Ravenswood News

POINT PLEASANT a ' Viand St. will add a restaurant next week as Panchoa TMs Mexican Cantina is set to move to a new location.

George Washington High School Patriot Band will host its annual Spaghetti Dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the school.

Bad news keeps snowballing in the Great Recession. The Mountain State has lost about 70,000 jobs - one-tenth of its employment - in the past two years, according to Workforce West Virginia.

More than 100 counts of alleged sexual abuse and assault were filed Wednesday against a Ravenswood man after he turned himself in at the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

In Jackson County, a Ravenswood man was arrested toady on 117 counts of sexual assault.

America isn't a country that can survive by offering services. It need to make - " and sell - " things.

RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. - When Henry Kaiser arrived 55 years ago, this place was no place - "a rural problem area," the government called it, so poor and isolated that the population had dropped 15% since 1940.

Authorities inspect the Ravenswood police car involved in a crash during a pursuit that began in Wood County and ended when two men rammed Sgt.

Two men were behind bars Thursday after allegedly leading officers on a high speed chase on Interstate 77 that sent two police officers to hospitals.

A Thursday police chase on and off of Interstate 77 started in Wood County and ended in Jackson County with a crash, two men in custody, two officers injured and at least three police cruisers damaged.

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One year to the day, and Albert DeLong says it feels like it was yesterday he was told he would no longer have a job at the Century Aluminum Plant in Ravenswood, W.Va. "It was shock just like everybody.

Big Lots says it is not to blame for a woman's alleged injuries, including a pacemaker the woman says she had to have implanted, as the result of a fall she sustained while attempting to open a door at its Ravenswood store.

Governor's School for the Arts has postponed auditions scheduled for today and Saturday at East Fairmont High School in Fairmont.

Temp: 24.0 F Wind Chill: 18 F Jeremy Gibley takes home the gold! And by gold we mean a brand new 32" HDTV.

Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the plant's closure. Century officials say to reopen the plant, they would need a power contract, a competitive labor contract and steady aluminum prices.

Police Briefs Arrests made in offender sweep State Police and the U.S. Marshals conducted a sex offender compliance sweep in Mason and Jackson counties that resulted in several arrests.

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 ; 05:23 PM Post Comment Updated Thursday, January 28, 2010; 05:37 PM A Sex Offender Registry compliance sweep was conducted in Jackson and Mason Counties in West Virginia Monday through Wednesday.

To spur commercial development, Gov. Joe Manchin is proposing a state constitutional amendment that would allow officials to cut taxes on manufacturing inventory and equipment.