Summersville News

Kanawha County school board members voted unanimously Tuesday to appeal a grievance board decision won by a former Riverside High cheerleading coach and Mary Ingles Elementary cook.

News Board considers appeal of cook's reinstatement Former coach granted right to keep job as cook after accusations of 'disturbing' behavior The Kanawha County school board may soon vote to appeal a West Virginia Education and Public Employee Grievance Board decision that allowed a former cheerleading coach to keep her job as a school cook after ...

Largemouth bass, perhaps the state's most prized game fish, tend to stay close to the discarded Christmas trees placed in West Virginia lakes to create fish habitat.

From eye doctors to astronauts to dirt bike racers, these kids have their focus on the future.

Summersville Mayor Robert Schafer and police sergeant Jason Lanham say a case in which a woman claims Lanham unlawfully detained her after Schafer blocked her return to a gambling parlor should remain in federal court.

First, he lost an arm about six years ago when an all-terrain vehicle flipped inside a Summersville forest, pinning Randy Schoonover for 32 agonizing hours.

Five defendants appeared Monday for sentencing by Nicholas County Circuit Judge Gary Johnson.

A death of a Fayette County infant helped trigger this week's recall of more than two million cribs, according to a Charleston attorney.

Nov. 24, 2009 -- After four U.S. infants died while trapped in the cribs, 2.2 million drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft -- including 147,000 with the Fisher-Price logo -- have been recalled.

A Summersville woman was killed after her car struck a tree and overturned Wednesday night, police said.

A Nicholas County woman was killed after her vehicle flipped over into a creek, deputies say.

Cold and flu season may be a little easier to bear for students and staff at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, thanks to improvements in indoor air quality in buildings across the campus.

High risk groups will be able to get vaccinated from the H1N1 virus in Nicholas County.

This football season has certainly been exciting for two area schools, Point Pleasant High School and Wahama High School.

The Nicholas County Health Department will be giving H1N1 flu vaccinations from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Nazarene Camp on W.Va. 41 in Summersville, a half-mile from the U.S. 19 intersection.

Nicholas County Circuit Judge Gary L. Johnson recently sentenced three defendants to prison.

Law enforcement officials believe that Operation Trick or Treat will clean up the streets for kids this Halloween.

Three-dozen Nicholas County residents are named in a number of arrest warrants as part of what authorities are calling Operation Trick or Treat.

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. -- A Nicholas County man was in jail today, charged with allegedly abusing children in his care.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The reviews of the Wave Petunias are mixed. Libby Tolley, who works at the Department of Agriculture, writes: "I planted about five Wave Petunias in a large pot this past spring.