Chester News

Breakfast will be served from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Inverness Fellowship Hall.

South Charleston's new nine-hole course aims to attract a different crowd of golfers in the Kanawha Valley.

Drivers will no longer be seeing orange when they cross the Jennings Randolph Bridge.

A Hancock County man is facing a slew of charges after he allegedly fled from Chester police Sunday morning.

Organizers of the annual Shop with a Cop in Hancock County are preparing for this year's event, and are looking for donations as well as those who may be in need of assistance through the program.

Chester High School Class of 1951 will meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Connie's Corner Restaurant in Chester.

Published: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. CHESTER, W.Va. - A West Virginia racetrack has settled a lawsuit by a jockey who was paralyzed from the chest down during a racing accident.

Anna M. Jones, 78, of Sixth St. in Chester, passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon at the Valley Hospice Care Center North in Steubenville where she had only been a patient since Thursday.

Gerry Porter of Chester, W.Va., shops for Fiesta Ware at the Homer Laughlin Factory Outlet in Newell, W.Va., earlier this summer.

The following arrests were also made by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department: Sept.

The following cases were disposed of in Chester Court on Monday: Gary Amos, no age given, of Virginia Avenue in Chester - unsightly property, fined $25 plus $72 in court costs and placed on six months diversionary.

Responding Thursday to a complaint by officials of the Comfort Inn about an odor of marijuana, officers charged a Chester, W.Va. woman with possession of marijuana.

Four Pennsylvania residents have been arrested on drug charges during a routine traffic stop in Hancock County.

The Labor Day Weekend saw its first fatality in the Ohio Valley at about three in the morning Sunday.

The following cases were disposed of in Hancock County Magistrate Court: Joseph Romanyak of Grant Street in Weirton - petit larceny, case dismissed.

VFW Post 6450 of Chester was one of a select few posts to receive a coveted national award during the VFW National Convention this year.

The Hancock County Sheriff's Department released details Monday morning on a motorcycle accident which took place Sunday night.

A high-speed chase in Hancock County sends one man to a Pittsburgh Hospital. According to the Hancock County Sheriff's Department, a deputy responded to a call of two motorcyclists speeding and possibly intoxicated on Route 30 in Chester last night.

The following arrests were made by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department: Aug.

Larry R. Savors, 78, of Chester, died on Wednesday Aug. 5, 2009, at the Calcutta Health Care Center following a lengthy illness.