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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 2003
Page
5
Rising tuition outpaces investment earnings prompting Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and Texas to suspend new enrollments in prepaid tuition plans Colorado previously halted enrollments. Plans allow lump sum or periodic purchases tied to current tuition with long term investments.
The West Virginia Prevention Resource Center and Purdue Pharma join STOP in southern West Virginia to fund a community based prevention project in Mingo Logan and Wyoming counties. A $126000 grant supports training assistance awareness and impact measurement for the pilot program addressing rising prescription drug abuse in these counties.
West Virginia's unemployment rate dropped to 5.2 percent in September, down from 6.2 percent in August, with McDowell posting the highest at 13.5 percent and Monongalia and Jefferson at 2.6 percent. Counties with higher rates included Brooke 6.8, Hampshire 5.2, Morgan 2.9, and Webster 6.1, while the state compares favorably to 5.6 percent a year earlier. The report cited the Bureau of Employment Programs and noted all but four counties improved.
Police investigate a shooting death of 8 year old Kyron Butler found by his mother in a pool of blood in his Jersey Park Apartments bedroom. Neighbors reported gunshots around 11 30 p m Thursday. officers found shell casings but no reported injuries. Butler died at Riverside Hospital.
In Harrisonburg Virginia the attorney general’s office backs school administrators in disputes over gun possession rules. The advisory opinion supports local districts enforcing no gun policies on school grounds amid a conflicting state law.
The Republican Party of Virginia runs a direct mail piece in the 100th District race painting Democrat Lynwood Lewis as opposing the death penalty for sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. The flyer uses Malvo imagery and cites a Virginian-Pilot sentence about juveniles and the death penalty. Lewis denounces the tactic as politicizing a national tragedy.
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