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Country-and-western musician Billy Cox was born near Charleston on August 4, 1897. He started his career in 1928, singing and playing guitar and harmonica…
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Musician Rex Parker died at Princeton in Mercer County on June 2, 1999.The Fayette County native was the patriarch of the Parker Family, a popular musical…
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On March 5, 1963, country music star Hawkshaw Hawkins was killed in a plane crash in Tennessee. Born in Huntington in 1921, Hawkins got his start in music…
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Musician Red Sovine died in Nashville following a car crash on April 4, 1980. He was 61.Born Woodrow Wilson Sovine in Charleston, he was influenced by…
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On September 15, 1927, Charleston’s WOBU radio station went on the air with 50 watts of power at eleven-hundred twenty kilohertz. A year later, it moved…
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He’s been beaten and berated for doing his job, but despite the dangers, Bob Aaron says he still loves being a T.V. reporter.Those dangers made…
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The ABC and Fox affiliates in the Charleston-Huntington market are no longer available on Dish Network.WCHS and WVAH are owned by Sinclair Broadcasting,…