The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. FORMER PANAMA DICTATOR MANUEL NORIEGA DIES AT 83 The onetime U.S. ally, ousted as Panama’s[Read More…]
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Photo exhibit shares wartime memories of Mel Grubb
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — When people look at the World II photo of a young man holding a monkey, the man who took it likes to say, “I’m the one on the right.” The Those Who Served War Museum in Princeton is honoring Memorial Day[Read More…]
Veterans attend Memorial Day Cookout at Parkersburg’s City Park
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Many area veterans came out to a special picnic Sunday in Parkersburg to spend time with other veterans remembering their service and those with whom they served. Around 200 people attended the ninth annual Memorial Day Cookout to honor[Read More…]
Hancock County bridge named for local Marine in Weirton
By SUMMER WALLACE-MINGER The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WEIRTON, W.Va. — Marine Cpl. Mark Cool was 19 when he was injured in the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam on Feb. 27, 1968, and died three days later in Okinawa, Japan. Almost 40 years later, the Colliers Way Bridge, near[Read More…]
Muslim civil rights organization to open WV affiliate
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization plans to open a satellite office in West Virginia. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is currently seeking an executive director for a West Virginia office. CAIR works to protect the civil rights of Muslim Americans[Read More…]
Appalachian Power adapts battery to help regional power grid
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An electric substation under construction in eastern Cabell County means a battery installation will find its third purpose in life. Instead of preventing power fluctuations in a limited area or providing backup power when a transmission line goes down, the 2-megawatt[Read More…]
Frontier Communications announces enhanced broadband network extension in WV
Investment to improve connectivity for 134,000 Households Release from Frontier Communications: CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Frontier Communications is making enhanced broadband service available to previously unserved residents throughout West Virginia. Elena Kilpatrick, Frontier Senior Vice President of Operations, has announced that connected communities in 35 counties now may access increased[Read More…]
Lauttamus announces expansion, new location
Release from Lauttamus Communications WEIRTON, W.Va. — Lauttamus Communications & Security has announced a major expansion to better serve customers in Western Pennsylvania and North Central West Virginia. Lauttamus, headquarters in Weirton, outgrew its previous business location in Pennsylvania and will now be operating out of a new facility at 29 Noblestown Road in Carnegie,[Read More…]
Census: Huntington still 2nd-largest WV city
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON – Huntington maintained its status as the second-largest city in the state in 2016, despite losing population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimate released Thursday. The data showed Huntington had a population estimated at 48,113 people as of July 1, 2016. That[Read More…]
Blankenship files promised US Supreme Court appeal
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an appeal of his criminal mine safety conviction, arguing that two lower courts got the law wrong in the case and alleging again that he[Read More…]