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Kanye West Won’t Be On West Virginia Ballot After Turning In More Invalid Signatures Than Valid Ones

Kanye West Won’t Be On West Virginia Ballot After Turning In More Invalid Signatures Than Valid Ones

Kanye West has been dealt another blow in his long-shot bid to win the presidency in November. As WDTV reported, the rapper will not be able to appear on the ballot in West Virginia after his campaign turned in more invalid signatures than valid ones. The West Virginia secretary of state’s office said that the […]

3y ago

West Virginia Man Nedeltcho Vladimirov Accused Of Paying Drug Addicts To Shoplift, Reselling Goods On eBay

West Virginia Man Nedeltcho Vladimirov Accused Of Paying Drug Addicts To Shoplift, Reselling Goods On eBay

A West Virginia man is accused of running a shoplifting scheme that bordered on being a full-fledged criminal empire, one that allegedly included paying drug addicts to do most of the dirty work for him, ABC News reports. Prosecutors allege that Nedeltcho Vladimirov made hundreds of thousands of dollars reselling stolen items over the internet, […]

4y ago

West Virginia Mayor Changed The Annual Parade Name From Christmas To Winter & Incited A Culture War

West Virginia Mayor Changed The Annual Parade Name From Christmas To Winter & Incited A Culture War

The mayor of a West Virginia town changed the name of the community’s annual Christmas Parade to “Winter Parade” and inadvertently made the city Ground Zero for a brief culture war, The New York Times reports. For as long as anyone could remember, Charleston, like so many other towns and cities across the country, hosted […]

4y ago

Elizabeth Warren Draws Cheers From Trump Supporters Deep In ‘MAGA’ Country With Focus On Issue That Hits Home

Elizabeth Warren Draws Cheers From Trump Supporters Deep In ‘MAGA’ Country With Focus On Issue That Hits Home

In a small town in West Virginia, staunchly-liberal presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren managed to draw a few cheers and claps from the president’s supporters, raising questions of whether the Massachusetts senator might be able to make inroads with Donald Trump’s reliably conservative base, Politico reports. Warren’s team was reportedly nervous about how she would be […]

5y ago

Armed West Virginia Mom Scares Off Would-Be Kidnapper, Thwarts Abduction Of 5-Year-Old Girl

Armed West Virginia Mom Scares Off Would-Be Kidnapper, Thwarts Abduction Of 5-Year-Old Girl

A West Virginia woman used her gun to scare off a would-be kidnapper, scaring off a man who was allegedly attempting to abduct a 5-year-old girl, Parkersburg’s WTAP-TV reports. The unidentified woman was shopping with her daughter at Barboursville’s Huntington Mall on Monday night. Between about 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. local (Eastern) time, when […]

5y ago

Ilhan Omar Poster Connecting Minnesota Congresswoman To 9/11 Raises Eyebrows In West Virginia Capitol

Ilhan Omar Poster Connecting Minnesota Congresswoman To 9/11 Raises Eyebrows In West Virginia Capitol

A poster in the West Virginia State Capitol building linking Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to the September 11 terrorist attacks caused such a furor that one legislative staffer resigned, and another suffered minor injuries in a physical altercation over the incident. As The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports, Friday was a day set aside for […]

5y ago

West Virginia Teachers Demand To Be Heard As They Embark On Another Strike

West Virginia Teachers Demand To Be Heard As They Embark On Another Strike

It’s been a year since the 2018 teacher strike known as “Red4Ed” that took place in West Virginia, as well as several other states across the nation. The movement was protesting education legislation that teachers feel is more focused on outside sources than the betterment of the schools as a whole. In addition, educators are […]

5y ago

WV Lawmaker Eric Porterfield Doubles Down On Calling LGBQT Community A ‘Modern Ku Klux Klan’

WV Lawmaker Eric Porterfield Doubles Down On Calling LGBQT Community A ‘Modern Ku Klux Klan’

A West Virginia lawmaker has no intent to back down after multiple incendiary remarks about the LGBTQ community that politicians on both sides of the aisle have decried as bigoted and intolerant, CNN reports. Republican Delegate Eric Porterfield of West Virginia’s 27th district, in response to a proposed state bill that would provide anti-discrimination protection […]

5y ago

West Virginia Mom Says Her Daughter Was Bullied For Not Attending Bible Classes in Her Public School

West Virginia Mom Says Her Daughter Was Bullied For Not Attending Bible Classes in Her Public School

A West Virginia mother says her daughter was bullied because she declined to attend Bible-study classes given in her public school, NBC News is reporting. Back in 2014, the Mercer County Public Schools began teaching Bible classes in the district’s elementary schools (and possibly its other schools; as of this writing the extend of the […]

5y ago

Drunk Raccoons Are Terrorizing A West Virginia Town

Drunk Raccoons Are Terrorizing A West Virginia Town

Drunk raccoons are terrorizing a West Virginia town, thanks to an early winter bringing an abundance of rotting crab apples for the mammals to eat, intoxicating them. As KARE-TV (Minneapolis) reports, residents of Milton, West Virginia, at first thought that their town had been besieged by rabid raccoons. So alarming was the sight of the […]

5y ago

Abortion Laws That Changed Tuesday Take States Closer To Overall Ban

Abortion Laws That Changed Tuesday Take States Closer To Overall Ban

On Tuesday, voters in two states went to the polls to make an important decision about abortion. In Alabama, a measure passed that grants fetuses “personhood,” a legal status. West Virginia voters passed an initiative that there is no such thing as the right to have an abortion. The initiative says there is no state […]

5y ago

Eric Barber, West Virginia Politician, Tells Women ‘Get Your Coat Hangers Ready’ After Kavanaugh Confirmation

Eric Barber, West Virginia Politician, Tells Women ‘Get Your Coat Hangers Ready’ After Kavanaugh Confirmation

A West Virginia politician, apparently taking delight in the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, told women to “get your coat hangers” ready now that the anti-abortion judge has been confirmed. As Raw Story reports, Eric Barber, a city councilman in Parkersburg, has said in the past that he left the Democratic Party […]

5y ago

Sen. Joe Manchin Gets Shouted Down By Protesters Following Kavanaugh Vote

Sen. Joe Manchin Gets Shouted Down By Protesters Following Kavanaugh Vote

Sen. Joe Manchin encountered the full force of dissent filling the halls of the Senate following his controversial nod to move Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation proceedings to a final vote, on Friday, October 5. Manchin struggled to get a word in edgewise upon being asked about his decision by reporters awaiting him in […]

5y ago

Joe Manchin Wields Shotgun In Dramatic New Campaign Ad

Joe Manchin Wields Shotgun In Dramatic New Campaign Ad

Following on from imagery used in his 2010 campaign, West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has released a new ad — this time wielding a shotgun to take aim at a lawsuit against Obamacare reports ABC News. In his 2010 campaign, Manchin did a similar ad, taking up his rifle and shooting at an anti-coal […]

5y ago

West Virginia News Anchors Get Into Bar Fight After One Thought The Other Hit On Her Husband

West Virginia News Anchors Get Into Bar Fight After One Thought The Other Hit On Her Husband

Two TV news anchors are dealing with a lot of legal trouble after getting into a bar fight that caused some injuries and damage. The story isn’t that simple, though, as the anchors actually ended up getting in the bar fight against one another. Both work for WSAZ in Charleston, West Virginia, and on Sunday, […]

5y ago

Police Officer Daniel Goffreda Charged With Leaving Children Locked In Hot Car

Police Officer Daniel Goffreda Charged With Leaving Children Locked In Hot Car

In Charleston, West Virginia, a police officer has been charged after leaving his children in a hot car for 25 minutes, reported Fox 11. The incident occurred on Sunday when officer Daniel Goffreda, 32, of Poca, left his 2- and 5-year-old sons in the car in a Kroger parking lot located on Big Tyler Road […]

5y ago

All 4 West Virginia Supreme Court Justices Impeached By House Of Delegates

All 4 West Virginia Supreme Court Justices Impeached By House Of Delegates

HuffPost reported Tuesday that all four West Virginia Supreme Court justices were voted to be impeached by the House of Delegates this week following an extensive investigation into the justices’ excessive spending on various office renovations. Eleven of the 14 articles of impeachment were approved by the West Virginia House of Delegates during proceedings on […]

5y ago

A West Virginia Hospital Gave A Family The Wrong Baby For Two Hours, Claim His Grandparents

A West Virginia Hospital Gave A Family The Wrong Baby For Two Hours, Claim His Grandparents

A West Virginia hospital allegedly gave a family the wrong baby, and it was hours before anyone realized the mistake, his family claims. It sounds like something out of a sitcom, but to grandmother Barbara Colegrove, it was anything but funny, As the Charleston Gazette-Mail reports, two women, both with the last name of Perry, […]

5y ago

Henry V. Bennett: Man Arrested For Oral Sex With 3-Year-Old Allegedly Said It Was An ‘Accident’

Henry V. Bennett: Man Arrested For Oral Sex With 3-Year-Old Allegedly Said It Was An ‘Accident’

A West Virginia man accused of getting oral sex from a three-year-old allegedly told his wife that it was an “accident,” a claim he’d also allegedly made about another accusation of sexual assault. As the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports, Henry V. Bennett, 25, of Bluefield, was arrested Monday on a variety of charges relating to […]

6y ago

Captured West Virginia Inmate Who Walked Out Of Prison Was Likely Helped By The Guards

Captured West Virginia Inmate Who Walked Out Of Prison Was Likely Helped By The Guards

A West Virginia prisoner who disguised himself in civilian attire and walked right out of South Central Regional Jail in Charleston has finally been caught. Todd Wayne Boyes, 44, escaped on Wednesday morning sometime before 6 a.m., but no one detected his absence until 7 p.m. Thursday evening– or so they say. According to CNN, […]

6y ago

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