By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Last year’s bill to allow private companies to sponsor highway rest areas is on the road again. The House Roads and Transportation Committee approved a new, revised version of HB 2694 on Monday. As it happens, this year’s and last year’s[Read More…]
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Department of Education, Arts ’empowers West Virginians,’ Gayle Manchin says
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With her department again looking down the barrel of legislation that would eliminate it, Education and the Arts Secretary Gayle Manchin told the Senate Finance Committee her agency “empowers West Virginians every single day.” “Promoting, preserving, protecting our state’s rich culture, history[Read More…]
West Virginia’s Gazette-Mail declaring bankruptcy; Wheeling Newspapers is planned buyer
Staff report Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The owners of the Charleston Gazette-Mail agreed Monday to take the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Wheeling Newspapers is currently the high bidder to assume ownership of the company. The company, operated by the Nutting family, owns more than 40 daily newspapers across[Read More…]
Charleston Gazette-Mail to file for bankruptcy
The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — The Charleston Gazette-Mail on Monday announced it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that The Ogden Newspapers Inc. has emerged as the high bidder for the company. The Gazette-Mail plans to file for bankruptcy today, officials with the newspaper said.[Read More…]
Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to West Virginia town with 2,900 people
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis. The House Energy and Commerce Committee[Read More…]
Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader to attend the State of the Union
The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In an effort to highlight West Virginia’s and the country’s growing opioid epidemic, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin has asked Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader to be his guest for the State of the Union address Tuesday evening, Jan. 30, at the U.S. Capitol. President Trump’s[Read More…]
Trump to attend GOP retreat at Greenbrier
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Republicans are gearing up for a White House visit at the annual Republican congressional retreat this week at The Greenbrier Resort at White Sulphur Springs. The three-day meeting of House and Senate Republicans will focus on 2018 legislative strategies[Read More…]
America’s secret UFO past uncovered in new film about West Virginia’s Flatwoods Monster
Clay County Free Press CLAY, W.Va. — A new film aims to tell the true story behind what happened in a rural, West Virginia town when a group of terrified locals encountered a monstrous being just moments after seeing strange objects in the sky. The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of[Read More…]
Faith-based initiative a new way to fight addiction in West Virginia
By BILL LUSK The Logan Banner LOGAN, W.Va. — Following the lead of Ohio Attorney General Mike De Wine, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is hoping a faith-based initiative aimed at fighting drug addiction can reduce the number of overdoses in the state. Morrisey, who launched his drug awareness campaign[Read More…]
Oliver files candidacy for West Virginia House of Delegates
By KAITLYN NEFF Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Jack Oliver filed candidacy on Monday to represent the 50th district and Marion County in the West Virginia House of Delegates. He is running as a Democrat. Oliver has spent 50 years in business working as a certified public accountant to[Read More…]