Beckley News

Beckley, Raleigh County , West Virginia Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Beckley Correctional Center.

A Charleston neurologist who prescribed hydrocodone more than any other doctor in the state in 2010 had been disciplined twice before by the West Virginia Board of Medicine.

Officials cut the ribbon in the afternoon to commemorate the building on Robert C. Byrd Drive, which is 10,000 square-feet larger than the former campus on South Oakwood Avenue.

More than 85,000 veterans were treated for this last year; 40-percent of them were men.

Cool Ridge-Flat Top board member Bill Baldwin says the PSD has financial problems and will soon need major upgrades.

Kids to Parks Day is a National Park Trust program to encourage youth to get outdoors.

MOUNTAIN STAGE WITH MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER: 7 p.m., Clay Center. Also features Shawn Colvin, Aoife O'Donovan, Marti Jones & Don Dixon and Ari Hest.

Dried flowers/wheat weaving; pottery; knitted items; adult apparel ; decorative painting on wood and/or metal; leather purses; jewelry ; candles ; stained glass; hand-blown glass; framed and/or matted calligraphy; handmade toys; and colorful metal sculptures.

South Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Bob Anderson says he saw Newton perform in Charleston three years ago and then began writing him.

Insurance companies will pay $600,000 to a former officer who sued the Sophia Police Department over claims he was harassed and fired because he is black, Mayor Danny Barr said Wednesday.

Jeff Morris Web Producer: Jeff Morris Reported: May. 14, 2013 5:18 PM EDT Updated: May.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Beckley Water Co. has lifted a boil-water advisory issued Monday for the lower portion of Maple Fork Road, 700 block of Sweeneysburg Road on down, Clear Fork Road and Vass Branch Road, including all adjacent streets.

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The parking lot of the Chuck Mathena Center in Princeton was absolutely packed with cars as the family and friends of the graduates of New River Community and Technical College gathered in Princeton for the college's 10th commencement exercises.

Saturday is an exciting day for families and faculty members at the University of Charleston Beckley as they watched students cross the stage for their diploma.

The annual gala benefit for Daymark Inc. starts at 6 p.m. May 18 at the Executive Air hangar on Airport Road.

Darrah Wilcox Web Producer: Jeff Morris Also Contributing: Associated Press Reported: May.

ANSTED, W.Va. Airplanes and helicopters will be flying at Hawks Nest State Park , Saturday May 18, but they will be the remote controlled kind.

Two prominent members of Pocahontas County's artist community were recently selected as new members of Tamarack in Beckley.

BECKLEY, W.Va. -- A California man who allegedly tried to extort $13 million from a West Virginia coal company executive is headed to court and expected to enter a plea.