West Virginia

WV Department of Health and Department of Homeland Security step in to help Mingo County resolve water issues – WV MetroNews

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1 year ago

January 26, 2025

WV Department of Health and Department of Homeland Security step in to help Mingo County resolve water issues – WV MetroNews

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The state’s Department of Health and Department of Homeland Security are stepping in to help Mingo County restore their water to customers after having issues since the beginning of this month.
As of Saturday, there were 2,100 customers across Mingo County without water because of significant operational issues that are affecting local water systems. The issues started following complications at the Mingo Public Service District’s sediment basin and got worse because of the recent low temperatures affecting both the Kermit Water Works and Mingo County PSD facilities. As a result of these issues, it has caused a reduction in the water supple available to Mingo County PSD, Crum and other select areas.

WV Department of Health and WV Department of Homeland Security will be providing assistance to local water officials in Mingo to help restore service. The WV Department of Health’s Bureau of Public Health is offering technical assistance to Mingo County PSD, to help address the service issues. The state’s department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Managment Division has delivered pallets of bottled water to the area.

Cabinet Secretary of Health Sherri Young expressed her support for these ongoing efforts to restore the water.

“The well-being of West Virginians is out top priority. We are mobilizing and coordinating support to help Mingo County,” Young said in a news release.

Robert Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for Homeland Security echoed Young’s thoughts.

“West Virginia’s safety is our mandate and our focus. Homeland Security will do everything it can to assist out fellow West Virginians,” he said.

Both agencies are watching the situation and continue to coordinate resources to help Mingo PSD to restore reliable water services to customers as soon as possible.

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$450,000 announced for Clendenin Streetscape project

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4 hours ago

June 28, 2026

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CLENDENIN, W.Va . (WSAZ) – Gov. Patrick Morrisey visited Clendenin West Virginia Saturday during Summerfest.

10 years ago a devastating flood swept through the community.

The governor announced $450,000 of funding for a Streetscape project during a commemoration for the June 2016 flood. The funding will go toward Clendenin’s main street – improving sidewalks, landscaping, and other pedestrian amenities.

Funding for the project comes from the Transportation Alternatives Program – a federal initiative to fund smaller scale transportation projects.

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History Made: WVU Has Two First-Team All-Americans in the Same Season

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15 hours ago

June 27, 2026

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History Made: WVU Has Two First-Team All-Americans in the Same Season

It was a phenomenal year for the West Virginia Mountaineers on the diamond, and even with the season having been over for over a week now, the honors continue to roll in.

On Friday, second baseman/catcher Gavin Kelly and left-handed starting pitcher Maxx Yehl were both named First-Team All-Americans by D1Baseball.com. It is the first time in program history that two Mountaineers have been recognized as First-Team All-Americans in the same season.

Gavin Kelly

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Kelly was essentially everyone’s pick to have a breakout season for the Mountaineers in 2026, but I’m not sure anyone expected him to do it the way he did. He hit nearly .400 all year and went on a power surge out of nowhere toward the end of the season, becoming one of the top home run hitters in the country over the last month or so of the year.

Kelly was named a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist, the MVP of the Morgantown Regional, and is currently participating in the Team USA Collegiate National Team training camp in Cary, North Carolina. For the year, he hit .382 with 19 home runs and 63 RBI, cementing himself as a top draft prospect in 2027.

Maxx Yehl

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Maxx Yehl was one of the best stories in all of college baseball that didn’t get talked about nearly enough. He was forced to sit out the 2025 season as he was recovering from Tommy John surgery, and prior to this season, Yehl worked exclusively out of the bullpen. The plan all along was to eventually stretch him out into a starter, and in his first year in the role, he was one of the best in the entire country.

Steve Sabins and Co. did a good job of playing it safe with him early, letting him only go two and four innings in his first two starts before turning him loose. There were a couple of moments where Mountaineer fans had to take a deep breath after he was removed from two starts, one of which was in the Morgantown Regional against Kentucky. He bounced back strong and two days later, pitched a gem against the Wildcats, helping the team advance to the super regionals for the third straight season.

Yehl finished the season with a 9-3 record, an ERA of 2.13, and 112 strikeouts to just 26 walks. He was also the first WVU hurler to win Big 12 Pitcher of the Year since Alek Manoah, who did it in 2019.

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Justice firm’s delinquent DEP fines rise past $1.6M amid DOJ criminal liability relief

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1 day ago

June 27, 2026

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Justice firm’s delinquent DEP fines rise past .6M amid DOJ criminal liability relief

One of the most prominent coal companies in the teetering business empire of United States Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., owes the state of West Virginia over $1.6 million in delinquent fines. Justice’s Bluestone Coal Corp. owes the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection roughly $1.61 million in delinquent fines issued for 214 violations across 44 DEP-issued mining permits spanning Sept. 2019 to March 2026, according to records the Gazette-Mail obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. Bluestone Coal’s delinquent fine debt has grown 32.5% from the roughly $1.21 million it totaled in January 2026, according to records from a previous Gazette-Mail request, an indication that the long-running debt at the expense of Justice’s own constituents may not be going away anytime soon. But the companies’ long history of environmental failures was an issue that prompted a federal criminal investigation scuttled earlier in 2026 by Trump administration officials, according to a report published June 8 by ProPublica and Mountain State Spotlight.

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