By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An effort to restore $11 million annually to the purse funds for horse and greyhound racing at state casinos is up for passage in the House of Delegates today after a lengthy amendment debate Thursday. Senate Bill 13[Read More…]
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Manchin discusses economic opportunities in southern West Virginia
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — In a room full of business leaders, entrepreneurs, regional and local government officials, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., opened by talking about banana bread. Telling a story of his grandfather who ran a grocery store, the senator said his grandparents would get[Read More…]
10 things to know: Friday, February 22
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. LIGHTS, CAMERA, CLUES Chicago’s vast network of surveillance cameras, with more than 32,000 mounted on[Read More…]
TMC Technologies of WV to perform mission software assurance audit for NASA
Release from TMC Technologies of West Virginia: PLEASANT VALLEY, W.Va. — The next 10 days could be considered a critical test for NASA’s Commercial CrewProgram (CCP) Surveillance Lead Kathy Malnick. Malnick, a senior systems engineer for TMC Technologies of West Virginia (TMC) leads the local contractor team as part of SAIC’s[Read More…]
W.Va. record yellow perch caught on Summersville Lake
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A state record yellow perch was caught by Clinton Mills of Ravenswood, West Virginia on Feb. 24, 2018. Mills caught the 14.5-inch, 2.04-pound fish on a 10-pound test line with live bait while fishing from a boat on Summersville Lake in Nicholas County. Mills’ yellow perch establishes[Read More…]
Media Alert: Summary available on WVDOH maintenance funds allocations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. —The West Virginia Legislative Auditor’s Office has released the attached report on the West Virginia Division of Highways maintenance funding allocations this afternoon. Aaron Allred, legislative manager, issued the following summary on maintenance funds allocations within all 10 West Virginia Division of Highways Districts: The Performance Evaluation and[Read More…]
‘Clean’ pay raise bill for school workers, troopers heads to West Virginia House floor
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After Tuesday’s sudden death of a colossal education overhaul package, a West Virginia House of Delegates committee sent one of its main pieces — a pay raise for teachers, school service workers and State Police — to the House floor. Heeding a[Read More…]
WV Army National Guard uses Blackhawk to rescue stranded motorist in Ritchie County, WV
Staff report NCWV Media ELLENBORO — Aircrew members of the West Virginia Army National Guard’s Company C, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion (MEDEVAC), located in Williamstown, provided a successful aerial rescue mission via a U.S. Army HH-60 Blackhawk for a civilian trapped in his vehicle due to floodwaters at approximately[Read More…]
Senator Manchin speaks with Wesleyan students, but doesn’t really answer THE question
By AMANDA HAYES The Inter-Mountain BUCKHANNON — Will U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin III run for governor again? It’s a question the senior U.S. senator from West Virginia and former governor keeps getting asked. Last week, West Virginia MetroNews commentator Hoppy Kercheval asked Manchin the question. This time it was asked[Read More…]
2019 WVU Academy of Distinguished Alumni to be honored in May
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Four prominent leaders in the fields of public relations, library science, finance, and medicine will join an influential group of West Virginia University graduates as this year’s inductees into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni at the Erickson Alumni Center May 17 at 6 p.m. Receiving one of the highest honors[Read More…]
