By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Dr. Bob Henry Baber is the mayor of Richwood and supported the town during the June 23, 2016, 1,000-year flood and its fight with the Nicholas County School Board over school consolidation. He has long supported the Appalachian area, and believes there[Read More…]
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Brooke Schools Superintendent doubles down on apology over sign
Staff report The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Brooke County Schools Superintendent Toni Paesano Shute on Tuesday doubled down on her apology to Pittsburgh Perry High School for a sign at Friday’s football game in Wellsburg that read “Trump Perry,” this time noting that the “administration” failed for[Read More…]
Teams prepare for 25th annual Roadkill Cook-off in Marlinton
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Inter-Mountain MARLINTON, W.Va. — When the 25th West Virginia Roadkill Cook-off brings live music, crafts, exhibits and more than 100 vendors to Marlinton this weekend, the main attraction will of course be the unique food. Teams will cook up everything from bear, deer, squirrel, turtle and rabbit[Read More…]
Secretary of State hub office opens in Martinsburg
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The West Virginia Secretary of State’s new Eastern Panhandle business hub is now open for business. Located at Caperton Station at 229 East Martin Street, the hub opened earlier this month. It will serve as a satellite location for the WVSOS’s Business[Read More…]
Gazette editorial: The president’s dangerous mental state
Charleston Gazette-Mail editorial Several of America’s top psychologists have written a disturbing book: “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.” It’s to be released Oct. 3 by St. Martin’s Press. The publisher declares: “The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists[Read More…]
10 things to know: Wednesday, September 27
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. OUTSIDER POLITICS THAT BENEFITED TRUMP NOW LEAVES GOP IN DISARRAY The president and Senate Majority[Read More…]
Congressional opioid investigation targets drug wholesaler Miami-Luken
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A congressional committee investigating West Virginia’s opioid epidemic has directed prescription drug distributor Miami-Luken to turn over documents amid allegations that the firm shipped massive amounts of powerful painkillers to the state’s southern counties and failed to report “suspicious” orders from local[Read More…]
Huntington awarded $2M for addiction treatment
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Federal grant funding totaling $2 million is headed into Huntington to help establish the city’s own Quick Response Team, a multi-agency method to devise individual treatment in the days following a person’s overdose, and the Turn Around program, a pilot project within Western[Read More…]
Facebook founder visits Belfry, Ky. students
By TRAVIS CRUM The Williamson Daily News BELFRY, Ky., — Belfry High School senior Lyndsay Coleman said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was laughing at her joke while playing a game she helped create in a photo the billionaire posted Monday. “He’s a very nice person,” Coleman said. “He went through individually[Read More…]
Zuckerberg visits Cabin Creek Health Systems
By ERIN BECK and LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg toured Cabin Creek Health Center in Dawes and participated in a roundtable discussion on rural health at the rural healthcare provider on Sunday. The two-hour visit Sunday afternoon was part of his effort to visit[Read More…]
