Pete Rose's reinstatement to baseball rejected
By By Joe Kay The Associated Press CINCINNATI - Pete Rose's application for reinstatement to baseball was rejected Monday by Commissioner Rob Manfred, who concluded the career hits leader continued to...
View ArticleViewers' Guide: Spotlight on Trump, Cruz, at GOP debate
By By LAURIE KELLMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The nine leading Republican candidates for president are meeting for their first debate in more than a month in the shadow of terrorist...
View ArticleAround WV: Dec. 15, 2015
By Erin Beck In Around West Virginia: Mount Hope Police shoot and kill a man, West Virginia ranks first for tobacco use but in the middle of the pack on tobacco prevention spending, and more. n Mount...
View ArticleWest Virginia AG, feds partner on illegal drug crackdowns
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is teaming up with federal prosecutors to enhance illegal drug crackdowns and education in northern West Virginia.Morrisey and...
View ArticleAmerican Public University System looking for new president
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) - American Public University System is looking for a new president.President and CEO Wallace E. Boston says he plans to step down after a successor is found in order to focus...
View ArticleBoard issues guidelines to reduce opioid prescription misuse
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Hospital Association Board of Trustees has endorsed a set of guidelines to help West Virginia's hospitals reduce the misuse of opioid prescription...
View ArticleEx-Marshall medical school dean dies at 96
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Former Marshall University medical school dean Dr. Robert W. Coon has died. He was 96.Marshall said Monday in a statement that Coon died Saturday in Burlington, Vermont.Coon...
View ArticleBridgeport to impose local sales tax under home rule
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (AP) - Bridgeport's City Council has approved a 1 percent local sales tax to finance construction and operation of a proposed indoor recreation facility.The new tax will go into...
View ArticleMount Hope police fatally shoot man who brandished gun
By Erin Beck Mount Hope police shot and killed a man on Monday night, according to State Police.The man allegedly brandished a gun "in the direction of the approaching officers," said Cpl. J.E....
View ArticleBirth certificates being revised for same-sex couples' kids
By Erin Beck Same-sex couples are able to get married and adopt a child together, but when they request a birth certificate for an adopted child in West Virginia, they still feel a sense of...
View ArticleJoyce Null Hill
Joyce Null Hill, 79, of Belle, passed away peacefully to go home to be with her children, Harry Jr., Alice, Larry and Robert Allen.Also preceding her in death were her parents, Brady and Dorothy...
View ArticleLeo Friend Gibbs
Leo Friend Gibbs, 88, of New Haven, passed away Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 at home following an extended illness.He was born April 16, 1927 in Hartford, a son of the late Arthur Elijah and Hazel (Lewis)...
View ArticleDoris Louise Frye
Doris Louise Zimmerman Frye, 88, of Hamlin, died Dec. 14, 2015. Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at Miller Cemetery, Sweetland. Arrangements by Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin.
View ArticleJames Arthur Chapman
James Arthur "Chapy" Chapman, 73, of Summersville, passed away Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Born Feb. 1, 1942 in Fenwick, he was a son of the late William Everett and Oretta Collins...
View ArticleChase Hoyt Burford
Chase Hoyt Burford, 18, of Sissonville, went home to be with the Lord on Dec. 13, 2015.Chase was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, Denver and Lola Casdorph and Hoyt P. Burford;...
View ArticleCharlotte Boyd-Chambers-Ross
Charlotte Boyd-Chambers-Ross, 93, of San Bernardino, Calif., formerly of Elkview, passed away Thursday, Dec. 10, at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fresno, Calif., after a brief illness. Barlow...
View ArticleEthel M. Barnett
Ethel Marie Sizemore Barnett, 84, of Mammoth, fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 at home surrounded by her family.She was preceded in death by her husbands, Everett Tink Sizemore and...
View ArticleWalter J. Anderson
Walter Junior Anderson, 92, of Gassaway, died Dec. 13, 2015. Service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16, at Richard M. Roach Funeral Home, Gassaway, with visitation two hours prior.
View ArticleJo Anderson
Jo Anderson, 83, of South Charleston, died Dec. 12, 2015 at Hubbard Hospice House, Charleston.Jo was a charter member of Bethel Baptist Church, South Charleston, where she had been very active through...
View ArticleFunerals for: December 15, 2015
Bailey, Tissie 2 p.m., Rock Branch Independent Church, Cross Lanes.Collins, Russell 11 a.m., Green Hill Cemetery, Union.Frye, Doris L. 11 a.m., Miller Cemetery, Sweetland.Giles, Paul 2 p.m.,...
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