By LEAH NESTOR The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va.  — The American Heart Association has changed the guidelines for what is considered high blood pressure, along with treatment plans. Previously defined as Stage 1 hypertension was a blood pressure reading of 140/90, but has now been changed to 130/80. Guidelines now[Read More…]

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Within the next month, county clerks will be sending out confirmation cards to residents who haven’t voted in the last two federal elections to make sure addresses are current. Secretary of State Mac Warner along with county clerks are urging residents to[Read More…]

The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. CHARLES MANSON, WHOSE CULT SLAYINGS HORRIFIED WORLD, DIES The imprisoned hippie cult leader, who orchestrated[Read More…]

By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Regular financial disclosures to investors about the performance of publicly traded corporations would not include details about mining company safety violations or worker deaths, under a bill that is sponsored by Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., and that advanced this week out[Read More…]

By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge on Thursday tapped on the brakes — at least for now — in Mountain Valley Pipeline’s effort to fast-track one of two lawsuits against hundreds of landowners seeking to use eminent domain to gain easements for construction of[Read More…]

By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The richest 1 percent of West Virginians would see huge tax cuts under the tax reform plan being considered by the U.S. Senate, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. At the same time, the poorest 20 percent of[Read More…]

By MARY CATHERINE BROOKS The Register-Herald OCEANA, W.Va. — Craig Rhodes knows what it’s like to spend months in an intense drug recovery program only to come home and find there is no support system in place. “In Wyoming County, you’re on your own,” Rhodes emphasized. It should not be difficult[Read More…]

By ALEC BERRY The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — As fire chief in a city where almost 30 people overdosed in a four-hour period last year, Jan Rader finds herself at ground zero of a crisis she believes “could very well bankrupt our country.” Rader — who was[Read More…]