Dec 10 2013 - 10:21pm
Updated 2 hours ago
When word spread throughout Huntington City Hall Thursday, Dec. 5 about the passing of Mayor Steve Williams dad, Dr. Don Williams, and, simultaneously that the Mayor had returned to work!
He made a brief announcement during the work session, but he was in attendance at the Friday morning send off for HHS football team. Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 7:28am
Updated 18 hours ago
Thistle Processing, now a holding of Special Metals / Precision Castparts, signed a September 27, 2013 consent order with US EPA pertaining to releases September 11, 2008 to September 15, 2008 of trichloroethylene ("TCE"), a volatile organic compound, from a vapor degreaser at the Facility. In addition to violation of their state permit, the emissions violated the Clean Air Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA). Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 6:24am
Updated 3 hours ago
Huntington City Council unanimously approved the 2025 Comprehensive Plan, which had previously been recommended by the Planning Commission.
Breanna Shell, planner, received praise from two council members for her work and that of her team on the document which included many evenings and weekends to visit neighborhood organizations to explain the process.
Councilman Gary Bunn, a prior city planner and city manager, complimented Ms. Shell for “outstanding work,” adding that “hard work means nothing, if we do not implement (the plan).”
Bunn recalled working on an earlier plan which included proposals such as downtown urban renewal, new bridges, Marshall expansion to 20th Street and Interstate 64. Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 5:50am
“Let’s do it next year,” councilman Rick Simmons exuberantly stated during Monday’s City Hall congratulations of the Huntington High School football team, which came up short in their bid for the state championship.
Mayor Steve Williams praised the Highlander team which went 13-1, losing in Wheeling 9-7 to Martinsburg. Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 4:09am
Updated 20 hours ago
An ordinance adding sexual orientation and veterans to classes protected from discrimination opened a legalese debate, following a motion by council woman Rebecca Thacker that “disabled” be substituted for “handicap.”
“We’re not beggars , we are productive,” Ms. Thacker stated, calling the use of the “H” word demeaning and outdated. Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 1:44am
Updated 21 hours ago
The first public meeting for a pilot study on cancer risks around U.S. nuclear facilities is Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, 2-4 pm, Nat'l Academy of Sciences Building, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW (Rm 125), Washington, D.C. The NAS Committee planning this study will investigate just 7 of many facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the results of this study will most likely affect all U.S. nuclear facilities.
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Dec 10 2013 - 12:34am
Updated 21 hours ago
“I did my country wrong,” stated a Owen Thompson, a former worker at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, referring to health problems.
Diana Salisbury. A member of local environmental groups, including Serpent Mount/Ohio Brush Creek Alliance and Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security, testified in 1994 about the transport and burial of the plant in Piketon, Ohio. Her testimony was before the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, December 16, 1994 in Washington, D.C. It’s now public record. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 5:35pm
Updated 21 hours ago
Marshall University Theatre and the Lunar Stratagem, the international touring theater company based in Huntington, will premiere Lunar Stratagem's newest work , "Can You Forgive Her?" in performances Thursday, Dec. 12, through Saturday, Dec. 14. All three performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on Marshall's Huntington campus.
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Dec 9 2013 - 4:45am
Updated 1 day ago
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Dec 10 2013 - 11:02pm
Updated 1 hour ago
A 22-year-old man has died from injures received in a December 2, 2013 accident at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 16th Street. William Scott Bishop , formerly of Kingwood, WV and now a Huntington resident, died at 11:43 a.m. December 10, 2013. Read more
Dec 10 2013 - 3:28pm
Today (Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is ordering GE Capital Retail Bank and its subsidiary, CareCredit, to refund up to $34.1 million to consumers who were victims of deceptive credit card enrollment tactics at doctors’ and dentists’ offices around the country.
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Dec 9 2013 - 8:21pm
Updated 2 hours ago
A truck accident involving a container of Uranium hexafluoride in 2009 closed I-64 near Beckley and forced evacuations, according to an article in the Beckley News Register.
Although the truck was destroyed, the container carrying the UF6 was intact. “When UF6 comes in contact with water or water vapor in the air, this forms a corrosive compound called hydrogen fluoride (HF). HF is an extremely corrosive gas that can damage the lungs and cause death if inhaled at high concentrations,” the article stated. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 6:22pm
Huntington City Council meets Monday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in council chambers at Huntington City Hall. The work session will be Thursday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. in Council Chambers.
Some members may request an update on the progress of removal of the barge at Harris Riverfront Park. As of Tuesday, Dec. 3, the vessel was still at the port. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 5:58pm
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, has been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 5:56pm
Martinsburg, WV- Michael “Mike” Folk, Delegate from the 63rd District, is introducing “Constitutional Carry” in the upcoming West Virginia Legislative Session. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 4:50pm
Updated 1 day ago
CABELL:
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 3 PM EST TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 3 PM EST TUESDAY. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 4:14pm
Updated 2 hours ago
NIOSH has posted an update to questions surrounding radioactive materials at the Huntington Pilot Plant (Reduction Pilot Plant), which was located on the Huntington Alloys site from 1952-1979. The plant was dismantled, debris trucked to Piketon, Ohio, and the contaminated debris --- along with the trucks --- buried on the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site. Read more
Dec 9 2013 - 10:47am
CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), an Irvine, CA-based residential property information, analytics and services provider, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 released its October National Foreclosure Report which provides data on completed U.S. foreclosures and the national foreclosure inventory. According to CoreLogic, there were 48,000 completed foreclosures in the U.S. in October 2013, down from 68,000 in October 2012, a year-over-year decrease of 30 percent. On a month-over-month basis, completed foreclosures decreased 25.6 percent, from 64,000* reported in
September.
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Dec 7 2013 - 9:09am
Updated 3 days ago
(GALLIPOLIS, Ohio) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today the 14-count indictment of 71-year-old Richard Roderick.
A Gallia County Grand Jury indicted Roderick on the following charges: Read more
Dec 7 2013 - 9:04am
Updated 3 days ago
Hurricane, WV — National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) is a national observance that was established to highlight the importance of influenza vaccination. Annual flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the flu and its related complications that could result in severe illness, hospitalization and death. Health experts across the country recommend that everyone six months and older get vaccination against the flu. Annual flu vaccination can reduce flu illnesses, doctors' visits, missed work due to flu, and prevent flu-related hospitalizations and deaths. Read more
Dec 7 2013 - 3:01am
PART OF A CONTINUING SERIES Originally Published 2010
***See Attachment Two below for 2013 dose increase documents.
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- Huntington News Network has located transcripts of CDC/NOOSH transcripts ranging from 2003 to 2007 in which experts cautioned about making radiation “buzzwords”(non uranium contaminants) public concerning the contamination at the former Huntington Pilot Plant (HPP). In addition, 2007 transcripts contain discussion of a “hundred fold” under-estimate and a “parking lot issue.” Read more
Dec 7 2013 - 2:30am
Respect keyed the Thursday afternoon City Council work session, as Mayor Steve Williams attended, even though he had learned that his father had passed earlier in the day. Read more
Dec 7 2013 - 12:24am
Early this fall the Wall Street Journal published a database of former Atomic Energy Commission sites spread throughout the United States. Among the locations in the database, Huntington, WV for its former Reduction Pilot Plant (Huntington Pilot Plant), which was dismantled and buried at a landfill in Piketon, Oho o the grounds of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
On November 22, the WSJ published a story of a Pennsylvania town’s $500 million dollar cleanup. Read more
Dec 6 2013 - 7:26pm
Updated 4 days ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp and his wife, Jane, believe that MU students have incredible talents that need to be seen and appreciated by friends, alumni and their fellow students.
A few years ago, the Kopps determined that one way to show off those talents would be to sponsor a holiday card design contest each year. So, the Kopps began sponsoring a contest in 2007. On Monday, Dec. 2, they announced the winners of this year's eighth annual contest. Read more
Dec 6 2013 - 7:20pm
WASHINGTON - The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the Ellen Wilson First Spouse Gold Coin on December 9 at noon Eastern Time (ET). Pricing will be based on the United States Mint's pricing structure, available athttp://www.usmint.gov/catalog. Read more
Dec 6 2013 - 6:58pm
There is a flash flood warning in effect for our area. There is also a threat of a wintery mix. Please use caution in high water! DO NOT drive through high water. If it looks deep, assume that it is deep. Please use caution if the rain changes over to a mix or freezing rain. Drive carefully and slowly if you must be out.
Dec 6 2013 - 6:53pm
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Friends and fans of Marshall University are invited to attend the 2013 Capital Classic Fan Celebration before the Thundering Herd's annual men's basketball showdown with West Virginia University Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Charleston Civic Center. Read more
Dec 6 2013 - 6:50pm
Dr. Shirley M. Neitch, a professor of geriatrics in the department of internal medicine at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, and a team of Marshall University researchers recently published an article on the effects of prolonged power outages on the health care of elderly patients who are bedridden.
The article also includes information about two underutilized resources available across much of the nation and a tip sheet for health care providers and caregivers.
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Dec 6 2013 - 6:06pm
AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Ga., has been awarded up to $169,726,427 not-to-exceed firm-fixed-price contract for advance procurement funding for long lead efforts associated with 18 C-130J aircraft. Work will be performed at Marietta, Ga., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2016. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2013 advance procurement funds in the amount of $169,726,427 are being obligated at time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/WLNNC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8625-14-C-6450). Read more
Dec 6 2013 - 7:50am
Updated 2 hours ago
On August 6, 2013, Mayor Williams celebrated what he described as an "impossible dream" birthday, when his dad who had not spoken a full sentence since October 2012, joined in singing "happy birthday." Here is that article:
The lyrics state, "to dream the impossible dream...." Read more
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