Setting the rules for sports betting
The West Virginia Lottery Commission set the rules governing the debut of sports betting at the state’s five casinos. The commission met in emergency session yesterday to pass the rules for sports betting, so...
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Some Call for Loughry’s Impeachment
Some state Democratic legislative leaders called for impeachment proceedings against West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry, while the state Senate president said the justice should immediately resign. Loughry was indicted on 22 charges...
Longhorned Tick is Found in Putnam County
An invasive species is making its way across the United States. For the first time in West Virginia, the longhorned tick has been found on an animal in the area. Eyewitness News reported eight...
Sports Betting is Off to a Good Start in New Jersey
A New Jersey racetrack says business is up during the first week that sports betting has been legal. Although revenue figures won’t be released for a few weeks yet, Monmouth Park racetrack and Atlantic...
State employees may pay more to park
State employees may be paying more to park. A proposed rule change would bump up the monthly parking fee at the Capitol complex lots from 20-dollars to 25-dollars a month. The rate proposal also...
More than 20 people arrested in drug sweep
More than twenty people were arrested in a drug bust in Wayne County. Agents carried out a sweep early Wednesday morning, and seized a large amount of money and drugs. Undercover officers purchased a...
Mother facing charges for leaving child in a hot car
A Pikeville, Kentucky mother is facing charges for leaving her 3-year-old unattended in a hot car. The car was in a drugstore parking lot, and the boy was buckled into the back seat with...
Father suing daughter’s school over religion assignment
A West Virginia father is suing his daughter’s school over an assignment that went against his religious beliefs. Richard Penkoski’s daughter is a seventh grader at Mountain Ridge Middle School. He says she was...
Ashland restaurant worker diagnosed with Hepatitis A
The Ashland-Boyd County Health Department says another food worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A at Callihan’s American Pub and Grill. The worker at the restaurant on Route-60 in Ashland was diagnosed Tuesday. Health officials...
Three people injured in Barboursville shooting
Cabell County deputies are looking for the man who shot two people and injured a child early Wednesday morning. Twenty-nine-year-old Jeremy Bartram fired several shots into a home on Williamsburg Drive in Barboursville. Police...