August 8, 2019 9:32 am
POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (AP) – Authorities say a West Virginia state trooper is in stable condition after being shot in a gunfight where he killed a suspect. The West Virginia State Police on Wednesday released details on Trooper First Class J.M. Tallman’s condition. The department has also identified the suspect as 43-year-old William Biggs. Officials say Biggs first fired a rifle at a Pocahontas County sheriff after a car crash on Monday. Biggs then shot Tallman in the abdomen as officers searched the woods. Tallman returned fire, killing Biggs. Tallman was airlifted to a hospital after the shooting.
September 20, 2024 4:51 am
Washington County Commissioners approved the sale of a large parcel of land associated with the Starpointe Industrial Park Development in Hanover and Smith Townships. The property is overseen by the non-profit Washington County Council on Economic Development. A 1997 contract calls for any sale of property there to be approved by County Commissioners, even though they have no ownership or authority over the development. The property, that has been threatened by Sheriff’s Sale, will be sold to ALTIAN Development LLC of Pennsylvania. Commissioner Chairman Nick Sherman is pleased that the sale of the 1200 acre parcel is being completed and is looking forward to its development. He hopes that it becomes part of the development boom that is occurring along the Turnpike 576 corridor. In other business, commissioners approved a 3 year, $650,000 per year contract to have Mission Critical Partners monitor the implementation of the proposed 9-1-1 emergency radio system. The motion passed 2-1 with Commissioner Larry Maggi dissenting. Maggi questions the spending of the money on the radio project and wished more negotiation would have been done on the price. Sherman also announced that a Special Meeting will be held Monday September 23 at 9:00 AM to finalize the contract with Motorola for the radio system. (PHOTO: WCCED)
November 22, 2023 5:10 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine. That’s according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and it comes as Congress weighs sending billions more in federal support to Ukraine. Yet opposition to aid is down slightly from where it was a month ago. Now, 45% say the U.S. government is spending too much on aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia, down slightly from 52% in October. More than one-third of U.S. adults say the current spending level for Ukraine is “about right.”
January 1, 2023 1:51 am
A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 has sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal and other companies in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month. Stacey Pinkerton says she was a 21-year-old flight attendant and model that year when she claims Cosby drugged her at a restaurant in Illinois and sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in Chicago. Pinkerton filed her lawsuit Friday. A spokesperson for Cosby denied the allegations and says the accusers are out for money. The lawsuit comes more than a year after Cosby left prison after his 2018 sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania was overturned.
February 18, 2022 3:17 pm
NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the first public acknowledgement of the disruption caused by the lockout. The work stoppage was in its 79th day Friday, a day after economic talks between the management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes. Negotiators are set to resume talks on core economics on Monday, and MLB said members of the owners’ negotiating committee will attend the session, just the seventh on the central issues of the dispute since the lockout began Dec. 2. Exhibition games had been set to start Feb. 26 in Florida and Arizona.
March 26, 2021 4:17 am
Tornadoes hatched by early spring “super cell” storms have ripped a path of devastation across Alabama and into Georgia early Friday, leaving at least five people dead. Authorities say one fierce tornado traveled roughly 100 miles and left a long path of damage. The storms knocked out power to tens of thousands in Alabama. They also raised warnings about possible overnight flash floods in parts of Georgia and Tennessee and other severe weather into Kentucky and the Carolinas. First lady Jill Biden has postponed a trip to Birmingham and Jasper, Alabama, that had been planned for Friday.
May 27, 2020 9:52 am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit has been called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown because of the danger of lightning. Liftoff is rescheduled for Saturday. The spacecraft was set to blast off Wednesday afternoon for the International Space Station, ushering in a new era in commercial spaceflight and putting NASA back in the business of launching astronauts from U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade. Ever since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to carry astronauts to and from the space station.
August 8, 2019 9:28 am
ATLANTA (AP) – Authorities say a former worker at the Atlanta Braves’ stadium threatened to shoot people there and also to “blow up the place.” Cobb County jail records show 30-year-old Jamar Antonio Golfin is charged with making terroristic threats and acts. He remained jailed Thursday. An arrest warrant shows Golfin was a temporary worker cleaning a seating area of SunTrust Park, just northwest of Atlanta. The warrant says he’d gotten into an argument with his boss Friday morning and was asked to leave. That’s when he’s accused of vowing to return and “shoot everyone there.” Braves spokeswoman Beth Marshall tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Golfin worked for a third-party vendor and no longer works for them.
September 20, 2024 5:02 am
Recently, the Washington County Republican Party took to social media to call out Washington Financial Bank for election interference. The disagreement centered on a statement issued by the Mon Valley Alliance that was critical to former President Donald Trump after he mentioned the Borough of Charleroi during a campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona. Randy Patterson is the Vice President of Commercial Banking at Washington Financial and he is the Secretary of the Mon Valley Alliance. Republican Party Chairman Sean Logue called on the Washington County Commissioners to halt business dealings with the bank because of the statement. Michael Chaido, President and CEO of Washington Financial Bank investigated Logue’s claims and presented proof that Patterson had no idea that the statement was being issued without prior authorization from the MVA Board of Directors. Logue states that as a non-profit the MVA is not permitted to engage in political discourse. Chaido said that an agreement was reached between the parties where Washington Financial will issue a statement and the Washington County Republican Party would take down its post on Facebook.
November 22, 2023 5:08 am
The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, culminating a days-long power struggle that shocked the tech industry and brought attention to the conflicts around how to safely build artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based OpenAI said in a statement late Tuesday: “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.” OpenAI’s board of directors had refused to give specific reasons for why it fired Altman on Friday, leading to a weekend of internal conflict at the company and growing outside pressure from the startup’s investors.
