A new study published this week by the Pew Center on the States notes that for the first time in almost 40 years, the overall number of people in state prisons in America has gone down. Since 1972, the prison population has exploded, increasing by 705 percent from 174,379 total state inmates nationally to 1,408,830 [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just announced that it has cited DuPont Co. and ordered the company’s Belle, W.Va., chemical plant to take a variety of actions as a result of January’s phosgene leak that killed longtime plant worker Danny Fish.
I’ve posted a copy of the EPA order here, and in its press release the [...]
Well, West Virginia government agencies seem to be having a good Sunshine Week, at least as far as open meetings are concerned.
Today’s edition of The State Register lists no meetings that violate the public notice requirements of West Virginia’s open meetings law.
As we’ve reminded folks before, the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act requires agencies [...]
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Researchers have found low levels of the toxic chemical C8 in a wide variety of foods, ranging from hamburgers and bacon to tilapia, olive oil and peanut butter, according to a new scientific paper.
The West Virginia Turnpike has asked dozens of employees who couldn't get to work during last month's snowstorm to make up the hours, saying the workers were "erroneously paid."
A former Pocahontas County sheriff's deputy who resigned after firing his gun at his girlfriend's house is now a police officer in Ronceverte in Greenbrier County.
Derek S. Snavely, who was accused of raping a woman while on duty as a West Virginia State Police officer last year, is now police chief in Hinton.
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