West Virginia
Wild wummin of West Virginia - two crashes on Turnpike then flees police on foot
Posted Thu, 2008-05-08 11:51"Wild Wonderful West Virginia" is one of the tourist marketing themes of the state. The wild part is
all true based on the hottest news out of the mountain state.
Late last night a woman in a red pickup truck banged it up on a concrete barrier at the Beckly toll plaza, and then zoomed off into the night. Not long afterwards she managed to ram a utility pole at the Turnpike's Tamarack Center disabling the vehicle.
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Tax deduction for tolls in West Virginia
Posted Thu, 2007-09-20 19:35
A bill signed into law in West Virginia provides for a deduction of up to $1,200 from adjusted gross income for state income tax for E-ZPass transponder tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike. The deduction is only available to private persons not businesses.
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Governor working to strip WV Turnpike of pork
Posted Mon, 2007-04-16 11:45West Virginia Joe Manchin says he's committed to returning the state's parkway authority to what he calls "its core and original mission" of running the state Turnpike.
In the past year there has been mounting criticism of financial mess made by the authority's decade and a half long involvement in tourism and economic development - political euphemisms for putting money into marginal business projects most of which turn out to be lossmakers.
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In the past year there has been mounting criticism of financial mess made by the authority's decade and a half long involvement in tourism and economic development - political euphemisms for putting money into marginal business projects most of which turn out to be lossmakers.
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