Wood BOE To Review Measures To Save Season
PARKERSBURG -Wood County Board of Education members will consider cost-saving measures to get Parkersburg High's Stadium Field open during football season. Board members got an update Tuesday on the Stadium Field project from Ryan Taylor, president of Pickering Associates. Taylor said the project needs about $275,000 to get the stadium ready for the football season. However, officials are ...
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Former Daily Mail Editor Creator Of Charley West Dies
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Charles K. Connor Jr., the former executive editor of the Charleston Daily Mail and retired publisher of The Register-Herald in Beckley, died Sunday in Treasure Island, Florida, his family confirmed. He was ...
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Gas Prices Across The State And Panhandle Continue To Rise
MARTINSBURG - In a mimic of the national trend, gas prices throughout the state and the Eastern Panhandle continue to rise. According to a release from AAA East Central, the average price of gas in Martinsburg is $3.823, approximately 20 cents greater than the state average of $3.628. "We are seeing gas prices increasing across the territory as well as nationally. Nationally gas has ...
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Pitt Researcher In Cyanide Case Arrested In W.Va.
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This undated photo provided by the Allegheny County District Attorney shows University of Pittsburgh medical researcher Dr. Robert Ferrante. Police in St. Augustine, Fla., arrested Ferrante, 64, Thursday, July 25, 2013 on a charge that he fatally poisoned his wife, a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh medical ...
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Two Men Arrested In Martinsburg Grave Robberies
Police said Bowers andRuffner opened the crypts with hand tools, pulled out the caskets, and stole jewelry from the remains of the deceased individuals. They then sold the jewelry for cash at two stores in the Martinsburg ...
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Md. Man On Trial In W.Va. In Womans Slaying
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A Maryland man is on trial in West Virginia on charges of killing a woman during a robbery. Media outlets report that the trial of 35-year-old Roy L. Wisotzkey of Hagerstown, Md., resumes Tuesday in Berkeley County Circuit Court. Wisotzkey is charged with murder, first-degree robbery and several related counts. A co-defendant, 34-year-old Joshua L. Stitley of ...
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Md. Man On Trial In W.Va. In Womans Slaying
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A Maryland man is on trial in West Virginia on charges of killing a woman during a robbery. Media outlets report that the trial of 35-year-old Roy L. Wisotzkey of Hagerstown, Md., resumes Tuesday in Berkeley County Circuit Court. Wisotzkey is charged with murder, first-degree robbery and several related counts. A co-defendant, 34-year-old Joshua L. Stitley of ...
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Lawyer Says Cemetery Was Not Marked
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A lawyer for a construction company that must pay nearly $1 million for damaging a cemetery in Logan County said it was unmarked and not maintained before a bulldozer plowed through it in 2004, damaging and overturning gravestones. "It appears quite clear that there was no maintenance performed on that cemetery for a number of years. Local residents, although they ...
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