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n West Virginia American Water has issued a boil-water advisory for customers in Huntington. The affected area includes 28th Street from 1st Avenue to 3rd Avenue, 28th ½ Street and Highlawn Court. The advisory follows a water main break.
n West Virginia American Water has issued a boil-water advisory for customers along Lower Falls Road from Mill Street to the end of the road as well as Mill Street in St. Albans. The advisory follows a water main break.

By By Sadie Gurman and Andrew Welsh-Huggins
The Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday.
He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.

By By David Crary
The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.

By Jake ZuckermanStaff writerThe Cabell County Sheriff said no charges will be filed against the man accused of threatening armed violence upon protesters at an upcoming rally for the president in Huntington.
Sheriff Chuck Zerkle said U.S. Secret Service agents interviewed the man suspected of writing the Facebook post regarding expected activists at President Donald Trump's rally Thursday at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena and did not deem the threat to be serious enough to warrant charges.

By Giuseppe Sabella

Charleston Police recently found two abandoned puppies in a storage tote - only one survived.
A tip led Patrolman Jacob Cooper to find both puppies in the West Side of Charleston, the Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association said in a Facebook post on Tuesday night.
Cooper named the surviving dog Bluebell. The post states that a humane officer then arrived to the area, though the specific location is not mentioned.

By By Fredrick Kunkle
The Washington Post

A traffic safety organization is warning that two recent studies suggest that legalizing recreational marijuana could lead to an increase in crashes, including deadly ones.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) says that studies by the Highway Loss Data Institute and researchers at the University of Texas at Austin point to an increase in crash risk in states that legalized the recreational use of pot.

n West Virginia American Water has issued a temporary water outage from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for today and Thursday along Cross Lanes Drive. The affected area includes Windsong Way, Pleasant Drive, Brohard Drive, Burdette Lane, Brynside Apartments, Wayson Drive, Timber Creek Lane, Maplewood Drive and Cross Lanes Drive from Valley Drive to Brookhaven Drive. Once the water has been restored the affected areas will be under boil-water advisory.

West Virginia Paving will mill the following streets in Charleston from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. today:
Potter Drive: from Sheridan Circle to Fort HillSheridan Circle: from the 200 block to new pavement

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By Jake Jarvis

Less than 10 percent of West Virginia government agencies included in a financial audit submitted information to the Department of Administration on time, the governor's chief of staff, Nick Casey, said Tuesday afternoon.
Late submissions are inexcusable and have been increasing over the past few years, Casey said. The Department of Administration needs that information to compile the state's Single Audit, an accounting of all agencies that receive federal money.
This was the third year that West Virginia submitted its Single Audit late.