Release from Problem Gamblers Help Network of West Virginia CHARLESTON, W.Va. — It is no coincidence that March, the month when the NCAA basketball tournament is in full swing, is National Problem Gambling Awareness Month. According to the American Gaming Association, an estimated $10 billion will be spent on the “March Madness”[Read More…]

  CHICAGO, Ill. — For the second consecutive year, total payments to care for individuals living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias are projected to surpass a quarter of a trillion dollars ($277 billion), which includes an increase of nearly $20 billion over last year, according to data reported in the[Read More…]

By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal lawmakers railed against the Drug Enforcement Administration Tuesday for failing to stop prescription drug distributors from shipping tens of millions of opioid painkillers to small-town pharmacies in Southern West Virginia. Members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee demanded to know why[Read More…]

By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald UNION, W.Va. — A week after signaling he would grant an injunction against tree-sitter protestors located near the summit of Peters Mountain, Circuit Court Judge Robert Irons reversed that decision Tuesday. At the close of the first hearing on March 13, Irons gave Mountain Valley Pipeline[Read More…]

By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel HOUSTON — The Marcellus and Utica shale natural gas deposits throughout the Appalachia region have the potential to change the natural gas industry in North America, officials said. Officials with Shale Crescent USA are at the World Petrochemical Conference this week in[Read More…]

By KATE MISHKIN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A $151 million class-action settlement over the 2014 Kanawha Valley water crisis might be completely paid out, the most recent report of the settlement administrator shows. All told, there were 95,155 claim forms worth $159,102,307 in settlements, according to the eight-page Periodic Report[Read More…]

By MEGHAN McCLUNG Jackson Newspapers RIPLEY, W.Va. — Based upon a recent report from Mac Warner, West Virginia Secretary of State, Jackson County leads the state in overall new business corporations established in the calendar year of 2017. Mark Whitley, director of the Jackson County Development Authority, said that this[Read More…]

By EDDIE TRIZZINO Times West Virginian WHITE HALL, W.Va. — Martina Bachlechner knew she wanted to go into a STEM field career when she was a 19-year-old student. She was studying to be a teacher and needed some subjects which she could specialize in; she admitted to picking physics as the[Read More…]

By ANASTASIIA VOROBEVA For the Princeton Times ATHENS, W.Va.  — Instead of making the holidays merry and bright, one piece of the Princeton-Mercer County Chamber of Commerce’s annual Christmas Parade reportedly struck a sour chord and allegedly left a Concord University professor without a job mid-semester. Many CU students struggled with[Read More…]

By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va.  — A task force to coordinate federal government efforts against fentanyl would be created under legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, also a current Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in West Virginia. Jenkins said he is continuing to focus[Read More…]