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'A cause to fulfill': Logan town brings home volunteer fighter who died in Ukraine
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'A cause to fulfill': Logan town brings home volunteer fighter who died in Ukraine

  • By DYLAN VIDOVICH HD Media
  • Updated Mar 9, 2026

MAN — Former West Virginia National Guard Staff Sgt. Tyrone Bovorn Ramiscal Lamyaithong left the Mountain State last October to fight and die …

Joe Shelton, Kanawha County’s first chief magistrate, dies at age 86
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Joe Shelton, Kanawha County’s first chief magistrate, dies at age 86

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Mar 7, 2026

Joe Shelton, elected in 1976 as one of Kanawha County’s first magistrates after the West Virginia Judicial Reform Amendment of 1974 replaced t…

Former Spencer Newspapers owner David Hedges dies at 67
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Former Spencer Newspapers owner David Hedges dies at 67

  • Staff reports
  • Feb 3, 2026

David Jarrett Hedges, lifelong resident of Spencer, former owner of Spencer Newspapers and publisher of The Times Record and Roane County Repo…

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Former ag commissioner, long-time legislator Walt Helmick dies at 81
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Former ag commissioner, long-time legislator Walt Helmick dies at 81

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • Sep 10, 2025

Walt Helmick, a former high school welding instructor and small business owner who went on to a career in public office that included 22 years…

Visitation and funeral plans set for Doug Skaff Jr.
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Visitation and funeral plans set for Doug Skaff Jr.

  • Staff reports
  • Updated Jun 15, 2025

A public visitation and celebration of life event has been set for Doug Skaff Jr., who died in a vehicle crash on Tuesday.

Sister Carole Riley, co-founder, director of WV Institute for Spirituality, dead at 82
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Sister Carole Riley, co-founder, director of WV Institute for Spirituality, dead at 82

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Dec 31, 2025

Sister Carole A. Riley first laid eyes on Charleston from the driver’s seat of a truck that arrived here in 1977, carrying three other nuns an…

Hoppy Kercheval: Obituaries: a morbid fascination (Opinion)
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Hoppy Kercheval: Obituaries: a morbid fascination (Opinion)

  • Updated Sep 27, 2025

I read the obituaries regularly.

Jon McBride, veteran, governor candidate, state's first astronaut, dies at age 80
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Jon McBride, veteran, governor candidate, state's first astronaut, dies at age 80

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated Sep 14, 2025

Jon Andrew McBride, the Charleston-born Navy aviator who in 1984 piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on an eight-day, 133 orbit flight spanni…

In sports writing and politics, Danny Wells, who died Tuesday at 84, was 'one of a kind'

In sports writing and politics, Danny Wells, who died Tuesday at 84, was 'one of a kind'

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • May 24, 2024

Danny Wells, who wrote about the state of sports in West Virginia for 40 years for The Charleston Gazette before launching a 10-year-career in…

In sports writing and politics, Danny Wells, who died Tuesday at 84, was 'one of a kind'
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In sports writing and politics, Danny Wells, who died Tuesday at 84, was 'one of a kind'

  • By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com
  • Updated May 28, 2024

Danny Wells, who wrote about the state of sports in West Virginia for 40 years for The Charleston Gazette before launching a 10-year-career in…

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