NHA TRANG, Vietnam – Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse i n the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay. Now 77, he recalls the precise date when he left – May 28, 1970. He served at the hospital for two years where he treated wounded American soldiers and saw many die. He says while he was initially “gung-ho” about the U.S. and South Vietnamese war efforts, he has since become “neutral.” Asked why, he said it was after seeing the Ku Chi tunnels on this
MORGANTOWN — The Big 12 Conference has announced the scheduling matrix for the 2025-26 men’s basketball season.
Each school has a home-and-home with three other Big 12 opponents, and faces the other 12 opponents once, with six at home and six on the road for an 18-game conference schedule.
West Virginia will have home games against Baylor, BYU, Colorado, Kansas, Texas Tech and Utah. The Mountaineers will have road games at Arizona, Arizona State, Houston, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and TCU. WVU
There is a new “chapter” in the saga of alcohol-consumption health consequences.
Actually, the chapter itself is not new, but there’s a new recognition that hasn’t been front-and-center in a widespread way up to now.
Now that recognition is becoming more visible and, with that, more troubling.
Women and their spouses — or significant others — need to pay attention and, perhaps, have some heart-to-heart discussions about what’s at stake and what needs to be done to avert a tragic outcome.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON — It will be a busy slate of all-star action for several area athletes this weekend.
The North-South All-Star basketball games get underway for both the boys and girls this evening at the South Charleston Community Center.
A skills competition starts at 5 p.m., followed by the girls game at 6 p.m. and the boys contest at 7:30 p.m.
Tucker County’s Trevan Bonner is a member of the North team, along with Baustin Bowers (Liberty-Harrison), Jayden Bryant (Williamstown), Keshaun Creek
Robert Bryan “Bob” Martin, 85, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2025, at Country Lane Gardens.
Born Dec. 11, 1939, in Elkins, West Virginia, Bob was the eighth of 10 children of Steven Alexander and Ruth Riffle Martin.
A proud West Virginian at heart, he lived a life marked by hard work, devotion to family, and faith.
Throughout his life, Bob held many jobs, including tire changer, sanitation worker, factory worker, and eventually truck driver — a career he retired from after 26 years. During
Authorities seized about $500,000 worth of banned vaping products and cash from five stores in Upshur and Randolph counties after receiving reports of illegal sales to minors, with arrests expected as the investigation continues.
On Thursday, June 5, members of the Mountain Region Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force served search warrants at five different tobacco and vape stores located in Randolph and Upshur counties.
Both sheriff’s departments, Buckhannon and Elkins police departments, as well
CLARKSBURG – Former Buckhannon Mayor David Walter McCauley was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Thursday for possessing images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit acts.
In December, McCauley, 66, pled guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.
According to court documents, McCauley enticed a 17-year-old boy to engage in sexually explicit conduct for photo and video production. McCauley had several electronic devices that contained illegal images and videos seized
Roger Lee Collins, 80, a resident of Montrose passed from this life Thursday, June 4, 2025, at his residence. He had been in his usual health and death was unexpected.
Roger was born on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1944, in Dailey, a son of the late Arch Collins and Opal Lambert Collins. He was never married.
Left to cherish Roger’s memory is a daughter, Becky Owens of Elkins and Michael Collins of California; three grandchildren, Nick Owens, Jenna Collins and Aiden Collins; a sister, Eula Smith of
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — James McDonough served in the U.S. Army for 27 years, fighting in Vietnam and delivering humanitarian aid to Rwanda. For him, Saturday’s military parade in Washington for the Army’s 250th anniversary — coinciding with President Donald Trump’s birthday — is about the resilience of a vital institution and the nation it serves.
“The soldiers marching that day represent all of that history,” said McDonough, 78, of Crofton, Maryland. “They don’t represent a single day. They don’t
ELKINS — After 37 years with the agency, Executive Co-Director Peggy Johnson will be retiring from Youth Health Service, Inc. on June 30, and her successor, Sarah Begg, will join the established leadership team, consisting of Executive Co-Director, Tammie Rizzio, and Director of Business Operations, Amanda Arbogast, to lead the agency.
While Johnson has spent the last 10 years serving in the role of executive co-director, her contributions to the agency in its tenure are varied. During the
