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CLARKSBURG (AP) — A Virginia company that provided security for West Virginia’s All Good Music Festival denies its employees are responsible for paralyzing a 27-year-old man from the chest down. Event Staffing Inc. of Norfolk, Va., filed a formal response to his lawsuit in U.S. District Court earlier this week. Daniel Weaver of Hudson, N.Y., [...]
Continue reading …MADISON (AP) — The Boone County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a 22-year-old man in the theft of more than 1,000 feet of wire that was destined to restore power to residents hit hard by June 29 storms. The sheriff’s office says the copper and aluminum wire was found at the man’s residence in Bloomingrose. Deputies [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Kanawha County officials say only a few residents are signing up for federal assistance following a June 29 storm. County Manager Jennifer Sayre tells the Charleston Gazette officials believe many more people should be signing up based on damages to area homes during the storm. One week ago, President Barack Obama declared [...]
Continue reading …PRUNTYTOWN (AP) — In southern West Virginia, they often go to the coal mines. In the northern counties, they go to the oil and gas industry. But everywhere, corrections officers are fleeing the state’s regional jails and prisons for better-paying jobs. With the 49th-lowest starting salary in the nation, it’s no surprise. “I have officers [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — The Morgantown City Council has voted to limit gas drilling to 600 acres surrounding the city’s airport. According to media reports, the council on Tuesday unanimously approved six zoning ordinances restricting all mining and drilling to designated industrial zones around the Morgantown Municipal Airport. The city last summer tried to ban shale-gas [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — There’s a sand-colored garage on state route 25 between Dunbar and Charleston. The building appears innocuous. On the first floor, a bike shop pedals its wares, but on the second floor, an ominous sign looms — it says, “We sell doomsday supplies.” The sign belongs to Keller’s Survival and Pawn, a business [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Billed as “The Double Sax Man,” Ernie Dunlap wowed audiences for years by playing two saxophones at once, tenor and alto, melody on one, harmony on the other. He entertained in bars and clubs all over town, in Las Vegas and Nashville and Myrtle Beach. He cut a couple of albums. Often [...]
Continue reading …GREENWOOD (AP) — For decades, politicians and policymakers have debated what to do about West Virginia’s overcrowded jails and prisons. But the “crisis of disturbing proportions” the state Supreme Court predicted in 2002 still looms. Twice as many convicted felons now sit in regional jails, waiting for a prison bed. The justices urged legislators to [...]
Continue reading …MARLA PISCIOTTA Spirit Staff CHARLES TOWN — There is no evidence of foul play in the death of a 66-year-old Jefferson County man, whose body was discovered in his home Saturday after a neighbor checked on him following last week’s storms, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. James Daniel Arbuthnot Jr., who was confined [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — Morgantown police are increasing their downtown presence following complaints from business owners about vagrancy. Lt. Harold Sperringer says 15-year veteran officer Steve Bennett has volunteered for a new foot patrol and started walking his beat Tuesday. His shift runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and he will talk with local business [...]
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