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LEROY (AP) — A West Virginia man is accused of keeping his wife captive and torturing her for the better part of a decade — beating and burning her and even leaving her shackled during childbirth. Peter Lizon, 37, was in jail Wednesday on $300,000 bond. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Friday on [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH CHARLESTON (AP) — The Division of Natural Resources is now taking applications for the 2012 antlerless deer season. Wildlife Resources chief Curtis Taylor says the forms are available at all district offices, the Elkins Operations Center and the Charleston headquarters. They also can be downloaded online at www.wvdnr.gov. Completed applications are due by the [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia will participate in a program this fall to offer 90,000 children free breakfast and lunch at school. The state Department of Education says 35 of 54 eligible counties will use the Community Eligibility Option, a program that lets the state expand a free meals pilot project. Superintendent Jorea Marple says [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A silent killer is attacking sheep all over the country, but sleuths at West Virginia University are hot on its trail. This deadly assailant is known to researchers as “Haemonchus contortus,” although laymen call the parasite a “red stomach worm” or “barber pole worm.” The nasty little critter earned that last name [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Mountain State University officials said Tuesday afternoon they will appeal a regional body’s decision to withdraw the school’s general accreditation. The Higher Learning Commission posted a public notice of its decision online earlier in the day, saying the private Beckley-based school does not meet its criteria for leadership, resources, planning and oversight. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A Kanawha County man accused of killing three people in 2003 is facing a new charge. A federal grand jury indicted 37-year-old Shawn Lester on Tuesday on a drug charge. Lester is charged with conspiring to distribute oxycodone and cocaine from 2005 to March 30, 2011. Lester is awaiting trial on unrelated [...]
Continue reading …BECKLEY (AP) — West Virginia State Police say a Georgia man killed by a trooper had vowed he wouldn’t be arrested again. Sgt. Michael Baylous says 31-year-old Stephen Lawrence Knight of Villa Rica, Ga., had prior arrests in Georgia and Florida on drug and other charges. Baylous tells media outlets that a witness told investigators [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia bought hundreds of expensive routers as part of an ambitious plan to create a long-lasting, high-capacity broadband network throughout the state. That’s the response that state officials have given to a pair of congressional chairmen who had raised questions about West Virginia’s handling of $126 million in federal stimulus funding. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The storms that battered West Virginia have the state’s Democrats postponing their main annual fundraising event. Party officials did not immediately announce a new date for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. It had been scheduled for Aug. 11 in Charleston. Democratic Party Chairman Larry Puccio cited the widespread damage that knocked out power to [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — Negotiations are under way on a new contract between the United Steelworkers union and the world’s largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal. The agreement expiring Sept. 1 covers 14,000 employees, including those at West Virginia’s Weirton mill. The parties were far apart on key issues, including wages and benefits, as discussions began Monday in Pittsburgh. [...]
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