Fayetteville News

West Liberty makes their first NCAA football playoff appearance, and the school's first post-season trip since 1971, as the top seed in Super Region I. The WVIAC champion Toppers, who are one of 24 schools selected by the NCAA Division II Football Committee for the championship, will host either fourth-seeded East Stroudsburg or fifth-seeded ...

Six West Virginia communities are being honored for their efforts to beautify and clean up their corporate limits.

Although Fayette County voters overwhelmingly rejected the Oct. 24 $49 million bond call that would have consolidated Oak Hill, Fayetteville, Mount Hope and Midland Trail high schools, it remained the focus of conversation during Monday evening's board of education meeting.

A former Fayetteville mayor, recorder and councilman faces a charge of embezzling money from the Tax Office of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department.

The City of Refuge Church,: located at 11719 MacCorkle Ave., Chesapeake, will celebrate their pastor's anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday.

A special prosecutor has filed an information in Fayette County Circuit Court, charging former chief tax deputy Thomas Woodrum with one count of felony embezzlement.

By more than a 3-to-1 margin, Fayette County voters rejected a $49 million bond issue Saturday that would have consolidated four high schools and helped fund school renovation projects countywide.

Voters turned out in large numbers this weekend to soundly defeat the school bond levy in Fayette County.

Although authorities believe that Fayette County's former chief tax deputy allegedly embezzled about $53,000 from the county tax department, charges have yet to be filed.

Fayette County voters will consider a $49 million bond issue Saturday that would build a new high school and close four existing county high schools, as well as renovate several other schools.

After months of heated debates, Fayette County voters will take to the polls Saturday and decide whether to support a $49 million bond call that would, in addition to several improvement projects, result in the consolidation of four of the county's six high schools.

There are several reasons why Fayette County voters should approve a $49 million school bond issue in a special election next Saturday.

Debbie Elmore said "mortar and brick" issues have dominated the Fayette County school bond debate.

"Incredible, exhilarating and indescribable," were just a few words flowing from the mouths of BASE jumpers Saturday, after plunging 876 feet from the world's second-longest single arch bridge.

Bridge Day at the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville got off to a chilly start Saturday, but that's not putting a deep freeze on the event.

Fayette County's fall foliage is peaking just in time for Saturday's Bridge Day event.

Start your Bridge Day festivities off by attending a performance by Nashville recording artist Stacy Grubb, who will appear at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Historic Fayette Theatre.

Purple candles will carry a silent message to increase awareness about domestic violence.

Appalachian Power Park will smell nothing like baseball and hotdogs this weekend as 400 cooks set up temporary shop while they vie for top honors in the International Chili Society's 43rd Annual World's Championship Chili Cookoff.

From coast to coast, in the melting pot of the cities and the laid-back life of the country, they arrive with a singular purpose - a chance to walk across the world's second-longest single arch bridge and watch in awe as daredevils plunge into the majestic New River Gorge.