Montgomery News

An Army specialist from Marshall County has died in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Air Force, Julian Berisford's body was expected to arrive Friday at Dover Air Force base in Dela-ware. Berisford's cousin, Randi Jo Chavanak, told the Wheeling Intelligencer that the 25-year-old Ber-isford joined the Army in February 2007 and became a specialist ...

Police depression and suicide will be addressed next week at a conference for law enforcement officers in West Virginia.

Police in West Virginia are considering whether to charge a U.S. Naval Academy student who they say lied about being the victim of a kidnapping and extortion plot.

Police responded to a reported armed robbery late Tuesday at a Raleigh County convenience store.

A former nurse convicted of killing her husband is going to get another chance to convince the state Supreme Court that she deserves a new trial.

The Register-Herald's Newspapers in Education program's first book sale has been a resounding success.

Below is a list of trick-or-treat hours for local municipalities: Ansted - Saturday, Oct.

Katherine Atwater, 97 years of age, has won the Volunteer of the Year award for 2009 for the Southeastern District of the AWVHA.

A former Montgomery police officer who pleaded guilty in July to a civil rights violation was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday in federal court in Charleston.

Fayette County school officials Monday said they are disappointed but are looking to the future following Saturday's resounding defeat of a $49 million bond call.

Two people were reportedly injured Monday evening in a double-vehicle accident in Fayette County, authorities said.

A North Carolina man was killed as the result of a single-car accident near Cyclone early Monday.

By more than a 3-to-1 margin, Fayette County voters rejected a $49 million bond issue Saturday that would have consolidated four high schools and helped fund school renovation projects countywide.

Mobile Office of Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., will make the following stops in Marlinton: 11 a.m. to noon at the Marlinton Post Office, 819 Fourth Ave.; noon to 1 p.m. at McClintic Public Library, 500 Eighth St.

From coast to coast, in the melting pot of the cities and the laid-back life of the country, they arrive with a singular purpose - a chance to walk across the world's second-longest single arch bridge and watch in awe as daredevils plunge into the majestic New River Gorge.

One person is in the hospital and another is in custody after a weekend shooting in Fayette County.

A 37-year-old Fayette County man drove himself to Montgomery General Hospital Sunday afternoon after he was shot in the upper chest and neck area at a home on Morris Drive just outside Montgomery.

One person is shot and another is in custody in Fayette County. Fayette County dispatchers received the call just after 1:30 Sunday afternoon.

A loaded coal truck and an SUV collided head-on Thursday morning in Fayette County, and the SUV driver sustained serious injuries, police said.

Luna, a Great Pyrenees owned by Jim Taylor of Fayetteville, waits in the back of Taylor's car.