefield
Greater
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Guthrie
National Transportation Safety Board
Jewell Horne
Oklahoma City
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Muskogee Regional Hospital
Trator Ched Wetz
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