Huntington man pleads guilty to heroin charge
By Staff reports A Huntington man has pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge after he was caught with 53 grams and another 20 bags of heroin. Robert Womble II, 26, entered a guilty plea in U.S....
View ArticleOak Hill men face murder charges for 2014 fire
By Andrew Brown Two men have been charged with murder in a 2014 fire that killed two women in Fayette County.William Eugene Dixon, 55, of Oak Hill, turned himself in on Monday afternoon and was...
View ArticleWorld leaders gather in Paris for climate talks
By By Karl Ritter and Sylvie Corbet The Associated Press LE BOURGET, France - With dramatic vows to save future generations from an overheated planet, the largest gathering ever of world leaders began...
View ArticleGazette-Mail Charities: Patchwork shelter puts kids on road to better life
Lisa's mother was addicted to drugs. Over the years, she and her younger brother would sometimes end up at Patchwork when things got too chaotic at home.Patchwork is a shelter for runaway and homeless...
View ArticleThrough the fog of Alzheimer's disease, couple's love endures
By Lydia Nuzum Barbara Brown stood in her Spanish-style kitchen, painted bright yellow with orange accents around the room, and gestured to a framed photograph hung high on the wall.The photo was of...
View ArticleWV Turnpike Thanksgiving traffic highest in six years
By Phil Kabler Thanksgiving holiday traffic on the West Virginia Turnpike was the highest in the past six years, but still not up to pre-recession levels, Parkways Authority General Manager Greg Barr...
View ArticleBulletin Board: Dec. 1, 2015
Nitro community affair The Nitro Development Authority will host the Nitro Community Affair at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Nitro Moose Lodge and Family Center on the third floor. The agenda covers...
View ArticleAround WV: Dec. 1, 2015
By Erin Beck In Around West Virginia: a Wetzel County case illustrates the struggles of students with special needs, looking back one year after the quadruple murder in Morgantown, Harpers Ferry hopes...
View ArticleEx-Capital High teacher gets probation for giving student alcohol
By Staff reports A former Spanish teacher at Capital High School was sentenced Tuesday to spend two years on probation for providing alcohol to a student. Michelle Elaine Ball, 31, of St. Albans, had...
View ArticleGoodwin: Men in red draw attention to drug addiction, new resources
By Erin Beck When an addict walks by another person on the street, no one turns to look.But when four local men who have all suffered from recent overdoses walked down the streets of Huntington and...
View ArticleCity of Ronceverte lifts boil-water advisory for some areas
The boil-water advisory issued for customers in the Squirrel Hill and Walnut Hill areas of the Roncevert Water System has been lifted.
View ArticleCapito announces Beckley office hours
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has announced Beckley office hours for the month of December. Staff members will be on site to meet with constituents one-on-one and offer assistance with...
View ArticleNew video lottery system coming in 2018
By Phil Kabler State Lottery officials have finalized a contract with Scientific Games Corp. for a new central computer system to monitor and control the more than 14,000 video lottery machines...
View ArticleTemporary VA clinic to open in Lewisburg
By David Gutman Greenbrier County will once again have a Veterans Administration health clinic after environmental problems closed the county's lone clinic for most of the last 18 months.The new,...
View ArticleWest Side property receives DEP cleanup approval
By Andrew Brown A vacant piece of land on Charleston's West Side, where Kroger has planned to build a gas station, may be one step closer to being ready for development.The West Virginia Department of...
View ArticleDrug firms accused of 'delay tactics' in pain pill suit
By Eric Eyre Eleven of the nation's largest drug distribution companies are trying to stall a lawsuit because they want to conceal their role in West Virginia's prescription drug epidemic, the...
View ArticleLocal events seek bone marrow donor registration
By Daniel Desrochers Before Patty Barnhart would stay overnight at the Lakin Correctional Center, as a volunteer with Kairos Prison Ministry International, her friends would help her make 60 dozen...
View ArticleAppalachia grasps for hope as coal loses its grip on energy
By By Jonathan Fahey The Associated Press NEW YORK - The seams of coal in some of Eddie Asbury's mines in McDowell County are so thin that workers can barely squeeze down them. They enter on carts...
View ArticleWVU Parkersburg hopes to sell part of downtown campus
By Samuel Speciale Pending board approval, West Virginia University at Parkersburg could sell part of its downtown campus space this week.The university Board of Governors will meet Wednesday to...
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