International Film Festival Returns To Charleston After Multi-Year Hiatus
The festival will screen films Saturday and Sunday at the Park Place Cinemas and the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema.
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Body Of Missing Miner Located In Nicholas County Mine
A two-man rescue team found the body of mine foreman Steve Lipscomb, 42, of Elkview, in the Rolling Thunder coal mine in Nicholas County Thursday morning. An around the clock search and rescue operation has been in motion since Saturday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEPA Administrator Tours W.Va. For Look At Energy
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin met with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Gov. Patrick Morrisey. Following a roundtable discussion, Capito indicated they planned to give Zeldin a tour around the Toyota Plant in Buffalo, the John Amos Power Plant and the construction site for the Nucor steel plant in Mason County.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsForest Fire In Monongahela National Forest Largely Contained
The Woodside Fire started Nov. 5 on private property in Pendleton County before spreading to 70 acres in the Monongahela National Forest.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsRepairing Mitchell Plant Is Too Costly For Kentucky Power Customers, Expert Says
The Kentucky Public Service Commission should reject Kentucky Power’s plan to keep its half of the Mitchell plant past 2028 according to Devi Glick, an energy analyst with Synapse Energy Economics said.
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Miner Still Missing In Flooded Mine, Divers Aiding Search
Miners hit a previously unknown pocket of water inside the Rolling Thunder Mine in Drennen, West Virginia Saturday. Working miners escaped the flooding mine, but one did not make it out.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA Flood Inside A Coal Mine Has Trapped A Coal Miner Inside
Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.
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