By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail LOGAN, W.Va. — West Virginia environmental groups on Tuesday urged a National Academy of Sciences panel to look carefully at the public health impact of strip mining, saying they hope more scrutiny of the issue will lead to a ban on the practice. “We[Read More…]
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WV delegation: Trump budget hurts Mountain State
By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s representatives in the nation’s capital have concerns on how cuts in President Donald Trump’s newly released budget proposal for the coming year could affect West Virginians. Download PDF of Manchin on Trump budget “Look at all the categories that get hit[Read More…]
Adam R. Kelly Memorial Scholarship winner chosen in Tyler County
Staff report The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Record WHEELING, W.Va. — Tyler Consolidated High School senior Courtney Hoder is this year’s recipient of the Adam R. Kelly Memorial Scholarship Award. She is the granddaughter of Sally Ash of Lynn Camp Road near Middlebourne. Hoder plans to attend Fairmont State University in[Read More…]
Colleagues, friends salute long career of longtime member of BDT family
By GREG JORDAN The Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Colleagues, friends, and people who are both came Thursday to say farewell and share best wishes with a long-time member of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph family who was retiring after a career spanning almost 60 years. Sue Richmond started at the Bluefield[Read More…]
Manchin pens letter to Trump seeking preservation of drug office
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., sent a letter Wednesday to President Donald Trump urging him not to gut the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, a federal agency responsible for curbing the nation’s opioid epidemic. Politico and other news outlets have[Read More…]
WV DEP chief Caperton refuses hearing on MVP pipeline appeal
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Justice administration has quietly refused to schedule a hearing on an appeal of a state authorization for the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline. Last week, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Austin Caperton signed a letter in which he denied a request[Read More…]
Community book project on disasters seeks contributions
The Journal MARTINSBURG — The Journal is pleased to announce a new community book project, “Floods, Fire and Ice.” This will be a heirloom-quality, coffee-table book featuring images of Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties — but we need your help. Possibly you remember or have heard of specific floods, fires[Read More…]
Attorneys: C8 case settlement’s final deadline looming
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Attorneys in the C8 cases against DuPont have cautioned clients who have yet to respond to the settlement packets to soon do so. Otherwise they will not be entitled to any compensation in the agreement reached in February in[Read More…]
Pulitzer-winning Gazette-Mail reporter discusses how he revealed pill shipments
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Eric Eyre said he didn’t even know what a drug wholesaler was when he first “kind of stumbled into” his Pulitzer Prize-winning story. Eyre, an 18-year Gazette-Mail reporter, revealed in December that in “six years, wholesalers showered the state with 780 million[Read More…]
County sports writing icon Bob Staats passes away
By MARK MARTIN Jackson Newspapers RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. — Bob Staats, whose byline appeared on the pages of newspapers based in Ravenswood for many years, has died. Staats suffered a stroke on Saturday and passed away Sunday. During a period that stretched nearly five decades, Staats wrote sports first for The Ravenswood[Read More…]
