By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sometime before noon Saturday, the first legal sports betting ticket will be sold in West Virginia, as Hollywood Casino in Charles Town becomes the first of five state casinos to offer sports betting. Workers continue to put the finishing touches on the[Read More…]
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WVU’s Gee gets flack from fellow blue ribbon commission members
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — E. Gordon Gee, the president of West Virginia University and the lead co-chairman of a committee looking at the state’s colleges and universities, probably didn’t expect open hostility from fellow commission members, but he sure got it. Gov.[Read More…]
Judge hears arguments on whether to dismiss legal challenge against Gov. Justice
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County Circuit Court judge heard arguments but rendered no decision Monday regarding whether to dismiss legal action filed against Gov. Jim Justice seeking to force him to live in the capital city. Delegate Isaac Sponaugle, D-Pendleton, filed a petition for[Read More…]
CDC chief applauds local addiction fight in West Virginia visit
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Speaking with a physician’s plain, calm precision as both the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the father of an adult son recovering from addiction, Dr. Robert Redfield offered encouragement and praise for the multi-disciplinary directness the Tri-State[Read More…]
Quad-state expands its opioid recovery efforts
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Opioid recovery efforts in the quad state region have been ramped up in the past three years with recovery groups now taking a multi-level approach toward treating opioid addiction. Substance recovery centers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia have developed specialized[Read More…]
Mingo County pharmacist’s defamation claims against CBS rejected by judge
By CAITY COYNE HD Media WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — A federal judge ruled last week that two “CBS Evening News” reports centered on the opioid epidemic did not defame a Mingo County pharmacist. The summary judgment ruling, granted by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin in West Virginia’s Southern District, killed[Read More…]
WV State Police seize $10K from couple without charging them with a crime
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia State Police trooper issued Dimitrios Patlias a warning for failing to drive within his lane, just before seizing more than $10,000 in cash from him and his wife. On June 9, Tonya Smith — who was almost eight months[Read More…]
Marshall University lays out Young WV Conference plan
By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — An event designed to empower young people to effect change in their home state is once again slated for Marshall University. Organizers of the upcoming Young West Virginia Power Building Conference held a press conference Monday morning at Drinko Library on Marshall’s[Read More…]
WVU professor part of international effort to predict where cholera will strike next
WVU Today (Editor’s note: An online media kit containing downloadable video, photos and other resources is available in the WVUToday Media Center.) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Antar Jutla, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at West Virginia University, is part of a British-led humanitarian team that is working to predict and[Read More…]
