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Unemployment continues to rise in tri-county area
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:02:09 -0800
OHIO VALLEY — The latest statistics show unemployment rates are on the rise in Mason, Meigs and Gallia counties. Both WorkForce West Virginia and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, ...
Tobacco trouble
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:21:16 -0800
Both Ohio and West Virginia scored poorly in terms of protecting people from tobacco smoke and other tobacco-related issues in a recent report issued by the American Lung Association.
Supreme Court keeps West Virginia redistricting map intact
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:06:46 -0800
CHARLESTON, W., Virginia (Reuters) - The Supreme Court granted a request from West Virginia officials on Friday by issuing an order that keeps the state's new congressional redistricting plan in effect pending further legal action. The high court issued a one-sentence order putting a hold on a lower court ruling that had deemed the redistricting plan unconstitutional. The lower court ruled ...
Search for woman’s remains called off in Ohio
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:02:30 -0800
INSTITUTE, W.Va. — Despite extensive searching along U.S. 35 in Gallia, Jackson and Ross Counties in Ohio this weekend, law enforcement officers with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office were unsuc...
Committee Selects Candidates
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:36:16 -0800
WELLSBURG - A four-member panel Tuesday night selected two Brooke County residents and one from Ohio County as the best candidates to represent the 2nd District in the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Candidates for district seat selected
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:14:57 -0800
WELLSBURG - A four-member panel Tuesday night selected two Brooke County residents and one from Ohio County as the best candidates to represent the 2nd District in the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Supreme Court blocks West Virginia redistricting ruling
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:01:23 -0800
West Virginia can run this year's congressional races with the redistricting map recently struck down by a panel of federal judges, after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to stay the ruling. The justices agreed to block the Jan. 3 decision pending an appeal by state officials, who had cited West Virginia's looming election timetable in petitioning for a stay.
Search for Rhims body called off in Ohio
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:09:28 -0800
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha County sheriffs deputies are no longer looking in Ohio for the body of Carol Rhim. Lt. Sean Crosier of the Kanawha County Sheriffs Department said the search was called off today after searching 40 miles of roadwa...
Much of forecast heavy rain expected to miss W.Va.
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:47:57 -0800
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for several West Virginia counties, including Kanawha County and the surrounding area, for much of the day Thursday.
Woman killed in West Virginia
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:45:50 -0800
MEDINA—A former Orleans County woman was murdered then beheaded in West Virginia last week by her boyfriend, who took his own life as authorities closed in on him, authorities said.