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Armstead, West Virginia Supreme Court justice, dead at 60

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CHARLESTON – Tim Armstead, a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court and the first Republican speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates in more than 80 years, died Tuesday after a prolonged battle with cancer. Armstead, 60, died just before noon Tuesday at Ruby Memorial Hospital in ...

Six people injured in Wayne National Forest blast

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INDEPENDENCE TWP. — An explosion at an orphan well site in Independence Township injured six people Monday morning, most of them critically, according to local officials. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said its Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management sent an emergency ...

Religious vaccine exemption cases consolidated

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CHARLESTON — A Raleigh County judge agreed to consolidate two different cases raising questions about Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing religious exemptions for required vaccinations, but rejected a request for a stay while an appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court of ...

Elks Lodge makes donation to support homeless identification program

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PARKERSBURG — A program to help homeless individuals in the area get valid identification to be better prepared to seek employment in the future got a boost Monday. Parkersburg Elks Lodge 198 made a $2,000 donation to House to Home for the identification program. Lodge Secretary Jay Perkins ...

Sen. Capito tours Wood County Resiliency Center

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PARKERSBURG — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., traveled to Parkersburg on Monday to tour the new Wood County Resiliency Center and hear about the facility’s potential economic and safety benefits for the community. “I enjoyed touring the Wood County Resiliency Center ...