Twenty-Four Carrot Country
Charleston city officials will pay a man $650,000 after paramedics mistakenly gave him a numbing medication that is a controlled substance. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports city council members approved the settlement Monday night. City...
Recommendations to standardize practices at local health departments in West Virginia will now go before the state Legislature. Members of the state Department of Health met Tuesday in Charleston to approve the final report...
Unemployment rates increased in 30 of West Virginia’s 55 counties in November. Workforce West Virginia says unemployment rates fell in 16 other counties, while nine counties saw no change. Jefferson County’s 3.1 unemployment rate...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is partnering with the Social Security Administration to target disability fraud. In a news release yesterday, Morrisey announced the formation of an anti-fraud unit with Social Security and...
A Kanawha County man has been charged with threats to a state government jobs agency. According to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Joseph William Estep threatened to blow up a...
Charleston ranked higher than any other city in West Virginia in a rating system that judges cities’ inclusiveness toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Charleston earned 73 out...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reopened the public comment period on the Guyandotte River crayfish and the Big Sandy crayfish. The federal agency says surveys found one new location of the Guyandotte...
State officials say staff vacancies have declined at West Virginia’s state-run psychiatric hospitals following court-ordered pay raises. Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Duke Bloom had ordered the pay raises in an ongoing case centering...
A Cross Lanes man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement in a Kanawha County case. Dustin Wayne Bodkins is automatically sentenced to 20 years in prison. Bodkins was accused...
West Virginia education officials say more of the state’s students are graduating from high school. The graduation rate is 86.5 percent in the 2014-15 school year. In Cabell County, the graduation rate overall has...
