Motion Ties W. Virginia Justice to Coal Executive
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A justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court and a powerful coal company executive met in Monte Carlo in the summer of 2006, sharing several meals even as the executiveâs companies were appealing a $50 million jury verdict against them to the court.
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday  that Arch Coal Inc. ACI.N may proceed with its bid to buy the  assets of rival Triton Coal Co. LLC, denying an emergency  request by the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, a  spokesman for the agency said.
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SYLVESTER, W., Virginia  - Mike Vaught sounds about as comfortable about coal mining as you'd hope a man tasked to rescue others from deep within the earth would be.
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By JEFFREY KELLEY Times-Dispatch Staff Writer  Verizon Virginia's president can't sign up for his company's new TV service at his Chester4field County home yet. But resi4dents in other parts of the Rich4mond metro area can -- and many by the end of the month.
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Arch Coal Inc ACI.N. on Friday  pressed forward with its acquisition of rival Triton Coal Co.  LLC after a U.S. appeals court denied an emergency request by  antitrust authorities to block the deal.
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Age is finally catching up with West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd in the winter of his 54-year career in Congress.
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R) stopped in Prince William County last week to discuss his "100 Ideas for Virginia" initiative with the chamber of commerce, but the conversation quickly turned to the county's biggest gripe: illegal immigration.
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The following editorial appeared in the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer on Thursday, June 14:  The veteran oil man George W.
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Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) often reminds residents that they have two representatives: their elected supervisor and himself, the only board member who runs at large.
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A worker was killed Sunday in an underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, a state mine safety official said.
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BENTON, Ill. -- In 2004, as a state legislator running for the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama came to this small town 300 miles from Chicago to pledge support for southern Illinois' struggling coal country.
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Monday's indictment of Rep. William Jefferson may revive pressure to fulfill their clean-government pledge.
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By Mason Adams, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 14--ROCKY MOUNT -- The Franklin County Planning Commission voted 6-0 Tuesday to recommend approval to rezone land and grant permits for a 42-acre commercial development by a county businessman.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  More than 15 years after lawmakers fought the "Garbage Wars," another battle is brewing at the state Capitol over West Virginia's solid-waste laws.
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Three environmental groups said they intend to sue two poultry processing plants, claiming unlawful discharges of waste into the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.  The companies send waste to a treatment plant in Timberville that the state has taken to court over pollution of the river.
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Gregory A. White, one of Governor Mitt Romney's two representatives on the state pension board, has joined Thomas H. Lee Co., a leveraged buyout firm in Boston that does business with the $32.5 billion retirement fund for Commonwealth employees.
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The fight for control of the General Assembly this fall could come down to several contests in Northern Virginia. An asterisk (*) identifies an incumbent.