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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1998
Page
14
Saturday night has a chance of showers with lows 45 to 50. Sunday and Monday bring partial to mostly cloudy skies with chances of showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures reach the mid to upper 60s, with morning lows around 50s. Stream conditions listed for Bluestone, Summersville, and R. D. Bailey lakes.
A weather brief notes rising statistics amid scattered figures from 1970 and 1971, with 82 percent and times 6:29 a.m. to 8:15 p.m. Thunderstorms are likely and highs are in the mid-60s. Saturday calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and highs in the 60s.
Maestas told The Register-Herald he cooperated with federal authorities as a star witness and was offered immunity and a plea deal but did not plead guilty. The case centers on two DOE Hazmat contracts awarded to CWV and involves six counts accusing him of submitting inflated invoices for services not performed.
Woodrow Wilson High School senior Christopher Jennings has served as organist at Beckley Presbyterian Church since ninth grade. He plans to major in organ performance at Indiana University and will perform an end of year concert featuring works by American German and French composers.
Schools face rising threats as incidents across multiple states link to youth violence. In Topeka a student avoided arrest after an outburst, while others in Lone Oak, Klamath Falls, Ryan, Narragansett, Hanover, Mars, Ebensburg, and Spokane produced threats to kill or harm staff and classmates. Authorities pursue charges, counseling, and investigations to curb alarming behavior.
Experts link declining teen births to reduced sexual activity and higher contraceptive use, with 1995 showing a drop in teens reporting sex. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy urges parental involvement as states compete for welfare reform funds and broadcast anti pregnancy messages.
A federal grand jury in Charleston indicted Ronnie Marvin Moore and Dexter Wayne Pritt of Clay County and Jesus Alarcon Lizzagarro of Dunbar on conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine or marijuana. Moore faces firearm charge and long prison terms with heavy fines. Pritt and Lizzagarro face multi year terms and multi million fines. A Georgia man, Jimmy Perkins of Villa Rica, is charged with failure to pay past due child support, facing potential penalties.
A Fayette County woman, Alice Pettitt, 51, of Winona, died when the Geo Metro she rode in was rear ended by a Dodge pickup on U.S. Route 60 near Lavista at 10:30 a.m. The Geo’s driver Shannon Kirby, 27, and Pettitt’s son Ronald Pettitt, 24, were treated and released. The pickup driver Harry Bowles, 55, of Fayetteville was not injured. Roadway was wet and investigation continues.
Mike Slater says state computers are in good shape and not fearing a 2000 crash. Legislature budgeted about 5 million this year for Tax Department and other agencies, after an earlier 30 million estimate panicked lawmakers. Some fix work shifts to agency reprogramming and delayed software rewrites, with Medicaid not complete until May 1999 and adult abuse system by December.
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