Ex-Freedom Industries Officials Charged Over Elk River Spill
Federal prosecutors also announced separate charges today against two other people, a plant manager and environmental consultant, for violating the federal Clean Water Act. The leak from one of...
View ArticleHuntington Sanitary Board Recomends Accepting Two Project Bids
Members of the Huntington Sanitary Board recommend unanimously that City Council approve two contracts totaling over $3.4 million dollars. The contracts to be awarded to Pipe Plus , Nitro, WV replaces...
View ArticleAPNewsBreak: Company with chemical spill ties cited 8 times
In this Jan. 9, 2015 photo, the Lexycon LLC Lex Blend facility is shown in Nitro, W.Va.
View ArticleFreedom Industries Successor Expanded Nitro Tank Storage without Permits or...
Lexycon, L.L.C. has failed to obtain permission from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection before restarting activities on this site, which as Poca Blending/Freedom Industries had...
View ArticleHuntington Council Passes Near Emergency Watste Treatment Plant Line Repairs
Huntington City Council has passed near "emergency" bond funding for inffluent and effluent lines at the Huntington Wastewater Treatment Plant in Westmoreland. Pipe Plus of Nitro, WV will be awarded...
View ArticleMSAC denies bids for schools to leave
MSAC principals last Wednesday voted down a request by league members Nitro, Parkersburg, Princeton, Ripley and Woodrow Wilson to leave the league. Those schools needed at least seven of the remaining...
View ArticleAnswering the pastoral call, despite terminal cancer
Clergy in her family and at her church supported Shelly Nichols as she faced cancer and became a pastor. From left, the Rev.
View ArticleNew tourism director hired
A graduate of West Virginia State University and Marshall University, Pruett has 17 years of grant-writing experience and more than four years in tourism related fields. From January 2012-May 2013, she...
View ArticleElkins opens water plant bids
Contractors and city officials gathered in the upstairs conference room of the Elkins Fire Department Tuesday as bids were opened for the estimated $31 million Elkins water plant project.
View ArticleEarly morning crashes close lanes on I-64 for an hour
The original call was for a crash involving two vehicles near the on-ramp of the interchange. When a Nitro police officer responded, another vehicle apparently hydroplaned and struck the officer's...
View ArticleRemote camera leads to quick arrests in Putnam County
A security system at a remote home in Putnam County is credited with helping thwart two burglars during a Thursday morning break in. Deputies were dispatched to the home on Bowles Ridge Road near the...
View ArticlePoint discusses retaining police officers
Veith's last day is June 14. Veith had recently completed training with Jerry, the PPPD's new K9, which was purchased entirely with grant money and donations to the PPPD to establish a new K9 unit in...
View ArticleThree Historic Portrayals scheduled at Watoga State Park in 2015:...
--> Three Historic Portrayals scheduled at Watoga State Park in 2015: Ostenaco, Porte Crayon and Sacagawea ns4 = ? West Virginia - The West Virginia Humanities Council's History Alive! State Park in...
View ArticlePrecautionary Boil Water Advisory Lifted for All Customers West of...
West Virginia American Water has lifted a precautionary boil water advisory for all customers west of Dunbar in the company's Kanawha Valley system following a break on a 36-inch transmission main in...
View ArticleCrews are responding to another leak on a large water transmission main in...
Crews are currently working to re-excavate the main and determine the issue. Estimated time for repairs cannot yet be determined. Customers west of the repair site in Dunbar, St. Albans, Nitro,...
View ArticleWater Restored to More than 95 Percent of Customers
Customers in the highest elevations of Putnam County, including Red House, Grandview, Crooked Ridge and Rt. A precautionary boil water advisory remains in effect for any customers in the following...
View ArticlePutnam man free after second DUI in a day
His pickup truck also had damage which corresponded to the accident. Sorsaia said it's not the first time he's dealt with such a situation. He said it's rare, but it does happen and when it does it...
View ArticleRestrictive police chase policies
Are killed every year in police chases, and some law enforcement agencies now take a more restrictive approach to pursuits. The Tri-State was reminded of the dangers last week when a Hanging Rock,...
View ArticleTwo plead guilty to federal oxymorphone charges
Bridgette Kelly previously entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute oxymorphone and is schedule to be sentenced on September 14, 2015. Russell is set to be sentenced on December 7, 2015....
View ArticleTwo morning accidents cause morning delays in Kanawha Valley
-- A Kanawha County man is hospitalized in critical condition after he was struck by a car this morning on a busy highway in Charleston. Route 1119 near Trace Fork South of Charleston this morning when...
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