West Virginia Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 28 (By Senators Barnes, Love, Fanning, White and Sypolt) Designating the timber rattlesnake as West Virginia's state reptile and designating Megalonyx Jeffersonii as West Virginia's state fossil. Whereas, The timber rattlesnake is an integral part of ...
Major Jackpot Wins in West Virginia There have been some big slots jackpot wins in West Virginia, and the state is known for one of the biggest wins in history. In 2006, Beverly Whitten played slot machines for two hours at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort. She took home a huge ...
West Virginia became the 35th state following the Wheeling Conventions that eventually enabled the state to break away from Virginia during the American Civil War. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863 and was the only state to form through secession from a Confederate state....
to be called Kanawha. The following month, a convention at Wheeling changed the name to West Virginia. A hundred years later, a Beckley newspaper suggested the name of the state be changed to either Kanawha or Lincoln because so many people believed West Virginia was ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive nearly $2.4 million from the federal government to fund HIV prevention and treatment. The state is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest spikes in HIV cases related to intravenous drug use.
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Names that became broadcast legends in Charleston included: Fred Scott who emceedWest Virginia USA,a daily quiz about the state, and the programSwap Shopwhich featured telephone calls from listeners who traded articles over the air. Scott quickly became one of Charleston’s best known air personali...
a bill of sale of a negro, for his master. He gave his testimony against the traffic, in Maryland and Virginia. Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, ” Is it right to make slaves of others against their will...
Ven. Kim Kyoungam is a monk from Cheju Island who established a temple in Fairfax, Virginia. The anthology’s editor, Yearn Hong Choi, wrote a lovely poem in tribute to the monk and the harmony of his life. June C. Baek, who was born in North Korea and educated in Seoul and in Te...
2017– Virginia first place, Oregon (Grant) second place (10 points behind, out of 1800), Indiana third place (85 points behind Grant) In fact, those who subscribe to conspiracy theories, have wondered if prior results by both Grant and Lincoln High Schools, persuaded the judges that a sch...