Virginia Electric to raise rates in eight Virginia towns
The Virginia Electric & Power Co will raise rates by 15 percent effective Nov 1 in 21 municipalities in Virginia and North Carolina pending ERC approval. The $5,586,000 hike targets a 9.6 percent return, affecting towns including Blackstone Culpeper Elkton Manassas Wakefield Franklin Harrisonburg and others.
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Richmond
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Virginia
North Carolina
Federal Energy Regulation Commission
Vepco
ERC
Blackstone
Culpeper
Elkton
Iron Gate
Manassas
Wakefield
Franklin
Harrisonburg
Norfolk
Piedmont Calls Fortune Ranking on Safety Misleading
Piedmont Airlines disputes Fortune magazine’s ranking of major U S carriers as unsafe saying the metrics are flawed. The carrier notes Asheville crash accounted for most Piedmont fatalities in the ten year span and argues accidents have factors beyond crew control.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Piedmont Airlines
Fortune Magazine
Piedmont
Asheville
Fortune
Marjec Corp pays $6,000 in back Frederick County taxes
Marjec Corporation paid $6,000 in back taxes to Frederick County amid a larger delinquency estimated at about $200,000 across corporate and individual Shawneeland parcels. The county plans a December 9 judicial sale for delinquent parcels while pressuring the legislature to shorten the redemption period from three to two years.
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Marjec Corp
Star
Marjec Corporation
Frederick County
Marjec
Shawneeland
George Whitacre
Frederick
Circuit Court
Whitacre
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Virginia General Assembly
16 Injured in Derailment in Spencer North Carolina
A Southern Railway passenger train derailed in a Spencer yard at 2:50 a.m. injuring 16 passengers. Four engines, two baggage cars and nine passenger cars derailed. one freight car toppled. The crash was blamed on a switch malfunction. the Crescent train was en route to Salisbury Charlotte Atlanta and New Orleans.
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Spencer
N.C
Southern Railway
Earl Bullard
Rowan Memorial Hospital
Salisbury
Pat Bratton
Manassas
Ken
R.E. McCowan
Sharpe
Southern Cresent
Charlotte
Atlanta
New Orleans
O'Neill claims rent paid by Park not owed
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill says he can prove with canceled checks that Korean dealer Tongsun Park never paid the rent on his Washington apartment. The ethics committee subpoenas rent records as part of a widening influence buying probe involving Park and Rep. Boland.
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Washington
House
Thomas P. O'Neill
Tongsun Park
O'Neill
Gary Hymel
House Ethics Committee
Hymel
Edward P. Boland
Dmass
Park
Congress
No Fire at basement blaze on Fairmont Ave
Winchester volunteers responded to a smoke report from a basement at 409 Fairmont Ave shortly after midnight last night. No damage was reported. At 2 32 a.m. today volunteers checked a gas odor on the Loudoun St Mall but found no gas leak.
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Fairmont Ave
Winchester
Loudoun St
Howell to attend SCC hearing and honor barbecue in Winchester
Henry Howell the Democratic gubernatorial nominee will testify at the Potomac Edison rate increase hearing before the State Corporation Commission in Winchester. He will also attend a barbecue supper at the Frederick County Fairground from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets are available by calling local numbers. Howell's schedule lists a World Trade Conference in Richmond earlier that day.
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Henry Howell
Winchester
Potomac Edison
Frederick County Fairground
State Corporation Commission
City Hall
Howell
Frederick County
Democratic
Richmond
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Hyatt House
Norfolk
Channing Reception For Robb Open to Public
Democratic officials say the 6 p.m. fundraiser at Carpers Valley Golf Club for lieutenant governor hopeful Chuck Robb and his wife Lynda is open to the public with tickets at the door. Carol Channing and Charles F. Lowe will attend. Mrs Robb participates in a school project earlier and tours Belle Grove.
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Carol Channing
Chuck Robb
Carpers Valley Golf Club
Robb
Lynda
Boyce
Belle Grove
Frederick County
Democratic Committee
Ms. Channing
Robbs
Weather update for Virginia Valley with mainly dry conditions
Rain ends tonight in the north and west with cool temperatures around 60. Sunday brings partly cloudy skies and highs in the 60s to 70s. Extended outlook shows a chance of rain Tuesday with fair to light winds otherwise, and rainfall data from prior years noted.
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Northern Valley
Virginia
National Weather Service
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Hampton Roads
East Coast
International Longshoremen’s Association
WPA
Virginia Supreme Court
Ashland
High Court
John Paul Stevenson
Howard Franklin Bittorf
Hanover County
Stevenson
Bittorf
Lillian Emma Keller
Holly Court
Roanoke
Carlton Lee Davis
Franklin County
Robert Stroube Stroube
State Health Department
Stroube
Vam
Tidewater
Florists, Inc
Phon
Amherst Street
Funeral Home
Wen
Bernard F. Groves
S. Braddock
Hank Ebert
Winchester Rescue Squad
Christine Shirley
Rt. 7
Interstate
George Stoddart
Sam Sharpe
Southern Railways
SCC
Channing
Husband
Charles F. Lowe
Dollarama
Pacific Northwest
Maine
N. Loudoun ST
American Standard Homes
Blaine Wilson Wilson Building Service District
Paper Mill Road
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