Harpers Ferry News

Workers Daniel Krsul and Adam Ferguson talk Monday about their work on a Civil War-era train station in Duffields, W.Va. 7/14/08 Want to help? Donations to help save a Civil War-era train station north of ...

An inmate who escaped from a Virginia jail last Friday is suspected of stealing a motorcycle in Jefferson County over the weekend, and he remains on the run.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd announced Friday that $8.5 million for two road projects in the Eastern Panhandle has been included in a spending bill that cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee, the panel he ...

She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

National Park Service youth conservation corps members, Caitlin Summers, left and Megan Sullivan, both of Purcellville, Va play a game of croquet in period clothing at Harpers Ferry National Park, Saturday ...

Storms that have hammered the Tri-State area in recent weeks continued Saturday night, this time hitting Berkeley County with winds clocked at 68 mph, weather officials said.

Legendary jazz bassist Jymie Merritt's performance at the Don Redman Heritage Awards & Concert in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., will be his first show away from Philadelphia in more than a decade.

By MATTHEW UMSTEAD Dr. Suresh Benegalrao works on extracting a tooth from Alen Severt of Inwood, W.Va., Friday as Sheila Pangle, right, assists.

' The sounds of hammers clanking on steel rods could be heard in the blacksmith shop in historic downtown Harpers Ferry on Saturday afternoon.

Gettysburg will be the starting point for the first American Odyssey Relay Run Adventure, a 200-mile footrace south to Washington, D.C. The race will be held April 24-25, 2009, and will be conducted among 150 ...

Bob O'Connor is at it again. The Charles Town resident has published his third Civil War-related historical novel in as many years.

Besides our state's unique shape, mountainous landscape and its renowned beauty, our state has a reason to be proud this week.

' Nearly 146 years after the Battle of Harpers Ferry smoke once again drifted across the landscape and the roar of cannon fire echoed throughout the Bolivar Heights battlefield as a living history program ...

' Five of the 15 Jefferson High School students charged last month in connection with school vandalism in March that they contend was merely a senior prank were formally arraigned Monday in Jefferson County ...

"The Night I Saved John Brown" is by John Cummings, who was born in Harpers Ferry, W.Va. "The Night I Saved John Brown" is an adventurous, realistic fiction story of a 13-year-old boy, Josh Connors.

'Proud families and friends gathered Friday as graduates from Harpers Ferry Job Corps crossed the stage to receive their certificates at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown.

A Virginia man who was involved in a redevelopment of the former Old Standard Quarry near Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and who was charged in an alleged scheme involving the Hilltop House Hotel in Harpers Ferry ...

"I think it's horrible. It's embarrassing," say Lisa Bocchetti and Tabatha Jenkins of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

' U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd has helped funnel more than $122 million into Harpers Ferry's state-of-the-art training facility for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and he isn't finished yet.

' Eighth-graders at Harpers Ferry Middle School recognized West Virginia Day a little early this year as part of their West Virginia history class with sack races and Civil War re-enactments Wednesday.