Elephant walk scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight
The elephants from the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus will be in town this evening for their traditional "elephant walk." The walk will begin around 6 p.m. at the railroad ...
View ArticleFormer Big Red Star, WVU player sentenced for assault during commission of...
Former Steubenville High School football standout and WVU linebacker Nicholas Branko Busick was sentenced to five years probation and must do 250 hours of community service after he previously ...
View ArticleMore Help For Flood Victims
Representatives of various FEMA agencies will be in Logan Tuesday night for a town hall meeting. The purpose will be to answer any lingering questions for flood victims still cleaning up after the ...
View ArticleGetting The Word Out
"The question that some people have is 'who's watching the watcher?' Well, there are three watchers, watching one another to make sure the people who are qualified are getting ...
View ArticleBusick Sentenced To Probation
Update: Former WVU linebacker Branko Busick will not face any prison time. Monongalia County Judge Russell Calwges has sentenced Busick to five years of probation. Back in February, Busick ...
View ArticleZipline Record To Be Challenged In WV
You could help set a world record. On June 3rd, officials at ACE Adventure Resort in Fayette County will try to break the Guinness World Record™ for ziplining while on the clock. The current ...
View ArticleMarshall board approves tuition increases
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The Marshall University Board of Governors has approved increases for tuition and fees and on-campus living starting next ...
View ArticleUnemployment rate falls to 7.4 pct in W.Va.
The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped three-tenths of a percentage point to 6.9 percent in March. That compares to the seasonally adjusted national rate of 8.2 ...
View ArticleBoil Order Issued for Cherry Hill Road
WHEELING - The Ohio County Public Service District has issued a 48-hour boil order, effective 1:53 p.m. today, due to loss of water for Cherry Hill Road from the north entrance of Betty Zane toward ...
View ArticleGreat Interest In Stamping Plant Jobs
International automaker Gestamp is looking for its first round of employees to fill the stamping plant in South Charleston. The company is taking applications for "production worker" and ...
View ArticleSoftball. Softball Welcomes Morehead for Two on Wednesday
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Regional rival Morehead State will visit Dot Hicks Field for a doubleheader Wednesday beginning at 2 p.m. This will serve as a rematch-up, as the two met-up earlier this ...
View ArticleSinger Jason Mraz has unclaimed money in W.Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's treasurer wants Jason Mraz to come pick up his money. Treasurer John Perdue said Tuesday the pop singer's name is on a list of people due unclaimed ...
View ArticleAttorney general sues 7 debt collectors
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed a lawsuit Tuesday against seven unlicensed debt collection agencies he says are using unfair tactics to extract money from ...
View ArticleAccident at Ormet plant sends worker to hospital
HANNIBAL, Ohio -- The Ormet plant in Monroe County released details Tuesday about an accident that sent a worker to the hospital. The accident happened Sunday in one of the pot rooms of their ...
View ArticleCarrollton student who cared for sick mom gets to participate in graduation
A local high school student will get to join his classmates on the graduation stage after a dispute over his absences while caring for his sick mother. Teresa Fisher is in her third fight with ...
View ArticleHaddad park smoking-ban rules refined
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- People who want to smoke at Haddad Riverfront Park events would be banished to Kanawha Boulevard under rules adopted Tuesday by a Charleston City Council committee. For now, ...
View ArticleW.Va. gets B- for child abuse laws
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Advocacy groups studying the transparency of child abuse laws gave West Virginia a B- on Tuesday for its mandatory reporting laws, the same grade it earned four years ago. ...
View ArticleBeing restrained killed mental patient
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that a patient at a state mental hospital died because he was restrained, according to a published report. The ...
View ArticleBreathing devices fail test, but not ordered out of mines
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal coal mine regulators have concluded that a widely used emergency breathing device doesn't meet safety standards but have not yet taken any action to get the ...
View ArticleRegional Jails restricts access to mug shots
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The state Regional Jail Authority has changed its website to deter a Harrison County man from making a profit from West Virginians' mug shots. Since 2009, a man known ...
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