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On Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice declared a State of Emergency for McDowell County after July 12 thunderstorms resulted in excessive rainfall, causing significant flooding that damaged more than 75 homes, approximately a dozen bridges, and numerous roads throughout the county.

Vote canvassing resulted in a tie among two commission candidates in Mullens, but no changes resulted in Oceana or Pineville election outcomes.

Mullens municipal pool could be open this summer, depending on the delivery date of construction materials, according to Barry Smith, City of …

From carnival rides to live entertainment, Mullens’ annual Dogwood Festival gets underway Wednesday, April 27, and concludes Saturday, April 3…

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Assassinated President John F. Kennedy famously said life is unfair in remarks on the inequities of who goes to war and who doesn’t during a 1962 reference to the emerging Vietnam conflict.

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Thich Nhat Hanh, a humble but deeply powerful Buddhist monk from Vietnam, died on Saturday at 95.  Most people in the U.S. will never have heard of him.

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If Mark Zuckerberg seems irritable, he has good reason. His Facebook Empire is facing a digital scandal provoked by a former employee turned whistleblower.

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When I was a boy in California in the 1960s, my family was pretty much the only family I knew that ate bagels. That’s probably because we were Jewish and bagels are a Jewish thing.