“You got me. I’ve been making moonshine,” Mullins reportedly said and gave the agents permission to search the residence where he made the alcohol.

And we now have to question whether continually pouring more money into it to keep it afloat during what is still seen as a long voyage is the right course.

You can’t dismiss this primary election as another dull, cut-and-dried affair for southern West Virginia voters.

This weekend initiates the benchmark experience for area students who’ve finally reached the top of their particular academic ladder.

Bob Graham feels a news media “lynch mob” encouraged federal prosecutors to tie a noose around his neck two years ago over his handling of the Council on Aging in Wyoming County.

The key to unlocking the doors to a job in the financially invigorated coal mining industry appears to start with a T — training.
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Staff and members of the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce have been busier than usual the past few weeks, and that’s a good thing for our area.

Hampshire County remains an enigma to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources in its campaign to track down and understand why Chronic Wasting Disease is haunting deer in that popular hunting region.

Machinery grinds and hums, moving in myriad directions across the expanse of a man-made flat mountaintop. Giant cranes lift concrete cell blocks in some locations and huge bundles of roofing materials in others. Craftsmen, skilled in a variety of building trades, move like ants through the maze of ongoing construction.