WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. — Two Wayne County men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to crimes relating to a 2023 incident where timber was stolen from public land. Ronald Lee Frye, 33, of Wayne, pleaded guilty to unlawful destruction of timber. Eugene Luther Cochran, 36, of Genoa, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to remove timber from public lands.…
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Students at Marshall University will be seeing an increase in their tuition and fee rates next fiscal year. Wednesday MU’s Board of Governors approved a 2.5% increase for resident under-graduate and graduate students Wednesday during their meeting. The university also approved a 2.6% increase in housing rates, 4% increase in dining rates, a rate…
SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — State School Superintendent Michele Blatt says a special circumstance review team will be sent to Nicholas County Schools to look into a conflict regarding the hiring of an employee with a previous criminal record. The controversy arose after it was made known that Nicholas County School Superintendent Terrence Beam hired his grandson,…
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. — Libraries across the country are celebrating National Library Week. Megan Tarbett, President of the West Virginia Library Association was on 580Live with Dave Allen to talk about the Putnam County Library. Tarbett highlighted that the Putnam County Libraries have five locations in Teays Valley, Buffalo, Eleanor, Hurricane and Poca. The branches…