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 ...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Arizona's attorney general is having misgivings about agreeing to Purdue Pharma's proposal to settle litigation over the opioid crisis. Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, said in a court filing late Monday that the OxyContin maker has "sought to ...
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A public meeting is scheduled on a bill to redesignate the New River Gorge National River in West Virginia as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. The Wednesday morning meeting at the Canyon Rim Visitors Center Auditorium will be hosted by U.S. Sens. Joe ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been indicted on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a fatal shooting that was earlier reported as a suicide and an accident. News outlets report David Jakob Moore also is charged with wanton endangerment in the recently unsealed Cabell ...
ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a proposed deal that would have allowed two West Virginia magistrates indicted on charges including fraud and obstruction of justice to avoid conviction if they met certain requirements. News outlets report U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Blackhawk Mining says it's closing three mines and two preparation plants in West Virginia amid weak global coal markets. The Kentucky-based coal company on Tuesday announced the idling of its facilities in Logan and Mingo counties. The move will impact 342 of its ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will leave in place a court decision that derailed the impeachment trials of three West Virginia Supreme Court justices accused of corruption. The case was one of a long list of those the Supreme ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — Drug-ravaged West Virginia has opened its first family treatment court aimed at protecting abused and neglected children while helping parents facing the potential loss of custody to overcome substance use disorders. The court's debut at ...
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — The student body president of a West Virginia university has been charged with felony strangulation. News outlets report 21-year-old Tyler Keller was arrested by Fairmont police on Friday. Keller is the president of the Student Government Association at Fairmont State ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University is teaming up with the state to build a new plant near Mount Storm that will treat acidic water from mines The college on Monday said the facility will simultaneously treat the acidic drainage while also recovering valuable rare earth ...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A trial has started for a West Virginia trooper federally charged in the beating of a teenager who led authorities on a high-speed chase after rear-ending a deputy. News outlets report prosecutors opened the deprivation of rights trial on Monday by arguing that ...
By JORDAN NELSON, The Register-Herald undefined BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Sept. 28 was a sunny, warm fall day. The air felt crisp as the occasional breeze of wind would blow. It was, in other words, a perfect day to celebrate the end of an era, an event that has taken place in Beckley for the ...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Attorneys general representing nearly half the states and lawyers for more than 500 local governments on Friday blasted the terms of Purdue Pharma's offer to settle thousands of lawsuits over the nation's opioid crisis in court filings that also said the ...
By TRAVIS CRUM, The Herald-Dispatch undefined HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hershel "Woody" Williams said a lot has changed since he arrived to work at the Huntington VA Medical Center in 1946. For starters, the medical center now bears his name. It's recognition for his service in the U.S. ...
GRAYSON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Kentucky say foul play isn't suspected in the death of a white inmate convicted of killing a black West Virginia teenager he had called a "piece of trash." U.S. Marshal Service Deputy Fred Lamey confirms 65-year-old William Ronald Pulliam died Thursday at ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge is considering a mental evaluation request for a man charged in a 2018 shooting that led to a nearly weeklong manhunt in West Virginia. The Herald-Dispatch reports defense attorney Abe Saad asked a judge on Friday for the evaluation after recently learning ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency in response to a worsening drought across West Virginia. The Republican governor’s proclamation Thursday comes as large swaths of the state grapple with moderate to severe drought conditions. Justice says a lack ...
By MARK SHERMAN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider reinstating a permit that was tossed out by a lower court that would allow construction of a natural gas pipeline through two national forests, including parts of the Appalachian Trail. The ...