Lester News

User-friendly lighting, gleaming hardwood floors, spacious work tables and hefty bookshelves greeted patrons of the new Wheeling Room opened Wednesday at the Ohio County Public Library.

Fire destroys a home in Raleigh County on Tuesday. The home in Eccles was engulfed in flames and burnt to the ground in just a few hours.

BY JOHN CONLEY Associate Editor Wyoming County's annual Community Baby Shower has quickly become the largest in the region.

A Wayne county man is behind bars after allegedly giving an 11 year old boy drugs.

Fire crews on the scene for six hours. BOLT-- -- The fire started just after midnight in Bolt on Monday., Several volunteer fire departments from across Raleigh County were out until 6 a.m. Monday trying to get the house fire under control.

The Sophia Training Center will be hosting municipal training for city officials from Raleigh, Fayette, Greenbrier and Nicholas counties today.

Numerous firefighters battled a Raleigh County brush fire Saturday that authorities said burned 50 to 100 acres.

The fire department couldn't find the source of the leak. Story by Alicia Suka Email Other Stories by Alicia Suka LESTER- -- Some tense moments early Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh County after reports of a possible gas leak.

Fire officials say they're not sure what caused a structure fire at the old Mount View Elementary School in Rock Creek Friday morning.

Lester volunteer firefighters work to extricate a man from an overturned car alongside W.Va. 54 in Glen White Monday.

Lester volunteer firefighters work to extricate a man from an overturned car alongside W.Va. 54 in Glen White Monday.

Carla Nelson described Sunday's Karnival Kuties Beauty Pageant at Independence High School as a stellar success, especially in spite of the wintry weather conditions that swept through southern West Virginia.

A stuck gasoline tanker tied up Lester firefighters for more than eight hours early Wednesday morning after treacherous road conditions caused the truck to lose traction going up a large hill and slide backward ...

A cause has not yet been determined in a house fire that occurred in Glen White Friday.

Temperatures dropping to single digits sent people in need of warmth to the region's human services Thursday, and another bout of cold is expected for tonight.

Like a rookie swinging at every pitch, Justice Menis Ketchum asked about as many questions as the other four Justices combined on the first day of his new job at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

Today is the day. The day that Mac's Toy Fund holds its 78th annual distribution party at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention.

What could cause a man to voluntarily part with the hair on his head, especially when it was such a source of pride that he vowed to never let anyone touch it with the intent of cutting it? In the case of James ...

Preparations continue for the 78th annual Mac's Toy Fund party which is just eight days away.

Preparations continue for the 78th annual Mac's Toy Fund party which is less than two weeks away.