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CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — Governor Jim Justice announced the West Virginia Water Development Authority (WDA) has approved 10 new Economic Enhancement Grant Fund (EEGF) projects worth $19,872,189.00. In April 2022, Governor Justice was funding the Economic Enhancement Grant Fund, which at the time had an amount of $250 million. Since then funding within these programs […]
When it began power generation in 1955, the Kingston Fossil Plant on the Clinch River in Roane County, Tennessee, was the largest coal-fired power plant in the world.
Kali9/Getty Images(DECATUR, Tenn.) -- The patrol vehicle of a Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered from a river a day after he went missing, authorities said. However, the search for the deputy continues. Meigs County Deputy Robert "R.J." Leonard's vehicle was pulled from the Tennessee River on Thursday, in an area on the border of Meigs and Hamilton counties, officials said. A body believed to be that of the female arrestee has been recovered from the backseat of the vehicle, though the deputy remains missing, authorities said. A search for the...
The patrol vehicle of a Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered from a river a day after he went missing, author...
Tennessee deputy Robert Leonard was found dead after making his first arrest. His patrol vehicle and the woman he arrested were found in a river.