CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Southern Gospel Music icon, West Virginia native, Squire Parsons died of a heart attack Monday. He was 77.
Parsons grew up in the Roane County community of Newton. He went to Spencer High School and then on to West Virginia Tech where he graduated with a degree in music in 1970.
Parsons taught school for a while at the same time beginning his ministry in Southern Gospel. He joined the West Virginia-based Calvarymen Quartet in 1969 and then became the baritone member of the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Small businesses in West Virginia continue to struggle to find workers as labor shortages persist, according to the the latest job report from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
The NFIB’s April report revealed that 34% of small business owners had job openings that they could not fill, the percentage is down from March but still the lowest since January 2021.
Gil White
Gil White, State Director of West Virginia at NFIB emphasized the struggles local

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Those who have graduated college and have loans in default will now have to begin repayment again after the five-year pause ended Monday, May 5th.
In April, the U.S. Department of Education announced that they would begin collecting on defaulted federal students’ loans, after not collecting on them since March 2020 due to COVID-19.
Associate Director of Operations for the office of Student Financial Assistance at Marshall University Kourtney Sandefur says that when students

INWOOD, W.Va. — A two-vehicle crash in south Berkeley County Monday afternoon injured three people. 
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office tells The Panhandle News Network deputies were called out at 4:41p.m. to the intersection of Rt. 51 (Middleway Pike) and Webber Springs Drive for a crash involving two vehicles.
There they found a brown F-150 truck on its roof off the road on the north side of Middleway Pike and a blue Subaru Impreza off the road to the south of the road. The 50 year old woman

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A person was injured in an early morning shooting in Huntington.
The victim walked into the Sheetz on 18th Street with a gunshot wound.
Huntington police and ambulance crews responded to the scene.
An investigation is underway.
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