Belle News

Bill Hopkins, plant manager for DuPont's Washington Works facility, is retiring.

BELLE, W.Va. - A Kentucky company is buying West Virginia heavy equipment distributor Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co.

Starting next fall, children in all West Virginia pre-kindergarten programs will receive one meal each day, as part of policy changes approved by the state Board of Education Thursday.

The following people applied for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between Dec.

Trees were knocked down across the region, including this one laying on power lines at the intersection of Woodmere Road and Connell Road in Charleston's South Hills neighborhood.

Deputies arrested a Belle woman for allegedly stealing cash and credit cards from a Rand woman who let her into her home to use the telephone.

Kanawha County officials are trying to pressure local Republican leaders into approving satellite voting in time for the May 2010 primary.

An environmental activist fasting at the state Capitol over mountaintop removal mining has been arrested on a trespassing charge from October.

A driver's tip that a woman appeared to be beating a child along U.S. 60 resulted in felony child abuse charges.

State Police arrest a Belle man for allegedly running an active methamphetamine lab.

A Kanawha County man was arrested for allegedly operating a methamphetamine lab out of a motor home on Sky Drive near Witcher Creek on Sunday.

About 25 pounds of ammonia gas was released at Dupont's Belle plant late Thursday.

Kanawha County commissioners say time is running out for them to authorize more early voting locations around the county, and they're pushing local political party leaders to quickly take a position on the issue.

A convenience store chain is donating money to 22 schools in West Virginia. One Stop, headquartered in Belle, announced that they have secured $750 grants for 22 West Virginia schools through the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance Program.

A cornucopia of West Virginia's rich heritage, going back to its painful birth in the strife of the Civil War, is the theme of a new rifle designed by a state native who has lived in Colorado almost four decades.

Retirement seems to agree with Warren Reed. The 78-year-old Pineville man has spent the last two decades collecting Griswold cast iron pieces, though that is only a portion of what keeps him busy.

Kanawha Trail Club: will sponsor a hike at noon Sunday at New River National River -- endless wall trail.

Over two decades, Sharon Richardson has probably mentored 20 to 25 school nurses who got their start in eastern Kanawha County schools, said lead school nurse Brenda Isaac.

Monday night, the Health Department held the first of three town hall meetings, giving concerned parents a chance to ask questions about H1N1.

If you have caught any late-night programming on the Cartoon Network during the "Adult Swim" series, you may have noticed a rather ghoulish troop of animated behemoths of decidedly stony demeanor, who appear to be a combination of superhero troop and death-metal band.