Month: September 2014

Senior citizens rally set for Tuesday

WVPA Sharing photos will be available EDITOR’S NOTE: The WVPA will take photos at this rally and distribute them to all member newspapers. Editors should watch emails and look for postings after 1 p.m. CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The West Virginia Directors of Senior and Community Services will host a rally[Read More…]

W.Va. State seeks self-sufficiency with gas wells

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Last Wednesday, West Virginia State University began using a new source of natural gas — from under the university itself. The first of three natural gas wells to be built on the Institute campus came online at 2 p.m. Wednesday. A crew from Spencer-based Reserve Oil[Read More…]

W.Va. authorities get suspected ‘doctor shopper’ list

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy has given police the names of 90 suspected “doctor shoppers,” who solicited an excessive number of prescriptions for pain pills over the past year. A pharmacy board committee generated the list after reviewing the state’s controlled-substances database. One of the individuals[Read More…]

I-79 technology park is W.Va. crown jewel

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — To explain the mission of the West Virginia High Technology Foundation, President and CEO Jim Estep went back in time to the late 1980s. U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd had just become chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “As chair of that committee, Sen. Byrd had incredible[Read More…]

W.Va. officials feeling pressure for online gambling

WHEELING, W.Va. — Consider these numbers: Since 2009, table gambling receipts have declined 76 percent at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, according to the West Virginia Lottery Commission. Slot machines haven’t fared much better at the Wheeling track, dropping from a high of $2.2 billion put into the machines in 2004 to[Read More…]

Marshall County to see yet another pipeline

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. – Contractors are planning to build another 42-inch pipeline to send up to 3.25 billion cubic feet of Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas daily across Ohio for use in Michigan and Canada via Rover’s $4.3 billion project. As Dominion Resources and its partners proceed with their $5[Read More…]

Bad guys have better weapons, too

A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Would it surprise you to learn that military weaponry in the hands of police departments is nothing new? It came as a revelation to several younger people with whom I discussed the controversy over the Defense Department[Read More…]

Falling ranks of in-state dental students is sad trend

An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Just a few years ago, in 2010, about 80 percent of the incoming class at West Virginia University’s School of Dentistry was Mountain State residents. But the number of West Virginians entering the school this year is just 27, or about 45[Read More…]

Mason County home of noted state historian razed

MASON, W.Va. — The decaying home of a noted West Virginia historian is coming down in Mason, but will be replaced with a park in his memory. The Virgil A. Lewis House, located on Brown Street, was home to Lewis from 1905-1912. The first West Virginia state historian, Lewis was[Read More…]

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