Journalist Rabel dies at 86

Journalist Rabel dies at 86

CBS reporter’s career began on Tri-State airwaves CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Ed Rabel, an Emmy-winning CBS journalist, whose broadcast career began in the Tri-State, died Tuesday, Dec. 2 in Little Washington, Virginia at age 86. Rabel, a native of St. Albans, West Virginia, was a 1963 graduate of Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston) and began working first in local radio and then for WCHS in television in Charleston in the 1960s.  O…