By STEVE RAPPACH The Weirton Daily Times NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. — Danny Greathouse, executive director of the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, projected a down year in revenue, when addressing the Hancock County Commission on Thursday. “I’m projecting for this year coming up about a $291,000 income[Read More…]
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10 things to know: Monday, Aug. 7
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. NATIONS RACE TO PREVENT BACKSLIDING ON NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS Armed with extraordinary new U.N. sanctions,[Read More…]
Trump energizes WV supporters with Huntington speech
By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON – Making good on a promise he made on his campaign trail, President Donald Trump returned to West Virginia on Thursday for a rally in Huntington at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. The rally brought out thousands of Trump supporters from across the state[Read More…]
Outside arena, protesters rally against Trump policies
By JOSEPHINE MENDEZ The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Though on different sides of the street Thursday, the concerns of supporters and dissenters of President Donald Trump were the same: jobs and health care. However, that’s where the similarities stop. Seeping out of their designated protest area Thursday to peacefully converse[Read More…]
WV Guard airman from Barboursville dies in Kuwait
Staff report The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia Air National Guard airman supporting Operation Inherent Resolve has died, according to a spokesman for the state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. Tech. Sgt. David Board died Wednesday in Kuwait, according to a news release from Lawrence Messina, director[Read More…]
US Senate passes ‘Jessie’s Law’ to help combat drug overdoses
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that supporters say might have prevented a Charleston woman’s overdose death in 2016 has passed the U.S. Senate. “Jessie’s Law,” named for Jessica Grubb, permits the federal Department of Health and Human Services to establish guidelines for when health care[Read More…]
Most WV state agencies late in submitting financial audit information
By JAKE JARVIS Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Less than 10 percent of West Virginia government agencies included in a financial audit submitted information to the Department of Administration on time, the governor’s chief of staff, Nick Casey, said Tuesday afternoon. Late submissions are inexcusable and have been increasing over[Read More…]
Long flood cleanup process begins in the Ohio Valley
By ALAN OLSEN The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register McMECHEN, W.Va. — Monday marked the start of a long and exhausting cleanup process in the debris-choked streets of McMechen, as bulldozers swept grime and ruined possessions into huge piles. Alongside the machines were residents doing the same with spades and bags.[Read More…]
Youth Council NAACP to host National Night Out in Huntington
By SARAH HOFMANN The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — This is the first year for the event, which will be held at the Marie Redd Center and YMCA parking lot at 18th Street and Artisan Avenue from 5:30 to 8 p.m. tonight. The by-youth-for-youth function will include music, food, fun, fellowship,[Read More…]
ACA survives; Capito votes to repeal, Manchin votes to keep
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Senate voted down a “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act early Friday morning, with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., voting in the minority. A narrow 49 to 51 vote at roughly 1:30 a.m. knocked the proposal out of contention[Read More…]
