Montgomery News

Nominations for the Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Awards program are being accepted.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with setting two fires that destroyed the gift shop and restaurant at a popular West Virginia tourist attraction, Smoke Hole Caverns.

One facet of the state's economy is booming in the midst of the economic recession: higher education, legislators learned Tuesday.

On Sept. 26, 2008, Matthew Leavitt and Shawn Hutchinson stopped Twan and Lauren Reynolds outside the 7-Eleven in Montgomery and beat and assaulted them.

A former sales clerk at a home improvement center is being accused of discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise in an attempt to woo a man.

The West Virginia Supreme Court says a former nurse convicted of murdering her husband will get a hearing in her bid for a new trial.

Wirt County Assessor Deborah Hennen is back at work after being arrested and charged with trying to intimidate the county's deputy assessors.

One of two inmates who escaped from a work camp last month is back in custody. State corrections officials said Kenneth Ray Hager, 30, turned himself in to Boone County authorities Friday.

The mother of a man fatally shot by police during a chase is suing the city of Charleston.

Gov. Joe Manchin says he will make good on a promise to challenge residents at a Tucker County juvenile detention center to a game of basketball.

An Army specialist from Marshall County has died in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Air Force, Julian Berisford's body was expected to arrive Friday at Dover Air Force base in Dela-ware. Berisford's cousin, Randi Jo Chavanak, told the Wheeling Intelligencer that the 25-year-old Ber-isford joined the Army in February 2007 and became a specialist ...

Police depression and suicide will be addressed next week at a conference for law enforcement officers in West Virginia.

Police in West Virginia are considering whether to charge a U.S. Naval Academy student who they say lied about being the victim of a kidnapping and extortion plot.

Police responded to a reported armed robbery late Tuesday at a Raleigh County convenience store.

A former nurse convicted of killing her husband is going to get another chance to convince the state Supreme Court that she deserves a new trial.

The Register-Herald's Newspapers in Education program's first book sale has been a resounding success.

Below is a list of trick-or-treat hours for local municipalities: Ansted - Saturday, Oct.

Katherine Atwater, 97 years of age, has won the Volunteer of the Year award for 2009 for the Southeastern District of the AWVHA.

A former Montgomery police officer who pleaded guilty in July to a civil rights violation was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday in federal court in Charleston.

Fayette County school officials Monday said they are disappointed but are looking to the future following Saturday's resounding defeat of a $49 million bond call.