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2 schools on remote learning due to power outage

RANDOLPH COUNTY – A power outage has caused two Randolph County schools to be on remote learning today. Tygarts Valley Middle/High School and George Ward Elementary School were originally scheduled to operate on a two-hour delay, but officials later announced on social media that both ...

Events set to honor veterans

ELKINS — The H. W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion of Elkins is planning several events for the upcoming Veterans Day weekend. Beginning on Saturday, Nov. 8, Post 29 will host a Veterans Day Parade at 11 a.m. in downtown Elkins. The annual Veterans Day Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. that ...

Plea entered to drug charge

ELKINS — A Randolph County woman entered a waiver of indictment agreement and pleaded guilty recently in Randolph County Circuit Court. Nicole Marie Heavener, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to deliver a controlled substance, a felony. Before the plea, Heavener waived her ...

Morrisey seeks matching funds for food banks during shutdown

CHARLESTON — West Virginia is prepared to spend up to an additional $13 million supporting the state’s two largest food banks as SNAP benefits run out at the beginning of November due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, but Gov. Patrick Morrisey is seeking private matching ...

Injunction to stop sale denied

FAIRMONT — A Marion County judge has denied the injunction that would have stopped Friday’s sale of the John Manchin Sr. Health Center in Fairmont. Judge Matt Delligatti made his ruling at the close of a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday that included testimony from Cathie DeVito Matheny, ...

Casto, Stephens plead not guilty in Ball murder case

PARKERSBURG — The man indicted in the 2014 murder of Cindy Ball and the woman charged as an accessory after the fact pleaded not guilty at their arraignments Monday. Walker resident Gregory A. Casto, 56, in custody at the North Central Regional Jail, and Martha Jane Stephens, 66, of Waverly, ...