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n West Virginia American Water has issued a boil-water advisory for customers on Bendview Drive from Loudon Heights Road to and including Hilltop Court in Charleston. The advisory follows a water main break.
Customers in these areas are urged to boil their water for at least one full minute prior to use until further notice.

By Phil Kabler

Despite finishing up the 2017-18 budget year in relatively good financial health, PEIA will need up to $50 million in premium increases or benefits cuts, or some combination of both, to fund the 2018-19 health insurance plan, PEIA executive director Ted Cheatham said Thursday.
"Our operational results are good, but we still need to build around our expected claim costs," he said after Thursday's PEIA Finance Board meeting.

By Erin Beck

With a smile, Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, walked across Kanawha Boulevard and offered pastries and strawberries to protesters outside the forum his organization hosted in Charleston on Thursday.
Most declined the pastries, which were prepared at the Four Points by Sheraton, where the conservative event featuring U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey as keynote speakers, took place.

By Lacie Pierson

A Clendenin man will remain in jail without bond on charges of first-degree murder and malicious wounding.
Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Joanna Tabit on Thursday denied a motion to set bond for Randall Douglas Woods, 62, who is accused of shooting two of his neighbors on Aug. 23, killing one and injuring the other.

By Max Garland

A newly formed company says it is planning to build a $73 million synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County with construction expected to commence in early 2018.
The West Virginia Economic Development Authority approved an inducement resolution relating to the issuance of revenue bonds for PPD of WV One, LLC's planned Greenbrier County plant project at its monthly board of directors meeting Thursday.

By Ken Ward Jr.

Kanawha Valley residents, businesses and workers will soon be able to file claims to seek their share of the $151 million settlement of the class-action lawsuit over the January 2014 water crisis, under an order issued Thursday afternoon by the federal judge overseeing the case.

By John McCoy

Deer in eight West Virginia counties have been found dead, killed by a disease that pops up from time to time.
Division of Natural Resources officials confirmed Thursday that deer in Boone, Brooke, Hancock, Lincoln, Marshall, Ohio, Tucker and Wayne counties have died this year from epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD.

By Staff reports

Authorities recovered a body from the Kanawha River just before noon on Thursday.
A tugboat crew spotted the body near Blaine Island in South Charleston at about 11:10 p.m., a Kanawha County dispatcher said.
As of Thursday afternoon, it was unclear whether authorities recovered a man or a woman.
South Charleston police officers remained on the river bank with the body at 1:30 p.m.
Police closed a concrete boat ramp off Riverside Drive, near the intersection of Jefferson Road.

By Giuseppe Sabella

An armed man allegedly collided with two patrol vehicles during a pursuit that ended in Logan County on Wednesday.
Tony Alvis Meade, 37, was involved in a domestic incident with shots fired in Mingo County, according to a criminal complaint.
Mingo sheriff's deputies then followed Meade's white truck as he refused to pull over, according to the complaint.

By Phil Kabler

Longtime state Supreme Court clerk Rory Perry II said Thursday he's leaving state government to become a U.S. District Court clerk.
"It's quite an opportunity, although I've really enjoyed working with the court, working with 13 different justices, and six administrative directors over the years," Perry said.
Perry has been court clerk for 17 years, appointed in July 2000, and joined the high court in October 1998 as a deputy clerk. He previously had been an assistant attorney general.