http://www.newstin.com/us/west-virginia Global Social News Platform Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58622907 Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck have signed up to help funds for an athletic complex at her hometown university in West Virginia. University of Charleston President Ed Welch says Garner and Affleck will serve as honorary hosts at a Sept. 19 fundraiser. Garner says the University of... Thu, 22 May 2008 10:42:49 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58622907 2008-05-22T10:42:49Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58647877 By Anil Sharma TMCnet Contributing Editor Active Control Technology Inc. announced today that it’s undertaken a second commercial installation of ActiveMine, a wireless communications and locating system for mines, at an underground coal mine in West Virginia. The deployment is part of a... Thu, 22 May 2008 09:12:05 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58647877 2008-05-22T09:12:05Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58682563 Premier Financial Bancorp, Inc. Announces 10% Increase in Quarterly Dividend HUNTINGTON, W. Va., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PREMIER FINANCIAL BANCORP, INC. (PREMIER), (Nasdaq: PFBI) a $734 million community bank holding company with seven bank subsidiaries announced today that it will pay a... Thu, 22 May 2008 15:52:00 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58682563 2008-05-22T15:52:00Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58688276 When I saw the clip of the Daily Show's Jon Stewart apeing a misinformed West Virginia voter last week, I had a flashback to a Saturday Night Live "Appalachian ER" skit, which featured rocker Neil Young embroiled in a mess of incest and depravity. Makes me wanna holler: The hand-wringing... Thu, 22 May 2008 16:42:44 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58688276 2008-05-22T16:42:44Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58697899 Associated Press BALTIMORE — The operator of the regional power grid, PJM Interconnection, says demand for power could cause blackouts in Maryland by 2011 unless a planned multistate power line wins regulatory approval. The forecast was included in a briefing by PJM and utility executives who... Thu, 22 May 2008 17:30:43 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58697899 2008-05-22T17:30:43Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58601250 The Flavor of WV is back just in time for Memorial Day Weekend Cook-outs. FAIRMONT -- It is time for another "Flavor of West Virginia" recipe. This week, WBOY's morning meteorologist Josh Fosbrink and guest chef Connie Jo Hamilton, of Fairview, are preparing oven-roasted potatoes with fresh... Thu, 22 May 2008 09:18:39 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58601250 2008-05-22T09:18:39Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58608193 She underestimated Obama, and now she's paying the price BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist Hillary Clinton's whining again. Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell And in a recent interview with Editor & Publisher, Clinton expounded on the sexism theme. "I think that both gender and race have been... Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:31 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58608193 2008-05-22T09:55:31Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58610934 West Virginia citizens -- at least some of us -- have had our fill of political connivance and accommodation that many suspect are at the core of the WVU scandal and, sadly, the cause of the state remaining in the nation's economic backwater. Story by Dan Page Mike Garrison may well be president... Thu, 22 May 2008 10:10:36 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58610934 2008-05-22T10:10:36Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58698148 By TOM BREEN Associated Press CHARLESTON — A decline in the percentage of elementary school age children who are overweight or obese has given West Virginia a rare dose of good health news. The CARDIAC Project, which gives health screenings to kindergartners, second-graders and fifth-graders,... Thu, 22 May 2008 17:31:51 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58698148 2008-05-22T17:31:51Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58610571 Two Charleston law firms have filed a class action lawsuit in Marshall County against the Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. Story by Walt Williams Two Charleston law firms have filed a class action lawsuit claiming the people in the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System were "bilked" into... Thu, 22 May 2008 10:08:33 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/58610571 2008-05-22T10:08:33Z