As Sandy's Snow Buries W. Va. Town, 'Everybody Just Pitches In'
It's not easy to get around the back roads of West Virginia right now. Our four-wheel drive couldn't make it up the hill to David Arnold's place near Fayetteville, so he came down to get us in his...
View ArticleColorado Sends Help To Sandy Ravaged East Coast
East Coast power companies are struggling to restore power to millions of customers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and Xcel energy in Colorado is sending crews to help.
View ArticleSandwich Monday: Hail The Pepperoni Roll
When I left my home state of West Virginia and went away to college, I was surprised by a couple of things. One, that the rest of the world did not refer to a ski cap as a "toboggan," and two, that the...
View ArticleGas Explosion Blows Up Section Of West Virginia Interstate
West Virginia road crews are repairing Interstate Highway 77, about 15 miles north of Charleston after a tremendous explosion wrecked the road. No one was killed in the blast.Both the north and...
View ArticleNo Alarm Sounded When The West Virginia Pipeline Exploded
When the 20-inch gas pipeline next to Interstate 77 in West Virginia first ruptured on Tuesday, nobody at pipeline operator, Columbia Gas Transmission, knew it.Now, the National Transportation Safety...
View ArticleRockefeller's Exit May Test How Deep The Red Runs In W.Va.
The announcement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., that he will not seek a sixth term in 2014, would seem to give Republicans a big opening in a state that has gone deep red in recent presidential...
View ArticleMassey Mine Boss Sentenced; Feds Toughen Mine Safety Rule
Nearly three years after a deadly mine explosion in West Virginia, a former Massey Energy mine superintendent has been sentenced to prison and federal regulators have toughened a regulation that could...
View ArticleReport: W.Va. Fails To Enforce New Regs Designed To Prevent Mine Explosions
Ken Ward at The Charleston Gazette has a story worth reading about West Virginia's failure to enforce new coal mine dust standards prompted by the deadly explosion three years ago at Massey Energy's...
View ArticleWalking Enthusiasts To Retrace Steps Of 1963 Kennedy March
Fifty years ago this Saturday, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy went for a walk — a 50-mile walk, to be exact — trudging through snow and slush from just outside Washington, D.C., all the way to...
View ArticleFormer Massey CEO Accused Of Conspiracy In Court Hearing
A relatively routine plea hearing in Beckley, W.Va, Thursday, took an unexpected and dramatic turn when a former Massey Energy executive implicated former CEO Don Blankenship in a criminal...
View ArticleCitizens Of Nitro, W.V., Watch Town's Bridge Blow Up
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View ArticleStar Of MTV's 'Buckwild' Found Dead
One of the stars of the MTV reality show Buckwild was found dead Monday in an SUV along with his uncle and a third, as-yet-unidentified person, the Kanawha County, W.Va., Sheriff's Office said.The...
View Article'Buckwild' Star Died Of Accidental Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
We told you on Monday about the death of one of the stars of the MTV reality show Buckwild. The Kanawha County, W.Va., Sheriff's Office said there were no signs of foul play in the death of Shain...
View ArticleWest Virginia Sheriff Shot, Killed Near County Courthouse
Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot and killed on Wednesday as he ate his lunch inside his vehicle.The Charleston Gazette quotes one eyewitness as saying he saw a man pull up to Crum's car and...
View ArticleStruggling W.Va. Town Hopes Boy Scout Camp Brings New Life
Picture a tiny town set along a creek in West Virginia. A mountain rises from the town's eastern edge, overlooking the 1,400 people living below. Then, July comes — and 50,000 people arrive on that...
View ArticleIn The Land Of Wild Ramps, It's Festival Time
Springtime in Appalachia means ramp festival season. But even as ramp festivals attract record numbers of people seeking a fleeting taste of the seasonal garlic-scented greens, scientists warn that...
View ArticleDoctors Confirm Black Lung In Victims Of Mine Blast
The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a massive explosion in 2010 have provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung.On Monday, a team of pathologists and lung disease...
View ArticleSandwich Monday: The Politician
The Sandwich Monday crew is out of the office today, at a staff retreat where they're probably going to make us exercise.
View ArticleWest Virginia's Birthday Recalls A State Born Of Civil War
One hundred and fifty years ago this week, West Virginia became the 35th state in the union.Born in in 1863, the middle of the Civil War, the state was created by patriots who didn't want to join the...
View ArticleFish Return To A Mining County River
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. This summer, we've been telling stories about comebacks -...
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