Heat wave to grip the Carolinas to Texas with storms
State weather alert reports hot humid conditions pushing into the 90s and 100s from the Carolinas to Oklahoma and Texas. Thunderstorms threaten the Tennessee Valley mid-Atlantic to the Great Lakes, with western storms over the Rockies and sun on the West Coast.
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Texas
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Rockies
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Extended Forecast For Weekend And Lakes Conditions
Saturday night shows a chance of showers and thunderstorms ending around midnight with lows from 60 to 65. Sunday and Monday expect partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, weekend highs in the mid 80s. Stream phone numbers for Bluestone Lake Summersville and R D Bailey Lake provided.
Court upholds hiring fairness in Ewing case decision
The high court affirmed that a petition for mandamus cannot be joined with a pending grievance, closing a path that would force the court to decide employee hiring grievances. The ruling says the legislature aims to fill jobs with the most qualified applicants, not always favoring former or nonemployed candidates. Ewing remains employed in a different role while the board acts to implement the decision.
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Mercer County
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George Mills III
Huntington
Commission approves commercial rezoning near Airport Road
Raleigh County Planning and Zoning Commission approved rezoning land near Airport Road from rural to commercial to support a leased area with a restaurant and automotive repair shop. Jos ey Smith aims to begin construction by summer end with a bar serving alcohol. The commission also advanced Peaceful Valley subdivision phase II and continued other subdivision matters to July.
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Raleigh County Planning and Zoning Commission
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Beaver Coal Co
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Shrewsbury
Raleigh County Commission
Peaceful Valley
Layne Hensley
Commission
Snow Plume
Big Beaver
Gilbert Family Trust
Berkeley County Tornado Confirmed In Charm City Region
A National Weather Service survey confirms a tornado touched down in Berkeley County earlier this week, leaving a mile long destruction path. The F1 twister produced 80 to 100 mph winds, 150 yard width, damaging a garage, barn roof, and a trailer while felling trees near Swan Pond Orchard west of Shepherdstown.
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Charleston
National Weather Service
Berkeley County
Shepherdstown
Swan Pond Orchard
Weather Service
Strike actions lift used car demand and plant protests spread
Strike pressures in Michigan as UAW workers at two GM plants resume negotiations. About 9,200 UAW members protest cost cutting while the broader strike has impacted over 71,700 workers across 17 assembly plants and 78 parts plants in the United States Canada and Mexico.
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Michigan
United Auto Workers
United States
Canada
Mexico
Agencies to propose new pollution rules for regional waters
DEP plans to propose fresh pollution regulations later this year affecting the Buckhannon River Tenmile Creek Lost River Tomlinson Run Lake Mountwood Park Lake Hurricane Lake and Burches Run Lake. Last year agencies raised limits on the Potomac headwaters to curb poultry farm runoff. New limits were set on the Upper Blackwater River at Canaan Valley to reduce development pollution.
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Wood Park Lake
Hurricane Lake
Burches Run Lake
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Canaan Valley
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