By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The opioid epidemic destroys lives, but it also destroys families, leaving thousands of West Virginia children without permanent homes. That’s why agencies from across the state will converge in Huntington on Saturday to provide a one-stop shop for anyone interested in fostering[Read More…]
Month: May 2017
Jenkins asks the DEA to re-evaluate opioid production quota system
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Representative Evan Jenkins sent a letter to the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency asking the agency to re-evaluate its quota system for opioid production. Jenkins sent the letter Monday to DEA Director Chuck Rosenberg. According to the news release, Jenkins[Read More…]
Filming the Mothman mystery with ‘Small Town Monsters’
By BETH SERGENT Point Pleasant Register POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Though film crews may cause a stir in most small towns, not so much in Point Pleasant.Since the explosion of material on the city’s infamous Mothman, including a major motion picture dedicated to it (though that was filmed nowhere near[Read More…]
Del. Rupert Phillips to announce run for U.S. Congress
Staff report The Logan Banner CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Delegate Rupert “Rupie” Phillips, who lives in Lundale, West Virginia in Logan County, will announce his candidacy for West Virginia’s Third District congressional seat at 1:30 p.m. today – Thursday, May 11 – in the Governor’s Press Conference Room (located adjacent to[Read More…]
Coopers Rock State Forest to host 6th Annual Morgantown Migratory Bird Day on Saturday
Staff report Preston County News & Journal BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. – The Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia (ACCA) will celebrate Morgantown Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 13, at Coopers Rock State Forest. The celebration begins at 7:30 a.m. with a guided bird walk on the Raven Rock Trail. After[Read More…]
10 things to know: Thursday, May 11
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Thursday, May 11, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:[Read More…]
Trump officials seek opioid solutions in WV
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kellyanne Conway, special counsel to President Donald Trump, and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price stopped at Fire Station No. 2 on Charleston’s West Side Tuesday afternoon as part of a “listening tour” that aims to gather solutions to the[Read More…]
AHCA causes stir at WV Capitol; Manchin, Capito weigh in
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tempers flared at the West Virginia Capitol on Tuesday when protesters needled a D.C. political entourage in town on a “listening tour” regarding the pending replacement of the Affordable Care Act, leading to the arrest of one Charleston man. Health and Human[Read More…]
West Virginia Senators Manchin, Capito expect changes to health bill
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito agree any health care plan passed by Congress must require insurance providers to cover the pre-existing conditions of their clients. However, the two West Virginia senators — Manchin, a Democrat, and Capito,[Read More…]
Blankenship released from home confinement today
By LINDA HARRIS The State Journal Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s year in federal custody ends today, May 10. Blankenship, 67, has finished serving his one-year sentence for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards in connection with the April 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine, which[Read More…]
