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Water Contamination by Natural Gas Drilling Operations, Audits Reveal Violations at 15 Sites Natural gas producer Trans Energy reached a settlement with federal and state regulators over polluting streams and wetlands in Marion, Wetzel, and Marshall counties. Trans Energy, based in St. Marys, Pleasants County, will pay $3 million in penalties to be divided equally…

Treatments available in Morgantown for Car Accident Victims who have suffered Concussion or Brain Injury Concussions and brain injuries take place in automobile accidents, falls, sports accidents, getting hit in the head, andworkplace and constructionaccidents. Once an accident has happened, it is important to recognize the signs and symptoms of a more serious brain injury,…

Motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, and mopeds in West Virginia may now have lights that are underneath the body and turned on while the motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or moped is being operated at night to reduce the chance of a motorcycle wreck on our WV roads and highways. Delegate John Overington reported that his HB 2477, to allow…

Dominion Resources Estimates Cost of Pipeline Constructionwill be Five Billion Dollars Dominion Resources, Duke Energy and other partners have proposed building a $5 billion natural gas pipeline to connect the Southeast with the abundant supplies of natural gas being produced in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Gas is being relied upon to generate more of…

Early Thursday morning, August 28, 2014 a flatbed truck was hauling a load of wood west on the Mason Dixon Highway near Morgantown. The transport truck crossed the center line,causing a collisionwith a Chevrolet Tahoe traveling east. A third vehicle, a Dodge Neon, that was approaching the accident scenewhile also traveling eastveered into the guardrail…

Take Care on our West Virginia Highways this Labor Day Weekend In 2013, nine people died on our West Virginia highways during the Labor Day weekend. Though extra enforcement has driven down the statistics of alcohol related deaths on our nation’s highways, the Labor Day weekend brings the highest number ofdrunk driving accidents, motorcycle wrecks,and…

A 34-year-old woman died at the scene of a head-on collision in Terra Alta, reportedly. According to authorities, the August 14 incident occurred on Veterans Memorial Highway, where the woman’s vehicle was traveling west when an eastbound truck veered into its path. Authorities reported that the truck was registered to a 43-year-old man. It was…

A tragic beginning to a new school year: Two cars and five people were involved in a fatal head-on collision on Fairmont Road (highway US 19)in Monongalia County near the intersection with Sugar Grove Road at about 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, August 17, 2014. Highway 19 is a narrow, curvy, undivided highway with very limited…

An Aurora woman was killed in ahead-on collisionon Veterans Memorial Highway in Terra Alta on Thursday, August 14, 2014. State Police say the thirty-fouryear old woman was driving west on Route 7 in a curve east of Delano’s Furniture and west of Hopemont Hospital at about 2:30 p.m. Her vehicle was struck head-on by a…

An Aug. 9 accident on I-79 North in West Virginia involving a black Toyota Corolla and a tractor-trailer caused two women and minor to suffer injuries. According to emergency dispatchers, the afternoon collision in Kanawha County closed all lanes near the Mile 3 marker for approximately four hours. Dispatchers reported to local news that the…