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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 [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia regulators have ordered power and water companies statewide to assess their responses to powerful windstorms in late June that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. The state Public Service Commission on Friday also asked the utilities to explain how they will prepare for similar weather events. A June [...]
Continue reading …HURRICANE (AP) — A man and a woman who were severely burned in an explosion in Hurricane have died. A spokeswoman with Cabell Huntington Hospital says Trina Clapham and Anthony Hawkins died Friday, four days after the mobile home they were in exploded. State Police say they suspect the explosion could have been caused by [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Cabinet maker American Woodmark plans to invest more than $15 million in its manufacturing operation in West Virginia. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Wednesday that the company is expected to hire nearly 190 employees for the Moorefield facility over the next three years. In December, the company had said it was closing [...]
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