WVDEP conducting public meeting on water quality standards

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Water Quality Standards Program will conduct a public meeting from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, at WVDEP headquarters in Charleston. Read more

More than 100,000 Had Symptoms During Elk River Water Spill

The number of people impacted by the Freedom Industries spill into the Elk River in January has risen dramatically, based on data released by the executive director of the Kanawha Charleston Health Department, Dr. Rahul Gupta and Dr. Andrew Whelton, a member of the WV TAP (West Virginia Testing Assessment Project). Read more

Huntington Man Sentenced for Bar Shooting

A Huntington felon was sentenced  in federal court to four years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearm possession charge, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today.  Jerry T. Kinney, 29, pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.  United States District Court Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down the sentence Read more

Columbus Man Sentenced for Huntington Drug Trafficking

A Columbus man caught with oxycodone and heroin during an August 2013 traffic stop was sentenced to two and half years in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.  Antoine Walker, 27, pleaded guilty in January of 2014 to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone.   Read more

Huntington Man Pleads Guilty to Intent to Distribute Heroin, Cocaine, Oxycodone

U. S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Julian Tucker, 26, of Huntington, West Virginia plead guilty today in federal court in Huntington to possessing heroin, cocaine and oxycodone with the intent to distribute them.  Tucker admitted that in January of 2014, while en route to Huntington with the illegal drugs, the cab in which he was travelling was stopped for speeding.  When officers discovered the drugs, Tucker was arrested and admitted that he had purchased the drugs the day before in Florida for $40,000.  Read more

"Budapest" Period Screwball Comedy; "Other Woman Challenges "Captain America"

 Editor's Note: Due to assignment on the nuclear fuel cycle of the Huntington Plant , last week's Take One was preempted. We apologize. Read more

Freedom Industries submits site remediation plan

Freedom Industries has submitted to the state Department of Environmental Protection its remediation plan to address environmental conditions at the company’s Charleston storage tank facility, site of the Jan. 9 chemical spill of MCHM and PPH into the Elk River. Read more

Accomplished classics CEO to return to Huntington for lecture

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Dr. Darius Arya, archaeologist, professor, documentary host and co-founder and CEO of the American Institute for Roman Culture, will present "How can we tell stories successfully about history through social and digital media?" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, in the Shawkey Dining Room in the Memorial Student Center. Read more

OP-ED: Looking back on Easter 2014—and forward to Easter next

When Jonathan Schell, the most cogent moral philosopher of the nuclear age, died of cancer last month, it left a rift in the moral fabric of our small planet, a hole similar in size to those left by the three Alberts—Camus, Einstein and Bigelow. Never heard of Bert Bigelow? He was the Harvard grad who in 1958 twice tried to sail his ketch, the Golden Rule, into the waters of the South Pacific where nuclear weapons were being tested—and found time as well to be beaten up by racist thugs alongside Congressman John Lewis while protesting for civil rights.

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Dr. William Palmer selected as Outstanding Faculty Award winner

Dr. William Palmer, a professor of history at Marshall University, has been selected as MU's Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award winner for 2013-2014.
 
Palmer will receive $5,000 through a grant from Charles B. and Mary Jo Locke Hedrick. The award is named in honor of Charles Hedrick's father, Charles E. Hedrick, a former history professor and later Chairman of the Graduate Council, and one of the founders of Marshall's graduate program. Read more

Volunteer Coach Indicted by Steubenville Grand Jury Found Guilty, Will Serve Jail Time

One of the defendants indicted by the Steubenville special grand jury on charges related to the August 2012 rape of a West Virginia girl will serve jail time after he was found guilty Tuesday. Read more

Hitchcock Kicks off Huntington's Cinema Under the Stars

Cinema under the Stars returns to Heritage Station!  This season kicks off with the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller, Rear Window on May 2nd.  See below for the full season lineup.  All movies begin at dusk in the courtyard at Heritage Station in downtown Huntington at 210 11th Street. Cost is $1. Lawn chairs and snacks are permitted (no glass bottles) and the shopkeepers offer reasonably priced concessions, popcorn and homemade treats.  To stay up-to-date with Cinema under the Stars, like their Facebook page: CinemaundertheStarsWV. Read more

REALTORS: Existing-Home Sales Remain Soft in March

Existing-home sales were essentially flat in March, while the growth in home prices moderated, according to a report issued Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by the National Association of Realtors®. Sales gains in the Northeast and Midwest were offset by declines in the West and South.

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A Dad’s Point-of-View: Would You Sign a Life Contract?

I had a conversation with a friend about getting older, quality of life, and how baby boomers are continuing to try and re-invent everything. Out of this conversation came a great "What If," which I want to explore and ask YOU what you would do?

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APRIL IS POETRY MONTH: Dennis McFarland's 'Nostalgia'

Today we offer a brief excerpt from Dennis McFarland's Nostalgia, a novel of the Civil War which features among its characters Walt Whitman, who regularly visits and comforts the wounded in the Washington military hospital that is the setting of the scene below. Summerfield Hayes, a nineteen-year-old private in the Union army, has been rendered mute and unable to write or identify himself in the wake of the horrors he has seen in the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was abandoned by his unit after an exploding shell temporarily deafened him; he is suffering from what we now call PTSD, a condition then little understood, and referred to as "nostalgia." As we learn here, the silent Hayes is a favorite of the visiting poet, though neither knows the identity of the other, and Hayes is at risk of being considered a malingerer, or worse, a deserter. The poetry of Whitman enters McFarland's novel in significant ways -- not just his actual poetry, but the deeper poetic intuition Whitman brings to bear on his work with the wounded soldiers and his capacious understanding of life itself. 

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CFPB Finds Private Student Loan Borrowers Face 'Auto-Default' When Co-Signer Dies or Goes Bankrupt

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Student Loan Ombudsman on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 released a report highlighting complaints of “auto-defaults” in private student lending. Borrowers report that some lenders demand immediate full repayment upon the death or bankruptcy of their loan co-signer, even when the loan is current and being paid on time. Borrowers also describe facing bureaucratic barriers to releasing co-signers from their loans, a commonly advertised benefit that could help avoid auto-defaults. To help borrowers overcome obstacles to co-signer release, today the CFPB also issued a consumer advisory and sample letters.

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CORELOGIC: Foreclosure Rates in Huntington-Ashland Decrease

Foreclosure rates in Huntington-Ashland decreased for the month of February over the same period last year, according to a report released Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from CoreLogic Inc., Irvine, CA.

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Botek, Leftwich to Speak at Memorial Fountain Ceremony

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Sam Botek, a member of the Young Thundering Herd in 1971, and Marshall quarterbacking legend Byron Leftwich will speak at the 2014 Spring Awakening Memorial Fountain Ceremony on Saturday at 11 a.m. Botek will be the featured speaker, while Leftwich will deliver the ceremony’s closing remarks. Read more