MILL CREEK — Tyrand Cooperative Ministries is continuing to help out local families this holiday season with its annual free Christmas Store and its upcoming annual holiday meal Christmas basket distribution.
Tyrand Executive Director Makayla Mayle told The Inter-Mountain that more than 150 kids received Christmas presents through Tyrand’s Christmas Store, and around 225 families are signed up to receive a Christmas basket to help them prepare a holiday meal.
Mayle said the ministry hopes to
BEIRUT (AP) — A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might be affiliated with the Islamic State group, a Syrian official told The Associated Press Sunday.
The attack Saturday in the Syrian desert near the historic city of Palmyra killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian and wounded three others. It also
Lewis Tingler, 99, a resident of Wymer, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at the West Virginia Caring Hospice Inpatient Center in Elkins.
He would have been 100 years old on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.
Lewis was born Dec. 13, 1925, at Whitmer, West Virginia, a son of the late Ted Tingler and Ethel Elza Tingler.
On May 14, 1947, at Oakland, Maryland, he was married to Thelma F. Long, who preceded him in death July 11, 2021.
He is survived by one son, David (Carolyn) Tingler,
WHEELING — The debate over religious exemptions from West Virginia’s school vaccine requirements is headed to the state’s highest court.
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday granted a motion for direct review of Raleigh County judge Michael Froble’s Nov. 26 order siding with parents seeking religious exemptions, bypassing the state’s Intermediate Court of Appeals. Froble ruled that West Virginia’s Equal Protection for Religion Act of 2023 gave Gov. Patrick Morrisey the authority
WHEELING — Buckhannon-Upshur’s Dawson Tenney and Kadyn Baisden are second-team selections on the Class AAAA All-State football squad, which is voted on by coaches and members of the West Virginia Sports Writers Association and selected by the WVSWA.
Tenney, a senior, was selected as one of the utility players on offense, while Baisden, a junior, was tabbed one of the defensive lineman.
The Bucs advanced to the playoffs this season, falling to eventual state champion Morgantown in the opening
CHARLESTON — Two Barbour County parents spoke against the closure of Junior Elementary School before the West Virginia State Board of Education approved the closure and consolidation plan for several schools in Barbour County this week.
During the State Board’s meeting Wednesday morning, more than 25 people came forward as delegations to speak against the closures of schools in six counties, as well as discuss the state’s school vaccination requirements and other topics. Speaking on behalf of
The heart of Sagittarian season reminds us that fortune favors the bold. Those who push limits and dare to walk the cutting edge of life take the spotlight now. The newness at the edge can feel scary or awkward at first — and then, suddenly, kind of cool. It’s the feeling of the archer’s arrow just before release — trembling, certain, alive.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Certain roles require your composure, some skillful acting and a commitment to show up and deliver time and again. But you
House Bill 2014 that is currently being considered by the West Virginia House of Delegates hands over almost all decision-making about data centers and microgrids to the state, while shutting out the local communities that will have to live with the consequences. In the interest of West Virginia’s rural communities, it should be quickly defeated.
Industrial development may bring new jobs to a community. it may also harm existing business and subsequently result in the loss of existing jobs.
The
VALLEY BEND — A two-stall garage was deemed a total loss after a structure fire in Valley Bend Thursday night.
While on a call for a flue fire in Mill Creek, the Tygart Valley Fire Company was alerted to a structure fire in Valley Bend at approximately 8:09 p.m., officials said. Once on scene, the TVFC located a garage that was fully engulfed.
“We were at a flue fire on the Back Road coming out of Mill Creek when we received the call for Valley Bend,” TVFC Chief Noah Gilroy told The
CHARLESTON – A winter storm warning is in effect for Randolph, Barbour, Upshur, Tucker and Pocahontas counties beginning Saturday afternoon and continuing until early Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
On Friday, the National Weather Service declared a winter storm warning for Randolph, Barbour, Upshur, Tucker and Pocahontas.
Starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday and continuing until 2 a.m. on Monday, the five counties are expected to receive heavy snow with accumulations of
