Certification process puts plans in limbo for potential RNC delegates
By Daniel Desrochers A few days after the May 10 primary, Katrina Lewis, an assistant principal at Wheeling Park High School, found out that she may have won the race to become a delegate to the...
View ArticleLegislators return prison education funds to budget
By Ryan Quinn West Virginia's Senate Finance Committee chairman said all previously proposed cuts to education programs in the state's 20 adult jails and state prisons were removed from the budget...
View ArticleKanawha cities begin home rule process to allow alcohol at Sunday brunch
By Daniel Desrochers Charleston, South Charleston and Nitro have begun the process of using home rule to allow earlier alcohol sales on Sunday mornings. The cities had to give notice of a public...
View ArticleInnerviews: Jazz guitarist nurtured natural affinity for music
By Sandy Wells He plays that guitar like he was born with his fingers on the strings. Musicianship feels as natural to Steve Himes as breathing. Except for the grade school trumpet lessons when he...
View ArticleBulletin Board: June 6, 2016
Parks and recreation meetingKanawha County Parks and Recreation Commission's Finance/Golf Committee will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Coonskin Administration Office, Coonskin Park. The agenda is...
View ArticleAssistant absent since being questioned about money, magistrates say
By Kate White A magistrate's assistant in Kanawha County hasn't been back to work since law enforcement officers asked her in April to answer questions about missing money, according to two...
View ArticleNettie-Leivasy PSD issues boil-water advisory; Beckley Water Co. lifts advisory
n The Nettie-Leivasy Public Service District has issued a boil-water advisory for customers on Ward Road from 4140 to 2265 Ward Road. The advisory follows a water main break. Customers in these areas...
View ArticleReunions: June 7, 2016
The Greenbrier West Alumni Association Inc. Bi-Annual Reunion: 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday at the school. A pulled pork dinner will be held Saturday. Donations will be accepted. All donations...
View ArticleSt. Albans man arrested for allegedly robbing Dollar General
By Staff reports A St. Albans man was arrested Monday for allegedly robbing a Dollar General store in Cross Lanes in May. Michael J. Roberts, 25, is charged with armed robbery. On May 12, Roberts...
View ArticleKanawha panel takes up Sunday hunting at Wednesday hearing
By Daniel Desrochers Jo Stern wants Sunday hunting back. For the past year, Stern, who owns a 73-acre farm just outside Tornado, has been collecting signatures on a petition to allow hunting on...
View ArticleIndiana governor to raise cash for Bill Cole campaign
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is headlining a Charleston fundraiser for Republican Bill Cole's campaign for governor. Cole campaign spokesman Kent Gates says the fundraiser will...
View ArticleDeciding on treatment vs. comfort for late-stage cancer
By By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO - Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment. He had suffered through more...
View ArticlePlea deal accepted in Girl Scouts embezzlement case
By Kate White If two women charged with embezzling from the Girl Scouts stay out of trouble for the next six months and pay back about $2,400, charges against them will be dismissed. Wood Circuit...
View ArticleCard glitch causes $531 charges at WVU's Mountainlair on 5/31
By Jared Casto Jacob Witmer had the most expensive meal of his life - more than $1,000 - at West Virginia University's Mountainlair student union last week. "I'd gotten lunch at Burger King and I'd...
View ArticleVeto of budget bill delayed
By Phil Kabler A gubernatorial veto of the 2016-17 state budget bill (HB 101), expected on Monday, has been delayed a day after the Legislature was unable to round up all the necessary signatures to...
View ArticleGreen Bank tour celebrates role in extraterrestrial intelligence search
By Rick Steelhammer GREEN BANK - The first scientific search for intelligent life in the universe began in 1960 at the Green Bank Observatory, in Pocahontas County, with a four-month effort to detect...
View ArticleTrial to begin in Marmet murder trial
By From staff reports Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday morning in the murder trial for a man charged with killing a Charleston man in a Marmet apartment in 2013. Miguel Quinones, 37, is...
View ArticleDespite 5-year absence, WV water board member paid $58K
By Eric Eyre A West Virginia Water Development Authority board member hadn't attended a board meeting since 2011, but the state paid him $58,300 for doing nothing during his nearly five-year absence....
View ArticleNew West Side principal hired, bus driver lawsuit settled
By Ryan Quinn Kanawha County's school board voted unanimously Monday to hire a new principal for Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary and pay $18,000 to settle a former bus driver's federal lawsuit over...
View ArticleDemolitions beginning to clear way for McDowell teacher housing
Demolition will begin soon on Welch's Best Furniture and Katzen buildings to make way for low-cost apartments for teachers, according to a news release Monday from the Reconnecting McDowell education...
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