The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. MIDDLE EAST BRACES FOR UNREST, NEW DIPLOMATIC MOVES Palestinians shutter schools, shops, call for protests[Read More…]
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Lawmakers hear recommendations from WV Forward project
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia is at a crossroads with its economic challenges, according to an associate vice president at West Virginia University, who said, “It’s time to see enthusiasm to turn the page and write the next chapter.” Rochelle Goodwin, senior associate vice president[Read More…]
WV legislators discuss electricity prices, prescription drug costs
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s electricity rates, for years among the lowest in the nation, have risen in the past decade to the middle of the pack, raising concerns for state efforts to recruit business and industry to the state, legislators were told Tuesday. “We[Read More…]
As overdoses climb, gabapentin designated ‘drug of concern’ in WV
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Pharmacy has designated the nerve-pain medication gabapentin — sold under the brand name Neurontin — a “drug of concern” amid a surge of overdoses. The pharmacy board has started to track gabapentin sales. In a recent month,[Read More…]
Multi-drug ‘cocktails’ causing more West VIrginia overdose deaths
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — As overdose deaths increase in West Virginia, so has the number of fatalities from multiple drug “cocktails,” according to “West Virginia Drug Overdose Deaths Historical Overview” released by the Bureau of Public Health, a division of West Virginia’s Department of Health and[Read More…]
Eric Conn’s victims welcome news of arrest in Honduras
By COURTNEY HESSLER The Herald-Dispatch LEXINGTON, Ky. — Officials say “Mr. Social Security” Eric Conn, who had been named as one of America’s most wanted federal criminals after he escaped custody in June before his sentencing, was en route to the United States on Tuesday after his stay in Honduras abruptly[Read More…]
Blankenship’s Senate campaign papers made public
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal records made public Tuesday show that former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is officially a candidate and has formed the Don Blankenship for U.S. Senate campaign committee. Blankenship listed as his address a post office box in Williamson, according to[Read More…]
State BOE approves renovations at area schools
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Renovation plans affecting nearly a dozen schools in Wayne, Lincoln and Mason counties were unanimously approved by the West Virginia State Board of Education on Tuesday at its meeting hosted by Marshall University. The plans were submitted as part of the counties’ annual[Read More…]
Incoming Fairmont State University President Martin living in dorm to show accessibility
By TIFFANY TOWNER Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Incoming Fairmont State University President Mirta Martin doesn’t just want to tell students that she’s accessible; she wants to show it. And since the beginning of November, she’s been demonstrating that, as she lives in a dorm room on the fifth[Read More…]
West Virginia Secretary of State: State needs more full-time farmers
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — The decline of coal mining also has led to a decrease in the number of dairy and cattle farmers in West Virginia, according to state Secretary of Agriculture Kent Leonhardt. Leonhardt visited the Northern Panhandle Tuesday, taking time to[Read More…]