BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Forty-five years after Ronald McCormick was killed in combat in Vietnam, the McCormick family heard more about what happened that fateful day. McCormick’s sister, Pamela Jeffers, said the memorial service conducted by the 336th Assault Helicopter Company Sunday helped to answer a lot of old questions for[Read More…]
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Lawmakers can’t put tax reform burden on counties
An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Tax reform is a difficult proposition. If it were easy, we’d have done it years ago. Currently, the legislative Select Committee for Fair Taxation has held a couple of meetings in Charleston on reforming the state’s tangled tax code and many county[Read More…]
Report says pain clinic personnel lacked training
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At a Raleigh County pain clinic earlier this year, state inspectors interviewed a medical director who said he tried to change pain-pill prescribing practices at the facility, but the clinic’s practice manager nixed the idea and issued a directive: “Give patients what they want.” The state Office[Read More…]
W.Va. Treasurer’s Office to auction rare penny
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Treasurer John Perdue believes a rare, 1909-S VDB penny will attract the interest of coin collectors around the country during the next online auction for unclaimed property. The auction will be held between June 3 and June 18. Since July 2011, Perdue has held 59 auctions.[Read More…]
Order to prevent video, audio recordings, still photos during public meeting violation of state law
From the Preston County News & Journal, May 23rd: West Virginia, like every other state in the nation, has certain rules that govern what would be considered a public meeting. And in those rules there are also provisions allowing the media to report or cover public meetings. The state law[Read More…]
Program providing trade training to W.Va. women
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Jackie Rea spent much of her life making cakes at Kroger stores. But after a recent divorce and relocation, Rea, 50, decided to trade in her icing spatula for a concrete finishing float and start a new career in the construction industry. The West Virginia Women Work[Read More…]
What Does an Opioid Overdose Look Like? An ER Doctor Explains
The Needle and the Damage Done: West Virginia’s Heroin Epidemic By Beth Vorhees West Virginia Public Broadcasting Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of stories by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, called “The Needle and the Damage Done: West Virginia’s Heroin Epidemic.” You can find the entire series, as well as[Read More…]
Bluefield men among ‘Three Stooges’ in ’42 parade
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The on-going aggression of the Nazi war machine, Italy’s fascist regime uniting with the Germans and Emperor Hirohito’s attack on Pearl Harbor — had Americans ready when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of total war on the Axis powers. “Everyone was joining the[Read More…]
Bluefield residents recall math genius John Nash
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — An American genius, Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr., and his wife of 58 years, Alicia Larde Nash, were pronounced dead at the scene of a two vehicle wreck on Saturday afternoon on the New Jersey Turnpike. Last Tuesday, Nash had received the prestigious Abel Award in mathematics[Read More…]
Bluefield honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The Riley-Vest Post No. 9, American Legion continued an age-old tradition Monday by conducting a Memorial Day service to honor men and women in all branches of the U.S. military who made the supreme sacrifice, and gave their lives in defense of American freedom. “This is a[Read More…]
