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D&E welcomes students to campus

ELKINS – Davis & Elkins College welcomed new and returning students to campus Aug. 14-16 with a variety of Welcome Weekend activities centered on the theme “Grow Where You’re Planted.” New and first-year students arrived Friday, Aug. 14, followed by returning students Saturday, Aug. ...

Conrad named DMC Emergency Department Director

ELKINS – Christopher Conrad, DO, FACEP, FACOEP, an emergency physician with extensive experience in rural healthcare, has been named Emergency Department Director for Vandalia Health Davis Medical Center and Vandalia Health Webster Memorial Hospital. As Emergency Department Director, Dr. ...

Omnis Pleasants owners fight for Pleasants Power Station

CHARLESTON – The company that bought the former Pleasants Power Plant three years ago argues it remains in control, accusing the current management team connected to motivational speaker Tony Robbins of engaging in an unauthorized bankruptcy. Attorneys with Omnis Fuel Technologies, the ...

Flooding leads to water rescues

ELKINS - Emergency workers performed water rescues in both Randolph and Barbour counties Sunday after severe storms caused flooding in the local area. Flooding in the Montrose area of Randolph County area forced officials to rescue a family who were stranded in their home by high water, ...

Grand jury to hear Manuel felony case

ELKINS — A grand jury will hear a case involving a Randolph County man accused of allegedly cashing an already deposited check that belonged to a deceased man. Richard Allan Manuel, known as "Opie," 53, is charged with one count of forging or uttering other writing, a felony. He is ...

All 3 Tucker Commissioners plead not guilty

PARSONS – All three Tucker County commissioners entered not guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges in circuit court Tuesday morning. Tucker County Commission President Michael William Rosenau, Commissioner Frederick J. Davis Jr., and Commissioner Timothy Paul Knotts are each charged with one misdemeanor count of unauthorized expenditure by a local official. Presiding over Wednesday's hearing was Judge H. Charles Carl III, who is appointed to the 26th Judicial Circuit of Hampshire, Hardy and Pendleton counties, and has been assigned by a West Virginia Supreme Court Administrative Order ...