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Kingsport Times-News: Coeburn man receives Vietnam War medals
The Army awarded Kiser a Bronze Star with “V” for valor along with a Purple Heart. Before the end of his tour of duty in 1968, Kiser earned three more Purple Hearts, an Army Air Medal, an Army commendation medal for heroism, and an assortment of other chest hardware he didn’t seek but certainly deserved. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Man convicted of fatally shooting co-worker in Wise
On March 31 of last year, Larry Leon 'Snake' Fields and the victim were at work together at Deer Builders, located behind the Dominion Virginia Power Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in St. Paul. The shooting incident in the parking lot was captured of security camera footage. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Virginia council recommends MECC ‘smart farming’ funding
The GO Virginia funding request will support Mountain Empire Community College and its partners to establish the smart farming program with a focus on using drone technology for agricultural purposes, and enable the college to expand its unmanned systems program. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Virginia digs out
Main roads and interstates may be clear but secondary and rural routes are still snow covered, hazardous and in many cases impassable. The VSP said the majority of vehicles getting stuck are on seconary roads and neighborhood entrances. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: The day Mr. Bush stopped by
The recent death of former President George H.W. Bush had Times News Staff Writer Stephen Igo reminiscing about the day 30 years ago when he got to spend a little time with Bush, who was then vice president of the United States. While campaigning for president that year, Bush stopped in Kingsport to visit the house where his parents lived briefly in 1922. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Town of Appalachia is region’s first inclusion in new mural trail
The hills are alive with visual arts as well as traditional mountain music, and one of this region’s mural artists has brought the town of Appalachia into the North Carolina-based Appalachian Mural Trail fold. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Red Onion officer stabbed, another injured
POUND — A corrections officer was stabbed multiple times by an inmate at Red Onion State Prison in Wise County early Sunday, and another was injured while subduing the attacker, the → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Rescue Fund: Big Stone Gap man gets by with help from his buddies
The Times News Rescue Fund aims to provide some of the region’s neediest residents with extra food for Christmas. The fund is dependent on the generosity of Times News readers, and no gift is too small. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Ballad Health events for Virginia Medicaid enrollment
Ballad Health launched a series of free informational and enrollment events on Tuesday at affiliated medical facilities in Southwest Virginia to help people find out if they qualify for Medicaid and assist them in applying for coverage. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Three killed in Wise County crash
The Virginia State Police reports a 2006 Toyota Sienna was traveling south when it ran off the left side of the highway into the median, striking a culvert and overturning several times as it cross into the northbound lanes of U.S. 23. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Operation Appalachian Action results in drug charges against 30
APPALACHIA — Following a 15-month investigation, authorities on Thursday pulled the trigger on a mass drug roundup targeting 30 individuals in and around the Wise County towns of → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Sen. Kaine takes a shellacking in SW Va. but wins re-election; Griffith romps to another term in 9th District
WISE — In spite of a solid thumping from voters in Virginia’s westernmost counties, incumbent Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine was sailing toward a fairly comfortable re-election over Republican challenger Corey A. Stewart Tuesday. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Few local offices at stake in Southwest Virginia
Proposed state constitutional amendments are both taxation and finance questions. Both are yes or no voting options. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: UVa-Wise opens 'The Nest' for fledgling entrepreneurs
WISE — The University of Virginia's College at Wise on Monday unveiled its small off-campus facility for entrepreneurial-minded students to pursue and bounce startup business venture ideas off one another, as well as faculty and area businessmen and women so inclined. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Celebration of Stan Brock's life in Knoxville Sept. 27
A ‘Celebration of Life’ for the late Stan Brock, the adventurous founder of Remote Area Medical (RAM) with a 19-year relationship with Southwest Virginia’s Health Wagon and Wise County, will be held in Knoxville on Sept. 27. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Norton man charged in Lee shooting death
Leon T. Smith, 24 of Norton, was charged Friday with first degree murder in Tuesday’s fatal shooting of 34-year old Lee David Phipps of Pennington Gap. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: 'End of era': Annette's Dairi Barn to close in Wise
For half-a-century plus, Annette’s Dairi Barn has served burgers, hot dogs, milkshakes and more and became a business icon in downtown Wise. But the family owned business is ready to shut down the grill, unplug the ‘shake machine and call it a day. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Update: RAM founder Stan Brock dead at 82
RAM founder Stan Brock, well known for his work to deliver health care to those in need in Southwest Virginia as well as around the world, died Wednesday in Tennessee. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: Norton stabbing victim, accused husband undergoing treatment
The woman allegedly stabbed Tuesday in Norton by her husband has been identified as 35-year old Brandi Lynn Smith. Her husband, Jonathan Eric Smith, 38, has been charged with first degree attempted murder. Both are being treated at HVMC — the husband for reported self inflicted stab wounds — where they were transported following Tuesday’s incident at Hillside Apartments. → Read More
Kingsport Times-News: RAM founder Stan Brock passes
Stan Brock, the adventurous Australian who made a splash as a television critter gitter and a much larger one on rural health care as founder of Knoxville-based Remote Area Medical (RAM) Health Expedition, particularly for Southwest Virginia, has died after a brief illness. → Read More