May 12, 2013

PETERSBURG – Fifty years ago, West Virginia fisheries officials sprang a surprise on the state’s trout fishermen. In addition to the usual rainbow, brown and brook trout, hatchery crews stocked a fish that anglers had never seen before – a pale yellow trout with a faint pink stripe down its side. To honor the 100th anniversary of West...

Mar 25, 2013

SENECA ROCKS, W.Va. — It is hard to miss Seneca Rocks. It is a giant slab of bare white sandstone with sheer cliffs, towering 900 feet above the surrounding valley in the Allegheny Mountains in eastern West Virginia. With its razorback ridges and fins, it is one of the most impressive and most visited natural landmarks in West Virginia. The spectacular...

Mar 20, 2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The luck of the Irish was apparently with Whitey, the male half of a New River Gorge nesting bald eagle pair, who was struck by an Amtrak passenger train on St. Patrick’s Day and presumed dead — until he was seen perched on a tree near his nest early Wednesday morning. “I think it was the best sight I’ve seen in...

Mar 17, 2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — I have long been a fan of wines made from grapes grown in the Sierra foothills of California, particularly bottles produced from vineyards in Amador County. The Sierra Foothills American Viticultural Area is made up of five counties in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe and about two hours east...

Mar 2, 2013

SEFFNER, Fla. — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground. Jeff Bush, 37, was in his bedroom Thursday night when the earth opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five other...

Feb 14, 2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Motown legend Smokey Robinson comes to Huntington’s Keith Albee Performing Arts Center, 925 Fourth Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who has also earned the Grammy Living Legend Award, founded Berry Gordy’s first vocal group, The Miracles, while still in high school, and the group’s...

Feb 1, 2013

RAND, W.Va. — Randy Moss’ hometown is capitalizing on the San Francisco 49ers wide receivers’ longtime reference to fictitious alma mater “Rand University.” Moss, who will play in Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens, grew up in a single-parent home with three siblings in Rand, located six miles from the state...