28 Aug 1998
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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1998
Page
1
High school football opens with Oak Hill traveling to Beckley in the season opener. The matchup pits two nearby programs as coaches gauge early form and depth.
Beckley police say Marjorie Lynn Mize 45 was found dead of a gunshot wound in a wooded area near Pine Lodge nursing home three hours after John Eric Workman 38 was captured in Richwood on a parole violation. Workman is charged with Mize murder. weapon not recovered.
McDowell County Bradshaw police chief Chloe Frankie Stanton 43 was shot in her office and is in critical condition. Charlie Vance 61 of Paynesville was detained for riding a horse while intoxicated and is charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding. Stanton confronted him after seeing a gun in his holster before treatment at Welch Emergency Hospital and Charleston Area Medical Center.
Charleston officials report four inmate deaths in 1998 across Kanawha, South Central and Logan regional jails, amid 28 000 annual inmates and a planned outside review by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to address overcrowding and safety concerns.
In Moscow pressure grows for Yeltsin to resign while Parliament mulls Soviet style fixes such as currency controls fixed prices and state ownership to halt the financial meltdown. Yeltsin denies stepping down as Chernomyrdin says the situation is controllable and talks with hardliners continue ahead of the Yeltsin Clinton summit next week.
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