Alum Creek News

State Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Friday from 6 p.m. to midnight on U.S. 60 at the intersection of Burning Springs Road, near Belle.

A fire set as a prank Thursday got out of hand and destroyed three vacant buildings.

Editors' Note: "Working in West Virginia," is a recurring feature page in which The State Journal sends staff writer Michael Hupp throughout the state experiencing the variety of jobs that make up the Mountain State.

Lincoln County Delegate Jeff Eldridge said he will announce his candidacy for the District 7 senate seat currently held by Dr.

Alzheimer's Association will hold a fundraiser and will be accepting donations on Sunday at the Wal-Mart at Southridge Center.

Kanawha County Courthouse will celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Day at 10 a.m. in front of the Kanawha County Courthouse steps.

Geraldine Jackson of Charleston, Patty Dillon of Charleston and Joetta Kuhn of Alum Creek, members of the Anne Bailey Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, ring liberty bells Thursday at the end of activities for Constitution Day events at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. District Courthouse in Charleston.

Health experts say people should be concerned, but not to the point of panic. While other states have experienced deaths related to the H-1-N-1 Virus, they knew it would eventually come to West Virginia.

Alum Creek Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a portrait shoot fundraiser from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Alum Creek Fire Station.

West Virginia State Police have made a meth lab bust in Lincoln County. Troopers tell 13News that the lab was discovered in a house located in an upscale neighborhood in Alum Creek.

The school may be gone, but the spirit lives on as graduates of Washington District High celebrate the school's 80th birthday with a reunion for all graduates.

Eleven-month-old Mason Runyan was enamored by the sound of the clippers as Jim Ryan gave him his first-ever haircut at The Barber Shop in Alum Creek.

Kanawha Valley Coin Club will have its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the South Charleston Public Library, 312 Fourth Ave.

A head-on collision sent four people to the hospital this morning, according to reports.

When Steve Marshall was growing up in the Alum Creek area during the 1970s, he and his friends used a small surface of planks sticking up from a shoreline sandbar as a launching pad into the cooling waters of the Big Coal River on hot summer days.

A State Police radio operator who was likely on his way to work in South Charleston was killed in an early morning crash.

Police have released the name of the victim of a fatal wreck on Jefferson Road. Ptl. A.R. Gordon of the South Charleston Police Department said Shawn Lee Aldridge, 42, of Alum Creek in Lincoln County was heading north on Jefferson Road at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when the red 2001 Jeep Wrangler ran off the right side of the road and hit a ditch.

There were two sides to most everything at the world premiere of "Coal Country" at the West Virginia Cultural Center on Saturday night.

Emergency officials in Kanawha County say a man took his own life after his house caught on fire Wednesday morning.

One man is dead after his house caught fire in Alum Creek Wednesday shortly before noon.