By Ken Ward Jr. and David Gutman Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State health officials late Wednesday advised pregnant women who get their water from West Virginia American Water’s Charleston-based system to drink only bottled water until levels of the chemical “Crude MCHM” are not detected at any level. At[Read More…]
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The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Thursday, Jan. 16
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers: 1. VATICAN FORCED TO DEFEND ITS RECORD ON CLERGY[Read More…]
WVPA Sharing: Sen. Plymale offers thoughts on Senate Bill 330
By Sen. Robert H. Plymale Chair of the West Virginia Senate Education Committee CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In recent months, there has been much controversy regarding SB 330, which was passed during the 2011 Legislative Session. Much of the information being circulated in the media is inaccurate. I would like to take[Read More…]
WVPA Sharing: Water Resources Commission investigating chemical spill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on State Water Resources is launching an investigation into the recent chemical spill in Kanawha County that led to the ongoing contamination crisis. Senate Majority Leader John Unger (D-Berkeley), who chairs the commission, made the announcement Jan. 14, 2014.[Read More…]
Cool head, preparation help in emergencies
By Zack Harold Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. – If West Virginia didn’t have bad luck, we wouldn’t have any luck at all. Over the last two years we’ve seen massive power outages and property damage from a derecho, hazardous roadways and still more power outages from a freak snowstorm/tropical[Read More…]
Planned Wood County cracker plant site purchased
$11 million deal a positive sign, officials say By Evan Bevins Parkersburg News and Sentinel WASHINGTON, W.Va. – A project to build a massive petrochemical complex centered around an ethane cracker plant in Wood County took another step forward with the purchase of the land where it is to be[Read More…]
W.Va. hit hard by Obamacare
An editorial from The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginians are going to pay more for health insurance under Obamacare than the president and his cronies insisted for years. That is virtually inevitable, as a report from the government itself shows. For Obamacare to work, about 40[Read More…]
Tobacco use among W.Va. teens still high
An editorial from the Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Fifty years after the first U.S. Surgeon General’s report that linked cigarette smoking to potential health problems, tobacco use continues to be a major health issue in West Virginia. According to statistics from the Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids, 18.6 percent of[Read More…]
Schools ‘at a standstill’ amid W.Va. leak cleanup
By Mackenzie Mays Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — School administrators continued to wait Tuesday, as a return date for students in counties affected by last week’s chemical spill rested in the hands of water company and health officials. Kanawha, Putnam, Lincoln and Boone counties and some schools in Fayette County[Read More…]
Huntington remembers 2007 fire that killed nine
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