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Elephant walk scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight

The elephants from the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus will be in town this evening for their traditional "elephant walk." The walk will begin around 6 p.m. at the railroad ...

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Former Big Red Star, WVU player sentenced for assault during commission of...

Former Steubenville High School football standout and WVU linebacker Nicholas Branko Busick was sentenced to five years probation and must do 250 hours of community service after he previously ...

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More Help For Flood Victims

Representatives of various FEMA agencies will be in Logan Tuesday night for a town hall meeting. The purpose will be to answer any lingering questions for flood victims still cleaning up after the ...

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Getting The Word Out

"The question that some people have is 'who's watching the watcher?' Well, there are three watchers, watching one another to make sure the people who are qualified are getting ...

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Busick Sentenced To Probation

Update: Former WVU linebacker Branko Busick will not face any prison time. Monongalia County Judge Russell Calwges has sentenced Busick to five years of probation. Back in February, Busick ...

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Zipline Record To Be Challenged In WV

You could help set a world record. On June 3rd, officials at ACE Adventure Resort in Fayette County will try to break the Guinness World Record™ for ziplining while on the clock. The current ...

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Marshall board approves tuition increases

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The Marshall University Board of Governors has approved increases for tuition and fees and on-campus living starting next ...

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Unemployment rate falls to 7.4 pct in W.Va.

The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 6.9 percent in March. That compares to the seasonally adjusted national rate of 8.2 ...

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Boil Order Issued for Cherry Hill Road

WHEELING - The Ohio County Public Service District has issued a 48-hour boil order, effective 1:53 p.m. today, due to loss of water for Cherry Hill Road from the north entrance of Betty Zane toward ...

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Great Interest In Stamping Plant Jobs

International automaker Gestamp is looking for its first round of employees to fill the stamping plant in South Charleston. The company is taking applications for "production worker" and ...

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Softball. Softball Welcomes Morehead for Two on Wednesday

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Regional rival Morehead State will visit Dot Hicks Field for a doubleheader Wednesday beginning at 2 p.m. This will serve as a rematch-up, as the two met-up earlier this ...

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Singer Jason Mraz has unclaimed money in W.Va.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's treasurer wants Jason Mraz to come pick up his money. Treasurer John Perdue said Tuesday the pop singer's name is on a list of people due unclaimed ...

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Attorney general sues 7 debt collectors

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed a lawsuit Tuesday against seven unlicensed debt collection agencies he says are using unfair tactics to extract money from ...

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Accident at Ormet plant sends worker to hospital

HANNIBAL, Ohio -- The Ormet plant in Monroe County released details Tuesday about an accident that sent a worker to the hospital. The accident happened Sunday in one of the pot rooms of their ...

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Carrollton student who cared for sick mom gets to participate in graduation

A local high school student will get to join his classmates on the graduation stage after a dispute over his absences while caring for his sick mother. Teresa Fisher is in her third fight with ...

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Haddad park smoking-ban rules refined

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- People who want to smoke at Haddad Riverfront Park events would be banished to Kanawha Boulevard under rules adopted Tuesday by a Charleston City Council committee. For now, ...

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W.Va. gets B- for child abuse laws

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Advocacy groups studying the transparency of child abuse laws gave West Virginia a B- on Tuesday for its mandatory reporting laws, the same grade it earned four years ago. ...

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Being restrained killed mental patient

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that a patient at a state mental hospital died because he was restrained, according to a published report. The ...

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Breathing devices fail test, but not ordered out of mines

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal coal mine regulators have concluded that a widely used emergency breathing device doesn't meet safety standards but have not yet taken any action to get the ...

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Regional Jails restricts access to mug shots

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The state Regional Jail Authority has changed its website to deter a Harrison County man from making a profit from West Virginians' mug shots. Since 2009, a man known ...

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