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New medical building planned in Jefferson Co.
Ground has been broken for a new medical office building in Jefferson County. University Healthcare Jefferson Medical Center and University Healthcare Physicians plan to build the 11,200-square foot building in Charles Town. University Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and WVU Urgent Care will move from their current location in Ranson to ...
ARC education tour to make stops in W.Va.
Education's role in the economy is the focus of a federal tour that's making several stops in West Virginia. The Appalachian Regional Commission's annual Jobs & Food Systems Tour is scheduled to visit Hampshire County High School in Romney and Tucker County High School in Hambleton on Tuesday. On Wednesday, ...
PA Lottery
These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Monday: Cash 5 01-06-09-13-32 (one, six, nine, thirteen, thirty-two) Estimated jackpot: $125,000 Evening Big 4 9-5-6-5 (nine, five, six, five) Evening Daily Number 6-8-3 (six, eight, three) Evening Quinto 6-3-1-1-4 (six, three, one, one, four) Match 6 Lotto 16-20-21-31-32-39 (sixteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-nine) ...
W.Va. gets reprieve from No Child Left Behind law
West Virginia won limited freedom Monday from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, gaining approval of its own method for identifying struggling schools and then devoting resources to improve them. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin was joined by state education officials and representatives of teacher organization to ...
Sustainable Shale head calls for broad discussion
Andrew Place once planted 5,500 trees on his 210-acre Greene County farm, adding native hardwoods to expand the habitat of a rare salamander. Place is also the corporate director of energy and environmental policy at EQT Corp., a Pittsburgh-based energy company that has drilled more than 500 Marcellus Shale gas ...
Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans. The addition of Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia brings to 37 the ...
Putnam school board resolves leave lawsuit
The Putnam County Board of Education has resolved allegations that it violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. The U.S. Department of Labor made the allegations in a lawsuit filed against the school board over its termination of an employee. The lawsuit alleged that the board retaliated against the ...
FirstEnergy defends $1B deal for W.Va. power plant
The $1.1 billion cost of selling a coal-fired power plant from one FirstEnergy subsidiary to another is "a reasonable price for protection" against the more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market to meet demand in West Virginia, a utility executive said Monday. With a state Public Service ...
Burning cases, student sanctions down at WVU
West Virginia University is seeing a decline in malicious burning cases involving students. An annual report by the Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee shows the number of malicious burning violations declined from 21 in the 2011-2012 academic year to nine in the past school year. "I think it's great," Dean ...
WVU Extension offers financial advice for grads
So, you're out of school and not quite ready for the real world? West Virginia University Extension Service may be able to help. Specialist Jane Riffe says many graduates experience mixed emotions. They worry about where their lives are headed and whether they have emotional and financial support. She calls ...
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