ELKINS, W.Va. — An elderly man in Elkins was saved by authorities just in time Wednesday night.
According to the Elkins Police Department, Harold Wayne Simmons, 80, was reported missing from his home on Gorman Avenue Wednesday afternoon.
State Police received a trespassing call just before 10:30 Wednesday night for a wooded area near Fern Hill Lane. When officers arrived on scene, they heard Simmons call out and found him partially submerged in a creek off a 20-foot embankment. Simmons was

OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — The Wheeling-Ohio County Emergency Management Agency has identified a potential ninth victim of the weekend flooding in Ohio County.
Sandra Kay Parsons, 83, of Triadelphia, has been missing since Saturday. Five of the eight confirmed dead were from Triadelphia.
Anyone with information about Parsons is urged to call 911.
The afternoon update also shows that more than two dozen homes in Ohio County were destroyed in the floodwaters, and north of 120 sustained damage.
Around 70

A federal judge has set a May 24, 2026, trial date over whether the federal government is properly carrying out black lung screening through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Irene Berger
The trial date was set in a broader scheduling order filed by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in Charleston. It is possible the participants in the lawsuit could resolve their differences before then. It is also possible for a trial to be bumped to a later date.
Lawyers representing

Congressman Riley Moore says the United States has an opportunity to strike a decisive blow against Iran’s nuclear program by dropping a bunker busting bomb, but Moore made clear that he does not support a goal of regime change.
Riley Moore
“There are some of these nuclear facilities that are so far down, 90 meters down under a mountain, and what he’s weighing is if we can use this to destroy and degrade and prevent the Iranian regime from getting a nuclear weapon — does this have that

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A cohort of aspiring nurses are putting their pens to paper and getting a reward of up to $25,000 dollars in exchange for a three-year work commitment in the field.
WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals came together with BridgeValley Community & Technical College Thursday for a signing ceremony honoring the fifth cohort of nursing students accepted into the WVU Medicine Aspiring Nurses Program.
Jennifer Morris was among the 11 cohorts entering into the program Thursday. She is

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Several state lawmakers say it’s past time to make Juneteenth an official state holiday.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey
House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle and Del. Hollis Lewis, both African American, led a news conference Thursday at the capitol after Gov. Patrick Morrisey decided against proclaiming the day a state holiday like former governor, now U.S. Senator, Jim Justice did for the past few years. State offices were open Thursday.
Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Police in Berkeley County arrested two of four people they say had been part of a retail theft ring that stole from stores over a 48-hour period in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
That spree came to a halt for two of them in Martinsburg Wednesday night when Berkeley County sheriff’s deputies responded to a shoplifting complaint at the Target in the Retail Commons.
They were told to look for two Hispanic men and two Hispanic women who they say were involved with