CHARLESTON — Winfield softball pitcher Mattie Carroll is a winner — again.
After capping her junior season by leading the Generals to their third consecutive state championship, Carroll was named by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association as the Player of the Year on Friday.
Carroll was a second-team all-state selection last season after leading Winfield to the Class AA state championship, but a dominant performance in the state tournament this season – the Generals’ first as a Class AAA
Leo Mathew Lanham, 58, (born Sept. 2, 1966) departed this world unexpectedly on June 8, 2025, at his home in Elkins, West Virginia.
He is the son of Leo and Shirley (Dodd) Lanham, who preceded him in death.
He is survived by his loving wife of 34 years, Sandy Jo (Spencer) Lanham; his brother, Mark Lanham; sisters-in-laws, Paula Lanham, Carolyn Spencer and Linda (Spencer) Haddix; brother-in-law, Mark Haddix; nieces, Kayla Lanham, Amy Webster, Emily Whitlow and Hannah Haddix; and nephews, Adam
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marines were seen standing guard outside a federal building in Los Angeles on Friday as they started to take over some posts from National Guard members after protests erupted last week over immigration raids and President Donald Trump deployed the troops to the city.
Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, the commander of Task Force 51 who is overseeing the 4,700 combined troops, said the Marines finished training on civil disturbance and are starting their operations by replacing Guard
DAVIS – A Harman man is behind bars after reportedly claiming to be Jesus Christ during an alleged sexual assault in Tucker County.
Emmanuel Huffman has been charged with second-degree sexual assault. He is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $70,000 cash-only bond.
According to a criminal complaint from the Tucker County Magistrate Court, West Virginia State Police was dispatched to the town of Davis on Nov. 15 of last year after a caller told officers she wanted to report a
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
