Redistricting Battle Clouds West Virginia Senate
A Sunday column from the Parkersburg News critiques Kanawha County tactics in a 34 member plan while Beall accuses staff of blocking language for a new districting bill. Sen Nelson responds as lawmakers fear no redistricting bill may pass before the Senate flags action due to constitutional doubts surrounding a House bill.
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West Virginia counties share Crime Control grants total
Charleston and 19 other West Virginia cities and counties receive Omnibus Crime Control funds totaling 119969 dollars. Grants support police equipment training and communications upgrades under the Governor's committee program. Several counties including Boone Kanawha Putnam and Putnam are named for specific allocations.
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Student Killed As Crowds Clash At Wilberforce and Central State
Wilberforce University closes in mourning after a 22 year old student Manuel Crenshaw of Canton dies from a bullet wound during a melee between Wilberforce and Central State University crowds. Four shots from a split crowd, three to four homemade fire bombs fired at sheriffs deputies, and one Central State student being questioned are noted. Crenshaw was a freshman hoping to become a teacher and was not involved in the disturbance. The coroner reports a small caliber bullet caused the fatal wound.
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Crenshaw
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Gimpels Parade Bid Receives Fayetteville Band Entry
Fayetteville West Virginia High School marching band earns a spot in the 52nd Gimpels Thanksgiving Day parade in Philadelphia. The 91 member unit includes 80 musicians and a color guard as it joins 28 other bands and drum corps in the nation’s oldest parade.
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Fayetteville
W.V
Fayetteville High School
Cold Cream Burglar Suspect Is Elkins Man
Staunton police say they halted the “cold cream burglar” with the weekend arrest of Rex Albright Jr., 51, of Elkins West Virginia. Albright faces breaking and entering and burglary charges with bond set at $50,000. He is accused of a two year spree totaling more than 50 Staunton area burglaries in which he applied cold cream to sleeping women.
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Elkins
W. Va
Albright
Staunton
WOW Ambassador Burke Arrives in Charleston for Six Months
Joseph G. Burke of Smithtown New York arrives in Charleston to promote the Way Biblical Research Center based in New Knoxville Ohio. WOW ambassadors operate in 39 cities and Australia to advance the organization. In Rome the Pantheon shows roof cracks after repeated repairs.
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Smithtown
N.Y
Charleston
Way Biblical Research Center
New Knoxville
Ohio
WOW
Australia
Weather forecast highlights scattered showers and cool week
The Western Pennsylvania and Ohio regions expect mostly cloudy skies with showers and cool conditions. Temperatures trend below normal across the central United States as a cold front retreats, with highs in the 60s to 70s and lows in the 40s to 50s.
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Mississippi
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West Virginia Supreme Court Considers Prison Case
The West Virginia Supreme Court agreed to hear a brief from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency supporting a ruling that imprisonment at the West Virginia Penitentiary may be unconstitutional. Other actions include reviewing Henry Duvernor's Roane County conviction for marijuana possession and various state prison issues.
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National Council of Crime and Delinquency
West Virginia
Supreme Court
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Ted Duvernor
Roane County
Bell County
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Richardson
Py Ear
Thomas B. Gibbs
George Triplet
Randolph
Pine-yra Reer County
Jey
Moundsville
Cout
Princeton
Dee
William Thurman
Martin Jr
Pingley
New Mommdsville
Randolph County
Elkins
Wheeling
City Council weighs advisory committee and funds action
Charleston council debates Mayor's Advisory Committee on Personnel, approves transit funds and a Star Tron device discussion. Fulks seeks return of $295.95 from a prior arrest. judge delayed ruling. Board endorsement of IBM System 3 faces minority pushback. cost concerns loom over vocational school and data processing.
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Snow Plow
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Or Tron
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Smith
Sanitary Board
Robert Silverstein
Appalachian
Jackson County
Vocational-Tech
Moore
Silverstein
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Spencer
Roane
Ripley
Jackson
Mathews
Walton
Ravenswood
Ith
Joe Smithiclasses
Thej Technical School
Stonewall
Jackson High
Don Hudson
Kenneth Coghill
Harold Fulks
City Eyes Pollution Fix From Incinerator Discharge
Richardson outlines a new plan to curb water pollution from the incinerators cooling solids. He warns the effort will be hard but essential, driven by legal duties and moral responsibility to residents.
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