By ADRANISHA STEPHENS The Journal GERRARDSTOWN, W.Va. — First Lady Cathy Justice visited Mountain Ridge Intermediate School and Eagle Intermediate School Wednesday for a read-aloud presentation to both fourth and third grade students at the schools. The visits were intended to kick off the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge, according to[Read More…]

By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Under normal circumstances, nature typically disposes of the baby chicks born sickly or deformed each year in a classroom project at Central City Elementary School. And though a slipped tendon had doomed one particular peeping puff to a life of flailing about[Read More…]

By WAYNE TOWNER The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va.  — Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park will host sights and sounds from the American Revolution on Saturday and Sunday. The Northwest Department of the Brigade of the American Revolution will be encamped on Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park on Saturday[Read More…]

By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald TODAY BECKLEY, W.Va.— To kick off Mountain Music Festival at Ace Adventures Resort in Oak Hill, performances will begin at 8 p.m. featuring live music from Bennett Wales and The Relief, The Kind Thieves and Aqueous. The Burrito Bar at Breeze Hill in Lansing will[Read More…]

CHALRESTON, W.Va. — The Philadelphia Girls Choir is set to perform a song to America’s ‘Rosie the Riveters’ that was written a decade ago for the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project. The performance is set for 4 p.m. Sunday, June 2 at Temple University Performing Arts Center: Lew Klein Hall, 1837 N.[Read More…]

By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Amid the questions and concerns swirling in the midst of the region’s hepatitis A outbreak, many business owners are taking a proactive approach toward vaccination to give their workers and customers peace of mind. John Mandt Jr., owner of Stewarts Original Hot[Read More…]

By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart has been recused from representing the federal government in matters related to former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s effort to have his criminal mine safety conviction thrown out, court records show. The move by the U.S. Department[Read More…]

By WENDY HOLDREN The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a waiver to participate as a challenger in the Mobility Fund Phase II challenge process, to make sure that broadband coverage maps in West Virginia are accurate. “In 2015, the[Read More…]

By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va.  –Too much sleep is one medical complaint that doctors don’t hear too often. Actually, the most frequent patient sleep complaint fielded by doctors is not getting enough of it, something that now affects an estimated 29.4 million men and women in the U.S.,[Read More…]