Governor Justice signed a bill that bans transgender athletes from competing in female sports in middle and high school, and college. Justice signed the bill, despite a warning that the NCAA could retaliate and decide not to hold college tournaments in the state.
Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert is stepping down when his contract runs out in July 2022. He says for a variety of personal and professional reasons he will not seek a contract extension, and made the announcement now to give the board ample time to search for a replacement.
Police are looking for 19-year-old Dekotis Thomas. He’s accused in the fatal shooting of Capital High School Senior KJ Taylor earlier this month. Thomas is not a stranger to police. He has been arrested several times, most recently on weapons charges in October 2019.
A 73-year-old man was killed when a silo collapsed at the former Hobet mine site. A recycling crew was working to tear down the old silo when it fell on an excavator. The mine is not currently active.
West Virginia stands to get just over one-percent of a seven-billion-dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma. Recently released documents show the state will get more than eighty-million-dollars. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey opposes distributing money based op population, rather than intensity of the problem.
One community in Lincoln County is working together to renovate a restaurant that will employee people with disabilities. Lincoln County High School special education teacher, Kayla Shaffer, told WCHS TV that the dream began a few years ago when her fellow teacher Casey Campbell’s students and her students started making coffee in between classes. Now … Read more
Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert announced Wednesday he is not seeking an extension of his contract. Gilbert said the decision stems from a variety of personal and professional reasons, and he informed the Board of Governors that he will be stepping down from his position effective July 15, 2022. Gilbert has been Marshall’s president for … Read more
A Florida company is setting up shop in Lawrence County, Ohio, investing $360 million in a plastics recycling facility. PureCycle Technologies is renovating three buildings on 23 acres near Ironton that will serve as the company’s North America Operations Center. WCHS TV reported the project will also create more than 50 jobs in technology and … Read more
Fayette County prosecutors said a judge sentenced a man who stole two vehicles and fled from officers twice before eventually being captured after he went into the Gauley River. Anthony S. Lively of Lizemores was sentenced to one to three years in prison. Prosecutors said Lively stole property in July 2019 from an outbuilding at … Read more
There are voter registration drives at high schools across the state today to mark the 50th anniversary of West Virginia’s ratification of the 26th Amendment. The amendment was ratified in 1971 and lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.