BUCKHANNON — During life’s most difficult moments, even the smallest gesture can provide comfort and remind families they are not alone.
The St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary has once again demonstrated its commitment to compassionate patient care by funding a new bereavement program for families who experience the heartbreaking loss of a baby during delivery.
Through this special initiative, families will receive a memorial necklace featuring the birthstone corresponding to the month of their
ELKINS — Mountain Valley Bank will provide “permanent financing” for the restoration of Elkins City Hall after the Elkins City Council accepted the bank’s funding proposal.
During the council’s June 11 meeting, all nine present council members voted in favor of Resolution 1931, which accepted and approved “a proposal from Mountain Valley Bank for financing of the City Hall renovation project.” First Ward Council member Robert Chenoweth was absent from the meeting.
Elkins City Hall has been
ELKINS – Participants with Rhododendron Girls State teamed up with the Interact Children’s Museum on Thursday to paint stars on the sidewalks in front of businesses in downtown Elkins.
The painting was part of ICM’s ‘Stars, Stripes, and Smiles’ fundraiser and served as a service project for the girls from RGS, who are in town for this week’s annual leadership academy at Davis & Elkins College.
“This is a fundraiser for us (ICM) and a service project for the girls from Rhododendron Girls
OMAHA, Neb. – It took all of two years as a head coach for Steve Sabins to reach a major coaching milestone Friday.
His moment of glory was brief.
“I’d stay here and celebrate, but I’ve got a game to get to,” the WVU head baseball coach said, as he rushed down a hallway inside Charles Schwab Field to get ready for the Mountaineers’ matchup against Troy.
In any manner, Sabins, who was first hired as a WVU assistant coach in 2015, was named the Coach of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball
CHARLESTON – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
June 14, 1912: Botanist Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Bartholomew was born in Wheeling. Bartholomew was instrumental in building the dried plant collection at West Virginia University from 30,000 to 140,000 specimens, and she initiated a 2,000-plant seed collection.
June 14, 2025: The Wheeling area was hit with a deadly flash flood
OMAHA, Neb. – Tyrus Hall’s blooper down the right field line in the eighth inning Friday – WVU head coach Steve Sabins admitted later – put the wheels in motion on what was about to be a historic day inside Charles Schwab Field.
“Hall gets that hit down the line and I start thinking to myself, ‘We’re about to start singing ‘Country Roads’ in here,” Sabins said.
Sabins said he quickly had to get that thought out of his mind. No worries, his players made it stick.
Hall, WVU’s ninth hitter in the
The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is showing up and something is happening that ought to make us pause. Their minds are being blown away by us.
A German named Freddy came to Atlanta and made his way up to North Georgia, went tubing on the
CHARLESTON – West Virginia tax officials say their interests need to be represented in a federal lawsuit brought by the new loan holders for the Greenbrier Resort and its owner, U.S. Sen. Jim Justice.
The State Tax Division filed a consolidated reply Tuesday in support of a motion to intervene filed last month in the federal lawsuit brought by White Sulphur Springs Holdings LLC (WSSH) against Sen. Justice, former first lady Cathy Justice, son Jay Justice, and several Justice-owned entities
ROCK CAVE — An Upshur County woman is facing multiple charges after allegedly breaking a man’s rib with a metal pipe.
Theresa Ann Criss, 54, is charged with one count of malicious assault, a felony. She is also charged with one count of domestic assault, one count of domestic battery second offense and one count of obstructing an officer, all misdemeanors. Criss is currently being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $15,000 surety/cash bond.
According to the criminal complaint, filed by
MORGANTOWN – Though rural women entrepreneurs make up only a small portion of the self-employed across the United States, new West Virginia University research shows they are crucial to overall economic success.
A study by Heather Stephens, director of the WVU Regional Research Institute, and Xiaoyin Li a postdoctoral fellow, with Jason S. Entsminger, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Maine, found self-employed women in rural areas are associated with
