When a new baby arrives, families child-proof their homes and continue to adjust safety measures and rules for children as they grow older. It’s just common sense. But sometimes doing the same for our vehicles can become an afterthought (or just one more expense that feels easier to ...
* Waylon Hayes, 7, of Belpre, should be very proud of himself, after having received the Youth Hero Award from the American Legion Auxiliary. Hayes, who was 6 at the time, calmly called 911 and the contacts on his mother’s phone to let them know his mother had an epileptic seizure. He even ...
It’s hard to understand what the lawmakers who rode into office boasting of their aim to “right size” state government were thinking when they decided to turn the Department of Health and Human Resources into three new agencies (four if you count the Office of Shared Administration that ...
Across the region, school districts are under siege this week. In Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, threats are being received — and some of them are dealing with real incidents. Reports from multiple media outlets suggest there has been a wave of such threats and frightening situations ...
West Virginia’s myriad challenges — poverty, substance abuse and unevenly distributed resources, to name a few — have been affecting our children for generations. Measures in place to mitigate the damage done to those who will forge our future are facing their own challenges. As the need ...
Last week, we lost another West Virginia coal miner. Though his home was in South Williamson, Ky., Gary Chapman did his work at the Mountaineer II Mine near Sharples, W.Va. He is the fourth coal miner to have died on the job in West Virginia just this year. That is half the national total for ...
