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Dear Heloise: During an insurance review, I discovered that our homeowners’ policy only covered up to $5,000 for jewelry and cash combined. This limit can get exceeded quickly. For an additional rider, I could increase the limit to $10,000, but anything above this would require an individual appraisal of the items that need to be covered.
A safety deposit box is the common solution to this problem, but with fewer bank branches around, there’s not always a bank
ELKINS — A Randolph County woman accused of child neglect after a child in her care was found by the roadway on US-219 on two separate occasions in August accepted a plea agreement that lowered her felony charge to a misdemeanor on Oct. 9.
Britney Nichole Arbogast, 33, accepted an agreement in Randolph County Magistrate Court to plead guilty to one count of first offense child neglect creating a risk of serious bodily injury, a misdemeanor. She was initially charged with two counts of child
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.
Trump told the United Nations General Assembly late last month: “Grocery prices are down, mortgage rates are down, and inflation has been defeated.”
And at a high-profile
Just ask the wind in the trees — the mighty oak grows to sway. This is why it still stands through hundreds of years of fair days and storms that would snap the unbendable things. And today, as a dwarf planet a few billion miles away appears to change direction, flexibility and adaptation will be the survival skills to hone, outlasting rigidity every time.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re making someone’s life more beautiful. Maybe that someone is you. Beauty isn’t always a constant show. More
A recent local news headline read: “Manufacturing plant moving from West Virginia to Ohio, creating new jobs.”
This is an unfortunate sign of the times for our state, which has lost the job-creating momentum created after business-friendly Republicans took control back in 2015.
Unfortunately, a lot of Republican politicians seem more focused on fighting culture wars and creating new opportunities for lawsuits than growing our economy.
Even though a majority of West Virginia voters want their
As the retribution tour hits the road in cities such as Chicago and Portland, tensions are increasing between Democrats and Republicans. The question must be asked: “Is all this necessary?” as well as the use of National Guard personnel, which is an unnecessary strain on the military.
Soldiers are not police officers, and this places them in a vulnerable position. And of course, the role of ICE in all this places the military in a dicey situation due to the public reaction.
Now the Trump
BAKER — Trevor Roof threw for two scores and ran for another as Class A, No. 13 East Hardy cruised to a 52-6 win over No. 17 Tygarts Valley on Friday evening.
The Cougars did a majority of their damage in the first half as Roof hit Dayton Dove for a two TD passes, Garrett VanMeter ran for two scores, Levi Price returned a punt 51 yards for a score and Roof a rushing TD to give East Hardy a 44-0 lead at halftime.
Roof was 10 of 15 passing for 189 yards in two quarters of action.
VanMeter added 55
Despite a delay while unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., argued over messaging and content, the West Virginia Department of Health has finally been able to release its annual respiratory vaccine guidelines for health care providers and patients.
That is a relief to health care professionals who had been worried about having the guidance they needed to properly advise patients about how to stay healthier and safer.
“We have had so much different messaging given to us, much different
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized how the wealthy live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while poor people suffer on the margins, confirming in his first teaching document that he is in perfect lockstep with his predecessor Pope Francis on matters of social and economic injustice.
The Vatican on Thursday released the document, entitled “I have loved you,” which Francis had begun to write in his final months but never finished. Leo, who was elected in May, credited Francis with the
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — María Corina Machado has long been the face of resistance to Venezuela’s 26-year ruling party. Now, she may become a symbol of peace, too.
Machado, the Venezuelan opposition powerhouse who prompted millions of Venezuelans to reject President Nicolas Maduro in last year’s election, on Friday was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work “to achieve a just and peaceful transition” of power in the South American country.
The award also recognized the seasoned politician
