Kenna News

Betty Price took some favorite family recipes and whipped them into a successful business.

I have a bad habit of not giving young people enough credit. Specifically, I worry about whether the next generation will work as hard, be as smart or as successful as this one.

A Ripley High School student who loves watching West Virginia sunsets has been chosen as the recipient of the 2009 West Virginia Scholar Award.

A proposed third audit of the McDowell County school system could lead to a long-awaited return to local control.

Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 ; 05:08 PM Post Comment Updated Monday, June 15, 2009 ; 07:34 PM Sammy Stewart suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head inside CAMC Memorial's ICU Unit Saturday.

The West Virginia Board of Education has agreed to give the Lincoln County school board provisional control over the county's school system, which has been under the state's control since 2000.

Deputies arrested a Kenna man after finding meth and a large amount of cash in his car during a traffic stop.

Authorities have identified a motorcyclist who was killed while trying to avoid plywood that had fallen from a truck onto Interstate 77.

The name of the victim killed in a Sunday motorcycle crash has been released. Police say James L. Meredith, 59, of Elkview was riding in a group of several motorcycles when a van also traveling north lost a load of approximately five sheets of plywood.

As required by the state's Safe Schools law, the Jackson County Board of Education acted last Thursday night to expel a Ripley High freshman girl for her part in an injury inflicted on gym teacher Tess Gump.

State Board of Education members fully returned the Hampshire County school system to local control at a meeting Wednesday afternoon.

The following people applied for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between March 27 and April 3: William Sidney Pauley, 37, and Jeanne Marie Hudson, 36, both of Alum Creek.

Now...who will do the honors of bringing down the building? SOUTH CHARLESTON -- The big question lately is who will push the button to blow up the former Union Carbide headquarters building in South Charleston Saturday morning? Chris Belcher had the highest e-Bay bid for the right to push the button.

The State Board of Education voted Tuesday to take over the Preston County school system after auditors found continuing problem with county's finances, hiring practices and facilities management.

I was looking for a new girlfriend/wife and decided to join the Cherry Blossoms Web site.

A Kenna man faces seven felony counts of child abuse for allegedly repeatedly injuring his girlfriend's 17-month-old child over a course of several weeks.

Two Ohio brothers were arrested on Dudden Fork near Kenna after they wrecked a car stolen in Akron, OH, early this morning at the Kenna interchange on I-77. According to information from Sgt.

A man is dead after his car flips several times in Jackson County. It happened at about 10 a. m. Sunday.

Accepting the position of principal at Kenna Elementary was like "coming home" for Kerynn Sovic.