Release from the US Senate: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin, D-WV, and Shelley Moore Capito. R-WV, have announced $12,833,232 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the State of West Virginia. The $12.8 million grant will be used by: The Nicholas County[Read More…]
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10 things to know: Monday, Jan. 30
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN SHOOTING AT QUEBEC CITY MOSQUE Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau[Read More…]
Gov. Justice appoints Clements to 2nd District WVa. Senate seat
Release from Gov. Justice’s office: New Martinsville businessman to replace Leonhardt CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Jim Justice has appointing Charles Clements to the fill the 2nd district state senate seat vacated by Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt. The district covers all of Wetzel County, Tyler County, Doddridge County, Ritchie County and Calhoun County, and parts of[Read More…]
WV Attorney General Morrisey alerts consumers to ‘Can You Hear Me Now’ scam
Release from W.Va. Attorney General’s office: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey issued a scam alert warning consumers to not answer the question, “Can you hear me now?” Answering that one question can subject consumers to the latest scam. Media reports indicate the scam is circulating throughout[Read More…]
WVU shares information, plans open forum in wake of Trump immigration Executive Order
Release from WVUToday: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In a letter to West Virginia University faculty, staff and students, President E. Gordon Gee discusses steps the University is taking in the wake of the Executive Order suspending entry into the United States “of both nonimmigrants and immigrants” from at least seven countries for 90 days from[Read More…]
Logan County delegate switches party affiliation
By ANDREA LANNOM Bluefield Daily Telegraph BECKLEY, W.Va. — Citing frustration with the Democrat party and reactions to the presidential inauguration, Logan County Delegate Rupie Phillips announced Thursday he is switching his affiliation to become the state Legislature’s sole independent. Phillips said in a release that he hoped his former party[Read More…]
WV’s Burwell new president of American University
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a West Virginia native, will be the next president of American University, the school announced Thursday. Burwell, who grew up in Hinton and was the 2016[Read More…]
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio — Almost eight years after Russian firm OAO Severstal shuttered the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. mill in Mingo Junction, new hot metal should soon roll out of the facility that is now known as ACERO Junction. “We are working on it.[Read More…]
Vigil held in Wheeling before Washington, D.C. Pro-Life March
By HEATHER ZIEGLER The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — When Shaini Faini was in high school, she wrote a term paper on abortion that has had a lasting effect on her life as a Christian. “What I learned and saw in my research turned my stomach,” said Faini, a member of[Read More…]
