Justin Barcia landed hard off a jump during the supercross Nashville race, breaking two ribs, his collarbone and right shoulder. Any other year, his title aspirations would be shot. The crash ended his Supercross season with two races left and the recovery time from collarbone surgery meant he ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man will pay $1,000 and serve a year on probation for illegal voting during the 2020 election, Secretary of State Mac Warner announced Thursday. Richard Fox was sentenced last week in Fayette County Circuit Court for casting two mail-in ballots – ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Pennsylvania doctor was sentenced to six months in federal prison Thursday for his role in a pain pill prescription scheme. Dr. Brian Gullett also was fined $5,000 and surrendered his medical license. Gullett, 46, of Clarksville, ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia logging company hoping to build a toxic-spewing facility in the picturesque Allegheny Mountains has withdrawn an application for an air permit following vehement opposition from residents, regulators said Thursday. The ...
LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been charged with threatening a Little League baseball umpire with a knife and telling him, "I'll gut you right here." Franklin Darby was charged with brandishing a deadly weapon and assault on an athletic official following Monday's altercation in ...
RIPLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A 7-year-old West Virginia child has been charged with first-degree arson after intentionally setting the family home on fire while the child's parents were asleep inside, officials said. The juvenile was taken into custody Wednesday evening after the blaze, which caused ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday announced the leaders who will helm the three new state agencies forming next year amid the break up of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Justice signed a law in March ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Democratic party's U.S. Senate campaign arm is asking a Charleston-based judge to order the release of the calendar of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican running to take over the seat held by Democratic Sen. Joe ...
By ROB GILLIES and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press Canadian police said Tuesday they have solved one of the highest-profile cold cases in Quebec history, linking the 1975 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl to a West Virginia man who died more than 40 years ago. Police in Longueuil, ...
By LORI KERSEY, Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Carla Hall sifted through a large plastic container in the basement of a Charleston church and pulled out a dress. "It's for a real date, if I actually ever get out of here," Hall said, holding it up. "I cannot wait until I can actually ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean energy ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Republican House member in West Virginia is resigning to take a position at American Electric Power. Delegate Erikka Storch of Wheeling said in a letter to House Speaker Roger Hanshaw that her resignation would be effective on May 19, news outlets reported. "After ...
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman was sentenced to decades in prison this week for her role as a meth and fentanyl drug dealer in the southern part of the state, officials said. Heather L. Hewitt, 42, led a drug trafficking ring in Fayette County, local prosecutor Anthony ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A controversial and long-delayed natural gas pipeline got the green light for construction on national forest land in Virginia and West Virginia after the U.S. Forest Service reissued its approval for a permit, despite past ...
By RICK STEELHAMMER, Charleston News-Gazette LOOKOUT, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia State Park system's newest hiking and biking trail provides a link to the New River Gorge's industrial past, while giving those who travel it a chance to explore miles of Babcock State Park's rugged canyon ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON W.Va. (AP) — An off-duty deputy sheriff in West Virginia who struck and killed a 13-year-old girl with his marked cruiser last year will not face criminal charges in her death, according to the prosecutor investigating the case. Special ...
West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins apologized Monday after using a homophobic slur to refer to Xavier fans while also denigrating Catholics during a radio interview. West Virginia's athletic department called Huggins' comments "offensive" and said it was reviewing the matter. During a ...
A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged — growling and roaring — from a dumpster outside an elementary school. Zela Elementary School principal James Marsh was surprised to discover the bear had somehow managed to get inside the dumpster over the ...
By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge canceled the air quality permit for a natural gas power plant that's under construction along the Yellowstone River in Montana citing worries over climate change. State District Judge Michael Moses ...
By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that's the biggest source of planet-warming gases in the atmosphere, a report Wednesday found. The coal fleet grew by 19.5 gigawatts last year, enough to light ...