CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A proposed settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice, West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection, and Antero Resources Corporation resolving alleged Clean Air Act and West Virginia Pollution Control violations that involved the company’s oil and gas production operations in the Mountain State and Ohio was announced Friday afternoon.
According to a news release, the settlement states that Antero is going to undertake various projects to assess, modify, and

SOUTH FORK, W.Va. — A West Virginia hiker is being treated at a Virginia hospital after slipping and falling on an ice-packed trail in Pendleton County Friday.
According to Pendleton County Emergency Management, the woman was hiking on the High Knob Trail on Shenandoah Mountain near the West Virginia-Virginia state line at about 6 p.m. when she slipped on packed ice and slid down steep terrain on the West Virginia side of the mountain.
First responders from both states responded. It took

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — An Upshur County student is being held in a juvenilia detention facility after allegedly putting the names of 34 sixth grade students at Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School on a “shooters list.”
The juvenile girl was taken into custody by Upshur County sheriff’s deputies Friday morning and the list was AirDropped to the devices and phones of some students waiting in the school gym for classes to start.
The school principal called the Upshur County Schools chief of security and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State senators passed a bill Friday that would ban the shipment of abortion pills into West Virginia.
Senate Bill 173 makes the sending or prescribing of “abortifacients” to West Virginians illegal.
Rollan Roberts
“I think it’s sad that we have to come up with legislation like this and put some teeth in it, but it is where we are,” Sen. Rollan Roberts, R-Raleigh, said Friday. “We have people shipping, mailing these pills in and that’s thwarting our law.”
The penalties in the

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A now former custodian with Berkeley County Schools faces more than two dozen charges following an incident that occurred Thursday night during a girls’ basketball game at Martinsburg High School.
William Shoup (WVRJA)
Berkeley County Schools report the custodian, who has been identified as William Howard Shoup, 25, “will not be returning to the school or to Berkeley County Schools.”  
Shoup was allegedly discovered hiding inside a closet inside the girls’ locker room for