Fort Ashby News

Robert Taylor of Cumberland was injured Monday when he lost control of this dump truck on Knobley Road south of the Short Gap Volunteer Fire Company.

Potomac State College of West Virginia University recently announced that the following students have received scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Alicia Taylor, 19, of Fort Ashby, W.Va., is crowned Queen Silvia LXXIII of the Mountain State Forest Festival by West Virginia Lt.

"I think besides the parade I am excited to see the city park. I want to see the Dock Dogs live.

Hoedown tickets remain on sale FORT ASHBY, W.Va. - Tickets remain for Saturday's 16th annual Hoedown sponsored by the Fort Ashby Lions Club.

Robert Haines from Haines and Sons Produce sorts vegetables grown at his farm in Springfield, W.Va., last week during the Farmers Market at the Mineral County Fairgrounds in Fort Ashby, W.Va. The market is open to local growers every Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. through the end of October.

Wearing a white-striped shirt over a brown T-shirt and her hair in a ponytail, Lynndie England looked more like a customer of the small bookstore on Capitol Street than the face of the Iraqi prison scandal.

Donnie Alt from Brookedale Farms prepares mums, decorations and produce Tuesday morning at the farm on Georges Run Road in Fort Ashby, W.Va to get ready for the sixth annual Fall Feast-off to be held Sunday, Sept.

The biographer for a former Army reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal says the soldier's agent should stop using a Web site designed to promote the book and instead build his own "to promote Lynndie England, 'the celebrity.'" In his response to a lawsuit over copyright and financial issues, Virginia writer Gary Winkler ...

The last of six former state correctional officers faces trial for allegedly beating inmates at the maximum-security North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland.

For one of the few times in recorded history a West Virginia governor is set to miss the state's premier hand-shaking event, the Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins.

The Mineral County library system and BB&Tbank have joined together to offer area residents a wide range of services in how to help people in tough economic times.

An early Thursday fire that extensively damaged a commercial building on state Route 28 in Mineral County is being investigated by the West Virginia State Fire Marshal's Office.

Nicole Marie Bright of Fort Ashby has been appointed by Ray Lamora, president of the Mountain State Forest Festival board of directors, as a princess in the royal court of the 73rd Mountain State Forest Festival.

She Wants A Pardon Fort Ashby, Mineral County Lynndie England says she continues to pay for pictures that came out of Abu Ghraib years ago.

Nearly 200 county residents and business owners filled out survey forms on expanding broadband in the county during the Mineral County Fair at Fort Ashby.

The trial of one of several former correctional officers accused of brutalizing inmates has been postponed.

Ashley Kady, representing Frankfort High School, was named the 2009 Mineral County Fair queen Monday night.

As the first day of the Mineral County Fair began, young people from around the area prepared to show animals, some for the first time.

The trial of one of several former correctional officers accused of brutalizing inmates has been postponed.