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• Police: Notorious jewel thief arrested at Walmart

  18-07-2017 23:57
  
  Police near Atlanta say a notorious jewel thief has been caught stealing again, but she wasn't after sparkly gems this time.
  
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• Girl, 12, killed by boat driven by her dad while waterskiing on lake

  18-07-2017 23:55
  
  Authorities say a 12-year-old girl waterskiing on a  lake was struck and killed by a powerboat operated by her father.
  
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• Capito, Manchin oppose repealing ACA without replacement plan

  18-07-2017 23:55
  
  By Jake Zuckerman
  Both West Virginia Senators said Tuesday they are not on board with the new tack of repealing the Affordable Care Act without any replacement.
  Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito said they will not vote for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's latest plan to pull the plug on the law, also known as Obamacare, and leave two years to transition to an unknown replacement. A statement released from McConnell's office does not offer details on what the replacement will ent
  
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• Man who killed stepdaughter, abused corpse won't OK divorce

  18-07-2017 23:48
  A man convicted of killing his stepdaughter and having sex with her corpse is contesting the terms of a divorce from her mother.
  
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• Search intensifies for man swept away in violent flash flood

  18-07-2017 23:47
  
  An extended family that lost nine people to a roaring flash flood in an Arizona canyon was a tight-knit group that gathered in big numbers for nearly every occasion.
  
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• Powerful opioid suspected in 10-year-old Miami boy's death

  18-07-2017 23:47
  Authorities in Florida believe a 10-year-old boy who died with the painkiller fentanyl in his system is among the state's youngest victims of the opioid crisis.
  
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• Officer who shot Australian woman felt called to police work

  18-07-2017 23:47
  
  An Australian woman who called 911 to report what she believed to be an active sexual assault was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
  
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• Hastert faces sex-offender treatment with prison release

  18-07-2017 23:47
  
  Federal records show former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility.
  
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• Ohio drops case against ex-cop in shooting of unarmed man

  18-07-2017 23:41
  An Ohio prosecutor is set to announce whether he will try a third time to convict a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man during a traffic stop.
  
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• PSC staff: Proposed WV American Water rate hike includes unnecessary project

  18-07-2017 23:21
  
  By Max Garland
  West Virginia American Water's proposed rate increase is overreaching by pursuing a project not immediately beneficial for current customers, the independent staff of the state Public Service Commission argued in a recent motion.West Virginia American submitted a proposal in June that would raise the average residential customer rate by $1.04 in 2018 if approved by the PSC.West Virginia American said in filings that the rate hike, known as a Distribution System Improvement Charge
  
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• Melting Glacier Reveals Couple Missing Since 1942

  18-07-2017 23:10
  
  Police say the bodies of what appear to be two people killed in an accident decades ago have been recovered from a glacier.
  
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• Poll: WV Gov. Jim Justice's approval rating takes hit

  18-07-2017 23:05
  
  By Phil Kabler
  Three months after rating as one of the nation's most popular governors, Gov. Jim Justice's approval ratings have dropped in the latest polling released Tuesday by Morning Consult, a digital media and survey research company based in Washington, D.C.In the latest survey, Justice had a 51 percent approval rating among state voters, with 34 percent disapproval, and the remainder undecided.That's down from 58 percent approval/24 percent disapproval in Morning Consult's last ranking o
  
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• #UPDATE: One lane of Campbells Creek Drive has reopened --> bit.ly/2tDrMFs https://t.co/oUmbtFWt9X

  18-07-2017 22:56 via twitter.com
  
  #UPDATE: One lane of Campbells Creek Drive has reopened --> bit.ly/2tDrMFs https://t.co/oUmbtFWt9X
  
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• WV's Bechtel Reserve gets ready for National Boy Scout Jamboree

  18-07-2017 22:51
  
  By Kayla Asbury
  GLEN JEAN - Thousands of tents will rise Wednesday at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in Fayette County and, for 10 days, the 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree will replace Morgantown as third-largest city in West Virginia.A line of 600 buses will bring near 25,000 Boy Scouts to the Jamboree Wednesday, which will be home to 40,000 scouts, volunteers, military personnel and others for a little over a week."This is the home of our National Jamboree," said Michael Su
  
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• Boil-water advisories: July 19, 2017

  18-07-2017 22:32
  
  n Beckley Water Company has issued a boil-water advisory for 4-H Lake Road from Daniels Elementary to Grandview Road and Grandview Road to the end of the system at Crow. The advisory follows a water main break.n Raleigh County Public Service District has issued a boil-water advisory for Bills Branch only. The advisory follows a water main break.Customers in these areas are urged to boil their water for at least one full minute prior to use until further notice.
  
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• House panel lifts ban on slaughtering horses for meat

  18-07-2017 22:13
  
  A House panel has voted to lift a ban on slaughtering horses at meat processing plants.
  
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• Update: Truck Strikes Two Poles, Catches Fire in Kanawha County

  18-07-2017 22:02
  
  A busy roadway in Kanawha County is shut down and will be closed for an extended period of time according to dispatchers due to a serious crash.
  
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• WV woman cut multiple times by boat propeller in MD incident

  18-07-2017 21:59
  
  By The Associated Press
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) - Maryland Natural Resources police say a 22-year-old West Virginia woman was injured after falling off a rented pontoon boat in Assawoman Bay.Local news outlets report that Alexa Delatorre was treated at a Salisbury hospital for deep cuts to her back, legs and right foot. Police say the boat's propeller struck her multiple times after she fell into the water on Saturday.According to police, Delatorre was one of six Pennsylvania and West Virginia wome
  
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• WV road projects to roll out in waves, officials say

  18-07-2017 21:54
  
  By Phil Kabler
  Gov. Jim Justice's road-building initiative will roll out in multiple phases, like waves hitting a beach, state Transportation Secretary Tom Smith told dozens of contractors in Charleston on Tuesday."We are having these projects go out the door as quickly as we can, in continuous waves," Smith said during a forum sponsored by the Contractors Association of West Virginia. "Twenty years from now, people will still be talking about what was accomplished in 2017 with the roads program
  
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• One person transported after truck crashes into power poles, Cambells Creek Road remains closed wchstv.com/news/local/one…

  18-07-2017 21:28 via twitter.com
  One person transported after truck crashes into power poles, Cambells Creek Road remains closed wchstv.com/news/local/one…
  
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• Truck Strikes Two Poles, Catches Fire in Kanawha County

  18-07-2017 21:18
  
  A busy roadway in Kanawha County is shut down and will be closed for an extended period of time according to dispatchers due to a serious crash.
  
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• Community awaits answers in fatal Minnesota police shooting

  18-07-2017 21:12
  
  An Australian woman who called 911 to report what she believed to be an active sexual assault was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
  
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• Kanawha murder case ends in mistrial for second time

  18-07-2017 21:10
  
  By Giuseppe Sabella
  For the second time, Tremaine Jackson's murder trial has ended without a jury reaching a verdict.On Tuesday afternoon, jurors told Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King that after four days of deliberation, they could not decide if Jackson should be convicted of killing Bryan Rogers on Charleston's West Side in December 2015.As he declared the mistrial, King cited a "helplessly deadlocked" jury.
  "They could continue to deliberate and it would just be a waste of time," the judge
  
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• Story of Afghan girls is among many at global robotics event

  18-07-2017 20:49
  
  An international robotics competition in Washington with teams of teenagers from more than 150 nations is in its final day Tuesday.
  
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• Feds close inquiry into police shooting of Albuquerque man

  18-07-2017 20:49
  Federal prosecutors say there's not enough evidence to pursue criminal civil rights charges against the Albuquerque police officers who were involved in the 2014 fatal shooting of a homeless man that spurred public protest.
  
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• Case dropped vs. Cincinnati ex-cop in unarmed man's shooting

  18-07-2017 20:48
  An Ohio prosecutor is set to announce whether he will try a third time to convict a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man during a traffic stop.
  
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• #BREAKING: Campbells Creek Drive will be shut down at Stone Acres Road due to an accident https://t.co/a2sBMf74Im

  18-07-2017 20:32 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING: Campbells Creek Drive will be shut down at Stone Acres Road due to an accident https://t.co/a2sBMf74Im
  
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• Police: Man threatens to pull gun over wrong taco order

  18-07-2017 20:19
  
  A man is facing charges after police say he threatened to pull a gun on a taco shop employee for giving him the wrong order. 
  
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• Man found guilt on multiple rape and kidnapping charges sentenced to four life terms wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…

  18-07-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  Man found guilt on multiple rape and kidnapping charges sentenced to four life terms wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…
  
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• Kentucky coal mine death blamed on safety lapses wchstv.com/news/local/ken…

  18-07-2017 20:04 via twitter.com
  Kentucky coal mine death blamed on safety lapseswchstv.com/news/local/ken…
  
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• .@McDonalds hosting two Hiring Days for Elkview Crossings Mall location wchstv.com/news/local/mcd…

  18-07-2017 19:52 via twitter.com
  .@McDonalds hosting two Hiring Days for Elkview Crossings Mall location wchstv.com/news/local/mcd…
  
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• Mom with newborn who died of meningitis: Don’t let anyone kiss your baby

  18-07-2017 19:37
  
  An 18-day old baby died Tuesday morning and now a mother is warning other parents about the serious, life-threatening virus that killed her baby girl.
  
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• .@POTUS44 says Republicans should 'let Obamacare fail' as more senators oppose its repeal wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…

  18-07-2017 19:31 via twitter.com
  .@POTUS44 says Republicans should 'let Obamacare fail' as more senators oppose its repeal wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…
  
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• McDonald's is Hiring for Elkview Reopening

  18-07-2017 19:23
  
  The McDonald's restaurant in Elkview, West Virginia say they are ready to hire for their reopening. 
  
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• Young boys drive, crash mother's car in Putnam County

  18-07-2017 19:00
  
  By Staff reports
  On a mission to visit their father, two children left with their mother's car in Red House and then crashed into an embankment on Monday morning, police said.The boys, ages 2 and 5, navigated a silver Ford Focus before the older brother lost control after 3 miles, Putnam County Sheriff Steve Deweese wrote in an email.
  A resident on Grandview Ridge Road reported the crash at about 10:20 a.m. Though neither boy suffered serious injuries, both received care at the hospital, Deweese
  
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• Kentucky coal mine death blamed on safety lapses

  18-07-2017 18:59
  
  Federal regulators say an accident that killed a coal miner in Pike County happened because a conveyor belt didn't have adequate safety guards.
  
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• Police looking for suspect involved in shots fired, assault wchstv.com/news/local/pol…

  18-07-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  Police looking for suspect involved in shots fired, assault wchstv.com/news/local/pol…
  
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• #BREAKING: Second mistrial declared in Charleston murder case wchstv.com/news/local/mis…

  18-07-2017 18:21 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Second mistrial declared in Charleston murder case wchstv.com/news/local/mis…
  
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• Police: Dealer charged with killing 4 claimed other slayings

  18-07-2017 18:17
  
  A pot dealer who confessed to killing four men on his family's farm last week also claimed to have killed two people in Philadelphia, but the city's police commissioner called the information "sketchy.".
  
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• Dennis Hastert released from prison in Minnesota

  18-07-2017 18:16
  
  Federal records show former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility.
  
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• The Latest: Expanded search underway for Arizona man

  18-07-2017 18:14
  
  An expanded search is underway for a man missing since floodwaters swept through an Arizona canyon, killing nine family members.
  
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• John Glenn memorial plans abound on July birth date

  18-07-2017 18:14
  
  Some plans to honor John Glenn didn't fly, but that hasn't stopped devotees of the late astronaut from pushing forward with other ideas.
  
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• Chipotle shuts Virginia store after reports of illnesses, stock tumbles wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…

  18-07-2017 17:57 via twitter.com
  Chipotle shuts Virginia store after reports of illnesses, stock tumbleswchstv.com/news/nation-wo…
  
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• IHOP offering 59 cent short stack for 59th anniversary

  18-07-2017 17:49
  
  IHOP is offering a special deal for its 59th anniversary today. 
  
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• Eastern black rhino born at Cincinnati Zoo wchstv.com/news/local/eas…

  18-07-2017 17:36 via twitter.com
  Eastern black rhino born at Cincinnati Zoowchstv.com/news/local/eas…
  
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• 10-year-old Florida boy dies after coming in contact with fentanyl wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…

  18-07-2017 17:33 via twitter.com
  10-year-old Florida boy dies after coming in contact with fentanyl wchstv.com/news/nation-wo…
  
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• Officials: Boy, 10, had fentanyl in system when he collapsed, died

  18-07-2017 17:30
  
  Preliminary toxicology reports show that the 10-year-old boy had the painkiller fentanyl in his system when he collapsed and died at his home.
  
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• .@SenCapito opposes #heathcare repeal without replacement wchstv.com/news/local/cap…

  18-07-2017 17:17 via twitter.com
  .@SenCapito opposes #heathcare repeal without replacement wchstv.com/news/local/cap…
  
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• Barboursville Police Need Help Identifying Shoplifting Suspect

  18-07-2017 17:09
  
  The Barboursville Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying a shoplifting suspect.
  
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• Police: Kentucky dentist tazed after exposing himself in Belk

  18-07-2017 16:58
  
  Police arrested a man accused of exposing himself to a retail employee at a Belk department store on Saturday.
  
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