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President of local business facing wire fraud charges
The president of a local mine equipment company is facing wire fraud charges along with three mine sourcing agents in connection with an alleged scheme to embezzle money from Alpha Natural Resources. Donald Steele is president of M & S Hydraulics located near Switzer in Logan County. According to the information filed by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, Steele provided mine supplies and equipment repair services to mines along Route 3 through B...
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Senate bill makes administrators substitute teach
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate will vote on a bill Wednesday that would require certain school administrators to serve as substitute teachers for three days each year. The bill would exempt county superintendents but would require anyone with a teaching or administrative certificate who is classified as a “supervisor” or a “central office administrator” to serve as a substitute teacher. In most districts this would includ...
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Pretrial release program passes W.Va. Senate
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — After unanimously passing Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s wide ranging prison reform bill last week, the West Virginia Senate has passed another bill with similar aims. The bill passed unanimously Tuesday would authorize counties to create supervised release programs for inmates awaiting trial, with the goal of reducing prison overcrowding. All pretrial releases would be at the discretion of the court. The court would rel...
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W.Va. Senate: Take tax debts from lottery prizes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would allow the state tax department to confiscate the prizes of lottery winners who are delinquent on their taxes. The bill passed unanimously Tuesday would allow the lottery director to take any winnings that are owed in back taxes and forward them directly to the state tax department. If a prize is larger than the amount owed, the tax department would only take a po...
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W.Va. House moves testing bill for drugged drivers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill passed by the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee would take the licenses of drivers who refuse a blood test after an arrest. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed the change to try to crack down on drugged driving in the state. Currently drivers can lose their licenses for refusing a breath test after being arrested, but breath tests are useless for detecting drugs. State police say they need to use blood tests...
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Logan hosts 20th-anniversary turkey banquet
The Logan Area Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) just reached a major milestone. Some 250 folks joined in to celebrate the occasion of its 20th Anniversary Superfund Banquet. The event was held at the Chief Logan State Park Conference Center along Corridor G. In a nifty coincidence, it’s also the 40th Anniversary of the parent organization, one of the nation’s leading non-profits in promoting conservation of the wild turke...
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Ferrell arrested twice
An outstanding arrest warrant led West Virginia State Police to arrest a Gilbert woman and take her to jail and arrest her again. The arrest warrant was issued after and incident on January 7, 2013, when officers were dispatched to investigate an automobile theft in the community of Mount Gay. The victim told the officers the defendant, Candace Ferrell, 26, of Gilbert, along with another person, had stolen her vehicle the night before. ...
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Caldwell charged with DUI
A Logan County Deputy Sheriff responded to a motor vehicle collision on Route 10 near the gas station at Huff Creek and arrested one of the drivers involved in the accident. When the officer spoke with one of the drivers, Jeremy Ray Caldwell, 26, of Accoville, the criminal complaint says he detected the odor of alcohol and noticed Caldwell’s eyes looked glassy. Caldwell failed the three sobriety tests the officer administered. Additiona...
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W.Va. gets F for inadequate tobacco prevention efforts
Tim Creighton started smoking when he was in the second grade after seeing his classmates light up; he felt it would help him fit in. Now a 22-year-old student at West Virginia University, Creighton acknowledges that he is addicted to cigarettes. “When everyone around you smoked and used dip, it’s just something you did. It’s something everyone did,” he said. Creighton isn’t alone. More than 20 percent of West Virginia’s high school stude...
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‘Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day’ during National Nutrition Day
Each March, the West Virginia Women, Infants and Children (WV WIC) Program encourages the approximate 48,000 women, infants and children receiving WIC foods to return to the basics of healthy eating through National Nutrition Month®. Food preferences, lifestyles, cultural and ethnic traditions as well as health concerns all affect our food choices. This year’s theme, “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day”, emphasizes the advantages of developing a ...
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Policy change to speed up W.Va. background checks
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia State Police is making it easier for organizations that serve children, the elderly and disabled individuals to obtain the results of federal background checks of potential employees. The agency has revised its policy to allow the state’s background check contractor, MorphoTrust, to submit potential employees’ fingerprints to the FBI. MorphoTrust would receive the results and provide them to the em...
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W.Va. DOT settles alleged storage tank violations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Department of Transportation has settled allegations that it violated federal regulations for underground storage tanks. The Environmental Protection Agency says the state agency agreed to pay a $30,000 penalty and make statewide improvements to its tank monitoring procedures. The Department of Transportation was cited by the EPA for failing to comply with safeguards designed to prevent, detect a...
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Questions about W.Va. education bureaucracy linger
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Bureaucracy emerged as a major culprit in a wide-ranging audit of West Virginia’s education system, but the legislation passed last week at the request of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin focuses mostly on other targets. Approved Friday by the House, Tomblin’s proposal tackles another big audit topic: inflexible school policies. The plan rewrites laws on educator hiring and transfers, and frees up counties to plan calendars th...
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W.Va. House calls on Patriot Coal to fund benefits
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Asking the state Senate to do the same, West Virginia’s House of Delegates on Monday called for bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. to honor its promises to around 23,000 retired miners and their families. A non-binding measure adopted 93-4 decries the threatened loss of pension and retiree health benefits. Estimating its liability at $1.6 billion, Patriot has warned it must end coverage for 10,000 retired miners and 13,0...
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Bulletin spurs twice the number of claims
CHARLESTON – State Treasurer John Perdue has announced that the latest unclaimed property newspaper insert has generated twice the interest of the previous one released. The February insert placed in newspapers across West Virginia generated 3,734 claims, as opposed to 1,836 in April of 2012. Included in the overall numbers: - February’s insert has generated 2,371 electronic claims in wake of the inserts, as opposed to 1,129 last year. ...
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