WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: The Department of the Interior today announced more than $140 million in fiscal year 2024 funding from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to address dangerous and polluting abandoned mine lands, create good-paying, family-sustaining jobs and catalyze economic opportunity in coal communities across West Virginia. Millions of Americans nationwide live less than a mile from an abandoned coal m  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 24-578) on Nov. 7, 2024: * * * Re: Network Change Certification Received Citizen Telecommunications Company of West Virginia DBA Frontier of West Virginia (Frontier), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet site, as required by sec  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2024: The Department of the Interior today announced more than $140 million in fiscal year 2024 funding from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to address dangerous and polluting abandoned mine lands, create good-paying, family-sustaining jobs and catalyze economic opportunity in coal communities across West Virginia. Millions o  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2024: Timothy Jarrett Brown, 43, of Charleston, was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 24, 2023, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of 201  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2024: David Eric West II, 42, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to deliver quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, on April 8, 2024, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by West near Parkersburg. Officers found quant  more

WHEELING, West Virginia, Nov. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Ten people have been indicted for the trafficking of drugs in Ohio County, according to United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld. Defendants from Ohio and West Virginia have been charged with the sale of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine. Two of the defendants have also been charged with the illegal possession of firearms. "Continued pre  more