WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed U.S. intelligence findings that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely had some culpability in the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Trump warmly welcomed the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia on his first White House visit in seven years.
The U.S.-Saudi relationship had, for a time, been sent into a tailspin by the operation targeting Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the kingdom.
But seven years later, the dark
Carolyn “Sue” Howell Shreve, 78, a resident of the Stalnaker Run Road Community, Elkins, West Virginia, departed this life Saturday morning, Nov. 15, 2025, at the WVU Medicine United Hospital Center at Bridgeport, West Virginia. She had been in declining health for the past two years.
The family will receive friends at the Refuge Church at Gilman from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, 2025.
Final Rites will be conducted from the church Friday at 1 p.m.
The Rev. Kevin Gainer will officiate and
(AP) — Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to chat with other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around their own age.
The moves come as the popular gaming platform continues to face criticism and lawsuits over child safety and a growing number of states and countries are implementing age verification laws.
The company had previously announced the age estimation tool, which is provided
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a remarkable display of approval for an effort that had struggled for months to overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
When a small, bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a petition in July to maneuver around House Speaker Mike Johnson’s control of which bills
ELKINS — In preparation to help transform Elkins into Elfkins, members of Our Town Inc. spent this past Saturday morning placing an array of painted wooden elves along several downtown city streets.
Close to 40 wooden elves were anchored to poles on Davis Avenue, Third Street and Railroad Avenue.
“For the holidays, Elkins become Elfkins, so in preparation for that transition, we put out all the elves that have been made by members of the community over the past few years,” Our Town volunteer
ELKINS – A Randolph County Board of Education member made a motion at Tuesday evening’s BOE meeting to rescind the Oct. 8 vote to close the Harman K-12 School, but the motion died for lack of a second.
After 27 community members spoke during Tuesday night’s meeting urging the board members to rescind the Harman vote, BOE member Ed Daniels made a motion to bring the Harman School situation up for discussion. After several minutes of silence, BOE member Janie Newlon seconded the motion.
Daniels
HODGESVILLE — A new full-time Upshur County Sheriff’s Office deputy will be assigned as a PRO officer at Hodgesville Elementary School after an Upshur County man who allegedly made threats against the school’s students was released as part of a deferred adjudication agreement.
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office announced that, “after much thought,” the office and other Upshur County officials had decided to assign a new full-time deputy PRO officer at
LONDON (AP) — The BBC has issued a public apology to President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, but said it “strongly disagreed there is a basis for a defamation claim.”
Over the past week, the BBC’s director general stepped down, its head of news quit, and Trump says he’s poised to file a billion-dollar lawsuit.
“We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion, probably sometime next week,” Trump said.
Pressure on the broadcaster has been growing
CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, and Attorney General J.B. McCuskey praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for taking action on a bill aimed at protecting wetlands that some say goes too far.
Morrisey and McCuskey were in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announcing proposed changes for the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which defines what streams, wetlands and waterways are protected by the Clean Water
Mark Benner Spencer, 71, a former resident of Durant, Oklahoma, and for the past four years a resident of Elkins, West Virginia, departed this life Thursday evening, Nov. 13, 2025.
He was born Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1954, at Houston, Texas, a son of the late Robert Benner Spencer and Sue Taylor Spencer.
Surviving are two brothers, Paul Taylor Spencer and wife, June of Lavonia, Georgia, and Donald Charles Spencer of Lubbock, Texas; one sister, Renee Ann Spencer and husband, Steve Cooper, of
