West Virginia News article: please explain

[panAmerican]

What's the deal with http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/wv/news13.shtml">this article? It discusses the investigation into the award of a fake master's degree to WV's governor's daughter, and throughout, it uses word constructions that I've never seen before:

• 31-thousand dollars
  
• 28-thousand-560 dollars
  
• 25-thousand dollars
  
• 15-hundred dollars
  
• 82-hundred-50 dollars
  

Is that a regional thing?

[pkz]

1. not regional

not in my part of the state anyway, I have never seen anything like that before.

poor edit, my guess.

[hokies4ever]

2. Probably a transcript of a live report

For example, nobody writes 82-hundred-50 dollars, but people do say, "82-hundred-50 dollars."

[panAmerican]

3. Ah - that would make sense. Thank you both!