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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. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A State Police trooper who fatally shot a man in Mercer County last weekend is under investigation for a separate fatal shooting in January. Media outlets say Trooper J.R. Coburn is a former Mercer County sheriff’s deputy from Princeton. Authorities haven’t identified the man killed Saturday night. The man was handcuffed inside [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A Putnam County Family Court judge avoided contempt proceedings before the state Supreme Court by ruling on motions in a divorce case that languished for nearly two years. The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Judge William Watkins to rule on the motions by Tuesday or appear before the justices for contempt proceedings [...]
Continue reading …POINT PLEASANT (AP) — Point Pleasant’s fire chief says separate explosions at a munitions bunker and at a parked tractor loaded with ammunition were either deliberately set or caused by extreme heat. Jeremy Bryant, chief of the Point Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, said those are the only possible explanations for Saturday’s blasts. He says the [...]
Continue reading …BLUEFIELD (AP) — West Virginia State Police say a trooper shot and killed a man who grabbed a Bluefield police officer’s handgun and refused orders to drop it. Names of the trooper and the man he shot were not immediately released. State Police Sgt. Michael Baylous says the incident began about 11:45 p.m. Saturday when [...]
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