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Web exclusive When Shepherd hosts Glenville in a WVIAC football game on Nov. 3 it will be Military Appreciation Day. All active military personnel with identification and prior service personnel with proof of service will be admitted free. Kickoff is slated for 12-noon. Candlebox will have a meet and greet on the Midway from 10 [...]
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Web exclusive When the Lady Mustangs won the MAC league tournament, the Wildwood Middle School varsity volleyball team had completed an unbeaten season. Not only did Wildwood win all its matches, it did so without losing any games and won every time out by 2-0 scores. The season started in early September with a 2-0 [...]
Continue reading …Web exclusive Pee Wee division scores in the JCYFL had the Eastern Panhandle Colts defeating the Hurricanes, 39-0; the Razorbacks stopping the Bears, 41-25; and the Spartans beating the Rams, 32-12. Scores in the Freshmen division were: Eastern Panhandle Colts 14, Raiders 0; Razorbacks 45, Bears 0; and Spartans 26, Rams 12. The Jayvee division [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH CHARLESTON (AP) — State regulators say West Virginia trappers can sell live foxes to hound coursing pens during the 2012-13 trapping season. The Division of Natural Resources says foxes must be live-trapped in the same county where the pen is located. Wildlife resources chief Curtis Taylor says that will help prevent the further westward [...]
Continue reading …CLARKSBURG (AP) — The mother of a deputy U.S. marshal killed last year was recognized by the FBI for the work she now does with crime victims and the families of fallen law enforcement officers. Assistant Director David Cuthbertson of the Criminal Justice Information Services division in Clarksburg gave Pamela Hotsinpiller the FBI Director’s Community [...]
Continue reading …WHEELING (AP) — Chesapeake Energy has dropped a plan to drill a gas well near a high school in the Northern Panhandle and will look for alternative sites. The proposed well near Wheeling Park High School drew objections from the Ohio County Board of Education, the Ohio County Commission and the Wheeling City Council. About [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH CHARLESTON (AP) — A musky, a swallowtail butterfly, a snowy owl and other critters are featured in the 2013 edition of the West Virginia Wildlife Calendar. A pair of male and female goldfinches is featured on the cover. Division of Natural Resource wildlife resources chief Curtis Taylor says the calendar also has articles on [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — An economic geologist says Central Appalachian coal mining has been falling for more than a decade and is never returning to what he calls “the glory days.” Alan Stagg is president Stagg Resource Consultants in Cross Lanes. He tells The State Journal the decline occurred even without new environmental regulations for coal-fired [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Just-released files show two West Virginia Boy Scout leaders were allowed to resign in the 1970s without facing criminal charges amid allegations of sexual abuse involving young boys. According to media reports, the revelation was contained in about 14,500 pages of secret “perversion files” released Thursday by the Boy Scouts of America. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Casinos are once again the big beneficiaries of matching grants issued annually by the West Virginia Tourism Commission. Projects totaling $2.6 million were submitted, and the awards under the Matching Advertising Partnership Program total more than $1.2 million. They include $382,000 to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, $184,000 to Mountaineer Casino [...]
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