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CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia election officials are unsure about part of the state’s public financing pilot program for Supreme Court candidates. The State Election Commission voted 2-1 Thursday to postpone deciding whether the program can provide additional money known as rescue funds. The pilot program offers public funds in response to concerns about the [...]
Continue reading …BECKLEY (AP) — Police are searching for a Beckley Correctional Center inmate who escaped while on a work detail. Media outlets report that 43-year-old James Hall Jr. didn’t return from the work detail on Friday. Hall was serving a sentence for breaking and entering. He is described as a white male, 5 feet 9 inches [...]
Continue reading …MARTINSBURG (AP) — Berkeley County officials are working to increase the number of trees in the county. A 2009 assessment by the U.S. Forest Service rated Berkeley and Jefferson counties among the “highest priority” counties in the nation that need more trees. The Herald-Mail says the Berkeley County Council plans to apply for a Chesapeake [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A former Kanawha County physician has admitted his role in a prescription drug fraud scheme. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Friday that 55-year-old Dr. William J. Casto has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. Casto admitted he illegally wrote prescriptions for painkillers and an anti-anxiety drug from January 2006 through December 2009. [...]
Continue reading …MARTINSBURG (AP) — Two former agents for an Eastern Panhandle bonding company are charged with embezzlement after allegedly writing more than $1.2 million in unauthorized bonds. Media outlets say 38-year-old Mathew Francis and 40-year-old Shelly L. Garrison were charged with a single count of embezzlement and conspiracy. Francis was arraigned Thursday by a magistrate who [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — A pilot who died when his small airplane hit two communications towers and crashed in northern West Virginia had just dropped passengers off at a western Pennsylvania resort. Marketing director Zelma Kassimer of Nemacolin Woodlands Resort tells The Dominion Post the plane had taken off from the resort outside Pittsburgh on Friday [...]
Continue reading …NORTON (AP) — A $15.5 million Armed Forces Reserve Center in Randolph County is nearly finished and should open within weeks. Delegate Bill Hartman tells The Inter-Mountain of Elkins that only security lighting and minor jobs need to be completed. He calls the facility off Corridor H near Norton a beautiful building and says he [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — A West Virginia chicken grower ordered to obtain water-pollution discharge permits is suing the Environmental Protection Agency. Lois Alt owns Eight is Enough farms in Old Fields in the Eastern Panhandle. She says the EPA has overstepped its authority and wrongly classified runoff from her farm as “process wastewater.” She argues any [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A report gives West Virginia’s four-year college and university system a failing grade for the way its graduates fare in the labor market. The report was released Wednesday by the Institute for a Competitive Workforce, a nonprofit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It says bachelor’s degree holders in West Virginia [...]
Continue reading …MONTCOAL (AP) — Alpha Natural Resources has completed sealing the West Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 workers in 2010. Alpha spokesman Ted Pile tells The Register-Herald that crews put the final concrete seal in place at the Upper Big Branch mine on Wednesday. The seals are covered with fill dirt. The mine hasn’t [...]
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