Bluefield News

Twelve candidates are vying June 4 for five seats on the Bluefield Board of Directors.

The fifth ceremony coincides with West Virginia's sesquicentennial and, throughout the year, the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame will sponsor events leading up to the November ceremony.

Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown has struggled to extend a pilot project that placed an officer in the school this year.

Doris "Dot" Wright Fritz, 85, of Rock, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at the GlenWood Park Retirement Center in Princeton.

Born May 8, 1931 in Aflex, Ky., she was a daughter of the late Domenic DeGeorge and Elsie Thompson DeGeorge.

Bluefield was once a thriving coal city. It is now virtually a ghost town, as this photo of abandoned buildings in downtown Bluefield shows.

Officials in two Mercer County cities are hoping to apply for the state's newly expanded home rule program.

One hundred years ago, the Bluefield Civic League of Women earmarked $50 to found a library.

Emergency responders were dispatched to a business in Green Valley following a logging accident Monday.

Mercer and McDowell County legislators said Wednesday that they were in favor of introducing and supporting bills allowing counties to enact their own spay and neuter ordinances.

The Marshall County Historical Society, of which Jane Klug is president, will spearhead events at Riverfront Park and at the society's nearby museum in Moundsville, while the Cockayne Preservation Society will have an observance in Glen Dale.

The Mercer County Sheriff's Department has transferred the investigation into the deaths of approximately 10 pit bull puppies that were discovered last weekend near Bluefield over to the Mercer County Animal Control officer, according to John McGinnis, assistant Mercer County prosecuting attorney.

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- A reward is being offered for information in the dumping of more than 10 dead pit bull puppies outside Bluefield.

A Mercer County man who was hired by operators of four southern West Virginia coal mines to conduct pre-shift inspections in Mine Safety and Health Administration documents, was named in a four-count federal indictment that was returned late Tuesday by a federal grand jury meeting in Charleston.

Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia A federal grand jury has indicted a southern West Virginia mine foreman on safety violation charges.

Nick Rahall recognized the extensive contributions of West Virginia small business owners and entrepreneurs and expressed his continuing support for their efforts to create jobs and grow the economy.

Time is quickly running out for unregistered pit bulls in the city limits of Bluefield.

An investigation into how approximately 10 pit bull puppies died and who dumped them outside the city of Bluefield was underway Tuesday in Mercer County.

Mercer County Animal Control Officer Tracy Monninger tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that a property owner called 911 on Sunday because he smelled an odor.

Mercer County Animal Control Officer Tracy Monninger tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that a property owner called 911 on Sunday because he smelled an odor.