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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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EPA adds to W.Va.’s list of impaired waterways
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection improperly left 255 streams totaling about 1,000 miles off a list of impaired waterways it submitted for approval last fall, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. Those waterways must be added to comply with the federal Clean Water Act and will bring the new list to nearly 1,200 rivers and streams, the EPA said. In January, environmental grou...
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DUI Checkpoint set for April 5
On Friday, April 5, beginning at 9 p.m., members of he West Virginia State Police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint along West Virginia Route 119/26, Deskins Addition, Logan. The checkpoint will last until 3 a.m. on Saturday, April 6. The primary purpose of the checkpoint is to educate the motoring public about the effects of driving impaired either by alcohol, drugs or both. Furthermore, the checkpint would act as a deterrent for ...
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W.Va. senators split on DOMA repeal
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller says he now opposes a federal law barring same-sex marriage. But his fellow Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, still supports the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act. The two West Virginia senators offered differing views Monday, ahead of U.S. Supreme Court hearings in gay marriage-related cases. Rockefeller said churches and ministers should never have to perform marriages that violate their beliefs. ...
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Man honor student attends forum
MAN – Three months ago an honor student at Man High School was raising money to pay expenses for a trip to Washington, D.C. Hunter Gage Montgomery is the son of Rick and Donna Montgomery of Man. The Man High School sophomore had been nominated to represent Man High School and West Virginia by participating in the National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security: Exploring American Diplomacy, Intelligence and Defense to be held in Washin...
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Four Logan County Mines earn awards
CHARLESTON – Four Logan County mining operations – Alex Energy, Mingo-Logan Coal Company, Apogee Coal Company and Eastern Arrow – were honored recently for environmental stewardship during the West Virginia Coal Association’s 40th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium, held Mar. 6-8 in Charleston. “We would like to congratulate Alex Energy, Mingo-Logan Coal Company, Apogee Coal Company, Eastern Arrow and the other companies who were recogni...
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Couple arrested on battery charges
Logan County deputies answered a complaint on Dempsey Branch Road that ended with two arrests. Deputies note in the criminal complaints that when they spoke with the victim, her face was covered in blood and she appeared to have a bloody nose and mouth. The victim was transported to Logan Regional Medical Center for treatment of her injuries. The victim told the deputies her cousin, Bennett Hatfield, 43, of Mount Gay, and his girlfriend, ...
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Bill would give amnesty for old speeding tickets
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate Transportation Committee advanced a bill that would give amnesty to drivers who have had their licenses suspended or revoked because of unpaid tickets that are more than 10-years old. The bill advanced Friday would let those drivers get their licenses back without paying the fines, although the fines would still remain on the books. Commercial drivers’ licenses or any citation having to do...
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Consultant critical of W.Va. Internet project
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A consultant hired by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s administration concludes that state officials used tens of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds to help Frontier Communications build a fragmented high-speed Internet network that solely benefits the company. The Charleston Gazette obtained the confidential report by ICF International, examining the $126 million statewide broadband expansion project. It conclude...
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W.Va. delegate fighting to reinstate death penalty
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With neighboring Maryland about to become the sixth state in as many years to abolish the death penalty, one West Virginia delegate is on a quixotic quest to resume executions in his state for the first time in a half-century. This year marks the 27th in a row that Republican Del. John Overington has introduced a bill to reinstate capital punishment. It has rarely progressed far and is unlikely to pass this year, ev...
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House sends education measure to gov
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia would change how county school districts hire teachers, free up more days on their calendars to bolster student instruction and require full-week schooling for 4-year-olds statewide, under legislation sent to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Friday. The House of Delegate passed the bill, the centerpiece of the Democratic governor’s agenda this session, by a 95-2 vote. The measure offers to help teachers with l...
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