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Attorneys General to Address Drug Epidemic

Attorneys General to Address Drug Epidemic

Attorneys general from West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky are expected to meet with experts from law enforcement, health care and faith-based groups next week to discuss the opiate epidemic. Attorneys General Patrick Morrisey of...

Hobet Highway

Hobet Highway

It will be another two weeks before the bidding process for the Hobet Highway will be opened. The Division of Highways extended the opening date to November 1st so more time can be spent...

New Professor Needed Addiction Sciences

New Professor Needed Addiction Sciences

Marshall University is adding to their staff because of the growing opioid use in the Huntington area. President Jerome Gilbert says the university will create the position of director and professor of addiction sciences....

Power Park

Power Park

The scoreboard at Charleston’s Appalachian Power Park is going to triple in size. The old scoreboard of 325 square feet will be expanded to one that covers 980 square feet, and includes a new...

State Has New Plan for Opioids

State Has New Plan for Opioids

The state has a new plan for how and when opioid medications are prescribed. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced yesterday that the state Public Employees Insurance Agency and the Department of Health and Human...

Frat House Fall

Frat House Fall

A Toms River man is dead after falling from the roof of his fraternity house in West Virginia. Twenty-year-old Sean Guthrie fell from the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house over the weekend and died...

Justice in the Lead

Justice in the Lead

Less than three weeks until Election Day, Greenbrier owner Jim Justice still has a double-digit lead in the governor’s race over Senate President Bill Cole, according to a Virginia Poll released yesterday. Justice, the...