Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT OUTSIDE TRUMP RALLY IN NEW MEXICO Demonstrators throw burning T-shirts,[Read More…]
Month: May 2016
W.Va. fire departments receive FEMA assistance grants
Grants totaling more than $887,000 awarded in West Virginia WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today announced new Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) awards totaling $887,145 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The funding will benefit Springfield Valley Volunteer Fire Company in[Read More…]
WV Republican delegates issue statement on tobacco tax vote
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Several House Republican lawmakers Monday urged their fellow delegates to support a 45-cent increase in the state’s tobacco tax, saying it is essential to passing a balanced budget and averting an interruption in government services. A group of 16 Republican delegates said Senate Bill 1005, up for[Read More…]
Capito statement on legislation to protect sexual assault victims
Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2016 aims to protect victims of sexual assault and prevent future abuses by registered sex offenders WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) issued the following statement regarding the Senate’s passage of the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2016 today on an 89-0 vote: “Sexual assault[Read More…]
House, Senate budgets would raid WV Rainy Day funds
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Senate and House Finance committees on Monday unveiled budget bills that significantly raid West Virginia’s Rainy Day emergency reserve funds to close a $270 million shortfall in the $4.1 billion general revenue budget. The Senate plan would take $135 million from the Rainy Day A account[Read More…]
Coal executive’s death probed as homicide
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bennett K. “Ben” Hatfield, an engineer and longtime coal company executive who worked for Massey Energy and Arch Coal, was found dead from a gunshot wound in a Mingo County cemetery Monday, according to Mingo Prosecuting Attorney Teresa Maynard. Maynard said Hatfield’s death is being investigated as a[Read More…]
Time to rethink metro approach in Charleston?
A Gazette editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Back in the 1990s, some Charleston leaders worried that the state capital could slip below the 50,000 population required for a Class I city — and the decrease might make some federal grants more difficult to obtain, or drop Charleston off[Read More…]
Congress should maintain school lunch programs
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It’s called the “Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016.” But as revised by a House of Representative’s committee last week, that is not what this bill to reauthorize federal child nutrition programs would do. Amendments curb some of the nutrition standards[Read More…]
WV’s no-permit concealed carry begins today
WHEELING, W.Va. — Effective today, West Virginia residents at least 21 years of age may carry concealed handguns without permits. The Republican-led Legislature approved the legislation, House Bill 4145, on Feb. 24. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, vetoed the bill on March 3, but lawmakers overrode his veto two[Read More…]
Martinsburg senior needed full ride and got it
Student Spotlight is a weekly feature highlighting the best and the brightest at area schools. It appears each Tuesday in The Journal. To nominate a student for Student Spotlight, contact Katiann Marshall at [email protected]; 304-263-3381, ext. 182; or www.twitter.com/kmarshallJN. MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Senior David Laub of Martinsburg High School always[Read More…]