West Virginia Politics
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Missing girl's mom facing welfare fraud sentence
The mother of a 3-year-old girl who vanished eight months ago this week is being sentenced for welfare fraud. Lena Lunsford is scheduled to appear Tuesday afternoon in Elkins before U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey. Lunsford pleaded guilty in January to selling $114 worth of credit on her food-stamp ...
Ex-Mason sheriff sentenced to 18 months in jail
Former Mason County Sheriff David Anthony will spend 18 months in jail for embezzlement and other charges. Media outlets report that Mason County Circuit Court Judge David Nibert sentenced the 42-year-old Anthony on Monday. Anthony pleaded no contest in March to fraudulent schemes and embezzlement. He also pleaded guilty to ...
Swint makes coal a key part of challenge to Capito
The Democrat looking to unseat Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito attacked her Monday for criticizing the EPA, saying she was polarizing debate and furthering a myth that coal is all West Virginia has. Howard Swint, who is challenging the incumbent in the state's 2nd District race, went after Capito for ...
Fallen officer ceremony honoring W.Va. deputy
The FBI and other law enforcement officers will honor a Monongalia County sheriff's deputy killed in the line of duty earlier this year. Sgt. Michael Todd May of Morgantown will be remembered Monday afternoon at an annual memorial ceremony for fallen West Virginia officers at the Criminal Justice Information Services ...
Judge overturns verdict in W.Va. rights suit
A federal judge says a former Wood County deputy violated a suspect's due process rights following an arrest in 2009. U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin on Friday overturned a federal jury's verdict in favor of former Deputy Jim Asbury in a lawsuit filed by Brian Sawyer. Goodwin's order says ...
W.Va. could add hurdles to primary ballot
West Virginia officials have several options if they wish to avoid repeating an outcome of this month's primary election, when imprisoned felon Keith Judd attracted nearly 41 percent of the vote against President Barack Obama. Judd qualified for the Democratic primary ballot after he mailed in a candidacy form and ...
Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't. Geisinger Health Systems is looking for more facts on the debate. "Our concern is getting reliable data so we know what to do for our patients," said David Carey, director of Geisinger's Weis ...
Minn lawmaker seeks answers on MSHA job safety
A Minnesota congressman wants a federal mine safety agency to explain why statistics show its workers are more likely to get hurt on the job than miners and other industry workers. House Republican John Kline has written to the Mine Safety and Health Administration looking for answers, the Charleston Gazette ...
Federal judge blocks W.Va. mining permit
A federal judge has set aside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval of a water pollution permit for a mountaintop removal mine in Boone County. U.S. District Judge Robert Chambers in Huntington issued a temporary restraining order Friday against Loadout LLC's Nellis Surface Mine. Environmental groups claim the corps ...
O'Malley discusses medical innovation jobs
Gov. Martin O'Malley joined the governors of Delaware and West Virginia to discuss how states have found biopharmaceutical research companies to be an important source of jobs, tax revenue and research spending. O'Malley took part in a clinical trials forum with Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and West Virginia Gov. Earl ...
Woman sues Lincoln Co. officials over 2010 primary
Several current and former Lincoln County officials are being sued by a woman who claims she lost a 2010 bid for a County Commission seat because of ballot stuffing. Maria "Phoebe" Harless' lawsuit says the defendants deprived her of her due process and equal protection rights. It seeks more than ...
Figures show coal employment up in W.Va.
State figures show that coal mining employment in West Virginia is at its highest level since the 1990s. The Charleston Gazette (http://bit.ly/Ljw5y9 ) says a recent analysis of Workforce West Virginia figures by Ted Boettner with the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy shows there were nearly 22,700 mining ...
Judge rejects bid to open W.Va. police records
A Kanawha County judge has denied a newspaper's bid to compel the West Virginia State Police to release documents that detail internal investigations into accusations of trooper misconduct. The Charleston Gazette lawsuit seeking the documents was rejected on Thursday. Two years ago, the newspaper filed the lawsuit against the state ...
Widow of W.Va. gas industry worker sues Colo. firm
The widow of a 26-year-old Nutter Fort man says two Colorado companies are responsible for the truck crash that killed her husband because they forced an exhausted work crew to drive from Ohio to West Virginia, creating a 22-hour work day. Crystal Roth's husband, Timothy, died around 2 a.m. on ...
Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which ...
Convoy honoring drug courts heads to W.Va.
A cross-country motorcycle convoy in recognition of National Drug Court Awareness Month will be passing through Charleston. A ceremony is set for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Kanawha County Courthouse Park. Among the scheduled speakers are Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Kanawha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey, who oversees the ...
Vt. becomes 1st state to ban hydraulic fracturing
Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation's first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water deep into the ground. The Democrat, surrounded at a Statehouse ceremony by environmentalists and Twinfield Union School students who pushed for the ban, said the ...
Renewed search sought for missing Air Force plane
U.S. Air Force Lt. Mike Tisik, a Brooke County native, was among 44 men lost when their C-54 Skymaster airplane vanished from the frigid air over Yukon in northwestern Canada on Jan. 26, 1950. For more than 60 years, his family has carried the burden of his disappearance and the ...
Century Aluminum says W.Va. plant still priority
Restarting a shuttered plant in Jackson County remains a priority for Century Aluminum as it seeks a special electricity rate for the facility. Century Aluminum spokeswoman Lindsey Berryhill said the company is committed to working with Appalachian Power Co. and the state Public Service Commission to determine an electricity rate ...
NY report: State regs reduce gas-drilling impacts
A study released Tuesday by the University at Buffalo's new shale gas institute concludes that state oversight of gas drilling has been effective at reducing environmental problems in Pennsylvania and will prevent major problems in New York if the state allows drilling to begin. Environmentalists criticized the study as superficial ...
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