Amazon
West Virginia officials are hoping Amazon will consider building its second U.S. headquarters in the Mountain State. The Internet retail giant announced last week they’re looking to build a new five-billion dollar facility in...
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Right to Work
West Virginia’s highest court ruled Friday that a judge made a mistake blocking the state’s “right-to-work” law from taking effect after it was passed last year while the court challenge against it continued. The...
Don Blankenship
Attorneys for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship have made a last pitch to the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out his conviction connected to a 2010 West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29...
Several Face Charges for Credit Card Theft
Seven people are behind bars accused of trying to purchase hundreds of dollars’ worth of items with fake credit cards. South Charleston police got a tip from Kohls Loss Prevention officers that several men...
Sobriety Checkpoint Planned near Belle
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office has another high visibility sobriety checkpoint planned for this weekend. The Sheriff’s Office teams up with the Governor’s Highway Safety Program for look for impaired drivers, and the checkpoint...
WV Unemployment Rate is Rising
West Virginia’s unemployment rate is rising, although slightly. State numbers released this week show an increase to five-percent in the jobless rate with the number of unemployed jumping by 23-hundred. Mining and logging, construction...
SAT
All West Virginia high school juniors will begin taking the SAT as the statewide assessment in the spring of 2018. The Department of Education said yesterday the test was selected as the successful bidder...
WV National Guard Heads to Islands to help
Several members of the West Virginia National Guard are heading to the U.S. Virgin Islands to help victims of Hurricane Irma. Fourteen guardsmen and women left for the island of St. Thomas Wednesday night....
Wing Hits Tug at Airport
Authorities say an American Eagle flight arriving at a North Carolina airport has collided with a tug as it was taxiing to the gate. An American Airlines spokeswoman says the flight arriving from Charleston,...
Economy Boost
Four U.S. senators and the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center have proposed 19 measures to boost the economy in Appalachia, including expanded broadband and telemedicine and tapping the region’s “vast” natural gas reserves for chemical...