The Herald-Dispatch. February 2, 2023. Editorial: Legislature works on recovery matters of concern to public Pill mills are largely a thing of the past. Meth labs in mobile homes on back roads, operated by drug dealers relying on large quantities...
Read moreWILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based national motorcycle gang leader who authorities say often used violence was sentenced to 75 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and other crimes. Christopher Lamar Baker was sentenced in Wilmington by...
Read moreBOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Bluefield 60, Wyoming East 50 Buffalo 57, Lincoln County 40 George Washington 81, Hurricane 68 Herbert Hoover 83, Midland Trail 58 Jefferson 86, Broadfording Christian Academy, Md. 38 Lewis County 79, Richwood 42 Logan 59, Scott 55...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Renovations have started at two travel plazas on the West Virginia Turnpike. The state Department of Transportation said Wednesday that restroom, food and parking facilities at the Beckley and Bluestone plazas in southern West Virginia will...
Read moreHUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Marshall University School of Music will present its 54th Annual Winter Jazz Festival Feb. 16-18 with a series of free public performances. The festival will feature local, regional and national jazz talent, including Dr. Joseph...
Read moreCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Crowds at the West Virginia state Capitol pleaded with lawmakers Thursday to show as much compassion for saving the lives of transgender children as they showed for unborn fetuses when they voted to ban abortion just months ago....
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An abortion provider filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn West Virginia's near-total ban, saying it is unconstitutional, irrational and causes irreparable harm to the state's only abortion clinic and its patients. The lawsuit asks for...
Read moreCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's House of Delegates unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to expand the authority of the state foster care advocate to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect. Before the 100-member House voted in unison in favor,...
Read moreBOYS PREP BASKETBALL= Bath County, Va. 68, Richwood 30 Buffalo 81, Saint Joseph Central 55 Herbert Hoover 87, Nicholas County 68 Nitro 75, Wayne 56 POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS= Mount View vs. James Monroe, ccd. ___ Some high school basketball scores...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The state of West Virginia is looking for local government agencies, nonprofit groups and other organizations to help run a summer feeding program for children. The program sponsored by the Department of Education provides free meals...
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