The Charleston Gazette
- Instructor steals federal body armor in West Virginia case
Thursday - 09/28/2017 - 08:44 AMBy The Associated Press
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A 30-year-old Virginia man has admitted to stealing government property as a contractor at a federal facility in West Virginia.
Federal prosecutors say Richard Alan Millette, of Winchester, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to unauthorized sale of government property.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Email suggests offer to trade legislation for WV road bond support
Thursday - 09/28/2017 - 12:01 AMBy Jake Zuckerman
An internal email from the West Virginia Municipal League appears to detail a trade between the association and Gov. Jim Justice - the municipalities' support for the road bond referendum in exchange for legislation.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- City officials refuse to meet with West Side groups
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 06:22 PMBy Lori Kersey
Charleston city officials say they won't hold public meetings about the progress of a 2008 plan to improve the city's West Side, despite a request from some of the city's black leaders this week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WV firefighters gather for first Fall Training Summit
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 07:17 PMBy Giuseppe Sabella
Firefighters from every corner of West Virginia gathered in Charleston for a lengthy training event that ended on Wednesday.
It was the first Fall Training Summit, an event by the International Association of Fire Fighters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Higher ed, state officials unveil report to 'move WV forward'
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 06:35 PMBy Jake Jarvis
Industrial energy costs have steadily risen in recent years in West Virginia, a trend which potentially threatens the state's efforts to rebrand itself as a business-friendly state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man accused of breaking into plane at Yeager not competent for trial
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 04:59 PMBy Lacie Pierson
A Charleston man who allegedly broke into an airplane at Yeager Airport "just to see" how it felt isn't competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Daylen Wayne Brightwell, 21, will be sent to William R.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WV American settles with insurance company in water crisis case
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 12:40 PMBy Ken Ward Jr.
West Virginia American Water Co. has reached a deal with one of its insurance carriers, a move that provides the water company an additional $22 million to cover the payments it has agreed to make to Kanawha Valley residents, businesses and workers in a class-action settlement over the January 2014 water crisis, court records and corporate disclosures show.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - C8 lawyer given 'Alternative Nobel Prize'
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 10:57 AMBy Ken Ward Jr.
A lawyer who has spent years fighting DuPont Co. over the company's toxic C8 pollution has been named among those to receive this year's Right Livelihood Award, an international honor that is sometimes known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP to unveil broad tax cuts, put off tough decisions
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 09:18 AMBy By Damian Paletta, Mike DeBonis and Carolyn Y. Johnson
The Washington PostWASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and top Republicans on Wednesday will unveil a proposal to cut personal and corporate taxes by at least $5 trillion over 10 years, people familiar with the matter said, promising to recoup more than half of the lost revenue by eliminating numerous unspecified tax breaks and deductions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bulletin Board: Sept. 27, 2017
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 12:01 AMThe Kanawha Valley Coin Club will hold their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the South Charleston Public Library. For more information, call 304-727-4062 or visit www.kvcc.eznetway.com.
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- Bulletin Board: Sept. 28, 2017
Thursday - 09/28/2017 - 12:01 AMThe YMCA Montgomery is hosting a free "Splash Party" to celebrate the opening of the facility from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the YMCA Baisi Center, Montgomery. The event is free to attend.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Panel discusses opioid crisis in WV
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 10:47 PMBy Jake Zuckerman
A panel of experts and addicts offered their takes Wednesday on where West Virginia is amid the national opioid epidemic and where it might be going.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Grievance of Huntington teacher who wrote anti-Muslim tweets denied
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 07:12 PMBy Lacie Pierson
An administrative law judge with the West Virginia Public Employees Grievance Board has denied a grievance filed by a former Cabell County Schools teacher whose racist and anti-Muslim social media posts were widely shared by current and former students and later state and national media outlets during the 2016-17 school year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hino Motors announces plan to move, expand in Wood County
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 07:37 PMBy Carlee Lammers
Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. will be investing $100 million into expanding its manufacturing and assembly operations in West Virginia.
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In a news conference streamed online Wednesday evening, Hino Motors Manufacturing president Takashi Ono announced the company would be moving all operations from its current site in Williamstown to the former Coldwater Creek facility in Mineral Wells by 2019. - Boil-water advisories: Sept. 28, 2017
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 04:23 PMWest Virginia American Water has issued a boil-water advisory for customers on Pinnacle Drive from Box 11 to Box 50. Timberline Place, Pinnacle Woods Drive and Valley View Drive in Charleston.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Flags to fly at half-staff for late Delegate Tony Lewis
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 05:33 PMBy Staff report
Flags around the state Capitol and in Preston and Tucker counties will fly at half-staff Thursday from dawn to dusk in remembrance of the late Delegate Tony Lewis.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Medicare stops payments for care at Sharpe Hospital in Weston
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 01:01 PMBy Phil Kabler
Medicare won't pay for patients at one of West Virginia's two state-run psychiatric hospitals as of Thursday, according to a termination notice from the federal Department of Health and Human Services.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Manchin will oppose Trump mine safety nominee
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 10:59 AMBy Ken Ward Jr.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said today that he will oppose President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration.
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In a statement, Manchin said that he had reviewed the qualifications "and record of safety" during MSHA nominee David Zatezalo's time in the coal industry and was "not convinced" that Zatezalo "is suited to oversee the federal agency that implements and enforces mine safety laws and standards." - Opioid crisis drives a grim business in WV: body transport
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 05:15 AMThis report is the result of a collaboration between the Gazette-Mail and HuffPost.
By Eric EyreStaff writerBusiness is booming for one somber industry in West Virginia: the transportation of dead bodies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Capital's Carnell crowned Miss Kanawha Majorette
Tuesday - 09/26/2017 - 11:31 PMBy Carlee Lammers
For Capital High School's Lauren Carnell, twirling is a family affair.
Carnell, a senior at Capital High School, was crowned Miss Kanawha Majorette 2017 at the 71st Gazette-Mail Kanawha County Majorette & Band Festival on Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- West Virginia woman charged with murder in overdose death
Thursday - 09/28/2017 - 08:47 AMBy The Associated Press
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - Police say a West Virginia woman has been charged with murder in a drug overdose death.
Media outlets report State Police arrested 32-year-old Kristy Danielle Finley of Dingess on Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner dies at LA home
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 11:44 PMBy By Andrew Dalton
The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) - Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Scholarship fund in Myers' name to be announced at WVSU event Friday
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 09:53 PMBy Douglas Imbrogno
Lydia McLeod attended West Virginia State College in Institute at the same time as Cabin Creek native Lou Myers.
She did not know him well, but characterized him as "a regular guy with a very warm sense of humor."
Myers would graduate in 1964 with a degree in sociology.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No Capital High rooms left closed due to mold
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 05:55 PMBy Ryan Quinn
No Capital High rooms remain closed due to mold, carbon dioxide or air quality issues as of Wednesday, according to the Kanawha County public school system's communications director.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WV American settles with insurance company in water crisis case
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 12:40 PMBy Ken Ward Jr.
West Virginia American Water Co. has reached a deal with one of its insurance carriers, a move that provides the water company an additional $22 million to cover the payments it has agreed to make to Kanawha Valley residents, businesses and workers in a class-action settlement over the January 2014 water crisis, court records and corporate disclosures show.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Highland Hospital sale becomes final
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 04:06 PMBy Erin Beck
A Tennessee-based company has bought Highland Hospital and plans to increase drug treatment services.
Meridian Behavioral Health Systems, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based for-profit company, completed the purchase of Highland Hospital, Highland Health Center, and Process Strategies, on Wednesday morning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police locate vehicle of woman found dead in river last week
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 12:44 PMBy Staff reports
Charleston police have located the vehicle of a woman who was found dead in the Kanawha River last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wrongful death lawsuit against former WV officer has been settled
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 09:17 AMBy The Associated Press
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A lawsuit alleging that a former West Virginia officer used excessive force that led to the death of a woman at a hospital has been settled for an undisclosed amount.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mason County polymer plant to close
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 09:29 AMAPPLE GROVE, W.Va. (AP) - A Mason County polymer producer says it plans to halt operations.
County commissioners were notified by M&G Polymers USA LLC that the Apple Grove plant will close.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Developer cancels plans for Corridor G shopping center
Tuesday - 09/26/2017 - 06:17 PMBy Max Garland
A developer's plans to build a shopping center along Corridor G are no more.
Interstate Realty, a Tennessee-based commercial developer, is ending its plans to build the Little Creek Village shopping center after the development became "economically infeasible," co-owner Mike Nidiffer said Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share