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CHARLESTON -- The Fola Coal Co.'s Surface Mine No. 1 in Clay County received the Barton B. Lay Milestones of Safety Award, one of the top safety awards presented at the 39th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium last week.
NEW YORK -- Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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NEW YORK -- Stock indexes closed slightly lower Monday as talks dragged on between Greek political leaders over a fresh cost-cutting package required for the country to get more bailout loans.
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HOSPITALITY: Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA will begin its new 18-week long course in Hospitality Skills Training on Monday, March 5. Class times are from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays at 1005 Virginia Ave., Huntington.
NEW YORK -- A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest in three years propelled the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to its highest close since before the 2008 financial crisis. The Nasdaq composite index hit an 11-year high.
CHARLESTON -- A Virginia firm will help the West Virginia Parkways Authority choose a developer for property at Tamarack.
GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- A central Kentucky Toyota manufacturing plant will get a moment in the Super Bowl spotlight when it is featured in a 60-second ad scheduled to run during the pregame show.
CHARLESTON -- The Appalachian operations of Arch Coal Inc. received seven safety and environmental awards recently from West Virginia agencies.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- BB&T Corp will acquire the insurance businesses of privately held Crump Group Inc. for $570 million in cash, the regional bank said Friday.
CHARLESTON — The president of Appalachian Power said Thursday the utility will soon file paperwork with state and federal regulators to buy two West Virginia power plants from a sister subsidiary of its parent company, American Electric Power.
Investors coasted on Thursday, leaving stocks unchanged while they looked ahead to Friday for a major jobs report. U.S. government bonds hardly moved, and neither did European stocks.
HOUSTON -- Natural Resource Partners L.P. reported Thursday it had completed the fifth acquisition of coal reserves at the Deer Run mine near Hillsboro, Ill., from Colt LLC, an affiliate of the Cline Group.
NEW YORK -- Americans were shopping in January, but not every store was feeling the love.
ANNA, Ohio -- Honda said Wednesday it will invest $98 million at its largest auto engine plant for the western Ohio facility to produce components for its new transmission technology.
CHARLESTON -- Gas prices are on the upswing in West Virginia.
DALLAS -- The parent of American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs -- 15 percent of its workforce -- as the nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection.
LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft Corp. took out full-age ads in major newspapers Wednesday, slamming privacy policy changes at search rival Google Inc. that allow it to internally merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail.
U.S. stocks had a big January, and they're starting February strong, too.
DETROIT -- U.S. auto sales are off to a strong start this year, continuing their brisk pace from late 2011.
NEW YORK -- Amazon's fourth-quarter net income dropped sharply, weighed down by higher operating expenses even as revenue grew. Investors clobbered the online retailer's stock in after-hours trading, as the company also gave a disappointing forecast for the current period.
DANA POINT, Calif. -- Radio broadcasting giant Clear Channel is breaking into the TV production business.