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Longtime Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper stepped down from his leadership role Thursday. Carper moved to name commissioner Lance Wheeler as commission president during Thursday's county commission meeting.
Lance Wheeler takes the reins as the new President of the Kanawha County Commission, a position that hasn't changed hands in over two decades. Wheeler was elected to this role
Benjamin Cisco, 31, was sentenced Thursday to three years and five months in prison and ordered to pay the $871,288 he pleaded guilty in April to defrauding the nonprofit West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster over a 2 1/2-year period by rerouting money intended for suffering West Virginians to his personal bank account.
In a decision Tuesday, the PSC denied the recovery of $232 million of the $553 million the company sought from electricity customers to account for higher fuel and purchased power costs from 2021 to last year.
INSTITUTE — A new scholarship has been established at West Virginia State University in honor of Kanawha Circuit Judge Tera Salango.