An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha Prosecutor Mark Plants is charged with domestic battery of his 11-year-old son. Plants does not refute that he struck the child with a leather belt hard enough to leave a long, purple, U-shaped bruise on the boy’s thigh. But on[Read More…]
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The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Thursday, April 10
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Thursday, April 10, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers. 1. FIVE-MINUTE STABBING FRENZY, THEN BLOOD EVERYWHERE Like a[Read More…]
WVPA Legal Hotline: Is your newspaper participating?
Few things are more time-consuming and potentially expensive for newspapers than lawsuits and court challenges. The West Virginia Press Association assists its member newspapers by operating the WVPA Legal Hotline. With your newspaper’s participation in the WVPA’s Legal Hotline program, your publisher, advertising department and newsroom are entitled assistance from WVPA[Read More…]
Princeton editor still critical, shows progress
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Princeton Times Editor and General Manager Tammie Toler remains in critical condition at a Roanoke, Va., hospital, however she is showing signs of progress. Toler was hospitalized March 29 after suffering a stroke. During a telephone interview from the Roanoke, Va., hospital Tuesday, Toler’s mother, Connie, said[Read More…]
PSC right to support expanding water service
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As hundreds of thousands of people in the Kanawha Valley learned all too well in January, water is a precious commodity. The chemical leak into the Elk River near a water intake for a West Virginia American Water treatment and distribution plant[Read More…]
Woman sentenced for $1.4 million Bethany theft
WELLSBURG, W.Va. – Shelly Lough stole nearly $1.4 million from Bethany College in an effort to stop an extortion attempt by two people who threatened to harm her children in addition to exposing an extramarital affair. Taking the extortion into account – as well as Lough’s cooperation in pursuing federal[Read More…]
Logan Sober Living Home becoming a reality
LOGAN, W.Va. — A Sober Living Home in Logan will soon be a reality following the signing of a lease Saturday morning. Pete Browning, Recovery Group Of Southern West Virginia board president, met with long-time businessman Sam Tiller, owner of Logan Hydraulics, to sign a lease on Tiller’s property located[Read More…]
Construction ‘tops-out’ at 8-story University Place
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Set for completion just in time for the start of the fall 2014 semester, the University Place student apartment construction site has quickly taken shape and now towers over the Sunnyside neighborhood near the West Virginia University Downtown Campus. The 950-bed complex will offer two-, three- and[Read More…]
Monongah lemonade stand to help animals
MONONGAH, W.Va. — Monongah Elementary School students are helping their community this week by serving lemonade. Lee Anne Burton’s second-grade class, with the help of student teacher Taylor Myers, organized a lemonade and snack stand Tuesday, today and Thursday to raise money that will be donated to Pet Helpers. They[Read More…]
Proposed school calendar lives up to spirit of law
An editorial from The Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — West Virginia state law requires that students be in a classroom for 180 days. Why 180 days? It’s probably a carryover from the 19th and 20th centuries when agriculture was a prominent industry and family members, young and old, were[Read More…]
