Numerous Mineral County streams and creeks rose quickly a little after midnight Thursday, resulting in 58 calls for assistance in a little more than six hours, according to a dispatcher with the county's Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security.
Kyle Adam Rosier, 22, New Creek, was struck and killed as he walked along U.S. Route 220 at Moorefield on Saturday about 5 a.m., according to West Virginia State Police.
Funding is provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and is part of the Obama Administration's plans to modernize the nation's infrastructure, jumpstart the economy and create jobs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Middle Mar. 23--KEYSER, W.Va. -- Nearly 50 firefighters battled a brush fire near Keyser Sunday afternoon that covered 10 acres along Abrams Ridge atop Limestone Mountain.
The Keyser Rescue Squad may not be able to continue to operate if additional funding is not soon obtained, members told the Keyser City Council Monday evening.
A crack in the flue of a 129-year-old Burlington home was likely the cause of a fire that destroyed it Wednesday afternoon, leaving a Mineral County couple homeless, according to fire officials.
A woman was wounded in the arm when she apparently attempted to take a shotgun from her 20-year-old son at the family's residence on Grayson's Gap Road early Monday afternoon.
The parents of 17-year-old Keyser High student Ashley McHenry want to know why an ambulance wasn't called immediately Friday afternoon when Ashley suffered a seizure and became unconscious.