French Creek News

An Upshur County grand jury handed down a six-count indictment on sexually related charges to a local couple accused of getting a teenaged girl drunk and photographing her in explicit acts.

He was born April 7, 1934, in Upshur County, a son of the late William Forrest and Loverna Pearl Armstrong Landis.

Buckhannon Mayor Kenneth Davidson said he would request that city police officers not enforce the recently passed smoking ban during the West Virginia Strawberry Festival after four citizens aired their belated grievances Thursday regarding the ban that takes effect today.

Mr. Doyle Richard Carpenter, 92, a resident of Serpell Avenue, Belington, departed this life early Wednesday morning, April 10, 2013, in Hospice Care Regional Impatient Center at Elkins.