HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University alumni and friends can purchase an Alumni Badge and get one free for the 2011 Greenbrier Classic, a PGA event that takes place July 25-31 at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.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.Read more
WASHINGTON, D. C. – U. S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) issued the following statement in response to the Republican budget proposal released yesterday, and his concern for the impact of proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid programs on West Virginia’s seniors:Read more
"Gathering for prayer and the anointing of oil" has been only on rare occasions in my faith experience. It is usually due to a life threatening health concern or outside trauma that suggests an impending problem to the heart, mind, body or soul of someone we love.Read more
Freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers a Senate speech condemning the actions of the United States and President Obama "to go to war" with Libya without a debate in Congress.Read more
The state Department of Environmental Protection is accepting registrations for the April 30, 2011, Adopt-A-Highway Statewide Cleanup. Volunteers have until April 23 to register. Read more
Japanese broadcaster NHK has confirmed that the government withheld release of data which indicated that radiation levels more than 30 km from the crippled plant exceeded safe levels. Low levels of radioactive material have also been detected in other countries including the US and Britain.Read more
Washington, DC — A plan awaiting approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents” is drawing vigorous objections from agency experts.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - The Cabell County Board of Education voted to name the school to be built on the former University Heights property as Huntington East Middle. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Daily is too strong a word, but frequent sweeps of the internet will derive hints --- both official and viral --- of the “Super 8” flick scheduled for June 2011 release. Shot in and around Weirton, WV, director J.J. Abrams (“Star Trek”) has cat and mouse previews gushing. If you think it’s a bit “Cloverfield,” well, the same marketing firm is handling “Super 8.”Read more
WHITESVILLE, WV (HNN) – U.S. Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) spoke Tuesday evening at the memorial service commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine tragedy, reflecting on the lives of the 29 men who perished,Read more
"Money is the mother's milk of politics" and it has always been so, though today's campaigns certainly are cost-prohibitive to the average person. Currently, we are in the midst of a Special Election Campaign for Governor to fill the balance of former Governor Joe Manchin's second term. Though the race is shortened by a month, this one-year term is a costly proposition. Read more
How fortunate our lives are. How hard it is for so many. I know our sons have no idea how the majority of the rest of the world lives today or have suffered over the centuries. Returning from Southeast Asia, my wife and I were heartily reminded of the harsh lives so many people on this planet live.Read more
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement after House Republicans released their budget blueprint for Fiscal Year 2012,Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN). – Marshall University men’s soccer head coach Bob Gray has released the dates and times of three summer soccer camps which include two overnight camps plus one day camp. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Percussion Ensemble will give a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, on the university’s Huntington campus.Read more
The Republican Governor's Race will culminate on May 14th, when an estimated 15% of the Republican rank and file, with several Independent voters, will choose their nominee. Read more
CHARLESTON, WV (HNN) – The status ofproduction at Toyota’s 13 plants in North America remains status quo following a late afternoon clarification from the parent company Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) -Federal prosecutors have confirmed that the former owner of a former heavily drug, prostitute and violence trafficked convenience store and gas station pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell black market tobacco.Read more
Cabell County Schools’ Board of Education will conduct its Regular Board Meeting, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 beginning at 5:30 PM in the Central Office Board Meeting Room, 2850 5th Avenue in Huntington.
Pittsburgh, PA – (HNN) Coffee Party USA’s new campaign, “Coffee Breaks to Save America,” is using social media tools to empower informed and engaged Americans to devote their coffee breaks this month to collective actions on the issues of tax code reform, Wall Street reform, and campaign finance reform.Read more
CHARLESTON, WV, – Residential rates for customers of Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power will increase about 13 cents a day for typical residential customers, the company announced today.Read more
Efforts using concrete to seal the leaking of radioactive water into the Pacific failed , Saturday, April 2, according to Japanese news agencies. However, Stars & Stripes reported Sunday, April 3, engineers “went farther up the system and injected sawdust, three garbage bags of shredded newspaper and a polymer --- similar to one used to absorb liquid in diapers that can expand 50 times its normal size when combined with water.”Read more
HUNTINGTON,WV (HNN)Arts Resources for the Tri-State continues Neil Simon's, "Barefoot in the Park," at the Renaissance Arts Theatre in Huntington located at 900-8th. Street on April 8-9-10.Read more
Would you have your mom or dad 'home school' you so you could be in a J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg flight? To use a Palin expression, "You bettcha." When lensing "Super 8" last fall near Weirton , WV, Abrams wanted "authentic kids," according to a story in the L.A. Times. Read more
In the wilds of North Carolina, sportsmen buy half-ton blocks of candy from Hershey Foods and bait bears with it luring them to the sweets so that they can sportingly kill themRead more
CHARLESTON, WV (HNN) – Acting governor Earl Ray Tomblin collected $1.03 million in campaign donations for the filing period ending March 25.The totals provided include other funds on hand as well as personal loans (*) made by the candidate to their campaign.Read more
ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced that it will hold a briefing on June 29 to share with the public information gathered during the investigation of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va.Read more
PIKETON, Ohio – March 29, 2011 -- Fluor-B&W Portsmouth LLC today assumed leadership of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio. The company, led by Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) and includes nuclear operations leader The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) (NYSE: BWC), began the operational phase of its five-year contract with DOE, which has renewal options for up to five additional years. Read more
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