Piedmont News

A fire with a suspicious origin raged through the Comcast building at 55 North Main St.

Three people were injured in a head-on crash Tuesday morning on Rada Road near Russelldale Road in Mineral County.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is this year's winner of the Ralph Lowell Award, public television's most prestigious honor.

Charleston's city council is continuing its quest to make the city a more walkable community by using a federal grant to install new paths for children walking to school on the East End.

At a time when some Charleston leaders are trying to expand the city's network of hiking and biking trails, City Council members hope to close a little-used pedestrian tunnel that links the East End with an isolated Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Middle Mar. 23--KEYSER, W.Va. -- Nearly 50 firefighters battled a brush fire near Keyser Sunday afternoon that covered 10 acres along Abrams Ridge atop Limestone Mountain.

A hole in a pipeline allowed 4,000 gallons of coal ash slurry to leak into a branch of the Potomac River along the Maryland-West Virginia line, officials say.

Legislators trying to build flexibility into school calendars heard Thursday from one school administrator who doesn't have trouble making up snow days.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. was born in Piedmont, W. Va., on September 16, 1950 to Henry, Sr.

Four Mineral County residents were arrested when Keyser Police executed a search warrant at a West Piedmont Street residence early Monday.

For Henry Louis Gates Jr., the challenge of making a documentary about President Abraham Lincoln was too good to pass up.

"I first encountered Abraham Lincoln in Piedmont, W.Va. When I was growing up, his picture was in nearly every black home I can recall, the only white man, other than Jesus himself, to grace black family walls.

Piedmont resident Michael Lynn Rosier, 43, will serve anywhere from 20 to 75 years in state prison for committing sexual crimes before being eligible for parole.

KEYSER W.Va. - During a special meeting Friday, the Mineral County Sheriff's Office was commended for its work in the arrest of six county men on federal drug charges.

Fire inside a vacant and locked Henderson Avenue residence has been ruled arson.

Heroin and marijuana were seized when Piedmont Police and allied agencies raided four Jones Street apartments Friday night.