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CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia environmental activist Larry Gibson has died. He was 66. The Keeper of the Mountains Foundation says on its website that Gibson died from a heart attack Sunday morning at his home on Kayford Mountain in Raleigh County. Gibson was a longtime opponent of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking volunteers for the Adopt-A-Highway fall statewide cleanup later this month. Officials say those looking to volunteer for the Sept. 29 event have until Friday to register. Individuals and other community groups can register to pick up trash on almost any state-maintained road. The Adopt-A-Highway [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers want to know more about a surveillance device found in the ceiling of a jail agency administrative office. But they got few answers Monday from jails chief Joe DeLong or his boss, Cabinet Secretary Joe Thornton. A jails agency official, John Lopez, alleges he found the device in his [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The Division of Culture and History is looking for the best photos and essays from West Virginia high school students as part of the state’s 150th birthday celebration. Essays of up to 550 words can be submitted for judging on topics related to the Civil War and West Virginia’s statehood. Students also [...]
Continue reading …SUMMERSVILLE (AP) — A tribute has been held for hundreds of men who died while digging a tunnel through Gauley Mountain in the 1930s. Media outlets report a ceremony was held Friday in Summersville. A monument also was dedicated at a nearby cemetery to consecrate the graves of 41 black workers who died in the [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN (AP) — Eastern Panhandle officials are warning residents not to worry if they see a lot of emergency response activity this weekend. Officials in Jefferson, Morgan, Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Grant and Mineral counties are all participating in a regional disaster exercise Saturday that’s built on a severe flooding scenario. There will be river [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A veteran Hardy County high school English teacher will represent West Virginia in the National Teacher of the Year competition. East Hardy High School teacher Michael Funkhouser was named West Virginia Teacher of the Year during a ceremony Wednesday night in Charleston. He will receive an educational technology package worth nearly $15,000, [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The West Virginia Board of Education is supporting new schoolchildren vaccine requirements imposed by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The board says it has filed a friend of the court brief backing the requirements in a court case that challenges their legality. Incoming seventh-graders in West Virginia are [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — The father of a South Carolina woman killed by an out-of-control truck at the 2011 All Good Music Festival wants to settle his federal lawsuit against several groups that staged the event. Kim Miller reached a settlement in July with driver Clay Lewin of Cape Charles, Va. It compensates him $300,000 for [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — The American Farm Bureau and its West Virginia counterpart say an Environmental Protection Agency move aimed at cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay could set critical legal precedent for their members, so they should be allowed to intervene in an Eastern Panhandle chicken grower’s lawsuit. In a court filing in farmer Lois Alt’s [...]
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