radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for June 12, 2026

Good morning.A high-stakes legal battle involving United States Senator Jim Justice and the state government is escalating rapidly this morning. The West Virginia Tax Division has filed an aggressive consolidated reply, doubling down on its demands to officially intervene in a multi-million-dollar federal lawsuit targeting the iconic Greenbrier Resort and the Justice family. The state agency seeks to act as a co-defendant because it holds more than four point four million dollars in active tax liens against the properties for unpaid consumer sales and personal income taxes. While lawyers for the Justice family and the primary lender oppose the state’s involvement, state officials argue their emergency intervention is critical to protect public revenue before a federal court orders a potential receivership of the historic luxury resort.In sports, a massive wave of gold and blue excitement is sweeping across the state as the West Virginia University baseball team officially arrives in Omaha, Nebraska, for the Men's College World Series. The Mountaineers are scheduled to take the field this afternoon at two o'clock sharp for an intense, opening-round matchup against Troy. Fan fever is hitting a fever pitch statewide, with the Mountaineer Athletic Club and the Alumni Association hosting official watch parties starting three hours before first pitch, as West Virginia guns for a historic championship run on the national stage.Meanwhile, a violent standoff in Logan County has ended with an active threat neutralized and two individuals behind bars. State police have arrested Rex Hale of Pecks Mills following a shots-fired incident in the Wilkinson community. Authorities say Hale fled from troopers into a local barn and refused to cooperate before being heavily subdued. A subsequent search uncovered an absolute arsenal, including tactical body armor, blasting caps, an A-R-fifteen, and a semi-automatic pistol. Hale now faces a long list of severe felony charges, including terroristic threats and criminal possession of explosives. A second suspect, twenty-nine-year-old Breonna Dillion, was also jailed on charges of obstruction and child neglect.Turning to higher education, Marshall University's Board of Governors has officially approved a massive real estate deal to secure the school's future. The board greenlit the multi-million-dollar purchase of nearly four acres of property at Northcott Court and Hal Greer Boulevard in Huntington. The land will be used to construct a highly anticipated, brand-new, stand-alone facility for the Marshall School of Medicine. Funded by thirty million dollars in state capital improvement money and thirty-two million dollars in federal funding, the project marks a historic milestone, as Marshall is currently the only accredited medical school in the entire United States operating without its own dedicated campus building.And a major public health warning has been issued for the entire Mid-Ohio Valley. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging mountain state families to take immediate precautions against a severe, historic spike in tick bites and Lyme disease this summer, as regional emergency room visits for tick-borne illnesses hit their highest levels since two-thousand-seventeen.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.