WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. West Virginia University alumnus Nick Underwood has been flying into the eye of Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, to collect critical data about the storm and where it’s headed. Underwood, a native of Beaver, graduated from WVU in 2014 with a[Read More…]
Month: September 2017
Arbitrator: Gazette-Mail owes $3.8M to Daily Mail owners
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An arbitration filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court has ordered the owners of the Charleston Gazette-Mail to pay nearly $3.8 million to the publishers of the former Charleston Daily Mail. Arbitrator Edward McDevitt ruled that the Daily Gazette Co. and the Daily Gazette[Read More…]
Ruling: Gazette-Mail owners owe $3.8 million to ex-Daily Mail owners
By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An arbitrator has ruled that the owners of the Charleston Gazette-Mail must pay about $3.8 million to the former owners of the Charleston Daily Mail. The arbitrator made his ruling on Aug. 28, and the decision was filed this week in U.S.[Read More…]
West Virginia Supreme Court in session at Independence Hall in Wheeling
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Wheeling Park High School seniors Miyah Kureishy and Sierra Donaldson said their interest in law grew after listening to attorneys present arguments Wednesday before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals at Independence Hall in Wheeling. Kureishy and Donaldson[Read More…]
Aircraft missing, presumed crashed near Marion county
By CARTER WALKER Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Authorities are searching for a plane that may have crashed in or near Marion County. The Marion County 911 call log indicates that a plane went missing shortly before 9:30 a.m. Dispatchers with the 911 center in Marion County said they[Read More…]
Opponents, supporters talk Pleasants Power Station sale in Parkersburg
By JEFFREY SAULTON The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Those for and against the proposed purchase of the Pleasants Power Station by Monongahela Power Co. and Potomac Edison Co. made their voices heard during a public comment meeting with the West Virginia Public Service Commission Wednesday. During the[Read More…]
Huntington officials, agencies clearing homeless from Ohio River banks
By COURTNEY HESSLER and JOSEPHINE MENDEZ The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington city officials started the process Thursday of clearing homeless encampments near Harris Riverfront Park along the Ohio River, according to City Communications Director Bryan Chambers. Several agencies arrived at the area known as “Tent City” between the floodwall[Read More…]
Larry Kump to run again for house seat in 2018
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Former two-term West Virginia Delegate Larry D. Kump, who once proposed that the Eastern Panhandle secede from West Virginia, has decided to run again for state office. Kump will be running for a seat in the State House of Delegates in 2018[Read More…]
Morgantown town hall meeting to address concerns about Trump’s budget proposal
By DOUGLAS SOULE The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Morgantown town hall meeting will address concerns about Trump’s budget proposal. Scheduled for Saturday, the town hall will be hosted by Mountaineers for Progress and the West Virginia Citizen Action Group. “There are real people in our community, good people,[Read More…]
W.Va. Department of Health and Human Resources accepting Disaster Supplement Nutritional Assistance Program applications
By CHRISTOPHER DOWELL The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources will accept applications for Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from those who lived or worked in Harrison, Marion and Wetzel counties during the July 29 floods. Persons may apply for D-SNAP[Read More…]
