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WASHINGTON (AP) — People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can’t seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals that mimic the dangerous effects of cocaine, amphetamines and other illegal stimulants. The [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia officials are looking into updating or repealing a state law that allows for the involuntary sterilization of “mentally incompetent” people. West Virginia is the only state that still has such a law on its books. Mark Bold of the Christian Law Institute in Lynchburg, Va., is advocating striking the law [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia has begun drug testing people who seek job training through federally funded programs. Acting WorkForce West Virginia Director Russell Fry told lawmakers on Monday that the screenings debuted July 16. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ordered the testing in April, citing a frequent complaint from employees seeking workers. It screens for [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia plans to promote vehicles that run on natural gas by hosting a national conference. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Tuesday announced plans for an Appalachian Basin Natural Gas Vehicle Expo and Conference in mid-May 2013. Tomblin said he’ll invite the dozen governors who with Tomblin wrote the auto industry earlier [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia’s elections chief is urging a federal judge against striking down one of the state’s campaign contribution limits. Secretary of State Natalie Tennant is defending the $1,000 cap on contributions to independent-expenditure political action committees. Stay the Course West Virginia is such a PAC. It has sued to overturn that cap [...]
Continue reading …NEWTON (AP) — Roane County police say a head-on collision on Interstate 79 has left four people dead. The accident happened when two vehicles collided about 4:20 p.m. Saturday in the southbound lanes of I-79 near Newton. The four adults were pronounced dead at the scene. A Roane County dispatcher tells The Charleston Gazette that [...]
Continue reading …PAX (AP) — State police say the driver of a vehicle that hit and a killed a West Virginia Courtesy Patrol worker told investigators he fell asleep before the accident. Police say the vehicle hit 59-year-old Wyatt H. Harris of Coal City as he was helping a stranded motorist on the West Virginia Turnpike. The [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A West Virginia Supreme Court justice is explaining why he dissented when the court upheld legislative redistricting. A 4-1 ruling in November rejected multiple challenges to the redrawing of state Senate and House of Delegates districts. The majority later explained that ruling in a February opinion. Justice Brent Benjamin issued his dissent [...]
Continue reading …WAR (AP) — Authorities say robbery may have been a motive in the death of a southern West Virginia mayor. War Mayor Tom Hatcher was found dead in his home Monday. McDowell County Sheriff’s Deputy Ron Blevins says Hatcher’s sister-in-law and her brother were arrested late Thursday. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports Rebecca Lynn Hatcher [...]
Continue reading …FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Two new Fayette County sheriff’s deputies are more than brothers. They’re identical twins. Twenty-one-year-old Ethan and Aaron Shrewsbury joined the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department on Monday. Sheriff Steve Kessler tells WVVA-TV that the department has employed family members at the same time in the past, including a pair of brothers. But to [...]
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