Kearneysville News

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July 4th might be just around the corner, but Saturday, Millie McDonough was concentrating on another holiday.

A fund to assist with the cost of funeral expenses for the family of a boy who was struck and killed by a MARC train last week has been established at the Kearneysville, W.Va., branch of the Bank of Charles Town, the bank confirmed Tuesday.

A judge has dramatically reduced the sentence for a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to an Israeli diplomat and two pro-Israel lobbyists.

A portion of W.Va. 9 was shut down for more than an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon after a car struck a utility pole and crashed through an insurance office building in Kearneysville.

A vehicle stolen from the scene of a home invasion in Clarke County last week was purchased using a fake name, authorities said Thursday.

From Kearneysville, West Virginia : As the minutes slowly crept past the noon hour above the skies of Nazi-occupied Holland in early fall 1944, nothing could prepare Jefferson County native Allen Russell for what fate had in store for him.

A Clarksville man pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering for his role in a scheme to steal about $1.9 million from his former employer, a local country club, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.

Five West Virginia University graduates will have the unique opportunity to display their artwork at a Pittsburgh gallery Friday .

A man has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $2 million from a Silver Spring country club where he worked.

The leadership of Rock Spring Church near Kearneysville is seeking to gauge public interest in the idea of opening a new private Christian school in Jefferson County in light of the closure of Bolivar Christian Academy earlier this year.

Manchin announces WVU's 2009 class of Foundation Scholars Five top high school seniors receive $68,000 scholarship to attend WVU They want to develop sustainability strategies to repair the planet, teach the future of the world, develop regenerating or prosthetic organs and most of all be Mountaineers.

Howard Guth, the principal at Jefferson High School, was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and two additional misdemeanor traffic offenses.

Two men who allegedly tied up and robbed a 71-year-old Bolivar woman at knifepoint during a home invasion burglary earlier this year have been indicted on kidnapping charges by a Jefferson County grand jury.

Agricultural Research Service scientists are making progress in determining the genes that control pit formation in plums-the first step in a project to develop pitless varieties of this fruit.

If comments made during a public hearing Tuesday evening are any indication, residents are in no rush to vote on Jefferson County's new zoning ordinance.

State and federal flags across West Virginia will be lowered in honor of a soldier who died while stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

A local volunteer firefighter arrived home to a surprise gathering of friends and colleagues after two grueling weeks of hospitalization for injuries he sustained while fighting a blaze earlier this month.

Police said at least three people were arrested Sunday morning after a brawl broke out at a local gentlemen's club in Kearneysville.