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West Virginia trooper fatally shoots man who was stabbing another officer

May. 09, 2024 11:17 AM EDT

HAMLIN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia state trooper fatally shot a man who was stabbing another trooper following a traffic stop, authorities said. Three state troopers conducted the stop Wednesday in Lincoln County, and the driver, Harman Davis, 46, fled on foot into woods, state...

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

May. 09, 2024 07:15 AM EDT

Parkersburg News and Sentinel. May 4, 2024. Editorial: Mental Health: Know the resources available to you Declaring an awareness month is easy. Using the extra attention given during that month to actually make a difference is another story. But state Department of...

Slow to expand, internet casino gambling is the future of US betting, industry execs say

May. 08, 2024 17:54 PM EDT

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Internet casino gambling is legal in only a handful of states, but the industry is convinced it is the future of betting, even as some worry about cannibalizing physical casinos. Speaking Wednesday at the SBC Summit North America, a major gambling industry...

American Public Education: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

May. 07, 2024 17:13 PM EDT

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — American Public Education Inc. (APEI) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $516,000, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Charles Town, West Virginia-based company said it had net loss of 6...

Jayne Anne Phillips' novel 'Night Watch,' Eboni Booth’s drama 'Primary Trust' among Pulitzer winners

May. 07, 2024 10:13 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stories of race, slavery and the Civil War, real and invented, were winners this year for the Pulitzer Prizes. Jayne Anne Phillips' “Night Watch,” a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum right after the war, was cited for fiction. Jacqueline Jones...

Detroit man sentenced to 80 years for fatal shootings of 2 West Virginia women

May. 06, 2024 15:48 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Detroit man was sentenced on Monday to 80 years in prison for the slayings of two West Virginia women. Marquis Jermayne Goodman, 24, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of second-degree murder in the 2021 fatal shootings of Bria Nicole White, 26, and...

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'

May. 04, 2024 08:49 AM EDT

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor. “Bleeding...

US loosens some electric vehicle battery rules, potentially making more EVs eligible for tax credits

May. 03, 2024 15:28 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday loosened some rules governing electric vehicle tax credits, potentially making more EVs eligible for credits of up to $7,500 but leading critics to accuse the Biden administration of helping China. The Treasury Department announced final...

Editorial Roundup: West Virginia

May. 02, 2024 07:14 AM EDT

Charleston Gazette-Mail. April 30, 2024. Editorial: A look at the upcoming congressional primaries The primary election for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia has been a long-anticipated one. And it’s only picked up more heat since Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the...

West Virginia GOP County Commissioners removed from office after arrest for skipping meetings

May. 01, 2024 18:14 PM EDT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A three-judge panel ordered Wednesday that two county commissioners in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle be removed from office over a month after they were arrested for purposefully jilting their duties by skipping public meetings. Circuit Court Judges...