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Margaret Workman, chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, made state history by being elected as the first woman justice. She might history again if the Senate takes up the trial on the articles of impeachment adopted by the House of Delegates.
The shooter tells someone: A study shows that in 81 percent of incidents, at least one person had information that the attacker was thinking about or planning a school attack In the days following the deadly high school shooting in Florida, as Nikolas Cruz's life as a troubled teen began to come into focus, a disturbing truth emerged: People had known where he might be headed. "Everyone called him 'the school shooter,'" Rachelle Jean, 16, an 11th-grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., told the Los Angeles Times.
The $83.7 billion a Chinese firm plans to spend developing West Virginia's shale natural gas resources exceeds the total value of all goods and services produced in the state each year.
By Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University. Sen. John McCain cast the pivotal vote to nix the Senate version of a bill to repeal Obamacare, only days after returning to Washington after surgery.
West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has scheduled a series of constituent visits around the state over the next two weeks to discuss current state and national issues. According to the senator's office, they include a Town Hall meeting at West Virginia University in Parkersburg on Wednesday.
Dr. E. Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, is the guest speaker for the 80th Mountain State Forest Festival Distinguished Guest Dinner Thursday at the Elkins Recreation Center.