Pocahontas County News

President Barack Obama may not have signed any earth-shattering agreements during his trip to China this week but he did agree with President Hu Jintao to: * Promote cooperation on cleaner uses of coal, including large-scale carbon capture and storage demonstration projects.

Two skunks tested positive for rabies in the Renick area. One was found on the Pocahontas County side of Hillsboro on the week of Nov.

County commissioners decided that libraries in two communities were worthy of taxpayer support, but the donations did not come without a challenge.

Every so often, someone sitting in a big-city office with nothing better to do, often media types with an agenda or an ax to grind, will take a shot at West Virginia, bringing up old stereotypes that ultimately reveal their own ignorance.

Chris Ross has spent 16 years traveling the state, visiting courthouses as part of his career as a real estate paralegal.

Officers of the Pocahontas County Sheriffa s Department arrested five individuals on drug charges Saturday and sought two others believed to be in Virginia.

State Senate Finance Committee chairman Walt Helmick said Tuesday that he believes a $100 million deficit projected for West Virginia state government by the end of the current budget year is a 'conservative figure' that could actually get higher.

Officers of the Pocahontas County Sheriff's Department arrested three individuals on drug charges Saturday morning and the Sheriff expected more arrests later today.

Pocahontas County Commissioners Martin Saffer and David fleming met briefly Saturday morning with West Virginia boundary commission members Charles Sypolt and Curt Keplinger and Highland New Wind Development partners Henry "Mac" McBride and Tal McBride.

Imagine coming home from a holiday visit to find your door kicked in and all your beautifully wrapped Christmas presents - gone from underneath the tree.

Ever heard of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum? No, it is not a hard rocking Christmas music band .

A Massachusetts fugitive wanted for violation of parole stemming from an Oct. 25 armed robbery charge, was arrested in Greenbrier County Thursday evening after he and his girlfriend led police on a 3-mile chase and attempted to flee the scene on foot.

It's going to be another long, cold winter for the dogs at the county animal shelter in Durbin.

Hillsboro Elementary School third grade teacher Pam McCurdy waits at the front of her classroom to greet students as they rush to their desks to begin the day.

Recently released unemployment figures provide just a bit of good news for West Virginia showing a drop by four-tenths of a percentage for September.

The following accident reports were filed in the Pocahontas County Sheriff's Office during the period September 8 to October 20: September 13: Christopher M. Dell, of Alexandria, Virginia was traveling east on Route 66 in a 2004 Dodge SRT and failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection with Route 92.

Lucas Bolyard is one of five students at South Harrison High School searching hundreds of hours of data collected from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County.

There are three things that bind Jane Price Sharp to this community - her family, her church and The Pocahontas Times.

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Millions of people around the world, especially the Far East, believe in the health benefits of the ginseng root.