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Commission gets updates on repairs

KINGWOOD — Progress continues at the Preston County Sheriff’s Department, according to Joe LaRue, county facility manager. In December, a water line break sent 700,000 gallons of water through the building causing damage. LaRue said dry wall and drop ceiling panels are being replaced in the basement and electrical updates are ongoing. He said four smaller breaker panels will replace the two large circuit breaker panels in the basement. LaRue said he is waiting for the state fire marshal to approve the change. He thanked Mayor Jean Guillot and the city sewer workers who ...

Rivals in U.S. Senate race knock Justice over financial disclosure report

Political rivals of Gov. Jim Justice are criticizing his financial disclosure form in the race for U.S. Senate as a day late and many dollars short. Justice ’s campaign submitted the disclosure Monday, just as a small financial penalty could have kicked in. The form submitted on behalf of the man once described as West Virginia’s only billionaire included a long list of assets but showed that many make little to no income. The disclosure also included millions of dollars in liabilities. “Even after a 90-day extension and a ‘grace period,’ liberal Jim Justice stretched ...

Justice finance report shows pile of assets

CHARLESTON — Jim Justice has filed a federally mandated financial disclosure for his U.S. Senate run, revealing a mountain of assets — with many indicating they produce little or no income — and also a riptide of debt. Two debts on the filing are promissory notes characterized as between $1 million and $5 million each to Bray Cary, the broadcaster and businessman who served as Justice’s senior adviser, as well as his Cary Foundation Inc. No explanation is provided for the notes, both issued Aug. 31, 2021, shortly after Cary left the administration. Justice declared his ...

Capito doesn’t see timely resolution

CHARLESTON — Within a week of a deadline for funding the federal government, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said it’s definitely time to worry. “I am very concerned. A government shutdown is a miserable tactic. It scares people — if you’re on Social Security, veterans, federal worker. Are you gonna get paid? What’s gonna happen?” Capito said Monday at a public event in Charleston while Congress was not in session. “There’s going to be no good solution here, and so I am hoping when I go back [today] that we can lay this to rest, that we can continue funding the ...

Manchin says Clinton didn’t tell him not to run

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin refutes a Washington Post report that said Thursday former President Bill Clinton urged him in a recent meeting not to run for president next year as a third-party candidate. “That tells you that you can’t believe what you read. That is absolutely inaccurate. We never had that conversation period,” Manchin told host Hoppy Kercheval Thursday on MetroNews “Talkline.” Kercheval followed up. “Bill Clinton did not tell you don’t run?” “Absolutely not,” Manchin said. “Never even talked about it. We talked in generalities of all the ...