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US appeals court in Va. OKs W.Va. mine permit
A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block a federal permit for a West Virginia mountaintop removal coal mine that was challenged by environmentalists. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal judge was right to rule that the Army Corps of Engineers ...
Ex-Mason Co. principal indicted on abuse charge
A former Mason County principal accused of assaulting a student has been indicted on a child abuse charge. Media outlets report that a Mason County grand jury charged Cameron C. Moffett with one count of child abuse causing risk of injury. Police say the 46-year-old Point Pleasant resident forced 11-year-old ...
Insurers pay $600K in small-town W.Va. racism case
Insurance companies will pay $600,000 to a former officer who sued the Sophia Police Department over claims he was harassed and fired because he is black, Mayor Danny Barr said Wednesday. That payout is more than the small West Virginia town's entire $560,000 annual budget. While there's no immediate cost ...
Insurers pay $600K in small-town W.Va. racism case
Sophia Mayor Danny Barr says insurance companies will pay $600,000 to an ex-officer who sued the Police Department with claims he was harassed and fired because he is black. Barr said Wednesday the amount of the settlement reached in March is more than the town's $560,000 annual budget. He says ...
Ex-W.Va. sheriff held in regional jail temporarily
A former sheriff convicted in the beating of a bank robber is being held at the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville until the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has a bed for him. Ex-Jefferson County Sheriff Robert Shirley was sentenced Monday to a year in prison for violating the civil rights ...
UD-led study: Feds overestimate poultry pollution
A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution. The News Journal of Wilmington reports (http://delonline.us/100IFow ) that researchers found that nitrogen levels in poultry house manure are 55 percent lower than the Environmental Protection Agency's standards. Efforts to eliminate ...
W.Va. man faces 43 years in woman's 2011 death
A Morgantown man faces as many as 43 years in prison in connection with the October 2011 slaying of a Fairmont woman. Forty-year-old Kevin Utter entered an Alford plea to a second-degree murder charge in Monongalia County Circuit Court on Tuesday. That means he doesn't admit guilt but acknowledges there's ...
Woman sentenced for embezzling from W.Va. VFD
A former secretary will spend at least a year in prison for embezzling from the Barboursville Volunteer Fire Department. Mary Elizabeth Taylor also must pay $91,000 in restitution. Media outlets report that Taylor received a one- to 10-year sentence Tuesday in Cabell County Circuit Court. She had pleaded guilty in ...
TN Lottery
These Tennessee lotteries were drawn Wednesday: Cash 3 Midday 4-6-4, Lucky Sum: 14 (four, six, four; Lucky Sum: fourteen) Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $190 million Powerball Estimated jackpot: $350 million
Winning numbers drawn in 'Megaplier' game
The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were: 4 (four)
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