Cheat Lake News

Marion County Schools - and county teachers - will soon be receiving some stimulus money.

The families of five people killed in a fiery 2007 crash are suing a convicted drunken driver and two bars that served him for negligence and wrongful death.

A multi-vehicle accident killed one person, injured others and shutdown Interstate 68 on Sunday afternoon.

The United Way of Marion County, struggling since last fall to make its $335,000 goal, came on strong at the finish to reach its target for the second year in a row.

Twenty-one year-old Samuel Ramsey III, according to court reports, apparently wanted 44-year-old Lyndon Vanfossen dead.

The United Way of Marion County held its Celebration of Service luncheon Tuesday, celebrating the successful completion of the 2008-09 campaign.

People living near the scene of a recent murder near Fourth Street were still in shock Sunday about what happened.

When Carpendale, W.Va., native Gary Clites sat down to write his first novel, the thriller "Seneca Wood," he decided to set it in the two places he's spent his life, the Chesapeake Bay area and West Virginia.

Two weeks after a North Carolina developer announced a plan to build a standalone office building for the FBI on the site of the former Holley Hotel on Quarrier Street, a rival proposal near the corner of Virginia and Clendenin streets has emerged.

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 ; 05:59 PM Post Comment Updated Tuesday, June 23, 2009 ; 06:43 PM Workers say they are busy with the final phase.

After six years of leadership under Allen Sharp, the town of Star City, in Monongalia County, has a new mayor.

The state police are investigating a break-in at a Catholic church in Cheat Lake.

May 30, 2009 Geology! Rocks at West Virginia State Parks This Summer Special to Huntingtonnews.net Geology! Rocks , presented by the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, will be featured 16 times at 15 West Virginia state parks and forests this summer as one of many special outdoor learning activities and programs .

The three day weekend and the unofficial start of summer has many people outdoors.

A couple is suing a man, claiming he attacked them at a Cheat Lake bar. Eric and Davina Schmidt filed a lawsuit April 22 in Monongalia Circuit Court against Eric Kendzerki.

Emergency crews responded to an accident involving a Monongalia County school bus Thursday afternoon.

The stage is now set for the 2009 West Virginia Strawberry Festival as junior royalty members were selected Saturday during the Junior Royalty Pageant at Buckhannon-Upshur High School.

Other Stories by Courtney Dunn MORGANTOWN -- A woman was flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital after crashing her motorcycle into a median on I-68 Saturday afternoon.

Richard Robbins can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5660. A decision by West Virginia to use federal stimulus dollars to construct the Mon/Fayette Expressway to the outskirts of Morgantown was applauded ...

The family of Herb Burnette is raising money to provide Cheat Lake Elementary School with a defibrillator in his memory.