Fayette County News

Twenty-one lawsuits were filed over alleged sexual misconduct inside West Virginia's prisons within the past five years, a legislative panel learned Tuesday.

Oak Hill police say they found cocaine in plain view when they executed a search warrant early Thursday morning and arrested two people.

Fayette County welcomed the Boy Scouts of America for an official announcement that puts southern West Virginia in the national spotlight.

The Oak Hill Police Department and the Fayette County Sheriff's Department arrested two people Thursday after executing a search warrant at an Oak Hill home.

"We won!A A ? Don Striker, National Park Service superintendent for the New River Gorge National River, couldn't wait to get those words out of his mouth Wednesday when it was announced that the Boy Scouts of America would be making Fayette County its permanent home for not only a high adventure base but for its National Scout Jamboree.

The charges stem from a fight between two men near Ansted. ANSTED- -- Fayette County sheriff's deputies arrested an Ansted man on charges of malicous wounding.

The Southern Appalachian Labor School at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery is hosting two workshops on lead and mercury exposure.

Hunger in the United States is at a 14 year high according to a published report released this week.

The Boy Scouts of America will reveal plans for a new facility being developed near the New River Gorge.

Henry Clay Jenkins faces new charges of domestic battery. OAK HILL- -- A Fayette County man facing murder charges in the death of his son is arrested on other charges.

It started with a weird tingling, then numbness in her fingers and hands. She shook it off, assuming it was just a byproduct of her rheumatoid arthritis.

The Southern Appalachian Labor School, based at West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, will hold four workshops in Fayette County this week to help residents understand risks from exposure to lead and mercury.

A former tax official has pleaded guilty to embezzling about $55,000 from the Fayette County Sheriff's Tax Office.

The West Virginia Blazers season doesn't start until January, but the team will have some fun as they play some coaches in Fayette County.

Around 1,500 acres on Beury Mountain in Fayette County were sold last Friday to a conservation group, according to Jim Woltz, president of Woltz and Associates in Roanoke, Va.

State workers in southern West Virginia got a chance to weigh in on a proposal to increase their premiums Tuesday night.

Former chief tax deputy Thomas Woodrum entered a guilty plea in Fayette County Circuit Court Tuesday to an information charging him with one count of felony embezzlement.

A former Fayetteville mayor, recorder and councilman pleads guilty to charges of embezzlement.

A 31-year-old Fayette County man was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison Friday for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

The U.S. Attorneys Office said Ezra Roberson, 31, of Hilltop in Fayette County, was sentenced to 57 months in prison.