Thelma Jean Gainer, 97, a resident of Elkins, passed away Friday, April 25, 2025, in Valentine Assisted Living in Elkins under the care of WV Caring Hospice.
Friends may call from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., Saturday, May 3, 2025, at the Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m.Saturday, from the funeral home chapel, with Pastor Tim Edin and Pastor Cindy Roberts officiating.
Interment will follow in the Mountain State Memorial Gardens near Gilman.
The family request
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Right after Sunday worship at St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, Juan Carlos Toapanta lay in a lounge chair set up by the altar, needles sticking out of his forehead, wrist and foot for an hourlong acupuncture session.
“Just like the Lord’s light helps emotionally, the body’s pain is treated as well,” said the Ecuadorian construction worker, who suffers from sciatica and has worshipped at the Minneapolis church for about five months. “Everything feels freed, emotionally.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and potentially a couple thousand civilians. The Associated Press obtained the planning documents, which are dated April 29 and 30, the Army’s most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th birthday festival.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of U.S. foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch.
Trump’s appointment of Rubio to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser is the first major leadership shake-up of the nascent
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ELKINS — High school softball postseason action gets underway next week.
Fourth-seed Elkins begins Class AAA, Region I, Section 2 Tuesday at top-seed Grafton. No. 3 East Fairmont visits No. 2 Fairmont Senior in the other sectional matchup.
Buckhannon-Upshur is the second seed in the Class AAAA, Region I, Section 2 tourney and entertains No. 3 Preston on Monday.
University is the top seed and will host the B-U-Preston victor on Tuesday in the double-elimination tourney.
Philip Barbour will
MORGANTOWN — On the last day to sign bills, Gov. Patrick Morrisey used his pen to sign a bill meant to incentivize the location of data centers in West Virginia and encourage the use of coal-fired power plants to energize those centers.
Morrisey signed House Bill 2014, the Power Generation and Consumption Act, during a bill-signing ceremony Wednesday morning at the West Virginia Army National Guard Recruiting Center in Point Pleasant.
“West Virginia is America’s energy state, and this law is
When Donald Trump reentered office in 2025, he inherited a strong economy partly fueled by the possibility of lower taxes on capital, fewer overbearing regulations, energy abundance and the rise of AI. Instead of stewarding that prosperity and optimism, Trump quickly upended it through a reckless love affair with tariffs and a flair for insulting allies. The result is a shrinking economy and the biggest stock market drop of any early presidential administration since the Nixon era.
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Last Sunday I was a panelist on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream. My friend and colleague Juan Williams brought up the continuing high price of eggs as part of his criticism of President Trump’s first 100 days in his second term.
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ELKINS — Randolph County Sheriff Rob Elbon suffered multiple injuries after attempting to detain a male individual Wednesday afternoon on Ward Road.
The sheriff, who recently broke his hand while working in his garage and is wearing a cast, was on routine patrol at the location when he came across a male subject punching a mailbox alongside the road, he said.
“I was patrolling down Ward Road and saw a pretty good-sized male beating on a mailbox,” Elbon told The Inter-Mountain on Thursday. “He
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