Early Voting Runs Smoothly So Far
Early voting got off to a brisk start this week. More than 5,300 people cast ballots in West Virginia on the first day Wednesday. In Kanawha County, officials opened five other locations for voters....
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Discount Mammograms Offered at Clinics in May
The West Virginia University Cancer Institute is offering discount mammogram clinics next month. The mammography screening clinics will be held each Saturday in May at the Women’s Imaging Center in Martinsburg. The screenings will...
Airport’s New Canine Worker is Almost Finished with Training
So far so good for Hercules, the new canine worker at Yeager Airport. He’s in charge of chasing critters and birds and keeping them off the runways and taxiways. Yeager’s marketing director told board...
Justice’s mines miss safety gear deadline
Two of the three mines in the state that missed a deadline to install special safety gear are owned by Governor Justice. The Pay Car 57 and Pay Car 58 mines in McDowell County...
Manchin’s war chest is growing
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s fund raising efforts are going well. Recent election filings show he’s collected four-and-a-half-million dollars since the beginning of last year and has a war chest of over five-million-dollars to...
Pay raise for Marshall University faculty & staff
Marshall University faculty and staff are getting a three-percent raise. The school’s Board of Governors approved the budget yesterday. The salary increases are in addition to the two-percent raise in March. Marshall’s budget for...
Man arrested for breaking into a church
A Fayette County man is under arrest for breaking into a church. Twenty-five-year-old Earl Stone confessed to stealing and breaking into the Lookout Baptist Church Tuesday night. Stone is charged with breaking and entering...
Police release name of man who barraicaded himself in home
Officials have released the name of the man who barricaded himself in his home for several hours Tuesday. Twenty-six-year-old Morgan Hassig is facing charges related to the incident on Saddlehorn Road. Earlier that day...
Man charged with punching his mother
Huntington police have arrested a man for punching his mother and knocking her out. Twenty-year-old Justin Blankenship is charged with malicious assault and domestic violence. Police say it happened Monday, Blankenship hit his mother...
Man accused of stabbing girlfriend
A man accused of stabbing his girlfriend is in custody this morning. Forty-year-old John Paris got into an argument with his girlfriend at his home on Paint Creek Road in Hansford. He stabbed her...
