SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a new U.S. House map that California voters decisively approved at the ballot.
Proposition 50, backed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is designed to help Democrats flip as many as five congressional House seats in the midterm elections next year. The lawsuit claims the map-makers improperly used race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters “without cause or evidence to justify it,” and asks the court to
CHARLESTON – Two of the three appeals regarding the state Department of Environmental Protection’s handling of air quality permit applications for a proposed power plant for a data center in Tucker County were dismissed during an Air Quality Board Evidentiary Hearing Wednesday morning.
Representatives from Tucker United, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the Sierra Club, the three groups who filed the appeal, went before the West Virginia Air Quality Board Wednesday. They were joined
CHERRY GROVE – Multiple local volunteer fire departments, along with some from as far away as Virginia, are responding to a wildfire in the Monongahela National Forest.
The Pendleton County WV Office of Emergency Management/911 put out several statements on social media regarding the wildfire Wednesday afternoon.
“Multiple fire crews at a wildfire in Southwest Pendleton County, near Cherry Grove,” the Pendleton County OEM stated on social media at 1:21 p.m. Wednesday. “Battling extreme steep
CHARLESTON — It is yet unclear how quickly reduced Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will be available for West Virginians, with President Donald Trump contradicting his U.S. Department of Agriculture in whether to comply with a federal court order to partially fund the benefits.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey and West Virginia National Guard Adj. Gen. James Seward provided an update Tuesday on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and food distribution efforts to state
CHARLESTON — After many years of attempts by the West Virginia Legislature to sell one or all four of the state’s publicly owned long-term care facilities, those hospitals are now in private hands.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Saturday that the sale of Hopemont Hospital in Preston County, Jackie Withrow Hospital in Raleigh County, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center in Marion County and Lakin Hospital in Mason County to New York-based Marx Development Group was finalized.
“This marks an
MORGANTOWN — Like most quarterbacks, West Virginia’s Scotty Fox Jr. wants nothing to do with donuts, but unlike most quarterbacks, it isn’t because the donut and its circular shape is often used to represent the zero that goes up on the scoreboard when a team is shut out.
Fox, you see, doesn’t eat processed foods, a fact revealed by his coach, Rich Rodriguez, on his Monday night radio show, which in a way not only was a celebration of Fox, despite his youth and inexperience, leading the
The big headlines about job losses tend to focus on the big employers. Layoffs at UPS, 48,000 — at Intel, 24,000. Amazon is cutting up to 30,000 workers, and Target, 1,800. These pink slips are being dropped largely on white-collar positions.
The thinking is that artificial intelligence will be able to handle much of the work now being done at desks. Dropping heavier workloads on those who remain seems to be another part of the plan.
AI is considered “intelligent” automation. In other words, it
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COUNTRY STORE SALE: The Elkins First United Methodist Church United Women in Faith will host a country store sale on Friday, Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to noon. Name your own price, no reasonable offer refused.
Donald Lee “Don” Taylor, 85, a resident of Mill Creek, passed from this life Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, at home with family by his side and under the care of Mountain Hospice.
Don was born Thursday, May 3, 1940, in Mill Creek, a son of the late Kenneth Taylor and Effie Lambert Taylor. He was twice married. First, to Evelyn McCauley Gibson, who survives, and then, he was married to Wenda Marie Lanham, who preceded him in death.
Left to cherish Don’s memory are five children, Ricky Taylor and wife,
(AP) — The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
Dozens of centers are missing out on federal grant payments that were due to arrive Nov. 1. Some have closed indefinitely, while others are staying afloat with emergency funding from local governments and school districts. The closures mean Head Start students — who come from low-income
