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The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is a newspaper based in Bluefield, West Virginia, [2] [3] and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties, West Virginia; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia (including the town of Bluefield, Virginia). It publishes online Monday through Saturday.
Randall Lee Smith (June 29, 1953 – May 10, 2008) [1] was an American convicted murderer from Pearisburg, Virginia. [2] He pleaded guilty shortly before trial commenced to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of hikers Robert Mountford Jr. and Laura Susan Ramsay, both 27-year-old social workers from Maine who were murdered by Smith while hiking the Appalachian Trail in May 1981.
The station went on the air on July 31, 1955, as WHIS-TV. [4] It was named in honor of longtime West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott, who had died two years earlier.It was owned by the Shott family's Daily Telegraph Publishing Company, which owned the Bluefield Daily Telegraph along with WHIS radio (1440 AM and 98.7 FM, now WHAJ).
James Howard Harless (October 14, 1919 – January 1, 2014), better known as Buck Harless, was an American coal and timber operator and philanthropist, who was renowned in the area of his hometown of Gilbert, West Virginia, for his extensive contributions to schools, churches, healthcare and education programs.
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Ronald Turney Williams (born April 4, 1943) is an American serial killer, burglar, arsonist, [3] kidnapper, [3] prison escapee, and former fugitive.In 1979, Williams and fourteen other inmates escaped from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of a police officer. [3]
Until 1977 Amtrak's Mountaineer operated from Chicago and Cincinnati, through Bluefield, and then through lower Virginia to Norfolk, Virginia. Into the 1960s the Norfolk and Western Railroad operated trains from the Mid-West to the metropolitan Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia area, and Bluefield City was a stop. The station was located at 715 ...
Warwick ended up working for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona for a year, before signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings in 1964. [1] [3] He became the starting middle linebacker of the legendary Purple People Eaters Vikings defense of the late 1960s and early 1970s. [4]