The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Monday, May 14, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. DEADLY VIOLENCE AHEAD OF US EMBASSY EVENT Several Palestinians are killed by Israeli fire, and[Read More…]
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Mother’s Day roots run deep in West Virginia
By TIFFANY TOWNER Times West Virginian GRAFTON, W.Va. — Cousins Candice Dady and Marilyn Raschka were touring the Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum a couple days before Mother’s Day. Raschka, of Wisconsin, has visited two times previously, but it was Illinois-resident Dady’s first visit to the home where Anna Jarvis, founder[Read More…]
Rosie the Riveters talk history and Mother’s Day
By JIM BISSETT The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Ella King was 57 years old when she learned how to muscle a rivet gun in World War II. Her daughter, Anna Hess still marvels at the confidence and work ethic displayed by her Rosie -the-Riveter mom on the home front.[Read More…]
OPINION: Happy Mother’s Day
Weirton Daily Times editorial Mothers may be much different in their public life than they were 104 years ago when President Woodrow Wilson set aside the second Sunday in May 1914 as a day to honor mothers. Moms then were, by and large, homemakers, what we’d call a “stay-at-home mom”[Read More…]
NBC crew spends week in Madison covering troubling opioid epidemic
By PHIL PERRY Coal Valley News MADISON, W.Va. — An NBC Nightly News crew from New York and North Carolina spent time this month in Madison, primarily to cover the opioid epidemic while also capturing the pulse of the local community. M.L. Flynn, an Emmy- and Gracie- award-winning journalist who[Read More…]
West Virginia Strawberry Festival begins today
By SARAH GOODRICH The Inter-Mountain BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Festival season has arrived in Buckhannon as the 77th annual West Virginia Strawberry Festival rolls into town for nine days. With the theme “Stars, Stripes and Strawberries!”, the festival will have crowds of folks downtown enjoying carnival rides, local flavors and live[Read More…]
COLUMN: Where’s the integrity in cut-and-paste journalism?
By SAMANTHA PERRY Bluefield Daily Telegraph The subject line on the email from a friend, a former journalist, was a succinct question. “Look familiar?” I clicked to open, then followed the link provided. I was directed to a purported “news” website — Par the Course — and a story that[Read More…]
Farmers Bank in Hurricane has grand opening
Former Tomblin chief of staff Chris Stadelman dies
By JOE SEVERINO Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Chris Stadelman, the former chief of staff for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Charleston Daily Mail managing editor, died Thursday night after a lengthy battle with colorectal cancer. Stadelman, 48, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2014. This was his second bout[Read More…]
Daily Mail short takes: On Stadelman, Alpha Technologies and Camden Park
Charleston Gazette-Mail Daily Mail editorial: Stadelman, one of W.Va.’s best The Charleston Daily Mail family, journalism and all of West Virginia lost a great one late Thursday with the death of former Daily Mail business reporter, managing editor and good friend to many, Chris Stadelman. A 1992 graduate of the[Read More…]