SOUTH CHARLESTON – The Marshall UniversityLewis College of Business is looking for professionals interested in earning an accredited Executive MBA. The next cohort will begin formal classes this summer.Read more
Nuclear Engineer , Arnie Gunderson in this newly released video discusses why the Toyko Electric Power Company announcements of increased accident severity should not be a surprise. He discusses similarities of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. Read more
Next in the series from Come Home. Love, Dad, published by Bernard Street Books, a memoir about my father, Samuel Reuben – a truly extraordinary man. Letter from my father.
Kevin Young's Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, is an epic retelling in verse of the mutiny by fifty-three Africans, illegally sold in Havana, on board the slave ship Amistad in 1839. As Young reminds us in a preface, "The rebels, mostly men from the Mendi people of Sierra Leone, killed the captain and the cook but spared their masters to help steer toward the rising sun and Africa. Read more
Time and time again in God's creation... beauty comes unexpectedly. Bursting forth from vacant and twisted limbs come "the breath of spring"... the newness of hope... the blossoms of wonder and fragile blessing.Read more
West Virginia's registered Democrats have a big decision coming up on Saturday, May 14th. They will get to choose who carries their party's banner into the October 4th Special General Election. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Independent Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen had previously advocated that national governments must be more transparent regarding the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Now, Japan has raised the tragedy to Level 7, which is comparable to Chernobyl in potential consequences for Japan and the world. Read more
The State Tea Party organization's leadership has stubbed its toe with several local Tea Party groups in its endorsement of Putnam County Prosecutor Mark Sorsaia for the Republican nomination for Governor. As reported earlier in HNN, many local Tea Party groups were distressed at the decision by a few State Tea Party leaders. Read more
IRVING, Texas –A record 2,272 student-athletes have earned recognition to the Commissioner’s Honor Roll during the 2010-11 academic year, including 163 from Marshall University, Read more
Leonard Cohen, whose work as a songwriter transcends genres and appeals to listeners across the generations, comes before us as a poet in a new Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition. Some of his songs are like poems, and some of his poems are like songs; his rebellious, tender, sardonic voice inheres throughout.
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - First responders received a summons after 5 a.m. Tuesday, April 12, to assist on a possible motor vehicle entrapment near Lesage. The first dispatch indicated that the vehicle was under water in a creek. Upon arrival, they learned that neighbors had rescued two people from the car. They have been taken to the hospital.
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Huntington City Council’s plate had an array of financial issues of which two went back to the Finance Committee for further discussion, and three were approved.
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Wrapping up just before rain started falling again, union members and state union officials demonstrated outside of Huntington City Hall, Monday, April 11. At 7 p.m., they went inside to attend the City Council meeting. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - About mid-way through Monday night's city council meeting, Mayor Kim Wolfe confirmed a message received from Loretta Covington, executive director of the Huntington Sanitary Board, that the 13th Street W. Sanitary pump station had been re-started. Sewage is no longer flowing untreated into the Ohio River. One of two pumps is now working. Read more
When Republican candidate Mark Sorsaia received the endorsement of the State Tea Party group, many in the local Tea Parties took exception. Local Tea Parties are 501(c)(4) organizations and can't endorse candidates. They can provide information to their members, but no endorsements are permitted. Read more
Republican voters across West Virginia have a history of independence, especially from those candidates who try to win their support with excess campaign spending. This might be traced back to the early days of the West Virginia GOP having to fend off Jay Rockefeller's obscene spending. Read more
Huntington, WV -The financial struggling Huntington Symphony Orchestra announced today that they are still in need of corporate donations for its Tag Sale which is part of the Save the Music Campaign.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV. – Dr. Ancella R. Bickley, professor emeritus of English and former Vice President of Academic Affairs at West Virginia State University, will deliver the 2011 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture Thursday, April 21 at Marshall University. Read more
Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA’s 2011 Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon will be held at noon on Thursday, April 21 at Goodwill’s Employment and Training Center, 1005 Virginia Avenue. Read more
Perhaps more than any other branch of any nation's armed forces, air forces seem to get all the glory and publicity. And the other fighting forces -- Army, Navy and Marines -- are so blinded by the glamour of airpower that they've managed to create their own aerial branches.Read more
Deborah Digges, who took her own life in the spring of 2009, wrote poems of grief throughout her career—some painful and unsparing, but many with a silver lining of comfort and sly celebration. Here is "The Coat," written for her husband, from her posthumous collection The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart.
Tokyo, Japan, (HNN) – Following extended monitoring of the area outside the exclusion zone that surrounds the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex by two specialist radiation monitoring teams,Read more
A 7.1 magnitude aftershock and a fresh tsunami warning briefly forced evacuation of the Fukushima plant. A 55 minute power interruption occurred, which meant that water may have stopped cooling the reactors. Some landslides have occurred, according to a 7 a.m. report .Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Memphis won two softball games playing against Marshall University at Dot Hicks Field on Saturday and Sunday. The third game that was in progress on Sunday afternoon was stopped because of a drop dead time rule. The second contest was cancelled just shy of hitting regulation.Read more
A single engine plane crashed about 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, on Route 2 between Huntington and Barboursville. The aircraft flipped over, but the pilot did not sustain life threatening injuries. Read more
WV State Senator Clark Barnes shares his 1928 Model A Ford in this U Tube video shot by the Hampshire Review. Sen. Barnes showed off his car in July 2010. Courtesy of U-Tube/Hampshire Review.
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