HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Pullman Square celebrated their seventh birthday with cake, prizes and stores participating at Pullman Square on a nice sunny fall Saturday afternoon. Speaking at the event were Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe, Paul Davis from the TTA and Pullman Square developer Bill Dargusch. Plaques in the brick in front of the pavillion mark the Pullman Square official opening in November, 2004.Read more
An interview with nuclear scientist Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. He asks, "Is there a dust particle small enough as a dust particle" that may sit in people's lungs and trigger cancer in a similar process to acquiring lung cancer by cigarette smoking. "There are one or two particles that have been collected in the United States... so that means there are others that have not been caught.... Fukushima has isotopes that only last for a few years. If you find radioactive Iodiine and Cesium that means we are seeing something recent, that was recent. Read more
Heralding a continuation of voting consistency that shakes up the establishment flip-floppers and amnesiacs, Rep. Ron Paul has waltzed passed both Mitt Romney and Harold Cain in the Illinois Republican Straw Poll. Paul racked up a staggering 66% online win, which carried him to the overall victory. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Work is under way to develop a Virtual Mine Safety Training Academy at Marshall University as a result of a $117,000 award from the Brookwood-Sago federal grant program. The grant program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration, was named in remembrance of the 12 men who died in an explosion at the Sago Mine in Tallsmanville, W.Va., in 2006, and the 13 men who died in two explosions at the Jim Walter Resources Inc. No. 5 Mine in Brookwood, Ala., in 2001. The program was established through a provision in the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006, which West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller helped introduce and win passage. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Chorus will present The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, in Smith Recital Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus. The performance will feature well-known bluegrass performer Don Rigsby and Friends.Robert Wray, assistant professor of choral music education and director of the chorus, said the work fuses the solemnity of the classically based mass with the energy and excitement of bluegrass music. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – While many people around Huntington think sexual assault is not a problem in the community, the staff at CONTACT Rape Crisis Center knows otherwise. In 2010, CONTACT’s victim advocates served 275 victims of sexual assault and another 65 friends and family members of the victims, for a total of 890.5 hours of services. Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In recognition of America’s heritage and the founding principle of religious freedom, U. S. Representative Nick Rahall (D – W.Va.) Tuesday helped to pass a Congressional resolution he cosponsored to reaffirm “In God We Trust” as the Nation’s motto and to promote and encourage its display in public buildings.Read more
The Appalachian Film Festival is accepting submissions for its 2012 festival to be held Feb. 25-26 at the historic Keith Albee Theater in Huntington. The deadline to submit is January 1. For entry forms and submission guidelines, visit www.appyfilmfest.com, or enter your work at https://www.withoutabox.com. Please direct any questions to the festival director, Christopher Lusher, at cdlusher@gmail.com or 304-690-2500.
Occupy Oaskland demonstrators continue in place and in this video a camera person feels the pain of a ruber police bullet. The use of rubber bullets became controversal when one hit a former Marine who served in Iraq in the head, causing serious injuries. The irony of surviving two tours of duty in Iraq and sustaining life threatening wounds during a First Amendment protected protest in the United States focused attention on Oakland. Fortunately, after a day in critical condition , his condition improved. Read more
West Virginia American Water has lifted i precautionary boil water advisory for approximately 200 customers on Country Club Drive and West Country Club Drive in Barboursville. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – After nearly 100 years of showing movies in Downtown Huntington, the Hyman family has closed their last Fourth Avenue theatre. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration and the West Virginia Division of Highways, today announced $971,000 in federal funds awarded to eight projects as part of the 2011 Safe Routes to School Grant Program.Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration and the West Virginia Division of Highways, today announced $4,802,314 in federal funds awarded to 27 projects as part of the 2011 Transportation Enhancement grant program. One of those went to Huntington for the Old Main Corridor.Read more
Libbey Glass Inc. is recalling Fantasy glass bowls sold nationwide and in Canada from August 2010 to September 2011. The glass bowl can break when subjected to sudden temperature changes or impact, posing a laceration hazard. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.– Rick Meckstroth, a freshman member of Marshall University’s 1970 football team and later a three-year starter for the Young Thundering Herd, will be the keynote speaker at the annual memorial service honoring the 75 victims of the 1970 Marshall plane crash. Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C. –With the approach of a potentially harsh winter, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Thursday announced he is pressing the House to take action to avoid budget cuts for a critical heating assistance program that would disrupt aid to more than 100,000 West Virginia households.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (HNN) – West Virginia American Water has issued a precautionary boil water advisory for approximately 200 customers on Country Club Drive and West Country Club Drive in Barboursville. The affected area includes Health South Rehabilitation Hospital and Country Club Apartments, which have been notified. Read more
Having staged a successful strike, which shut down the city, as a tribute to the former Marine injured in last week's confrontations, City Administrator Deanna Santana said in a news conference: "The world is watching Oakland tonight...We need to make sure this remains a safe place for everyone."What had been a peaceful protest that took over the Port of Oakland after 12 midnight, Oakland time, on November 3, began turning into chaos. Read more
(Adapted from a report by Karen Stewart, West Kentucky Journal)
BEAVER CREEK, KY (HNN) – As trucks whisk by on I-64, little mention is made of precautions (yes, there are some in place) for an accident involving radioactive substances. When the Huntington Pilot Plant was disassembled in 1978-1979, the glowing remains headed through the city before likely crossing into Ohio for a trip down U.S. 52 and then U.S. 23 to Piketon, Ohio , for burial. (The East Huntington bridge did not open until 1985.) Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Radiogenic Cancer is under consideration by NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health) as an illness that killed workers at the Huntington Pilot Plant (a.k.a. Reduction Pilot Plant), which formerly was on the INCO property. Owned and leased to the Atomic Energy Commission, former workers at the plant already qualify for certain nuclear /atomic worker compensation under the EEOICPA (Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act). Read more
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it found in the facility's No.2 reactor radioactive substances that could have resulted from continuous nuclear fission. Read more
Huntington, W.Va. (HNN)- A dedication of the three Civil War Trails markers that were recently installed in Guyandotte will be held Saturday, November 5, at 10:30 a.m. The markers are located on the grounds of the Madie Carroll House and the ceremony will be part of the Guyandotte Civil War Days
Cabell County joins other sites in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee in the Civil War Trails program. The program, a partnership between the West Virginia Division of Tourism and Civil War Trails Inc., identifies, interprets and creates driving tours centered on Civil War sites and stories. Currently, there are over 1100 sites in the program and close to 3,000 map guides are downloaded weekly from the program’s Web site, www.civilwartrails.org.Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s Office of Student Health Education Programs and the Cabell-Huntington Health Department are hosting an educational session on seasonal influenza, also known as the “flu,” as part of a continuing public awareness campaign. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University physics professor Dr. Thomas Wilson has been awarded $478,709 to conduct research to help improve the propulsion systems NASA uses for deep-space missions.
The three-year award was one of 28 made nationally this summer through the NASA EPSCoR program. Wilson submitted the proposal through the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. His project is titled “Coherent Terahertz Acoustic Phonons: A Novel Diagnostic for Erosion in Hall Thruster Discharge Chamber Walls.” Read more
Former lobbyist and Republican Presidential Candidate, Herman Cain, has accumulated additional troubles related to the two sexual harassment allegations, which , he , at first, denied. Initially, he adamantly denied the POLITICO stories his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. Following Cain’s denial on Fox News, one of the women has asked the National Restaurant Read more
A scientist delivered a report before the American Public Health Association confirming that hot Fukushima radioactive particles are a public health issue in the United States. Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accidents at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Mr. Kaltofen’s analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO’s Fukushima reactors. Fairewinds believes that this is a personal health issue in Japan and a public health issue in the United States and Canada. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.– Marshall University and the Marshall University Foundation Inc. celebrated the philanthropy of many of their most generous donors Friday evening (Oct. 28) with the first Recognition Celebration at the Marshall University Foundation Hall, home of the Erickson Alumni Center, on the Huntington campus. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - An arrest has been made of a man accused of spraying graffiti in the 1100 and 1200 blocks of Sixth Avenue. Andrew King, 34, was arrested Sunday, Oct. 30, at about 11:45 p.m. He had allegedly spray painted American Mountaineer Gas, Blanton Chiropractic and AAA. When arrested, he was allegedly preparing to spray the St. Joseph Parish House. Read more
Former Godfather Pizza CEO and GOP presidential candidate, Herman Cain, has taken too “hits” on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 30-31, but his forces have not indicated that either accusation has the horse head in bed impact (as in the “Godfather” movie) on his “family” of campaign crusaders. Read more
The commercial is labeled "unofficial," but the imaginative provocative prophesy shouts loudly about the debt crisis in America , auditing the Fed, and bringing home troops. Should this be a real commercial? Would the mainstream media air it, even if paid with Federal Reserve Notes? Truthfully, the "commercial" comes from a group that's against wasteful spending in the U.S. A "fan" added the Ron Paul references. Read more
BECKLEY, W.Va. – U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Monday urged the Postmaster General to halt post office closures in southern West Virginia until the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can ensure that legitimate safety and convenience concerns are being addressed, asking the postal regulatory agencies to exercise their oversight authority to the fullest extent in slowing down the closure process.Read more
