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HUNTINGTON — The Hershel "Woody" Williams Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Huntington has been chosen as one of 10 pilot sites nationwide for an agriculture training/behavioral health care services program known as Veterans Affairs Farming and Recovery Mental Health Services (VA FARMS). Known as "agrotherapy," the program is an eight-week course consisting of six weeks of classroom training and a two-week internship. The first program begins Monday, April 8. The program is... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she believes the message came through “loud and clear” to a top FEMA administrator Friday that it’s time to pick up the pace in replacing schools destroyed by the June 2016 floodwaters. Capito and fellow U.S. Senator Joe Manchin participated in Friday’s meeting by phone with a group that had gathered in her Charleston office including FEMA Region III Administrator MaryAnn Tierney. Tierney, at... Read More

WASHINGTON — Three health centers in West Virginia will receive federal funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The funding — which comes through the administration's Health Center Program — will support continued operations of these centers to provide primary and preventive care to West Virginians. The three centers will receive a combined total of more than $5.4 million. The centers and their funding amounts are:  — Bluestone Health... Read More

PRINCETON — A Mercer County-based community health center has been awarded more than $2.3 million in federal grant funding. The Bluestone Health Association in Princeton will receive a grant of $2,319,878, U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., said Thursday. Miller said the funds will be used to continue the normal operations of the center that serves 15,000 plus people in and around Mercer County. “This is fantastic news for Mercer County and the Bluestone Health... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Shelley Moore Capito will meet with FEMA Region III administrator MaryAnn Tierney in Charleston Friday to discuss efforts to speed up the permitting process for replacement schools for buildings destroyed in the June 2016 flood. Both Capito and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin have been questioning FEMA of late about the pace of environmental studies and other requirements for the proposed sites in Kanawha and Nicholas counties. Capito invited Tierney to West... Read More

  CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - Mark Curtis got a chance to talk to U.S. Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) about the FEMA budget hearings, Richwood indictments, whether there should be an investigation into the use of flood relief money, and working to stop robocalls. Read More

CLARKSBURG, W.V.a. - Robo-calls are receiving renewed attention in Congress. This week, Senator Shelly Moore Capito and her colleagues are taking steps to crack down on scammers who prey on consumers’ phones. Under bipartisan legislation, called the TRACED Act, the U.S. government would gain more power to increase fines for scammers, while prodding phone carriers to improve their technology so that consumers can more easily figure out if calls are real or spam. "We passed out of... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.-(WTAP) A West Virginia senator hopes the Federal Emergency Management Agency can move quicker to rebuild flood-devastated areas, including those in her home state. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and heard Wednesday from acting FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor. She says she's concerned about the lack of progress in rebuilding the southern West Virginia area hit by floods in 2016. "But the individual assistance... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top leader at the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Wednesday the hurdles to rebuild four destroyed schools in West Virginia are nearly through. Peter Gaynar, acting administrator for FEMA, was before the committee chaired by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito to discuss FEMA’s budget request for the coming fiscal year. However, Capito used the opportunity to quiz him about the slow pace of school restoration in Kanawha and... Read More

WASHINGTON - West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R) encourages tax dollars to go toward mitigation during the FEMA budget hearing. Capito, who chairs the Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee, attended the hearing and mentioned the work that is needed to be done in West Virginia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting administrator, Peter Gaynor was also present. “I think it’s reasonable to expect the community to get very impatient with the... Read More

Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Frank Volk has been nominated to serve as a judge in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  President Donald Trump nominated Volk to preside in federal court in place of Judge John Copenhaver, who transferred to senior status in November, according to the U.S. Courts website.  Approval of Volk’s nomination and appointment is pending before the U.S. Senate.  Volk has presided as a bankruptcy court... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., applauded President Trump’s nomination for Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Monday. Frank W. Volk had been recommended by Sen. Capito to President Trump for the position, according to a news release from the Senator’s office. “Frank has served West Virginia honorably as a bankruptcy judge and as a law clerk to several of our state’s most... Read More

The Rainelle Medical Center will receive $2,092,044 in federal funding to continue its primary and preventative care services. Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin jointly made the announcement on Tuesday. “Our community health centers are an essential component of West Virginia’s health care system,” U.S. Senator Capito said. “By providing access to primary health services in rural areas, professionals like those at Rainelle Medical Center fill a... Read More

Rainelle Medical Center will receive more than $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The center provides primary care services, preventative health care, including mammograms for uninsured women, as well as black lung treatment. “I am thrilled Rainelle Medical Center will receive this funding so that they can better serve their community, through providing essential medical services to West Virginians and give rural West Virginians access to... Read More

OAK HILL, WV (WVNS) - Senator Shelley Moore Capito came to Oak Hill High School Friday, March 29th, to speak about the importance of financial literacy. Students at the high school were recognized for their involvement in the Capitol Hill Challenge Stock Market Game. Senator Capito provided some insight to the upperclassmen who are getting ready to graduate. She also shared some background knowledge on what it means to earn and save money. "We want to encourage our younger generation... Read More

MORGANTOWN — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and members of the West Virginia University gymnastics team recently made a stop in Morgantown to visit with fifth grade girls at North Elementary School as part of Capito’s West Virginia Girls Rise Up program. This marks the second Girls Rise Up event that Capito and WVU Gymnastics have hosted together and the 17th event since the program’s launch in 2015. “Empowering the next generation of female leaders... Read More

The Oak Hill Red Devils welcomed U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., to their high school Friday as she spoke on the importance of financial literacy after graduating. Capito spoke with a group of students currently learning about global capital markets, economics, investing, and personal finance in preparation for the 2019 SIFMA Foundation Capitol Hill Challenge (CHC) Stock Market Game, a national financial education competition for public middle and high schools that reaches every... Read More

Editor: West Virginia’s superb brook trout fishing is one of the reasons why there are more anglers per capita in West Virginia than in most other states, and why fishing generates close to 7,000 jobs and more than a half-billion dollars of economic activity in the state. Thanks to a new bill introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., the fishing could get even better. Sen. Capito recently introduced the bipartisan Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization Act, a bill... Read More

Bipartisan legislation was introduced Wednesday to provide state and local law enforcement with high-tech devices to detect and identify dangerous drugs like fentanyl.  The Providing Officers with Electronic Resources (POWER) Act would establish a new grant program through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help state and local law enforcement organizations secure these high-tech, portable screening devices, the release said. Without these devices, suspected drugs have to be... Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. - This Women's History Month WOWK traveled to Washington D.C. to sit down with the women representing the Mountain State. Senator Shelley Moore Capito is the first woman to represent West Virginia in the U.S. Senate and has been serving there since 2014. Before her days in the Senate she was in the House of Representatives for 14 years. Capito now uses her platform as a Senator to help other women and that includes her program West Virginia Girls Rise Up. The Senator... Read More