By Greg Jordan Bluefield Daily Telegraph BECKLEY – Imagine being checked out by the FBI before you decorate your house for Christmas. This scenario might sound outrageous, but it was a necessary step for a West Virginian who was among the decorators and other professionals invited to share their Christmas[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Intelligencer CHARLESTON – Years after the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals kicked a decision regarding the legalities of the state’s public charter school pilot program back to a Kanawha County judge, that same judge said current and future charter schools may require voter input.[Read More…]

By Tom Markland The Journal MARTINSBURG — Hundreds of first responders, service members and residents gathered outside the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday evening for a candlelight vigil honoring Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, the West Virginia National Guardsman critically wounded in a shooting near the White House last week.[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has told the Gazette-Mail it did not use a monitoring device that can aid emergency search and rescue opera-tions in its response to try to save a mine worker who died after officials say his Nicholas County mine was[Read More…]

By Greg JordanThe Register-Herald BECKLEY — Celebrating impactful economic development and successful entrepreneurs were the goals Wednesday during the Annual Client Showcase and Awards Banquet hosted by the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority. Convening at the Historic Black Knight Club in Beckley, an audience including local leaders and business[Read More…]

By Laura Bilson Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON — Nearly a month after coal miner Steve Lipscomb’s death in the Roll-ing Thunder mine in Nicholas County, miners and their families gathered alongside elected officials and coal company representatives Wednesday for a Blessing for the Miners of West Virginia event at the state[Read More…]

From the West Virginia Daily News Charleston, W.Va. – WV Secretary of State Kris Warner was the keynote speaker today for the “Praise, Remembrance, and Blessing for the Miners of West Virginia” ceremony held at the State Capitol rotunda. The ceremony was hosted by the WV Coal Association and Greenbrier Smokeless Mining Company in[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezTimes West Virginian FAIRMONT — A Washington D.C.-based film festival is trying to foster new voices in film from West Virginia, coinciding with the state’s own efforts to expand its film industry. Dierdre Evans-Pritchard, executive director of the D.C. Independent Film Forum, said the moving image will possibly[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Weirton Daily Times CHARLESTON — With federal funding up in the air and an unclear budget picture for the next fiscal year, the board that manages West Virginia Public Broadcasting will have to rely more on its foundations, local giving, and national philanthropy. The West[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan CNHI West Virginia WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Virginia’s senators in Congress announced a resolution Tuesday honoring two West Virginia National Guard troops who were ambushed and shot while serving in their nation’s capitol. U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jim Justice, R-W.Va., introduced a resolution Tuesday[Read More…]