FRENCH CREEK, W.Va. — While the five adult American bison at the West Virginia Wildlife Center are in the midst of shedding their shaggy woolen capes for the summer, a new arrival at their grassy enclosure is looking sleek and trim in her new reddish-brown coat. Born on May 2,[Read More…]
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The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Friday, May 30
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Friday, May 30 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers. 1. HOW THE VETERANS AFFAIRS CHIEF PLANS TO FIX[Read More…]
Life and times of a Charleston Daily Mail intern
A blog post by Daily Mail Editor and Publisher Brad McElhinny Ever wonder what it’s like to work for a newspaper? Every summer, we give a couple of college students a chance to find out — which is a very good thing because the students have set journalism as a[Read More…]
W.Va. high court won’t suspend Plants’ license
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Supreme Court has decided not to suspend Kanawha Prosecutor Mark Plants’ law license and also found the office’s disqualification from prosecuting certain cases sufficient. In April, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed a complaint against Plants, seeking to suspend his license until charges he[Read More…]
Ohio River span one of three public-private possibilities
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Officials lobbying for the construction of a new Ohio River bridge between an area south of Wellsburg and Brilliant are optimistic work on the span can begin in 2016. John Brown, executive director of the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission, said West Virginia Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox advised[Read More…]
Residents unnerved by Glade Springs burglaries
DANIELS, W.Va. — A spate of burglaries in the past few months at the exclusive, gated Resort at Glade Springs near Daniels has residents upset and security and law enforcement on alert. Despite the cost of homes at Glade, the recent crime wave shows there is no place in southern[Read More…]
WVU launches app to increase campus safety
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. West Virginia University’s Student Government Association and University Police have teamed up to bring a safety mobile app to the WVU campus. Students with an iPhone or Android phone can download the LiveSafe app and be one step closer to campus safety. Kristina Anderson, a survivor of the[Read More…]
Holocaust story moves Berkeley County students
SPRING MILLS, W.Va. – Right from the beginning, Holocaust survivor Rubin Sztajer connected with his young audience. Spring Mills Middle School eighth-graders and Spring Mills High School ninth-graders didn’t move – or make a sound – as Sztajer, now 88 years old, described losing his teen years to German Nazis[Read More…]
Race Card: Rockefeller owes W.Va. an apology
An editorial from The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Once again, U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has accused those critical of President Barack Obama’s health care law of being racists. He did it last week during a Senate hearing. Rockefeller said some critics of Obamacare “don’t want it to work, because[Read More…]
Try again on abortion limits
An editorial from The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginians with deep moral concerns about abortion often grow frustrated at the name-calling so prevalent in most discussions of the subject. Proponents of limits on even late-term abortions frequently are accused of waging “war on women.” That is nonsense, of course.[Read More…]