Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:18 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:18:28 GMT
Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
Nationally recognized journalist and Marshall University graduate Burl Osborne has died.
Osborne graduated from Marshall with a journalism degree in 1960. He later worked as editor of the Ashland Daily Independent, as the one reporter for The Associated Press' Bluefield office and later as executive editor of The Dallas Morning News.
Osborne led the Dallas newspaper for 21 years, during which it won several Pulizer Prizes, according to his obituary on the paper's website. Osborne died late Wednesday at the University of Texas Southwester University Hospital at the age of 75.
Osborne hailed from Jenkins, Ky., according to the obituary. He first studied engineering at Marshall, but later changed to journalism.
Burl Osborne -- Source: The Associated Press
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