CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to schedule guilty plea hearings for two former Freedom Industries owners. Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Wright filed the motions Wednesday morning for former Freedom owners Charles Herzing, 63, of McMurray, Pa., and William Tis, 60, of Verona, Pa. The motions, each[Read More…]
Month: February 2015
House OKs bill to allow Teach for America in W.Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Teach for America, an education program that puts recent college graduates from non-education backgrounds in low-performing schools, has its first invite to West Virginia. The House of Delegates approved an alternative teacher-certification bill that will allow programs such as Teach for America to operate in the Mountain[Read More…]
W.Va. teen hit by lightning, lived to tell millions
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Robert C. Byrd High School graduate Zach Sandy, who was struck by lightning in the summer of 2012 and believed to be dead, miraculously started breathing 30 minutes after the strike. Zach has been sharing his story of faith and healing with churches and groups around the East[Read More…]
Report says WVU frats had double their capacities
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A supplemental report from Lt. Keith Summers, a Morgantown fire marshal, says both of the fraternities suspended Monday, Feb. 9, had more than double the amount of people allowed by code in their party rooms. Morgantown Fire Marshal Ken Tennant said the Kappa Alpha Order’s house, at[Read More…]
Valuable toys, trains taken from Wheeling museum
WHEELING, W.Va. — A part of toy history – valued at nearly $30,000 – was stolen Monday from the Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum, and now city police are asking the public for help in solving this crime. According to a Wheeling Police Department report, someone broke into the[Read More…]
Former Kodak plant in Jefferson County sold
MIDDLEWAY, W.Va. — Although the former Eastman Kodak manufacturing plant in Middleway closed its doors nine years ago, the facility has recently been acquired by Commercial Liability Partners WV LLC – and may become a productive industrial site again in the future. Commercial Liability Partners WV LLC is a St.[Read More…]
Proctor & Gamble to build plant in Martinsburg
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Touting it as one of the largest economic projects in the state’s history, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Tuesday formally announced international manufacturing company Procter & Gamble will be constructing a new manufacturing plant in Berkeley County. The plant will be at least 1 million[Read More…]
Wood County boy, 3, loses wheelchair to theft
VIENNA, W.Va. — For most 3-year-olds, wheels are an adventure. They ride, they roll, wheels are the way from here to there. Brantly Poling is not the typical 3-year-old, however. Wheels are his transportion everywhere. Brantly, 3, was born with spina bifida and his wheels, and wheelchair, are his life.[Read More…]
Affair allegations draw crowd in Parkersburg
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — More than 100 people attended Tuesday’s City Council meeting, with several speaking out about allegations of misconduct by Mayor Bob Newell and Finance Director Ashley Flowers during the session’s public forum. That overshadowed the presentation by Newell of the nearly $28 million proposed 2015-16 municipal budget, an[Read More…]
Prison appropriate for ex-Bridgeport mayor
An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — What is the fair amount of prison time for an honest citizen and servant of the people who has gone bad in recent years? That’s the dilemma that faced U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley in Clarksburg during the man’s[Read More…]
