By Charles Young, WV News WASHINGTON (WV News) — West Virginia Republican Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice both voted Wednesday to pass the more than $9 billion package requested by President Donald Trump to formalize cuts to previously approved federal spending. The rescissions package passed 51-to-48. It now[Read More…]

By Ashley Perham, The Herald-Dispatch BECKLEY, W.Va. — On March 1, 2022, Quantez Burks, 37, died at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County after being brutally beaten by correctional officers in a room with no security cameras, according to court documents. His family say they were told he died[Read More…]

By Derek Redd, The Intelligencer WASHINGTON, DC — Diana Estep understands that the HALT Fentanyl Act she watched President Donald Trump sign Wednesday at the White House won’t bring back her son Drew, who died of fentanyl poisoning in 2020 at just 24 years old. Neither will the rallies and[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey praised a decision made Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a case brought when he was attorney general challenging West Virginia’s near-total ban on abortion and limits on medication used for abortion. A three-judge panel[Read More…]

By Charles Young, WV News MINERAL WELLS (WV News) — Wood County will receive nearly $200,000 to fund a site preparation project and a utility upgrade project, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday. The Wood County Development Authority will get $150,000 through the Ready Sites Program to begin the process of[Read More…]

By Kate Shunney, The Morgan Messenger BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A multi-year public planning effort for Maryland’s commuter train service has resulted in the creation of a “MARC Growth and Transformation Plan” which was published in late June by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) and Maryland Department of Transportation. MARC[Read More…]

By Stephen Smoot, Moorefield Examiner MOOREFIELD, W.Va. — As many West Virginia telecommunications companies and officials, elected and otherwise, continue to creatively develop ways to extend broadband service, under the radar of most, a case slowly made its way through the Byzantine recesses of the federal court system. On the[Read More…]

Hundreds celebrate Rosie’s big day By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain ELKINS — Despite rainy weather conditions, hundreds of spectators came out to witness the unveiling of the new Rosie the Riveter Statue that was placed in the All-Veterans Memorial Park on Monday afternoon. The 6-foot, 3-inch statue was made possible[Read More…]

By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph WELCH — The Stevens Correctional Center in McDowell County is now under the control of the West Virginia Division of Corrections. Legislation introduced earlier this year in the West Virginia Legislature placed the county-run facility in Welch on a path to state control. The[Read More…]