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By Guy Busby BAY MINETTE – Almost seven decades after being wounded during the Korean War, veteran Bill Silcox of Robertsdale received his Purple Heart medal Tuesday during a ceremony in the Baldwin County Commission chambers. Silcox was a private first class in the Army’s 224th Infantry Regiment when he was wounded on March 14, 1952 in Kumsong, North Korea. Silcox said he was wounded twice during the campaign, but believes the medal was for the time he was hit in the leg by shrapnel. “I was in two different battles at about that time,” he said. “I also got burned, but I believe thi...

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates joined with their state Senate colleagues Tuesday in passing a bill making it clear that strikes and work st

STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS File Photo by Scott McCloskey Ohio County teachers wave to passing motorists on National Road during a demonstration in the Woodsdale section of Wheeling on Friday, Feb. 25, 2018. CHARLESTON – The West Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday joined with their state Senate colleagues in passing a bill making it clear that strikes and work stoppages by public employees are illegal. Senate Bill 11, declaring a work stoppage or strike by public employees to be unlawful, passed the House 53-46, with several Republicans joining Democratic lawmakers in opposing the bill. Accor...

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates joined with their state senate colleagues Tuesday in passing a bill making it clear that strikes and work st

The West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill making it clear that strikes by public employees are illegal. Despite a Republican-led supermajority in the House and Democrats standing alone to oppose the legislation, the measure thinly passed the lower chamber Tuesday.