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W.Va. house committee axes bill to stop law enforcement property forfeitures

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State code allows law enforcement officers to claim ownership of property seized from criminal suspects without convicting them of a crime; the House Judiciary Committee axed a bill Monday that would have changed that. House Bill 4615, the subject of two hours[Read More…]

West Virginia Senate Natural Resources Committee approves bill

By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — The Senate Natural Resources Committee approved a bill to reunite surface and mineral interests in cases where property taxes are unpaid. SB 148 establishes the conditions for a surface owner to purchase the minerals beneath when the minerals are subject to[Read More…]

West Virginia Senate approves consumer loan bill in party-line vote

By RUSTY MARKS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — Members of the West Virginia Senate passed a controversial consumer loan bill Monday that would expand the amount of money state residents could borrow on a high-interest loan. The Senate postponed a vote on Senate Bill 398 last Friday after several Democrats accused[Read More…]

West Virginia House to vote on SNAP work requirements Tuesday

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates is slated to vote on a bill Tuesday that would impose a 20-hour-per-week work requirement on people receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. House Bill 4001 would require able-bodied adults age 18 to 49 to either work,[Read More…]

Natural gas royalties bill backers push for quick passage

By KATE MISHKIN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Nearly two weeks after a natural gas royalties bill was moved from the West Virginia Senate’s Energy, Industry and Mining Committee to its Judiciary Committee, property rights advocates held a news conference Monday morning to try to push the bill forward. Senate[Read More…]

W.Va. House Finance Committee debates Health Care for State’s Foster Children

By Jim Workman West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While delegates on both sides of the issue expressed concern about the wellbeing of foster children in West Virginia, they differ in how best to provide health care to nearly 6,200 children affected. House Bill 4241 — legislation transitioning foster children into[Read More…]

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On the rise: Rural areas seeing greater increase in suicide rates, numbers

By JOHN McVEY The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Over the past several years, the rate and number of suicides has been going up in West Virginia. “Not only West Virginia, but across the United States,” Barrie Faucett, the director of Prevent Suicide West Virginia, said in a recent telephone interview. “There[Read More…]

Marshall students fight human trafficking

By GINNY BLAKE The Parthenon HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Students in Marshall University’s Open Source Intelligence Exchange Program, OSIX for short, have assisted Operation Underground Railroad in the liberation of almost 40 child trafficking victims and the arrest of 10 suspected traffickers in Latin America since fall semester. According to Operation[Read More…]

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