Jefferson News

A federal grand jury indicted a South Charleston man Wednesday on charges that he received and possessed child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

While some are scoffing at Tri-State Racetrack's claim that the smoking ban is to blame for deep revenue losses in a down economy, its declines have been significantly steeper than those of the state's other major gambling operations.

He said, "The chickens have come home to roost." Now who should be charged with treason? * Why would anyone buy Obama's universal health care plan? Do they honestly believe it will work? It is the biggest farce ever.

Dispatchers said a house in Tornado burned to the ground Thursday evening. Kanawha emergency dispatchers received the call regarding a fire on Vorpe Road about 6 p.m. Firefighters from Tornado, Lakewood, West Side, Alum Creek, Jefferson and Institute were at the scene.

Officials say they are optimistic that a newly formed economic alliance zone can give the region the extra tools it needs to draw in additional business.

Sheriff's deputies discovered half a dozen blasting caps while conducting a drug bust in Jefferson on Thursday.

Lawmakers could soon give their nod to a bill that they say is the "better deal" local residents had hoped for on table games.

Millions of dollars in renovations to the Market Street Bridge are expected to begin in the next year.

Kanawha County and other counties and municipalities with racetracks could get more tax revenue from table games under a bill on the special session call - if Jefferson County votes to allow table games.

Graduation marks the start of a new journey for students, but members of the senior class at Washington High School are used to dealing with new beginnings.

Would-be bandits no longer have to bootleg Yuengling beer into West Virginia. In a reverse of the 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit," which focused on the transportation of Coors beer east of the Mississippi River, Yuengling had a short way to go and took a long time to get to West Virginia.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer will be the keynote speaker at the West Virginia Democratic party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Charleston.

Jefferson County officials say it's time for a mobile home near Harpers Ferry to go.

A Kanawha County teenager was arrested early Thursday after police allegedly found him breaking and entering a building in Jefferson.

Rather than work with 55 counties and about 230 municipalities, the West Virginia Emergency Response Commission wants to work with 11 regional planning and development councils to develop and administer hazardous mitigation plans statewide.

Police stopped to check out a hitchhiker along U.S. 60 in Jefferson and found he was wanted for probation violations in Ohio.

Tiffany Farmer wanted a little bit of the best of both worlds: to be away from home to experience college, but still be a reasonable distance from home.

Helicopters will soon crisscross West Virginia's forests as part of this year's gypsy moth suppression program.

The West Virginia School Building Authority on Monday approved $124.2 million in school construction funds that will be allocated during fiscal years 2009 and 2010.

Barbara Campbell sees the future in trees. She's not alone. Campbell, along with other citizen volunteers and Town of Bath officials, have a green agenda that includes planting trees as well as taking care of existing ones.