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CHARLESTON (AP) — Gas prices remain unchanged on average in West Virginia this week. AAA East Central says prices are averaging $3.73 for a gallon of regular, unleaded gas. The lowest price of $3.71 can be found in Bridgeport, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Weirton and Wheeling. Huntington has the highest average price at $3.80. The average price [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia’s new home for the Boy Scouts of America’s National Jamboree is still hoping the state will amend its constitution to resolve a property tax issue. Lawyer Steve McGowan asked lawmakers on Tuesday to revive the necessary measure on behalf of the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve. The sprawling Fayette [...]
Continue reading …HUNTINGTON (AP) — Former crewmembers from the USS John Marshall are rekindling friendships and starting new ones after a weekend meeting in West Virginia. The former crewmembers reunited Saturday at Marshall University to see the bell from their submarine that has been displayed at the Huntington school since 1994. The bell was given to the [...]
Continue reading …ZACK HAROLD Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON (AP) — Members of Liberty High School’s class of 1982 will have to forgive Steven Mikes for not attending last weekend’s 30-year class reunion. He was too busy helping NASA put a robot on Mars. Mikes, 48, is a senior engineer with the avionics and flight systems of NASA’s [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The state Supreme Court has accused a Putnam County family court judge of failing to rule on motions and not entering orders into a state tracking system. Supreme Court administrator Steve Canterbury said Friday a complaint has been filed against Judge William Watkins with the state Judicial Investigation Commission. Canterbury says Watkins [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The state Higher Education Policy Commission wants Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to exempt it from his recent request for most state agencies to trim their budgets by 7.5 percent for the 2013-14 fiscal year. Tomblin’s request would mean a $35 million budget reduction for the commission. The Charleston Gazette reports commission chairman [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A bugging device has been found in an air duct at a Regional Jail Authority office, a state lawmaker said. The device was found last month in the Charleston office of John Lopez, the authority’s chief of operations, The Register-Herald reported. Delegate Dave Perry, D-Fayette, said he learned that Lopez found the [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — A Silver Airways pilot making one of the Florida airline’s first flights to the North Central West Virginia Airport in Bridgeport mistakenly landed his Saab 340 at a tiny airport in Fairmont, but officials said Wednesday that no one was injured. “Obviously, it was a mistake,” said Frankman Field manager Jake Wilburn. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Rainfall has been plentiful enough during a hot summer to allow for a full schedule of releases for the Gauley River’s fall whitewater season. The Charleston Gazette reports the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct releases from Summersville Dam starting Sept. 7 and ending on Oct. 21. After the corps opens [...]
Continue reading …WVU, Holgorsen agree on 6-year contract CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia football coach Dana Holgorsen will earn $2.3 million this season under a new six-year contract, athletic director Oliver Luck said Wednesday. The deal includes $250,000 in base pay and the remainder in supplemental pay from athletic department revenue or private sources. Holgorsen, now in [...]
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