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West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
The Register-Herald is a six-day morning daily newspaper, Monday through Friday, with a weekend edition delivered on Saturday mornings. It is based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States. It also covers surrounding communities in Fayette, Greenbrier, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties, West Virginia. It has a circulation of 19,237 and is ...
Alcona County Herald: On March 10, 1910, the newspaper changed its name to the Alcona County Herald, with Rola E. Prescott as the publisher. Interestingly, it was the only country weekly in the United States to have its own cartoonist, providing readers with lively cartoons on county subjects in every issue.
The former police chief of a small West Virginia town is facing over a decade in prison after he was found guilty of sex trafficking an underage girl, federal prosecutors said.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has vacated part of a finding that cleared five West Virginia police officers on qualified immunity grounds in an excessive force lawsuit, which ...
Snyder was charged with burglary and resisting arrest. Snyder was held at the jail awaiting transportation to another institution, and reportedly complained of chest pains. He was transported to a hospital and suffered from cardiac arrest, according to South Strand News. Jail or Agency: Georgetown County Jail; State: South Carolina
Logan County has been notorious for over a century for political machines that control virtually all aspects of elected office. Allies of candidate John F. Kennedy once famously asked local political boss Raymond Chafin how much money he wanted so that Kennedy could carry southern West Virginia in the 1960 presidential election, and Chafin replied "thirty five," meaning $3,500.
The 1976 Mason County jail bombing was a suicide bombing that took place at the Mason County Courthouse in Point Pleasant, West Virginia on March 2, 1976. Five people, including two perpetrators and three law enforcement officers, were killed in the attack, and a further 11 people were injured.