Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993 TAG: 9307140404
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: GRUNDY LENGTH: Medium
No problems were reported on the picket lines during the first 18 hours of the strike against CONSOL Inc. in Buchanan County, where about 800 miners walked out at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
"The mines are shut down and not producing coal, so there aren't any problems," state police Sgt. Curtis L. Bailey said.
United Mine Workers spokesman Jim Grossfeld said Tuesday the union anticipated that none of the companies will try to produce coal by hiring replacement workers. - Associated Press
Dead patient's family sues hospital, doctor
WILLIAMSBURG - The family of a woman who died after emergency room treatment at Williamsburg Community Hospital has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the hospital and a doctor.
Evelyn S. Turner, 32, went to the hospital May 7, 1990, as an outpatient for a pelvic ultrasound.
After the procedure, she became ill, according to the lawsuit filed last month in Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court.
Turner later passed out and stopped breathing.
Dr. Felipe Rigau placed a tube in her trachea to help her breathe.
A few minutes later, another hospital employee found the end of the tube was in Turner's esophagus, the suit said.
She never regained consciousness and became brain dead.
The suit alleges that the hospital failed to properly train or supervise respiratory therapy personnel. - Associated Press
Liberty U. workers going without pay
LYNCHBURG - Employees of Liberty University will lose two weeks' pay this summer to save more than $800,000 for the school's operating budget, school attorney Jerry Falwell Jr. said.
Money for the school's basic expenses has been spent on costs related to the school's $46 million debt restructuring plan, according to a memo given employees last week.
The debt plan has yet to be approved by creditors.
- Associated Press
2 more taken to UVa for liver transplants
CHARLOTTESVILLE - The National Institutes of Health has moved two more patients who took an experimental drug from its clinic to the University of Virginia Medical Center for liver transplants.
In all, 10 of the 15 patients receiving the experimental drug for hepatitis B in a recent NIH study have suffered serious side effects and have been brought from around the country to the NIH Clinical Center in nearby Bethesda, Md., for observation.
NIH has moved five needing transplants to the University of Virginia hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. - Associated Press
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