ELKINS — Elkins High’s tough stretch of opponents continued on Tuesday night, dropping a 49-39 decision to defending Class AAA state champion and No. 3 Bridgeport at Richard P. Simmons Memorial Gymnasium.
The Tigers, who also lost at Class AAAA, No. 8 Buckhannon-Upshur, are now 2-11 and face Class AAAA, No, 10 Cabell Midland at 7 p.m. Thursday at West Virginia State.
Anderson McDougal fired in 27 points for the Indians, who led 22-17 at halftime and 36-30 after three quarters in Tuesday night’s
CHARLESTON — A bill meant to encourage healthier lifestyles passed the West Virginia House of Delegates Monday.
Following a 91-4 vote, with four members absent or not voting, House Bill 4982, creating the Make West Virginia Healthy Act of 2026, heads to the state Senate. The bill is aimed at combating and reversing some of West Virginia’s worst health metrics, such as chronic obesity and diabetes.
“We all know the numbers … West Virginia leads the nation in chronic disease, disability,
ELKINS – The Regional Task Force on Addiction, Homelessness and Mental Health will host its annual public forum on Thursday, the City of Elkins has announced.
At 6 p.m., the Regional Task Force on Addiction, Homelessness and Mental Health event will take place at the Phil Gainer Community Center. Members of the public are “strongly encouraged to attend.”
According to a city press release, the event is an opportunity for community members to hear updates, provide input and engage with leaders on
BUCKHANNON – A West Virginia State Trooper rescued a 10-month-old child and an elderly woman from a major structure fire on Saturday that involved multiple fire departments, officials report.
The West Virginia State Police state that, on Saturday, Feb. 7, at approximately 1 p.m., Trooper C. J. Elmore of the Buckhannon Detachment responded to a reported structure fire on Kalafat Street in Buckhannon.
Elmore was the first responder to arrive on scene and was met by a “distraught male occupant,”
“Where is the good news?” my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child.
Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity’s small kindnesses and large achievements.
We had been talking about doomscrolling on the way to school, our very modern addiction to pain and suffering.
“People want to know what’s happening in the world — sometimes,” I had explained, unable to stop myself from adding
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A student was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday and another student was in custody, police said.
One student was found with a gunshot wound in a hallway and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the Rockville City Police Department said in a post on Facebook.
The suspect, also a student, was identified and arrested near the school shortly after, the department said.
“At this time, there is no further threat to public safety,” police said.
Officers were
The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to “hold government accountable” when the governing comes from Democrats, Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
NPR was eagerly touting their new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65% of Americans, up from 54% in June of 2025,
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the days following the 2004 Hendrick Motorsports flight that killed all 12 people aboard, Bill France Jr. and Mike Helton showed up at Rick Hendrick’s front door in Charlotte, North Carolina.
France, terminally ill at the time, was the chairman of NASCAR, the stock car racing series his iron-fisted father founded in 1948. Helton was the first non-family member at that time to rise to president of the series and very much in the France family inner circle.
The duo
Mrs. Betty Jean (Booth) Chenoweth, 84, a resident of Belington departed this life Saturday morning, Feb. 7, 2026, at her home. She had been in declining health but death was unexpected.
She was born Feb. 5, 1942, at Belington, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Lee D. and Lena Mae Goodwin Booth. On Dec. 4, 1971, she was united in marriage to Robert Wilson Chenoweth, who preceded her in death on Nov. 18, 1994.
Left to cherish her memory are three children, Debbie Matthew and husband, Allen, of
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller “Send Help” repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary “Melania” falling sharply in its second weekend.
Super Bowl weekend is typically one of the lowest attended moviegoing times of the year. It was the second slowest weekend last year and in 2024 it ranked dead last for moviegoing.
Studios instead put their focus on advertising movies for the
