Marshall County News

Joe Manchin. Last month, Piedmont Elementary Principal Steve Knighton traveled to Marshall County in the Northern Panhandle, to discuss the year-round schedule at Piedmont, a school in Charleston's East End.

Many residents in Marshall County were startled on Saturday morning by what they thought was an explosion at a facility south of Cameron.

The music of a bagpipe echoed through the hills of Marshall County on Monday as family, friends and fellow veterans escorted the body of U.S. Army Spc.

There is visitation today for specialist Julian Berisford from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Grisell Funeral Home in Moundsville.

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.

One minor injury was reported in a gas plant explosion and fire in Marshall County.

A quiet sense of honor and respect followed the body of fallen U.S. Army Spc. Julian Berisford as it was returned to Moundsville on Thursday.

A coal miner is recovering after an accident Tuesday at the McElroy Mine. According to Consol Public Relations Director Joseph Cerenzia, Kevin Barnhart, 38, of St.

As the Ohio Valley waits to hear when the body of a fallen solider will return to the Ohio Valley for burial, a fund has been set up for Julian Berisford, 25 of Marshall County.

Marshall County Health Department Administrator Ronda Francis wants the public to know there is no swine flu, or H1N1, vaccination shortage in her county.

An Army specialist from Marshall County has died in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Air Force, Julian Berisford's body was expected to be arrive Friday at Dover Air Force base in Delaware.

The family of a Benwood soldier has confirmed he died while serving in Afghanistan.

The body of a Marshall County soldier was on its way back to the United States on Thursday.

Students at John Marshall High School left their school in orderly fashion Tuesday to practice new evacuation plans developed to keep them safe.

Improper training and inadequate policies were the root causes of two fatal coal mine accidents in Marshall County last year, according to the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.

Federal investigators say they can't determine how a foreman for coal producer Consol Energy fell into the Ohio River in northern West Virginia and drowned late last year.

The former treasurer and vice president of the Cameron Emergency Squad will have no further involvement with emergency organizations after pleading guilty to embezzlement.

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The "season of forgetting" that's what Piedmont Elementary Principal Steve Knighton called summer vacation.

Sept. 23 Carla V. Yoho vs. Jarrett A. Blake and Dennis M. Blake PA- Rodney T. Berry; J- Karl * Plaintiff sustained injuries as a direct and proximate result of a collision on Middle Grave Creek Road.