HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — NFL training camp facilities at The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., are so good, they even impressed a former NFL player. After Marshall University’s football team practiced Saturday at the AdvoCare Performance Center at The Greenbrier, home of the New Orleans Saints training camp, Thundering[Read More…]
Latest News
John Hopkins study links fracking and radon
WHEELING, W.Va. — A new report indicates fracking could help the United States recover up to 2.85 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas, but another study shows the drilling technique may also produce carcinogenic radon gas across the Marcellus and Utica shale regions. The American Gas Association’s new estimate of[Read More…]
Newspapers are not ‘the media’
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Here at the Wheeling News-Register and The Intelligencer, we make our money by selling a single product to readers: trust. That’s why I’d like to pop a few people at Rolling Stone magazine in the mouth.[Read More…]
Capito relates benefits of trip to Middle East
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The Middle East holds a giant chunk of the world’s energy, is home base to a number of Islamic terrorist groups and generates some of the biggest headaches for politicians worldwide. It also where hundreds of West Virginia service men and women are advising regional police and[Read More…]
Here’s why you go to a chocolate festival
For more photos from the chocolate festival, click here.
Alderson co-op unveils expanded Green Grocer
ALDERSON, W.Va. — All that’s missing are Ike and Corabeth Godsey. The homey feeling of a bygone era that was embodied by the Godseys’ country store on the venerable TV show “The Waltons” has been resurrected in Alderson’s newly expanded Green Grocer store. The cash register is of a decidedly[Read More…]
Former Huntington journalist C.T. Mitchell dies
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — C.T. Mitchell, a longtime university relations director at Marshall University, a former city editor for The Huntington Advertiser and a founding member for Green Acres Regional Center and Prestera Center, died Tuesday at the age of 82. Mitchell worked as an executive assistant to the Marshall president[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Monday, April 13
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Monday, April 13, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers. 1. HILLARY CLINTON’S LONG ROAD TO SECOND CAMPAIGN The[Read More…]
Judge delays Blankenship trial, doesn’t rule on venue change
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Don Blankenship’s legal team successfully argued to delay the start of his trial Thursday, but the federal judge handling the case still hasn’t ruled on a change of venue and refused to recuse herself from overseeing the proceedings. This came a day after U.S. District Judge Irene[Read More…]
Berkeley County hopes for ‘economic solar system’
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Although the wide expanse of land is currently undeveloped, the 450-acre site in the Tabler Station Business Park will eventually be home to the largest manufacturing project in West Virginia: Procter & Gamble. State and local officials announced the arrival of P&G, a Fortune 50 company, with[Read More…]