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Criss files as a write-in candidate

CHARLESTON – House of Delegates Finance Committee Chairman Vernon Criss filed paperwork Monday afternoon to run as a write-in candidate for the 12th District seat he occupies after losing the May Republican primary to Charles Hartzog. Criss, R-Wood, was first elected to the House of ...

Elkins woman sentenced to probation, anger management

ELKINS — A Randolph County woman has been sentenced to three years of supervise probation, including anger management, after intentionally causing a head-on vehicle collision in February 2025. Stephanie Louise Miller, 42, of Elkins, was sentenced by Randolph County Circuit Court Judge David ...

Alleged accomplice in fleeing case charged again

MONTROSE — A Randolph County man faces multiple felony charges after allegedly conspiring, intending to deliver drugs and fleeing with another individual who had multiple warrants for their arrest. Jordaan Lee Slawter, 28, of Huttonsville, is charged with one count of conspiracy and one ...

Lawmakers question progress of program

CHARLESTON - Officials with the West Virginia Department of Health are working quickly to make sure the nearly $200 million first-year award for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program is obligated by an Oct. 31 deadline, but lawmakers had questions about current contracts. Dr. Arvin ...

All Randolph fifth-graders headed to EMS

ELKINS - Representatives from Elkins Middle School gave the Randolph County Board of Education a presentation concerning the county's fifth-grade students moving to the school. At the request of the BOE, EMS principal Dawn Kittle and staff members Amy Lambert and Tiffany Hymes provided information about the shift. In February, it was made official that fifth-grade students will be moving from their respective elementary schools to Elkins Middle School at the start of this coming school year, on Aug. 19. Moving fifth-grade students to EMS was part of the Impact Statement that was ...

Flood watch issued until Friday

ELKINS - Booming thunder woke many area residents in the early morning hours Tuesday as storms passed through the region.      Some areas of Randolph County received close to two inches of rain between midnight and residents' early morning commutes, according to the National Weather Service in Charleston.    "It seems like on average, we received at least an inch and a quarter (of rain overnight) with some locally higher spots that were close to two inches," Megan Kiebler, the lead meteorologist for the NWS in Charleston, told The Inter-Mountain Tuesday. "Those storms that ...