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By The Associated Press

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A 30-year-old Virginia man has admitted to stealing government property as a contractor at a federal facility in West Virginia.
Federal prosecutors say Richard Alan Millette, of Winchester, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to unauthorized sale of government property.
Authorities say that from 2011 to May 2017, Millette worked as a special skills tactics instructor at the Diplomatic Security Interim Training Facility in Jefferson County.

By The Associated Press

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - Police say a West Virginia woman has been charged with murder in a drug overdose death.
Media outlets report State Police arrested 32-year-old Kristy Danielle Finley of Dingess on Monday.
According to a criminal complaint in Mingo County Magistrate Court, Finley is accused of delivering oxymorphone to Tammy Browning Moore on Aug. 15. The complaint say the 45-year-old Moore had several drugs and a lethal concentration of oxymorphone in her system when she died.

The YMCA Montgomery is hosting a free "Splash Party" to celebrate the opening of the facility from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the YMCA Baisi Center, Montgomery. The event is free to attend. The first 50 kids to enter will receive a free YMCA backpack. Kids 13 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

By Jake Zuckerman

An internal email from the West Virginia Municipal League appears to detail a trade between the association and Gov. Jim Justice - the municipalities' support for the road bond referendum in exchange for legislation.
The Sept. 8 email, from Debbie Price, a WVML worker, went to board members, namely town and city officials, gauging support for the proposal. It references Lisa Dooley, WVML executive director.

By Jake Zuckerman

A panel of experts and addicts offered their takes Wednesday on where West Virginia is amid the national opioid epidemic and where it might be going.

By By Andrew Dalton
The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, mansions, movies and television, symbolized by bow-tied women in bunny costumes, has died at age 91.
Hefner died of natural causes at his home surrounded by family on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a statement.
As much as anyone, Hefner helped slip sex out of the confines of plain brown wrappers and into mainstream conversation.

By Lori Kersey

Charleston city officials say they won't hold public meetings about the progress of a 2008 plan to improve the city's West Side, despite a request from some of the city's black leaders this week.

By Douglas Imbrogno

Lydia McLeod attended West Virginia State College in Institute at the same time as Cabin Creek native Lou Myers.
She did not know him well, but characterized him as "a regular guy with a very warm sense of humor."
Myers would graduate in 1964 with a degree in sociology. He would instead go on to a globetrotting career in TV, film, theater and cabaret performance.

By Lacie Pierson

An administrative law judge with the West Virginia Public Employees Grievance Board has denied a grievance filed by a former Cabell County Schools teacher whose racist and anti-Muslim social media posts were widely shared by current and former students and later state and national media outlets during the 2016-17 school year.

By Giuseppe Sabella

Firefighters from every corner of West Virginia gathered in Charleston for a lengthy training event that ended on Wednesday.
It was the first Fall Training Summit, an event by the International Association of Fire Fighters. Participants sharpened their skills in rescue, survival and extrication for three days.
Charleston Local 317 of the firefighters' union hosted this week's event, and future summits are scheduled to take place every other year.