Day: June 29, 2016 Archives


WednesdayJune 29, 2016

Should NCAA allow undrafted underclassmen back into school?

Bill Self favors giving players “an extra protection layer” in case reality swats them down on draft night. But some players can't be protected from their own inflated sense of self.

Victim of fatal rollover crash on I-79 in Elkview identified

44-year-old Jimmy Gross of Sutton lost control of his pickup truck late Tuesday night.

Country star Brad Paisley pitches in to help his home state following flood

Paisley has set up a GoFundMe account, donating $100,000 to victims.

Greenbrier County rescue teams still searching for 14-year-old girl

Mykala Phillips slipped away from her two siblings during last weeks flooding after they tried to tie themselves together and get to safety by busting through a window of the house.

Kanawha Commission allocates emergency flood relief funding

Roughly $105,000 was taken from $500,000 set aside from the county rainy day fund to help Clendenin area.

Highway damage from floods at $16 million

Transportation secretary says longer stretches of highways were impacted in 1985 flood.

Belva residents ponder future after Gauley River floods small Nicholas Co. community

"There was no way out of it," Melissa Johnston said. "The closest thing we could find was higher ground."

DNR officer warns of looting in the wake of flood cleanup

In the wake of devastating flooding, there are some who are using the crisis to take advantage of those who suffered damage.

Stranger gives flood victim shoes off her feet

Ruby Hackney, 89, lost everything inside her Clendenin home during Thursday's storm.

Pocahontas County, Webster County added to Federal Disaster Declaration

Focus shifts to flood debris removal in storm-damaged counties.

Video: flood damage in Clay County significant

Residents of Clay, Procious and other communities lost much.

Video: a walk through a flooded mobile home in Roane County

77-year-old woman loses everything in flash flood.

MetroNews to stream ‘Rebuild West Virginia’ telethon to benefit flood relief efforts

The special program will be available on the MetroNews Channel Friday from 7-9 p.m.

Red Cross says relief effort is “massive operation”

Volunteers are maintaining shelter locations, delivering food, receiving donations and distributing necessities.

Flood victims leave impression on Herd players

Members of Marshall's football team were amazed with West Virginia's resolve in the face of tragedy.

National education leaders giving money for supplies at flooded West Virginia schools

Dale Lee, president of West Virginia Education Association, said it's the start of what will be a larger effort to help resupply flooded schools ahead of the beginning of the new school year in August.

Patience pays for Mekayla Dye

Anyone who has hunted knows that situations change quickly in the woods.  This past spring, Mekayla Dye learned that lesson while turkey hunting.  Brothers of the Woods Outdoors takes us along as Mekayla and her father Darren display tremendous patience to harvest a beautiful gobbler. 

Loving thy neighbor

Tragedy has a way of recalibrating priorities. When something really bad happens today, the stuff that worried us so much yesterday tends to dissipate.  We become focused on what must be done and, hopefully, get to it. Since the horrific flooding last week, West Virginians have turned a laser-like attention on rescue and recovery. Folks