Fort Ashby News

A sobriety checkpoint will be conducted on state Route 28 in Fort Ashby from 8 p.m. Friday through 2 a.m. Saturday, according to the Mineral County Sheriff's Department.

More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.

A Fort Ashby woman was taken into custody after she allegedly struck a Ridgeley police officer with a vehicle Friday on Kingsford Drive.

Naked men stacked in pyramids, others with bags over their heads, tied to leashes.

Director General Bob Woolwine has announced that Fort Ashby resident Alicia Ruth Taylor will reign as Queen Silvia LXXIII of the Mountain State Forest Festival.

I am a very upset parent of a child attending the Mineral County Pre-K program at Frankfort Intermediate School.

Name in lights, big stage and performing for a packed house. That's one feeling no thespian can deny it's great to have.

A 33-year-old Dan's Run Road man was arrested Friday after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and another person at a residence in Pyles subdivision, according to West Virginia State Police.

Forty-seven-year-old David A. Wolford was fatally injured in a single-vehicle accident late Thursday on Dan's Run Road.

The West Virginia State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating this suspicious fire that consumed a garage at the Kevin Cox property on Painter Hollow Road off Route 28 in Fort Ashby.

An apparent electrical fire Monday afternoon displaced a Springfield family who was not at home at the time of the incident.

Numerous fire companies responded to a fire inside a state Route 28 residence located in the area of the Hillbilly Crab restaurant Monday afternoon.

Authorities say they've found the second case of rabies in Mineral County this year.

A Fort Ashby man is undergoing a series of rabies shots and his two springer spaniels are quarantined after encountering a rabid raccoon recently.

Brenda Lynch of Ft. Ashby, W.Va., smiles for the camera during the 10th Hooley Pub Crawl in downtown Cumberland Saturday afternoon.

Dawnview Center in Fort Ashby, W.Va. recently presented employees with service award pins at a luncheon held in their honor.

Laura Husk and Troy Oster escaped an apparent accidental fire that destroyed their mobile home early Tuesday, thanks to their two dogs that perished in the blaze.

The Frankfort Public Service District will conduct a public meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Short Gap Volunteer Fire Department to provide information and receive input on Phase I of the Northern Mineral County ...

Though Mineral County Day at the state Legislature is quickly approaching, the planning committee is still short on donated funds from businesses for the reception.

'What happens in war happens' In 2004, photographs of abuses at Abu Ghraib shocked the world.