OSHA has 6 inspectors to keep 60,000 West Virginia workplaces safe. Here's what it means for workers By TRE SPENCER/Mountain State Spotlight Mountain State Spotlight When two West Virginia workers died last month in a chemical reaction, federal records showed the plant When two workers died ...
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms, prompting immediate lawsuits from gun-rights groups. The limits on " assault firearms," as they are described by the legislation, are among two dozen new restrictions ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Presenting a utility bill as a valid form of identification at a voting precinct in West Virginia has gone the way of the tavern polling place and the punch-card ballot. State lawmakers tightened an existing voter identification law by requiring photo ID at the ...
INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — A chemical leak at a West Virginia silver recovery business on Wednesday killed two people and sent about 30 others to hospitals, including one in serious condition, authorities said. The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant in Institute as workers were ...
After a school bus rolled on a West Virginia highway two years ago, forcing one boy to have his leg amputated and seriously injuring two other children aboard, police quickly discovered the driver was drunk. But the National Transportation Safety Board then discovered something even more ...
RAINELLE, W.Va. (AP) — Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her small house this winter has been staggering: Her February charge was $940.08 — more than her check. It makes no sense. She turns the ...