First in series on cold cases from Southwest Virginia
A 41 year old coal miner, Eric Smith, vanished November 8 2013 near West Hart Buggy Road in Tazewell County. Investigators now treat the case as a possible homicide as part of a Virginia State Police initiative renewing focus on missing person and murder cases.
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Tazewell Hunter
Virginia
Eric Smith
West Hart
Smith
Virginia State Police
Russell Edwards
Daily Telegraph
Holiday of Lights begins as Bluefield visitors flock to park
Glowing dinosaurs and a volcano greeted guests at Bluefield City Park for the 2022 Holiday of Lights. The display opened Thanksgiving night with traffic rerouted to Stadium Drive to ease congestion. Volunteers collected donations as crowds waited in line for display lights along Mitchell Stadium lot and near city tennis courts. Families from Tazewell, Wytheville and Beckley traveled to see 1.3 million lights. The show runs six to nine Sunday through Thursday and six to ten Friday and Saturday.
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Bluefield
Bluefield City Park
Stadium Drive
Karen Miller
Johnna Havens
Bland
Havens
Mitchell Stadium
Jared Justice
Tazewell
Wanda Angles
Wytheville
Kayla Sink
Beckley
Greg Jordan
Gjordan
Ledionline.com
Capito Helps Push Respect for Marriage Act Forward
Senator Shelley Moore Capito joined 11 GOP colleagues to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, ending a filibuster that blocked a vote. The measure would codify same sex marriages and ban states from denying recognition of such marriages performed elsewhere. Capito, A-6
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Shelley Moore Capito
R-W-Va
GOP
U.S. Supreme Court
Capito
Community Christmas Tree fund behind goal in Bluefield
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports a $15,000 anonymous donation boosted the Little Jimmie campaign to $20,050 toward a $45,000 goal. No further gifts arrived Friday, leaving $24,950 still needed to fund toys for area children. Registration for the shopping event is underway online at bottom line dot com slash littlejimmie.
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Bluefield
Little Jimmie
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bottonline.com
Littlejimmie
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