Strong winds and waves from Hurricane Erin have battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard as dangerous rip currents continue to threaten from the Carolinas to New England. But the storm is heading farther out to sea and forecasters say the unusually…
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Texas is favored to win the national championship, with Arch Manning leading the Heisman Trophy race. Manning, finally starting after two seasons behind Quinn Ewers, has generated significant hype. Texas is the consensus favorite, with odds at +450, followed by…
A Colorado judge has rejected a plea deal for Jon Hallford, a funeral home owner who abused 191 corpses. Families who had received fake ashes had asked the judge on Friday for harsher punishment. Hallford is already headed to prison…
CHARLESTON — The federal government has picked a side in an ongoing battle that has pitted West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey and the state health department against the state Board of Education over religious exemptions to the state’s school compulsory…
LEWISBURG — The Greenbrier Valley Off-Road Bicycling Association, a local chapter of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, announced on Friday the completion of significant upgrades to the YCC Exercise Trail—affectionately known as “Figure 8”—at Greenbrier State Forest.
This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
RIPLEY — Quilts of all sizes, colors, and fabrics will be on display at the West Virginia Quilt Festival set for Sept. 11-13 at the Cedar Lakes Conference Center in Ripley. The theme for this year’s festival is “West Virginia…
OAK HILL — The West Virginia Small Business Development Center announced Thursday that Beth Fish has been appointed as the new Business Coach for the Oak Hill Center, where she will serve entrepreneurs and small business owners across eight counties:…
CHARLESTON — Mark McDaniel, a doctor of osteopathic medicine who recently retired as state air surgeon for the West Virginia National Guard, will be the next state health officer, the Department of Health announced Thursday afternoon.
CHARLESTON — Community advocates who oppose Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s deployment of the West Virginia National Guard to support President Donald Trump’s crackdown in the nation’s capital have filed a lawsuit challenging the move.
