Tuesday, June 18 2013 3:24 PM EDT2013-06-18 19:24:24 GMT
BECKLEY, WV (AP) — A former Massey Energy executive who is cooperating with the criminal investigation into the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when she sentences him Aug. 1.
BECKLEY, WV (AP) — A former Massey Energy executive who is cooperating with the criminal investigation into the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when she sentences him Aug. 1.
Monday, June 17 2013 4:19 PM EDT2013-06-17 20:19:37 GMT
Justices annulled the law license of H. John Rogers after he filed a false mental hygiene complaint against a Wetzel County businessman.
Justices annulled the law license of a New Martinsville attorney and former state Supreme Court candidate after he filed a false mental hygiene complaint against a Wetzel County businessman.
Monday, June 17 2013 12:22 PM EDT2013-06-17 16:22:50 GMT
The West Virginia attorney general has sent letters to two clinics, seeking to assess abortion regulations in the state.
The West Virginia Attorney General has sent letters to two clinics, seeking to assess abortion regulations in the state.
ROGER ALFORD
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies confiscated more than $1.5 billion worth of
marijuana this year in Appalachia, a region where widespread
unemployment may be enticing some people to grow pot to support their
families.
Ed Shemelya, head of marijuana eradication in the Appalachian High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, said aerial spotters guided ground
crews to more than 750,000 plants during the 2012 growing season in the
mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Shemelya said nearly 430,000 of the marijuana plants were found in
Kentucky. Preliminary figures showed more than 192,000 plants
confiscated in West Virginia and more than 147,000 in Tennessee.
The
Appalachian region, a haven for moonshiners during Prohibition, has a
near-perfect climate for marijuana cultivation, plus remote forests that
help growers camouflage their crops.
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