DAVIS – The identity of a coal miner killed in an early-morning mining accident Thursday in Tucker County has been released.
Joey Mitchell Jr. was killed and another person was injured in the accident, which occurred at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday at Mettiki Coal’s Mountain View Mine, according to reports.
Mitchell’s identity was released in a press statement from Gov. Patrick Morrisey.
“I’m deeply saddened to learn of the death of one of our brave coal miners, Joey Mitchell Jr.,” Morrisey wrote in
There are an estimated 42 million people receiving food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. The figure represents 12.3 percent of the U.S. population, according to the USDA. In the richest nation on Earth that is not something to brag about. It is, or ought to be, a disgrace.
SNAP is a casualty of the government “shutdown,” though two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to restore funds to the program. On Monday,
ELKINS — A Randolph County man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman and a juvenile in front of a local store in 2024 entered a plea agreement this week that lowered a felony charge to a misdemeanor in Randolph County Magistrate Court.
Michael Shane Simmons, 40, pled guilty to one count of second-offense indecent exposure, a misdemeanor. Simmons will face one year in prison with credit for time served. Randolph County Magistrate Michael Dyer presided over the hearing.
Simmons has already
CHERRY GROVE — The Monongahela National Forest “Woodside Fire” has consumed approximately 70 to 80 acres and continues to burn, the USDA Forest Service announced Thursday.
A Forest Service press release said what is now being called the Woodside Fire in Pendleton County was still only at 30% containment on Thursday afternoon. The source of the fire was still under investigation.
The Forest Service also stated that approximately 70 personnel, two crews, one dozer and one helicopter would battle
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COUNTRY STORE SALE: The Elkins First United Methodist Church United Women in Faith will host a country store sale on Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to noon. Name your own price, no reasonable offer refused.
VETERANS DAY
Paulita Louise Phillips Cousin, 54, a resident of the Mackeyville Community, Hambleton, West Virginia, departed this life early Thursday morning, Nov. 6, 2025, at the WV Caring Hospice Center at Elkins, West Virginia, surrounded by her loving family. She had been in declining health.
She was born Monday, Aug. 16, 1971, at Parsons, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Lonnie Leon Phillips and Mary Lee Dumire Phillips, who survives at Hambleton.
On March 9, 1996, at Davis, West Virginia, she was
ELKINS – A man and woman have been charged with felonies following an incident in a Randolph County prison in which an inmate, a correctional officer and a nurse all had to be transported to a local hospital.
Jason Mark Sadler, 35, of Huntington, has been charged with inmate possession of a controlled substance, rendering correctional facility less secure/injury to another, and conspiracy to commit a felony. He is being held on a $50,000 cash-only bond, set by Randolph County Magistrate Tracy M.
Host a tea party with all the kids
Dear Heloise: After reading the suggestion about gifting a child’s tea set to a grandmother with a new granddaughter, I just had to say that any grandchild would love tea parties! I started tea parties with my granddaughter, but the boys felt very excluded (which they were at first).
Now I do tea parties with all the kids and have finger foods (cut fruits, veggies, tiny cookies and tea sandwiches). Manners are exaggerated. For example: “Sister, would you care
MORGANTOWN — Apparently there is a story about Jasper Floyd looking good on opening night.
That’s the good news for the West Virginia men’s basketball team, which pulled away late Tuesday for a 70-54 victory over Mount St. Mary’s inside the Hope Coliseum in Ross Hodge’s first win as WVU’s head coach.
Floyd tied his career high with 25 points. He finished with eight points and an assist over the final 6:23, after Mount St. Mary’s had pulled within 52-46.
“I was just taking what the defense gave
When there’s crime, I blame the criminal.
But Dallas politicians blamed a business.
Dale Davenport owned Jim’s Car Wash. But five years ago, after a shooting at the property, the city ordered him to shut it down.
Why did they target his car wash?
When I first investigated this story, Davenport told me he was a “model citizen,” doing everything local politicians asked of him:
“They said build a 6-foot fence. I built an 8-foot fence. Then they said, put up signs. I already had signs up, so I put
