Marion News

A West Virginia man listed as a fugitive by authorities has been indicted on two sex crimes by a Winchester Circuit Court grand jury.

More than two years after the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Marion recorded at least nine deaths attributed to substandard care, lingering problems have been noted MARION, Ill.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has ordered a high-level quality management team to assess problems at the troubled VA hospital in Marion.

A report out this week says there are still problems at the Marion V-A two years after major surgeries were halted because of a string of deaths attributed to poor care.

An army veteran who police say threatened a shooting rampage at the Marion VA hospital has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

A new report from the inspector general in the Department of Veterans Affairs finds that the VA Medical Center in Marion, Ill., continues to be plagued by quality management and patient care problems some two years after a suspicious spike in the number of post-surgical patient deaths there.

A new report says the long-scrutinized Marion VA Medical Center continues to come up short on patient care.

A new government report is critical of the way the Marion VA Hospital is being run.

Though she was only a child in Marion, Va., Alta Felty remembers well the start of the Great Depression.

Song of the Mountains will present three award winning bluegrass bands at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia on Saturday, November 7th at 7:00 pm.

Friday's forecast called for rain, but sun shone abundantly through a deep blue sky on a late-morning gathering in front of the main Blue Ridge Job Corps building.

Two bridges carrying motorists across Bear Creek on Route 617, or Flowing Springs Road, and Route 622, or Bear Creek Road, are among the five in Smyth County set for repairs paid for with stimulus dollars.

Distribution of the H1N1 vaccine has been slow going across the nation. Here in our region only a handful of county health departments have the vaccine so far.

The Marion Town Council is mourning the loss of one of its members while a family is grieving from a second sudden death in a matter of months.

Announcement : Bluegrass On The Mountain November 7th BMNN wrote: on Oct. 20, 2009: Song of the Mountains, hosted by Tim White, will feature the award winning bluegrass music greats Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out and Williams & Clark expedition for their program which will be taped on November 7th.

Northrup Grumman, the state's beleaguered information technology vendor contracted under the Gov.

A group opposed to the current healthcare reform legislation will conduct a bus tour through Southwest Virginia on Thursday.

A 29-year-old Shawneetown man faces federal weapons charges for allegedly bringing a handgun onto Marion Veterans Affairs Hospital grounds Friday.

A Shawneetown man is facing federal charges after bringing a gun onto the grounds of the Marion VA Hospital early Friday.

John Graham will be the Smyth County Democratic Party nominee on the Jan. 12 ballot for the special called election to fill the office of clerk of the Smyth County Circuit Court, according to party chairman Richard Walker.