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CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia health officials are encouraging state residents to get immunized against whooping cough to prevent an epidemic like the one that has hit Washington state. Officials say there’ve been 60 investigated cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, in West Virginia so far this year. In contrast, more than 3,000 [...]
Continue reading …HUNTINGTON (AP) — Marshall football player Andre Booker has undergone a name change in a tribute to his grandfather. Earlier this month before the start of preseason camp, he returned to his Sarasota, Fla., home to legally change his name to Andre Snipes-Booker. His grandfather, Lee Otis Snipes, has been one of the primary male [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia is accepting applications for historic preservation survey and planning grants through Oct. 31. The state Division of Culture and History says about $80,000 will be awarded from funding appropriated by Congress for preservation efforts through the National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund. State and local government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, for-profit [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A Charleston man will spend up to 30 years in prison for the death of a boy who was hit by a car while trying to get help for his mother. Media outlets report that a Kanawha County judge sentenced 22-year-old Ethan Chic-Colbert on Wednesday. A jury convicted Chic-Colbert last month on [...]
Continue reading …SETH (AP) — A 7-year-old Boone County boy shot in the chest with a pellet rifle is in critical condition. Chief Deputy Sheriff Chad Barker tells the Charleston Gazette the wound is near the boy’s heart, and he nearly died in the late-night shooting Tuesday. Neither the victim nor the boy who fired the gun [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — It’s back-to-school season, and West Virginia State Police want motorists to slow down. They’re issuing a reminder that the speed limit in school zones is 15 mph. They also suggest allowing extra travel time in the mornings and afternoons, when children will be getting on and off buses. State troopers will be [...]
Continue reading …BRUCETON MILLS (AP) — Dave Powell calls it the greatest sport you’ve never heard of — Irish Road Bowling. Powell is membership director for a West Virginia group that sponsors tournaments where anyone can try one of the world’s oldest sports. Players hurl 2-pound cannonballs down country roads, trying to finish a 1.5-mile course with [...]
Continue reading …HUNTINGTON (AP) — A Huntington gas station employee faces charges of forging winning lottery tickets. Media outlets say 30-year-old Crystal Gail Hampton of Huntington is charged with 35 counts of forgery and counterfeiting and one count of embezzlement. Hampton is accused in criminal complaints of scanning lottery tickets at the gas station to determine if [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia continues to issue new driver’s licenses that meet national standards adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, amid a refusal by a number of other states to carry out the federal Real ID law, Deputy Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Steven Dale told lawmakers Tuesday. Dale said the DMV began the [...]
Continue reading …PRINCETON (AP) — Authorities say a human skull found in Princeton is that of an older Native American. Media outlets report that construction workers found the skull Monday morning while clearing brush. State Police Sgt. Trooper W.H. File said Tuesday that the skull isn’t related to any open criminal investigations in Mercer County.
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