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West Virginia
Jason A Forthofer
March 29, 2011
Jason F. is the owner of WVUFootballTickets.info where West Virginia college football fans can score tickets to the big games.
Jason A Forthofer
March 25, 2010
Jason Forthofer is the owner of WVUFootballTickets.info where WVU fans can pick up tickets to the latest Mountaineer games.
Crime Blotter
July 20, 2009
BECKLEY, WV—Charles Kenton Grimes, 38, of Beckley, West Virginia, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston, admitting he possessed child pornography.
The conviction stems from an investigation conducted by the West Virginia State Police's Internet Crimes ...
Steve Hammons
April 21, 2009
West Virginia journalist Kyle Lovern brings us a straightforward, down-to-earth and amazing picture of UFO encounters from his home state in his new book "Appalachian Case Study: Sightings, Alien Encounters." An award-winning writer born and raised in West Virginia, Lovern uses his professional experience from newspaper and radio work in his interviews with other West Virginians about their unusual UFO sightings and other experiences in the Appalachian Mountain region.
Newswire Services
April 20, 2009
'They are our stars of the teaching profession,' said Arch Coal Chairman and CEO
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Twelve outstanding West Virginia classroom teachers, with almost 350 years of combined teaching experience, today received prestigious Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Awards during a ceremony at th...
Andy K.
February 24, 2009
CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Arch Coal, Inc. today announced that Coal-Mac, Inc. and Mingo Logan Coal Company have earned three top state honors for wildlife preservation and environmental excellence.
Ducks Unlimited presented the West Virginia Wetlands Award to Coal-Mac for wetlands development in Ming...
Newswire Services
August 24, 2008
Best Friends helps close door on large-scale breeding operation.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va. — More than 1,000 puppies have a new lease on life following their discovery Saturday in a large puppy mill breeding facility tucked away in the backwoods of West Virginia, just outside of city of Pa...
Ed Dickson
May 15, 2008
Despite all the publicity that Lifelock continues to do well, a third class action has been filed against them for misleading advertising in West Virginia.
From the PR Newswire release:
Marks & Klein, LLP today filed its third class action lawsuit against LifeLock, Inc., a provider of identity...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
May 14, 2008
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has moved heaven and earth to keep race out of his campaign. He had no choice. He knew that if he gave even the faintest hint of a tilt toward black voters his campaign would be DOA. While early polls consistently showed that a crushing majority of whites said that competence, ability and experience, not race, are the only things they consider in voting for a candidate, he also knew that race still might be the great X Factor for him in the presidential contest.
Steve Hammons
May 10, 2008
Obama may do better in the West Virgina and Kentucky primaries than many people expect. The rich culture and history of the Appalachian region is different than many people realize.
Mark Clarke
January 22, 2008
West Virginia University Institute of Technology is situated in Montgomery, West Virginia. This institute is a 4-year college. It is one of the biggest regional college grounds of West Virginia University as well as separately recognized from the major university grounds of West Virginia University that is in Morgantown.
Congressional Desk
January 20, 2006
Washington, D.C. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Health Education Labor Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman of the HELP Committee, Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) today met with the families of Sago Mine workers whose lives we...