New intertwined “WV” logo to be feature on road and alternate team caps CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Power are excited to add an additional logo for the upcoming 2016 season. The club, a Class-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will now use an interwoven “WV” logo on their[Read More…]
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Manchin, Capito announce funding to expand drug court services in Huntington
The Women’s Empowerment and Addiction Recovery (WEAR) Program will address the needs of women in the sex trade who are battling drug addiction and mental health issues WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today announced $141,237 for the City of Huntington’s Women’s Empowerment[Read More…]
SBA hosting small business-lender matchmaker forum in Dunbar
CHARLESTON, W.Va. ─ The U.S. Small Business Administration’s West Virginia District Office, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and SCORE host a free Small Business-Lender Match Maker Forum event Thursday, September 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at West Virginia State University in the James[Read More…]
This week in W.Va. history: Sept.9 – Sept. 15
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 9, 1839: Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield was born in Mingo County. He was the patriarch of the Hatfield family and their leader[Read More…]
Sen. Capito, business owners attend Google’s “Let’s Put Charleston on the Map’ event
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With dozens of small business owners and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. in attendance, representatives of Google presented a ‘Let’s Put Charleston on the Map’ seminar at the Clay Center Wednesday. With a focus on helping small business owners get more attention through Google searches and their online[Read More…]
WVU Tech to move to Beckley in 2017
DAVID BEARD TheDPost.com MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University’s Board of Governors voted unanimously on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to relocate the WVU Institute of Technology from its Montgomery campus in Fayette County to the recently acquired WVU Beckley campus in Raleigh County. The BOG’s special meeting drew opponents from the[Read More…]
The Herald-Dispatch: Needle exchange begins Wednesday
By BEN FIELDS The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Kathleen Napier and her staff have been training for a long time, but really no one knows what to expect when the doors to a small, first-floor room at the Cabell-Huntington Health Department open Wednesday at 1 p.m. No matter what, it[Read More…]
Big-airline fare war unlikely to land at Yeager
By Rick Steelhammer The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While some of the larger airlines are beginning to match, and even undercut, the fares of low-cost carriers on off-peak travel dates, the practice appears unlikely to happen any time soon at Charleston’s Yeager Airport. The lowest oil prices in nearly seven[Read More…]
The Gazette-Mail: Indicted ex-WVDOH official commits suicide, police say
By Eric Eyre The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Just hours after he was indicted on federal racketeering charges Tuesday, a former West Virginia Division of Highways official apparently committed suicide near Bridgeport in Harrison County, authorities said. Bob Andrew, who headed the DOH equipment division in Buckhannon for 16 years and last[Read More…]
Bluefield Chief: Bomb threat caller warned ‘You killed my brother’
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Staff Report BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – Bluefield police, after spending much of Tuesday dealing with an attempted bank robbery, evacuated the Bluefield Municipal Building after a dispatcher received a bomb threat. A dispatcher at the Bluefield Police Department received a telephone call approximately 8:52 p.m. Tuesday, Chief Dennis[Read More…]
