St. Albans to regulate parking of watercraft
By By George Hohmann For the Gazette-Mail St. Albans is planning to prohibit parking or storing unlicensed watercraft or watercraft with an inoperative or expired inspection sticker on any...
View ArticleDunbar bumps city sales tax to 1 percent
By Caitlin Cook Dunbar City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to increase its sales tax and reduce its business & occupation tax. "Nobody likes raising taxes," Dunbar Mayor Terry Greenlee...
View ArticleCommittee approves name change for Charleston street
By Elaina Sauber Charleston's Planning Committee voted in favor of a request to rename a street in the Block Historic District on Monday, but some are opposed to the potential change.Anthony Kinzer,...
View ArticleBulletin Board: Dec. 22, 2015
Consumer protectionThe West Virginia Attorney General's Office will have staff available to answer questions about consumer issues from 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday in the Buffalo Senior Center. For...
View ArticleMan charged with threats to West Virginia agency
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Kanawha County man has been charged with threats to a state government jobs agency.According to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Joseph William...
View ArticleWest Virginia town's cat-trapping plan not pleasing all
STAR CITY, W.Va. (AP) - A plan to trap stray cats in Star City is finding some opposition.The Dominion Post reports that resident Debbie Pegg says the plan is unfair to cat owners who let their...
View ArticleProsecutor: No indictment in Sandra Bland jail death
By By MICHAEL GRACZYK HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) - A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a...
View ArticleAround WV: Dec. 22, 2015
By Erin Beck In Around West Virginia: a student who has special needs is allowed to re-enroll in a school where he was flourishing, a former Miss West Virginia goes public with her story of domestic...
View ArticleAuthorities investigate fuel spill in Kanawha County creek
ESKDALE, W.Va. (AP) - A Kanawha County official says authorities believe a diesel fuel spill in a creek was intentional.Media outlets report that the spill was discovered early Tuesday morning in a...
View ArticleWest Virginia AG, Social Security partner on anti-fraud unit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is partnering with the Social Security Administration to target disability fraud.In a news release Tuesday, Morrisey announced...
View ArticlePocahontas schools to try new bus routes to reduce snow days
MARLINTON, W.Va. (AP) - The Pocahontas County school system is going to try to implement new school bus routes on days where classes might have previously been canceled because of snow.The school...
View ArticleU.S. Census: WV continues to lose residents
By Daniel Desrochers West Virginia lost more than 6,100 people between July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, according to the 2015 population estimates put out by the U.S. Census Bureau.Percentage-wise,...
View ArticleChristmas tree recycling event set for Capitol Market
When the company has gone home and the presents have been opened, wait before you chuck your Christmas tree to the curb. Undecorated trees will be accepted for recycling from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan....
View ArticleGuard reaches misdemeanor plea deal after felony drug charge
By The Associated Press CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - A correctional officer accused of bringing controlled substances onto the grounds of Salem Correctional Center has reached a misdemeanor plea deal due to an...
View ArticleBulletin Board: Dec. 23, 2015
First Day HikeGreater Huntington Park and Recreation District will have a 2-mile First Day Hike on New Year's Day through Ritter Park, Huntington. Meet at noon on Jan. 1 at the Ritter Park Tennis...
View ArticleWV delegate one of 50 stuck on SeaWorld's SkyTower
By Samuel Speciale It's Christmastime, and Delegate Michel Moffatt wanted to treat his wife and two children with a nice trip to Orlando's SeaWorld.On their way to see family in Naples, Florida, the...
View ArticleManchin condemns delay of CDC guidelines for prescribing painkillers
By Eric Eyre U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin railed against the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, accusing the agency of working against a federal effort to curb the prescribing of painkillers.An FDA...
View ArticleChairman of hate group arrested twice in Pocahontas County
By Erin Beck The chairman of what was one of the nation’s most powerful hate groups was arrested twice in the last week for his actions involving co-workers at the group’s Pocahontas County compound....
View ArticleRetiring Columbia employee wraps up toy drive leadership
By Lori Kersey After 42 years on the job, Bill Christian will retire from Columbia Pipeline Group next year. He helps control the flow of gas over much of the Eastern United States, but most of his...
View ArticleFamilyCare shows off new mobile dentistry unit
By Lydia Nuzum FamilyCare Health Center is trying to reach more children in need of dental care in southern West Virgina, and on Tuesday accepted the first piece of funding for its new "Miles of...
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