Creative juices flow in Marshall's Visual Arts Center
By By Taylor Stuck The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Marshall University senior Karl Shaver begins his morning at 8 a.m. working at the Barnes Agency, which is conveniently located in the...
View ArticleLongtime Daily Mail photographer Chester Hawes passes away
By Charlotte Ferrell Smith Chester Franklin Hawes, photographer for more than four decades for the Charleston Daily Mail, has died at age 86. Hawes passed 6 a.m. Saturday at the Hospice facility...
View ArticleDavid Grubb to travel to World Health Assembly as advisor
By Lydia Nuzum The father of Jessica Grubb, the West Virginia woman whose battle with addiction is said to have deeply affected President Barack Obama, will share her story overseas later this month...
View ArticleThough up for sale, Mystery Hole plans May 20 opening
By Rick Steelhammer The Mystery Hole, perhaps West Virginia's best-known roadside attraction, is on the market. The purported gravitational anomaly housed inside a Volkswagen-pierced quonset hut...
View ArticleThings to do today: May 15, 2016
Stage/Theater"SPAMALOT": 2 p.m. Tickets $25. Comic musical based on "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Presented by the Charleston Light Opera Guild. Civic Center Little Theater. Call 304-343-2287 or...
View ArticleNational, legislative and business issues to dominate Cole-Justice match-up
By David Gutman Bill Cole would like you to think Jim Justice is the same as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Jim Justice would like you to think he's just a businessman, a world apart from politics,...
View ArticleAfter Gainer's departure, Democrats pick underdog in WV auditor race
By Eric Eyre Mary Ann Claytor never campaigned in Boone County, but she received three times as many votes as her closest competitor in that county during this year's Democratic primary for West...
View ArticleLawsuit: Worker fired for not destroying remains
By Kate White A former employee of the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner claims she found the remains of a homicide victim whose family had raised money to have their daughter's remains...
View ArticleBraxton youth shreds his way to collegiate snowboard berth
By Rick Steelhammer GASSAWAY - Located along a languid stretch of the Elk river with a population that only slightly exceeds its 860-foot elevation, the Braxton County town of Gassaway seems an...
View ArticleLoud and low-carb Cicadas are back in Ohio, West Virginia
By By Mitch Stacy The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - The 17-year cicadas are coming again, millions of them, with their unnerving red eyes, orange wings and cacophonous mating song that can drown...
View ArticlePatients given gift of sight after corneal transplants
By By Emily Daniels The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Being able to see the world with new eyes has become a reality for three people thanks to recently receiving corneal transplants from a...
View ArticleMan wanted in connection with bar shooting
By Staff reports The Charleston Police Department is looking for a man allegedly involved in the shooting at Boondocks Bar and Grill early Saturday morning. Donnell Strong, also known as "Pops alot"...
View ArticleSmall plane crashes in Eastern Panhandle, 2 hurt
By The Associated Press HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Authorities say two people suffered minor injuries when a small plane crashed in a neighborhood in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Hedgesville fire...
View ArticleThree-day event brings Fort Randolph siege back to life
By Jared Casto Mason County families can experience what life was like in the 1770s this weekend during the 13th annual Siege of Fort Randolph encampment and re-enactment at Krodel Park in Point...
View ArticleNational Park Service opening environmental education center
By The Associated Press BROOKS, W.Va. (AP) - The National Park Service is opening an environmental education center in southern West Virginia. The New River Gorge National River says in a news release...
View ArticleFirms hopes to build hotel on parking lot near Power Park
By Elaina Sauber Less than a month after two debt-ridden hotels on Washington Street East were auctioned to a Texas bank, the city of Charleston is in talks with a pair of hospitality firms set on...
View ArticleShakers believed in welcoming, equality, Little Lecture speaker says
By Laura Haight Even before the Civil War, followers of the Shaker religion were one of the most welcoming groups of people and believed in giving everyone equal opportunity, a West Virginia...
View ArticleInsurance company asks for default judgment in Poca funeral home suit
By Kate White The insurance company suing a Poca-based funeral home, alleged to have cashed in on $1 million worth of false death benefits, has accused defendants of stonewalling the case and asked a...
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