Huntington Metro News

Crowded conditions and low morale at one of two state-run psychiatric hospitals has prompted workers to make their frustrations public.

Huntington police say a Putnam County man has died after swallowing a package suspected to be heroin during a traffic stop.

Fourteen new buses will be coming to the Tri-state Transit Authority thanks to Senator Robert C. Byrd.

A Putnam County ambulance collided with a vehicle on W.Va. 34, sending several people to the hospital.

Local News in Brief: Road work locations noted July 12, 2008 ASHLAND COUNTY Ohio 97 will close near Mohican Ohio 97, between the Mohican-Memorial State Park Entrance and Township Road 3234 in Hanover Township, ...

Charleston, W.Va. -- The buzz around Marshall University in the U.S. state of West Virginia this week will be about the importance of honeybees.

One of two state-run psychiatric hospitals is badly overcrowded and understaffed, according to a new report, and an oversight agency wants the problem fixed within 90 days.

Despite the failures of levees in the Midwest this summer and in New Orleans in 2005, the series of floodwalls and levees that protect Ashland, Catlettsburg, Huntington, Ironton and local communities from the ...

Boston Beanery Restaurant and Tavern has closed its doors after a three-year run in Ashland.

A state law eliminating most township assessors technically takes effect today, but it'll be business as usual for assessors in Allen County.

COLUMBUS - Two deserters from the U.S. Army were captured in Columbus late Friday and were charged with the slaying of an ex-Columbus pastor.

Reverend Mark McCalla was recently murdered at a shooting range at a West Virginia state park, near Huntington.

Two people are being sought in the shooting death of a Huntington minister at a firing range.

"Baseball is about having fun." With those introductory words from camp director Mike Wagner, the 15th annual Cincinnati Reds Legends youth clinic got under way at the Marietta VFW baseball field at 9:30 a.m. ...

WAVERLY - Emergency medical services members of ABLE medical transport are used to responding to emergencies for injured people, but Thursday it was a rare hawk that needed assistance.

Authorities are investigating the death of a former Ohio minister whose body was found at a West Virginia state park shooting range.

Governor Mitch Daniels received word Thursday afternoon that President George W. Bush has approved seven more counties for individual federal assistance.

One of the nation's largest theatre chains will construct a 12-screen stadium seating theatre at the Huntington Mall.

Persistent overcrowding at West Virginia's two acute care psychiatric hospitals costs the state millions of dollars a year, and has prompted some policymakers to consider a third facility.

AFTER EUGENE BLAKE'S PAROLE FROM PRISON ? March 7, 1979 - ' Blake is released from prison and moves to Morgantown, where he works first at the Holiday Inn, Morgan Manor and then as a city of Morgantown ...