By DREW PARKER The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — A Marshall County judge helped turn a multi-million-dollar court settlement into an educational fund to benefit two Mountain State universities. When Circuit Judge David Hummel found out that more than $6 million remained in a court settlement account from a class-action[Read More…]
Month: January 2017
Tomblin leads final meeting of Workforce Planning Council, discusses highlights
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Outgoing Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin led his final meeting of the Workforce Planning Council Tuesday, highlighting success stories of the last three years. The council, which meets monthly, is composed of different state education and economic development officials with the goal to[Read More…]
Capito to serve on four senate committees
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito will continue to serve on three Senate committees along with a new assignment of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. She will continue serving on the U.S. Senate Committees on Appropriations, Environment and Public Works, and[Read More…]
Drug wholesaler agrees to pay $3.5M to settle WV lawsuit
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Prescription drug distributor H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co. has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a 4-year-old lawsuit that alleges the company failed to report suspicious orders from West Virginia pharmacies, state officials announced Tuesday. The settlement is the largest to[Read More…]
Huntington improves score in 2016 equality index
By JOSEPHINE MENDEZ The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Strides made by Huntington officials toward making the city a place of fairness and inclusion for all has a major civil rights organization to take notice. The Human Rights Campaign recently released its 2016 Municipal Equality Index, which ranks 506 U.S. cities of[Read More…]
Mon Power customers will see increase in bill of about 1.9 percent
By AUSTIN WEIFORD The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Customers of Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy Corporation, will see about a 1.9 percent increase in their bills beginning this month. For typical customers who use 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month, this will mean an increase of[Read More…]
WV Turnpike traffic up over holiday weekends
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Turnpike traffic continued an upward trend over the Christmas holidays, with traffic up 3.6 percent over the 2015 holiday travel period, and up 6.7 percent over 2011, the last time Christmas fell on a Sunday, Parkways Authority general manager Greg[Read More…]
10 things to know today: Wednesday, Jan. 4
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. BUSY DAY SLATE FOR CAPITOL Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence have dueling agendas[Read More…]
In WV and US, women mobilizing in response to election
This is the third installment in a three-part analysis of women in West Virginia politics. By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charlene Marshall, the first black mayor in West Virginia and a former 14-year member in the state House of Delegates, wasn’t planning on running for office. “I[Read More…]
Eleven years later, Sago mine disaster still haunts community
By MATTHEW BURDETTE The Inter-Mountain SAGO, W.Va. — Eleven years ago, a dozen West Virginians lost their lives in one of the worst coal mining disasters in more than a generation. Even though so much time has passed, the shadow of the loss of family members, friends and neighbors echoes[Read More…]