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The Big 12 conference baseball tournament is starting a day late, with a change in format, in the wake of a devastating storm that has ripped through Oklahoma in the last few days. West Virginia University’s team is helping out the victims.

Activists gathered to protest a First Energy shareholder meeting yesterday morning in Morgantown. Members of multiple organizations and a giant inflated rat called attention to several energy concerns.

With more challenges in balancing the state budget, Gov. Tomblin ordered an efficiency review for the largest state agency receiving the largest portion of the state budget, the Department of Health and Human Resources. The report written through a complex review process suggested several ways the state could save taxpayer money.

It’s been almost a month now since the release of an efficiency review of the state Department of Health and Human Resources. The 116 pages contain 78 recommendations that could save the state millions - in just one year, but who is behind this report claiming to help improve the largest agency in West Virginia? In part one of our series this week, find out how this small company can save a state major money.

A Union loss in August of 1863 meant that the formation of the Supreme Court in the new state of West Virginia had to be delayed.