ELKINS – An incumbent Fifth Ward Elkins City Council member has been defeated in today’s municipal election.
According to unofficial results, challenger Burley Woods has defeated incumbent David Parker in Fifth Ward.
Unofficially, Woods garnered 49 votes, while Parker tallied 35.
The Inter-Mountain will post more results as they become available this evening.
PHILIPPI — A Philippi man has been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison after previously entering a guilty plea to a sexual assault charge.
Randall Wayne Kisamore, II, 38, was sentenced by Judge Shawn D. Nines to no less than five or more than 25 years in the West Virginia Penitentiary for the offense of sexual abuse in the first degree.
The sentencing took place June 4 in Barbour County Circuit Court.
Barbour County Prosecuting Attorney Andrew Lynn Phillips appeared on behalf of the state.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state senator is suing his fellow lawmakers in the South Carolina General Assembly saying they are illegally giving themselves what is effectively an $18,000-a-year raise for all members.
The increase in the “in-district compensation” — money set aside for legislative duties that has few limits on how it can be spent — is set to go from $1,000 a month to $2,500 a month for all 46 senators and 124 House members starting July 1.
But Republican Sen. Wes Climer’s lawsuit said
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California will file a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to confront immigration protesters who took to the streets, the attorney general said, arguing that the president had “trampled” the state’s sovereignty.
“We don’t take lightly to the president abusing his authority and unlawfully mobilizing California National Guard troops,” state Attorney General Rob Bonta told reporters. He planned to seek
Between two planets in the early degrees of the sign of domesticity and tomorrow’s full moon in Sagittarius, there’s a sense of getting into position at a race’s starting line. There may be stillness, but it’s not settled. Our spirits are taut with anticipation like a rubber band stretched full of potential energy, ready for the pop of the full moon.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You have a mental ledger. You remember who you’ve helped, who you still owe and who you want to show up for. Let others
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Soccer enthusiasts in Music City once numbered so few that when a fan spotted someone with a soccer bumper sticker, they could probably recognize the car’s driver.
Now? Don’t wave. Odds are it’s a stranger.
Soccer has grown by leaps and bounds from the immigrants who played at a park decades ago through semi-pro to teams drawing only a couple hundred diehard fans eager to watch.
That thirst for soccer helped Nashville go from an outside chance at a Major League Soccer
ELKINS — Gov. Patrick Morrisey addressed more than 200 American Legion Auxiliary WV Rhododendron Girls State attendees in an opening-day speech Sunday at Davis & Elkins College’s Myles Center for the Arts.
Speaking at the 82nd annual Girls State, which hosts soon-to-be high school seniors from all over the state, marks the seventh-straight year that Morrisey has addressed Girl State. Morrisey told The Inter-Mountain that he believed it has been a “long time” since a West Virginia governor
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tear gas was fired at protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and shouted insults at them, hours after President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the military over the objections of the governor and mayor.
The confrontation broke out as hundreds of people protested in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where several of the newly-arrived National Guard troops stood shoulder to
(AP) — In the box office showdown between a deadly assassin and a chaotic CG alien, “Lilo & Stitch” still had the edge. The Disney juggernaut celebrated a third weekend at the top of the charts, while the John Wick spinoff “Ballerina” did not jeté as high as expected.
According to studio estimates Sunday, “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” earned $25 million from 3,409 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. Several weeks ago it was tracking to open in the $35 to $40 million range, but that
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for nearly 39 years. He has always had a tendency to put himself first — even before our sons, and now even our toddler grandson — but I’m at my wits’ end over his latest act of selfishness.
His only sister recently suffered a traumatic fall. She was airlifted to a trauma center with a fractured skull and brain injury. Thankfully, she’s expected to make a full recovery, but she spent several weeks in a rehab facility and now continues outpatient
