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By Darst, Paul With increasing ticket prices, extra charges for checking bags and flight delays, flying can be a challenge these days. And keeping air service at the relatively small airports in a rural state like West Virginia can be a challenge for leaders, said Susan Chernenko, executive director of the West Virginia Aeronautics Commission. "I don't know of anything we can do except keep an open dialogue," she said. "In a small state, we're more negatively affected (by airline industry...
By George Hohmann Verizon Wireless is about to become a lot more visible. In February 2007 the company bought West Virginia Wireless, a small operator with a network that extended along the Interstate 64 corridor from Charleston to Huntington. Since then Verizon Wireless has been working to upgrade and expand the system. It plans to launch wireless service in the area in the early fall. The company's presence will become more apparent starting next week. On Aug. 1 existing West Virginia...
By George Hohmann, Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va. Jul. 24--Verizon Wireless is about to become a lot more visible. In February 2007 the company bought West Virginia Wireless, a small operator with a network that extended along the Interstate 64 corridor from Charleston to Huntington. Since then Verizon Wireless has been working to upgrade and expand the system. It plans to launch wireless service in the area in the early fall. The company's presence will become more apparent starting...
HUNTINGTON - Union workers at a state-run psychiatric hospital say they are overworked and underpaid. More than a dozen West Virginia Public Workers Union members protested outside Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital on Friday afternoon. The protest came after a June report by the state ombudsman for behavioral health calling the hospital "an accident waiting to happen." The report recommended reducing the number of patients to the hospital's 90-bed capacity. It routinely houses up to 120...
Today the law firms of Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca and The Dominion Law Center filed a lawsuit under the Virginia Constitution against Fairfax County and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDoT) on behalf of over 100 residents of Fairfax County's Huntington neighborhood for $20 million in compensation for damages caused by the massive flood of Cameron Run on June 25, 2006. In the 2006 Flood, the flow depth of Cameron Run jumped more than seven...
A Columbus, Ohio-based bank said a survey of elementary, middle and high school students suggests many young people underestimate the cost of school supplies. Huntington Bank said its online survey of 600 students located in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia found nearly 40 percent of respondents thought parents spend less than $200 per child on school-related costs while more than half put the number at less than $300. Huntington estimated that parents tend to spend...
By Mannix Porterfield, The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. Jul. 2--Law and order must prevail in Raleigh County's first-ever all-terrain vehicle trail, so the two leading officials at Burning Rock are being designated as conservators of the peace. Which means, in essence, that director Bryan Helmer and his assistant, Robbie Hatfield, may exercise full arrest powers within the 8,000-acre expanse, in case ATV riders or someone accompanying them gets out of line. "Not at all," Commission...
HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of patients who rely on Community and Mission Hospital of Huntington Park's Mission campus for medical services will be forced to go elsewhere as the facility shuts its doors. The hospital will shut down the Pediatric and Obstetrical Departments at Mission. No new patients will be admitted and about 100 workers will be transferred or terminated. Mission shut down its urgent care operations last year. The Huntington Park...
Researchers at the University of Leeds say they have made a major breakthrough in the understanding and potential treatment of Huntington's disease. The researchers discovered that one of the body's naturally occurring proteins prevents 57 genes from operating normally in the brains of Huntington's sufferers. In addition, the destructive nature of the protein could potentially be halted using drugs that are already being used to treat cancer, reported the study published in the Journal of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities evacuated the terminal at Tri-State Airport in Huntington, West Virginia, on Thursday after a test on two plastic containers carried by a female passenger showed a possible explosive, the airport's director told CNN. Airport director Larry Salyers told the network that security screeners had detected material in the containers that indicated "it very well could be a bomb." The passenger was detained by the FBI and being questioned, he said. Testing...
