Hampshire County News

Hunting continues to be one of the oldest and most revered of our traditions and, with all due respects to its detractors, it should be.

The Division of Natural Resources says a West Virginia turkey hunter was shot and killed on the first day of the fall season.

Overeaters Anonymous meets at 6 p.m. every Wednesday at Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, at Washington and King streets.

Valley Health Systems is seeking to get an OK from the state to build a $30 million facility.

The brown, black and orange-trimmed 1930 Ford Model A on display this weekend at the first Norwalk Festival could end up in your driveway with the purchase of only one $5 raffle ticket.

As members of the West Virginia Public Service Commission convened here this week for the first public hearing on the multi-state Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline, both opponents of the plan as well as those who support the project turned out.

Work on Corridor H between Bismarck and Forman is included as part of a $4.5 million appropriation secured by Sen.

The biographer for a former Army reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal says the soldier's agent should stop using a Web site designed to promote the book and instead build his own "to promote Lynndie England, 'the celebrity.'" In his response to a lawsuit over copyright and financial issues, Virginia writer Gary Winkler ...

Former Army reservist Lynndie England, who tells her side of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in a new book, is suing her biographer over their business dealings.

Former state lawmaker Jerry Mezzatesta has agreed to resign his job with the Hampshire County board of education in exchange for full retirement benefits.

A 53-year-old Richmond, Va., man pleaded guilty recently in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg after being arrested in July 2006 in Hampshire County by a deputy and FBI agents.

The Hampshire County Board of Education has agreed to pay roughly $192,000 to former state lawmaker Jerry Mezzatesta in exchange for his resignation.

Former state lawmaker Jerry Mezzatesta has agreed to resign his job with the Hampshire County board of education in exchange for full retirement benefits.

While financial aid comes in many different forms, one local organization is making a pledge to give back to students in the area.

David Kessel has a reason to be proud of a West Virginia scholastic achievement - he and 11 of his relatives have all won the state's Golden Horseshoe award.

A Hampshire County teenager is dead after an accident early Thursday morning on Route 10 near Romney.

The Hampshire County Board of Education held a special meeting Monday, June 29, 2009, at the offices of the Hampshire County Board of Education.

Monday marked the beginning of construction of the new Hampshire Memorial Hospital, which is expected to bring top-of-the-line health care and jobs to the area.

The Paw Paw Library and Hospice of the Panhandle are hosting a hospice and advance care planning open house from 9 a.m. to noon July 22 at the Paw Paw Library.

A Friday afternoon accident on state Route 127 resulted in a fatality and two in-juries, ac-cording to West Virginia State Police.