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W.Va. officials plan for Jamboree traffic

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:06 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Transportation officials are making plans for the expected rush of traffic during the 10-day National Boy Scout Jamboree in July.

W.Va. man charged with threatening high school

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:33:21 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Boone County police have arrested a Raleigh County man who allegedly invoked the mass shooting in Connecticut in a threatening message against a high school.

W.Va. gov picks new health secretary

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:05:56 -0400

CHARLESTON, West Virginia - Former hospital executive and nurse Karen Bowling will become West Virginia's Health and Human Resources secretary on July 1, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Wednesday, taking over a sprawling department recently scrutinized by an audit and assigned the daunting task of expanding the state's Medicaid program.

Inmate escapes from Beckley Correctional Center

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:40:46 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Beckley Correctional Center.

Beckley Water negotiating buyout of PSD

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:02:23 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Beckley Water Company is negotiating a buyout of the Cool Ridge-Flat Top Public Service District.

W.Va. resort offering help to drug-convicted women

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:28:47 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Women are daughters, each of us. That's how Tammy Jordan, inspirational author, agriculturist and business owner, views it. So much so, she's sharing her bounty with women unaccustomed to walking through doorways to opportunity.

W.Va. man gets prison for possessing child porn

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:05:12 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - A 21-year-old Raleigh County man who had hundreds of images of child pornography on his computer has been sentenced to five years in prison.

West Virginia signs F Remi Dibo for next season

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:12:47 -0400

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia - West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has signed junior college transfer Remi Dibo for next season.

W.Va. crafters seek to make new things out of old

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:56:55 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Wait! Don't throw that away. These ladies might need it to fulfill their latest visions.

US judge rejects settlement in alleged W.Va. rape

Sun, 05 May 2013 10:35:16 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - A federal judge has rejected a proposed $65,000 settlement stemming from the alleged gang rape a 13-year-old girl by members of the basketball team at a now-closed Fayette County high school.

Southern W.Va.'s 1st Catholic high school planned

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:58:42 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - A planned expansion at St. Francis de Sales School in Beckley will create southern West Virginia's first Catholic high school.

Ex-W.Va. evidence tech gets probation in oxy theft

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:37:19 -0400

BLUEFIELD, West Virginia - A former Beckley Police Department employee will spend four years on probation for stealing pain pills from an evidence locker.

UBB group joins Preservation Alliance of W.Va.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:34:27 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - Members of the Upper Big Branch Mining Memorial Group want to preserve and promote southern West Virginia's coal heritage.

W.Va. Turnpike in better shape since tolls hiked

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:58:08 -0400

BECKLEY, West Virginia - The West Virginia Turnpike is in much better shape than it was four years ago when toll increases went into effect, a consulting engineer said.