Bob Aaron

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RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Coworkers from the West Virginia Turnpike and their equipment lined the roadway Wednesday as James Harper's funeral procession passed. On April 14, a large truck struck Harper during pothole repairs near Charleston. That kind of work puts people just feet from traffic, but Harper’s death stunned coworkers, including Eric Brewer,“I just got married, just bought a house two weeks ago never in a million years.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WCHS) — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to bring back nearly 200 workers expected to be let go from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Morgantown. Capito, in a letter to U.S. DHHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., highlighted the important role the NIOSH facility in Morgantown plays in the health of wellbeing of coal miners in West Virginia.

3 days ago | wchstv.com | Bob Aaron

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — State officials were joined by a highway worker who had been hit by a truck on the job earlier this year to urge West Virginia drivers to slow down and stay off their phones in work zones. “I might be here today, but what I have had done to me by negligence in a work zones going to last and impact me for the rest of my life," Randall Randoph said Monday. Randolph was run down by a truck as he worked to patch potholes in Mason County earlier this year.

6 days ago | wchstv.com | Bob Aaron

Ohio. (WCHS) — Two eastern Ohio counties are still waiting to learn if the state's growing number of measles cases has reached them. Suspected cases of measles have been reported by the Jackson County Health Department and the Vinton County Health Department. Vinton reported a possible case at Central Elementary School in McArthur. Jackson County's possible ones showed up at two separate health facilities, one involving a Vinton County resident.

1 week ago | wchstv.com | Bob Aaron

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Federal prosecutors said West Virginia was overcharged more than$1 million by a consultant that handled long-term federal flood relief money from the state's deadly 2016 flooding. West Virginia's response to rebuilding homes damaged or wiped out in the deadly June 2016 floods saw it hire Horne, a Mississippi company, as a consultant in dealing with multi-million dollars in federal flood relief.