PART I. Nine Minutes in Weirton The dispatcher for the Weirton Police Department took the 911 call at 2:51 a.m. on May 6, 2016. “Please send somebody to 119 Marie Ave., Weirton, West Virginia, right now,” a woman said. She sounded young and scared. “Please right now. Please right now.” […]
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And Rob Byers is out of a job. Two days after graduating from West Virginia University in 1991, Rob Byers joined the Charleston Gazette as a full-time reporter in the state’s capital. He and his girlfriend had just put down a security deposit and first month’s rent on a house. […]
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This article was originally published on Coal Tattoo, a blog by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. We certainly wrote a lot about it at the time she said it. That quote from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that was so taken out of context by the coal industry, Trump supporters and West […]
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