Spencer News

Ella Pearl Bradley, 80, wife of Jackie Bradley, formerly of Looneyville and Spencer, W. Va., died peacefully on Saturday, March 1, 2014, at her residence.

Wanda Lee Richards Bailey, 89, of Spencer, W.Va., passed away on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, at the Roane General Hospital, Spencer.

Freda Fern Anderson, 78, of Reedy, Wirt County, was greeted by her husband as she passed into the arms of her Savior on Feb. 11, 2014, at the Greenbrier Manor in Lewisburg, W.Va.

An Ohio priest convicted of taking a 10-year-old boy to West Virginia for sex more than two decades ago is set to be sentenced.

The southbound lanes of Interstate 79 just north of Charleston were briefly closed by a boulder that fell around 11 a.m. Flooding, or the threat of flooding, closed two dozen school systems and led to traffic tie-ups around the state.