World AIDS Day observance scheduled for Tuesday
By Staff reports An observance for World AIDS Day will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Asbury United Methodist Church, 501 Elizabeth Street in Charleston. The event will end with a candlelight...
View ArticleEx-W. Virginia deputy's embezzlement conviction overturned
By The Associated Press MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A judge has overturned the embezzlement conviction of a former Berkeley County deputy. The Journal reports that Judge John C. Yoder issued an order...
View ArticleMcDowell judge wrong about pro se litigants, justices rule
By Kate White West Virginia Supreme Court justices last week struck down an order issued by a McDowell County judge restricting access to the courts for pro se litigants.Circuit Judge Booker T....
View ArticleVolunteers work on West Side home
By By Dan Desrochers Staff writer Jeremy Brown checked on some job applications that he sent out, then went down to 1306 7th Ave. to volunteer on Thursday morning.Brown is an unemployed, recovering...
View ArticleScenes from the week: Nov. 28, 2015
Every week, Gazette-Mail photographers scour the city streets and back roads of West Virginia in search of the perfect shot.Not every photo makes it into the daily editions, but many are too good to...
View ArticleOxford House model encourages independent recovery
By Lydia Nuzum Bryson Posey found the path to recovery the night he crashed into the rear of someone else's car."The police helped me find recovery," Posey said. "Getting that DUI was probably the...
View ArticleScuffle leads to gunshots at Barboursville Walmart
By Staff reports BARBOURSVILLE -- Shots were fired in the parking lot of a Barboursville Walmart Saturday evening, after shoppers who got into a fight inside the store took the scuffle outside.Cabell...
View ArticleTeach For America still coming to W.Va., but impact may be limited
By Ryan Quinn Teach For America plans to begin providing teachers to West Virginia in August, but the organization will start with only five to 15 educators total in three southern counties, a number...
View ArticleCapital grad, double amputee has Olympics goals
By Samuel Speciale Fawn Washington is hunched over with her right foot forward and left foot back. In one motion she pivots on the heel of her left shoe, turns and extends an arm upward, simulating a...
View ArticleThings to do today: Nov. 29, 2015
Music"SING CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR": 3 p.m. Free. Holiday music sing-a-long with organist Rodney Barbour. Presented by PipeSounds. Forrest Burdett United Methodist Church, 2848 Putnam Ave.,...
View ArticleMysterious rock walls more likely farming-related than prehistoric (video)
By Rick Steelhammer (On our app? See video here)Although he left West Virginia in 1969 for 34 years to serve in the Navy and then pursue a career in the oil and gas business, Mike Miller never forgot...
View ArticleInnerviews: Pile Hardware scion keeps family store nailed down
By Sandy Wells He's a pillar of Pile Hardware, the backbone of the iconic West Side business started by his grandfather 83 years ago. At 71, Bill Pile oversees a flourishing hardware haven crammed...
View ArticleNot in name only: Putnam couple patterns names, candidacy after Reagan
By Elaina Sauber When Putnam County Republicans Ron and Nancy Foster legally changed their names in 2012, it wasn't with the intention they would each run for public office one day. Ron had always...
View ArticlePiano technician travels to Peru to repair 1872 instrument
By Daniel Desrochers In 1872, T. Peterson strung a piano for Chickering and Sons in Boston, Massachusetts. When he finished his work he elegantly looped his name onto a sticker and slapped it inside...
View ArticleParkersburg High School teacher publishes 3rd detective book
By By Madeline Murphy Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG - Joe Stephens, an English teacher at Parkersburg High School for almost 18 years, has recently published the third book "In The Shadow"...
View ArticleVolunteers clear, research the 'Lost Cemetery of Mullens'
By By Mary Catherine Brooks The Register-Herald MULLENS - Several University of Kentucky students spent a weekend cleaning up and identifying grave sites in the "Lost Cemetery of Mullens," along with...
View ArticleMan arrested after shooting in Barboursville Wal-Mart lot
By The Associated Press BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - Authorities say a man has been arrested after shots were fired in a Wal-Mart parking lot in West Virginia. Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas tells...
View ArticleSheriff's office: Belle homeowner who shot alleged burglar knew him
By Staff reports A Belle homeowner who shot and killed a man who he said broke into his home early Saturday morning knew the intruder, police say.The burglary was not a random incident, a release from...
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