CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials say 400 school buses will soon be recalled over concerns their seat backs may lack sufficient cushioning to prevent injuries. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a nationwide recall is set to begin in December. Education Department spokeswoman ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington have arrested a West Virginia man accused of selling $2,000 in fake World Series tickets. Metropolitan D.C. police said Sunday they charged 54-year-old Ondre Nelson of Huntington, West Virginia, with first-degree fraud. The Washington Post reports ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is marking the one-year anniversary of a federal law that that increases access to treatment for people addicted to opioids. The first lady made her only solo trip to Capitol Hill so far to thank Congress for passing the bipartisan SUPPORT Act her husband ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A spokesman for West Virginia University says a campus building has been evacuated after a student's chemical lab experiment went awry and created an explosive. WVU spokesman John Bolt says students, faculty and staff in the engineering research building on the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has appointed a Baptist pastor to fill an empty House seat. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the Republican governor appointed 59-year-old Kevin Bartlett to the seat on Monday. Bartlett says his legislative priorities are, in order, ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say a West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to selling methamphetamine and illegally possessing a stockpile of firearms. U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart announced Tuesday that 24-year-old Deshaun Thaxton faces up to life in prison after admitting to the gun and ...
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia hospital has filed for bankruptcy protection. Williamson Memorial Hospital made the Chapter 11 filing Monday in federal bankruptcy court. Williamson-based Mingo Health Partners LLC bought the 76-bed hospital from Franklin, Tennessee-based Community ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former coal executive and ex-federal prisoner Don Blankenship says he'll seek the Constitution Party's presidential nomination next year. West Virginia Constitution Party chairman Jeffrey-Frank Jarrell says Blankenship made the announcement Saturday during the ...
By BREANNA FRANCIS, The Journal undefined MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Just off East Martin Street in downtown Martinsburg and interwoven with Caperton train station, there are small, multicolored stickers littering the floors that encourage the Mountain State's youth to follow these pathways ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Four more public forums are set this week on a statewide response to substance abuse in West Virginia. The meetings are scheduled for Monday at the University of Charleston student union ballroom, Tuesday at the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office training center in ...
MANNINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police say a West Virginia couple hit their six children with belts and metal objects and forced them to do push-ups and squats as punishment. News outlets report Mannington police on Sunday arrested Bashtlee Efaw and her husband, Richard Douglas Efaw. Police Chief ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge has denied bond for a West Virginia man charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife. News outlets report bond was denied Monday for 40-year-old James Michael Kiser, who authorities say has confessed to killing Crystal Dawn Kiser. Kanawha County ...
By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A threatened strike by Chicago teachers would test a strategy employed by a growing number of urban teachers unions convinced that transforming contentious contract talks into discussions about class sizes and student services wins public ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's fall colors are starting to show, and the state Tourism Office has started providing weekly updates and a live tracker map online. The agency says foliage in the state's higher elevations is about a week away from peak, with maples showing the most ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the firing of a parole officer who dated a man who ran a drug distribution operation out of their home. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the justices ruled 4-1 Friday to keep Simona Southall out of the Division of ...
By BILL LYNCH Charleston Gazette-Mail RIPLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Halloween only comes around once a year, but at I Scream Sundae in Ripley, the spooky fun never ends. The ice cream shop is just off West Main Street, where afternoon traffic rolls by relentlessly. Outside the modest brick-and-glass ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A college in West Virginia has suspended a sorority over allegations of illegal drug use and hazing. Marshall University on Thursday announced a cease-and-desist order against the Delta Upsilon chapter of Delta Zeta, suspending all chapter actives, meetings and ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Farmers more than quadrupled West Virginia's industrial hemp crop this year. Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt's office says about 130 farmers grew 641 acres of industrial hemp in 2019, up from 155 acres in 2018. And more's coming: The department's statement ...
LIZEMORE, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Police are investigating a double murder-suicide in Clay County that began as a missing person case. Media report that troopers investigated a report of a missing person, Alecxandria Auxier, of Indore, on Friday. Officers later discovered the bodies ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Department of Education data says more than half of the state's teachers missed more than 10 days of school last year. WSAZ-TV reports that 52.75 percent of teachers missed more than 10 days, according to research of data from the education ...