Piedmont News

Sue Ellen Cray was still a little girl when her musician cousin Don Redman was leading orchestras in Harlem and writing arrangements for famous jazz names such as Jimmy Dorsey, County Basie and Henry James.

Members of one West Virginia county school board are taking a look at the idea of year-round schools, an issue that has some support from President Obama and Gov.

On a springlike November day, thousands of area citizens toured the new Western Maryland Regional Medical Center Sunday afternoon, coming away by most accounts with a sense of awe at what has sprung forth in the way of modern medical technology and care on Willowbrook Road.

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and its partners will be providing H1N1 vaccinations to children in the following schools this week: Tuesday: King Center Daycare Wednesday: Watts, Flinn, Robins and St.

A number of H1N1 clinic have been scheduled in the region this week. KANAWHA COUNTY In the wake of the first H1N1-related death in Kanawha County, and the continuing effort to curb the virus, the Kanawha County Health Department will continue vaccinating children and high-risk adults in the region.

The Marshall County Board of Education met on Tuesday night to discuss year-round schooling.

An out-of-state education official told legislators that moving all West Virginia schools to a year-round schedule likely would make no difference in student achievement.

Firefighters from at least five area companies responded to this fire on Orchard Street in Keyser about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Former Piedmont Town Clerk Linda Butler has been indicted on an embezzlement charge.

Firefighters from at least five area companies responded to this fire on Orchard Street in Keyser about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

The Mineral County library system and BB&Tbank have joined together to offer area residents a wide range of services in how to help people in tough economic times.

By Hillel Italie Associated Press Decades ago - long before Harvard, long before his books and documentaries - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University.

Piedmont's Homefest Celebration will be held Thursday through Saturday, City Commissioner Susie Clark said.

Mineral County's 2010 tax year business and individual personal property assessment forms will be mailed today.

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.