Memorial Ceremony Honors Lives Lost at Marshall
Marshall University held its annual ceremony to honor the 75 lives that were lost on Nov. 14, 1970 in the worst disaster in college sports history. The 75 lives were lost when a plane...
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Tuition Increase Comes to UC
University of Charleston President Ed Welch says a tuition increase will be offset by more financial aid. Undergraduate tuition at the private university will increase by $3,000 to $28,900 a year. The Charleston Gazette-Mail...
Illegal Passing of School Buses is a Huge Problem
School officials are revisiting the issue of drivers violating school bus laws as they say it continues to be a serious problem. The Kanawha County Department of Transportation reviewed recent cases of drivers speeding...
Retirees Fight Alpha Plan to Eliminate Benefits
Alpha Natural Resources founder, chairman and CEO Michael J. Quillen and other retirees are objecting to a plan to terminate health care and other benefits. Retirees say they haven’t been provided sufficient time to...
Drugs Within Reach of A Child; Charges Follow
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Enforcement Unit arrested three in a drug bust in Hurricane this week. Brittany Johnson, Joshua Perkins and Mitchell Kiman are facing charges after deputies found lines of heroin...
Common Core Recommendations go the Board
The West Virginia Department of Education recommends that the Board take previous reductions in science and social studies standardized testing and make them permanent and at the same time work to figure out what...
Guilty Plea Entered in Hit and Run
A Glen Morgan man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a hit-and-run death. Austin Ray Redden had been charged with first-degree murder. The Register-Herald reports that Redden pleaded guilty to lesser charges of...
DOH Worker Killed in Brooke County
Police say a West Virginia Division of Highways flagger was killed after she apparently fell under a pickup truck driven by another worker. The Brooke County Sheriff’s Department identified the victim as 70-year-old Susan...
Alpha Benefits on the Chopping Block
Coal operator Alpha Natural Resources is seeking to eliminate health and other non-pension benefits for more than 4,500 non-union retirees. Alpha says in a recent bankruptcy court filing that the benefits cost it about...
Poultry Ban is Lifted
A ban on gatherings of live poultry in West Virginia has been lifted. The Department of Agriculture had implemented the ban in mid-May following an outbreak of avian influenza in other states. The department...
