CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Insurance underwriters filed suit Wednesday against a nonprofit group associated with the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic golf tournament. The underwriters say they shouldn’t be responsible for the money The Greenbrier resort owner Jim Justice handed out for holes-in-one during the tournament — because the golfers who hit the[Read More…]
Month: August 2015
Landslide costs have Yeager airport in crunch
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With construction costs mounting to stabilize and rebuild its collapsed safety overrun, and no reimbursement funds flowing in from its insurer or federal emergency sources, Yeager Airport is nearing the bottom of its financial barrel, members of the Charleston airport’s finance committee were told on Wednesday. Terry Sayre,[Read More…]
Plea deal returns millions to ex-Freedom executive
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Freedom Industries President Gary Southern on Wednesday pleaded guilty to three water pollution crimes in a deal that will send him to jail, but set the stage for him to get back $7.3 million and a Bentley luxury car that were seized when he was charged[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Thursday, Aug. 20
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers: 1. GLOBAL TERROR LINK IS ‘UNLIKELY’ IN BANGKOK BOMBING Chinese[Read More…]
Capito: Unnecessary EPA methane regulations hinder natural gas growth
“I will continue working with my colleagues to rein in the administration’s unrelenting overreach and strike a balance between protecting our environment and allowing states like West Virginia to seize the opportunity of our vast natural gas resources.” – Senator Capito WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito[Read More…]
OxyContin for kids is dangerous idea
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Food and Drug Administration seems clueless. As pain-pill-driven addiction has swept across the nation over the past decade, the federal agency has continued to approve more powerful drugs and loosen restriction on their uses. This week the FDA approved using OxyContin with[Read More…]
W.Va. marijuana advocates conducting survey
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In an effort to show lawmakers that West Virginians support rolling back marijuana laws, the West Virginia chapter of a marijuana advocacy organization is conducting a survey of West Virginians’ attitudes on the legalization of pot. Justin Quinn, spokesman for the state chapter of NORML, the National[Read More…]
Freedom’s Farrell pleads guilty to pollution charges
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Freedom Industries official Dennis Farrell on Tuesday admitted to two water pollution charges for his role in the January 2014 chemical leak that contaminated the drinking-water supply for hundreds of thousands of people in Charleston and surrounding communities. Farrell pleaded guilty to unlawful discharge of refuse[Read More…]
EPA moves to cut gas industry’s methane emissions
WHEELING, W.Va. — Marcellus and Utica shale drillers may have thought they were in the clear when the Environmental Protection Agency found fracking did not create “widespread” water problems, but the government will now force the industry to cut 45 percent of its methane emissions. At the same time officials[Read More…]
Clean power plan bemoaned at Wheeling coal forum
WHEELING, W.Va. — For better or for worse, depending on one’s perspective, President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan will significantly change America by the year 2030 – if its goal of cutting 32 percent of CO2 emissions from electricity plants becomes reality. To the dozens of coal industry officials, elected[Read More…]
