Alderson News

'Tis the season for Santa, and in addition to supervising the making of toys and packing his sleigh for Christmas Eve rounds, a number of parades are included in his pre-Christmas chores.

The Greenbrier's new casion is paying off for its home county and local municipalities.

Four people were injured in a three-vehicle wreck on U.S. 60 in Charmco in Greenbrier County at 5:23 p.m. Saturday, according to the Greenbrier County Sheriff's Department.

One full day of auctioning did not put a dent in the Wilkes family's treasured collectibles, and two days were scarcely enough.

Five years after she was raped by a federal prison guard, a Kentucky woman is now talking publicly about the crime.

Barbara A. Bullock, the former Washington Teachers' Union president who was sentenced to a nine-year prison term after admitting in 2003 that she embezzled millions from the union, was slated for release on Nov.

The asylum offers regular ghost tours and adventures. Visit www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com for information.

Excavating the site of Thompson's Fort, built in 1770 to protect settlers in what is now Monroe County, are David Dobbins, Kim McBride, Doug Moore, David Fuerst and Stephen McBride.

Greenbrier County elementary school students put a state grant to good use Wednesday.

An Episcopalian bishop from West Virginia is going to slide off the New River Gorge Bridge to raise money to buy books and magazines for charities.

Authorities have identified a man found dead in Summers County after an apparent motorcycle wreck as one reported missing in Greenbrier County.

A Greenbrier County woman died Sunday after her vehicle struck a utility pole and overturned, authorities said.

A woman was killed while traveling on US Route 219 over the weekend. FAIRLEA- -- A woman is dead after a single vehicle crash on US route 219 in Greenbrier County.

No one was injured and no widespread damage was reported in an apartment complex fire in Greenbrier County, authorities said.

Editor's note: This is first of a three-part series on the proposed comprehensive plan for Greenbrier County.

IN THE WINNER'S CIRCLE ... Culinary exhibits and competitions have been a part of the State Fair since it was founded as the Greenbrier Valley Fair in 1921.

The woman who once tried to kill President Gerald Ford and then escaped from a West Virginia prison has been released from custody.

The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars.

Police officers across Greenbrier County will be watching for careless, reckless and drunken drivers during the State Fair of West Virginia's nine-day run.

It's looking like a lifetime sentence at one of the nation's cushiest prisons for world-class fraudster Bernard Madoff.