The following Special Call Meetings of City Council will be held in City Council Chambers on the following dates and times for the budget purpose listed below:
Thursday, February 28 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Revenue, City Council, City Clerk, Mayor’s Office, Insurance Programs, Finance, Contingency, Human Resources, Purchasing, IT, Planning Read more
The Huntington Municipal Development Authority (HMDA) will hold its monthly meeting February 25 @ 4 p.m. in Council Chambers at Huntington City Hall. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business will conduct an inaugural WV Innovation and Business Model Competition (WVIBMC) beginning Thursday, March 14, with a preliminary qualifying competition and concluding Saturday, April 6, with a finals event. The overall winning team will receive a$5,000 cash prize and an expenses-paid visit to the Intuit campus in Mountain View, California.Read more
PRESS, NNWJ, Food and Water Action, and A Call to Actions holds a public forum on March 19th at the CAO Welcome Center, 342 Second St, Portsmouth, Ohiofrom 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., according to Vina Colley, activist/officer.Read more
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for the Portsmouth and Paducah Project Office (PPPO) Infrastructure Support Services.Read more
Following meetings with Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s staff, Huntington area State Legislators and the state tourism Commissioner, there is some hope that the New River Train might run again.Read more
MARTINSBURG — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sought to protect students with special needs and enforce the state’s Human Rights Act so as to hold accountable anyone who threatens to assault an individual because of his or her disability.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University will present Dr. Jan-Werner Müller, a professor of political science at Princeton University, who will present a lecture entitled “Populist Authoritarianism: What Can Be Done?” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Dr. Wael Zatar, dean of Marshall University’s College of Information Technology and Engineering (CITE), has been reappointed as the chairman of the National Committee on Structural Fiber Reinforced Polymers of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academics.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Maria A. Serrat, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Marshall UniversityJoan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has been named a director of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA).Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Huntington man pled guilty to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Curtis Traylor, also known as “Gurt,” 51, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with distribution of heroin. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Point Pleasant man was sentenced to three months in prison for embezzling more than $45,000 from the Pleasant Valley Hospital, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Huntington man was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for embezzling over $80,000 of his brother’s Veteran’s benefits, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. In addition to the 6 months imprisonment, Washington will spend 6 months on home confinement following his release. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart, joined by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mary Ann Withrow, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Wes Quigley, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Group Supervisor Jim Hischar, Drug Enforcement Administration and Director Mike Malone and Investigative Supervisor Jason Fisher, West Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, announced the formation of a Health Care Fraud Abuse, Recovery and Response Team (ARREST), an innovative approach linking civil and criminal enforcement efforts together in a comprehensive attack on the opioid epidemic. Read more
WAYNE, W. Va. (CN) – Facing a two-year prison term for his misuse of state funds, a former West Virginia Supreme Court justice appeared in court again Wednesday to stipulate to related ethics charges. Read more
A house in the 1700 block of Madison Avenue where police busted a group on drug charges has gone up in flames. The alarm came in about 11:25 p.m. Feb. 19. With three engines working the 17th Street West abandoned drug house blaze, a second alarm hail fire fighters to the 200 block of W. 7th Avenue (near Cammack Children's Center). just before 2 a.m. Feb. 20. Ten minutes later dispatch summoned a volunteer team to the W. 7th Avenue fire. 40 minutes later another Huntington engine company was summoned. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - ZMM Architects and Engineers recently made a $75,000 gift to support Marshall University’s College of Information Technology and Engineering’s (CITE) maintenance of their Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation.Read more
Huntington, W.Va., <Feb. 19, 2019>: Bulldog Creative Services, an advertising agency based in Huntington, West Virginia, recently expanded its team with three new employees.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Cristina McDavid has been named the director of the Marshall University Office of Career Education.
McDavid, who previously worked at Ashland Community and Technical College (ACTC) as a professor and associate dean for academic affairs, assumed the role in January. She has years of experience in career education, student advising, and higher education instruction and leadership.Read more
The teenage son of a Grand Canyon National Park museum collections building employee happened to carry a geiger counter to the collection room . He found three buckets of uranium putting off 13.9 millirems per hour from ore. Read more
HUNTINGTON – Six people were arrested on drug-related charges Monday, Feb. 19, following the execution of a search warrant in the 1600 block of Madison Avenue.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Dr. Shirine Tabatabai Mafi, ’77, ’79, and Shahrokh Mafi have established the Dr. Hassan Vaziri Memorial Scholarship. Shirine Mafi, niece of Vaziri, says their family’s wish is to help young medical students reach their dreams of becoming physicians.Read more
Huntington's known connection to cold war nuclear weaponry relates to the three gaseous diffusion plants, i.e. Portsmouth, Paducah, Oak Ridge. The Huntington Pilot Plant used nickel carbonyl in a process of preparing and recycling spent radioactive fuel (uranium, plutonium) from the plants. Read more
Huntington Mayor delivered the annual state of the city address proclaiming the city's status as "strong" with emphasis necessary on safety, efficiency and innovation. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – An Arizona man who was arrested as part of Project Parkersburg – a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing methamphetamine and heroin -- pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that David Reeves, 51, of Beckley, a former substance abuse treatment counselor, pled guilty to illegal distribution of fentanyl. Stuart commended the investigative work of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University film studies program will present the 3rd annual Marshall University Student Short Film Festival at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse, featuring a screening of short films and videos created by Marshall students.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Joseph Beckett has been named to the 2019 class of the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association (MAATA) Hall of Fame, which is the highest award presented by the MAATA. Beckett is the third person from West Virginia ever selected for the MAATA Hall of Fame and the first from Marshall University.Read more
CHARLESTON, W. Va. – A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice convicted of the very corruption he wrote about before taking office was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison. Read more
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