Welch News

When a train crossing's lights announced an incoming locomotive, a woman and her passengers abandoned a vehicle stuck on the tracks before it was destroyed.

A Mercer County jury last week found a doctor responsible for the death of a McDowell County man and awarded his family $1 million.

WELCH, W.Va. -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin is in McDowell County to mark the opening of a new Juvenile Drug Court.

Hatfield-McCoy Trail Authority executive director Jeff Lusk said trail officials are collaborating with the town of War and the McDowell County Commission on the 80-mile section.

A new 80-mile segment of the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system is expected to bring ATV riders and economic development to three McDowell County municipalities.

Steve Harvey, who hosts a television talk show and the game show "Family Feud," received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday in the radio category.

The film "Oxyana" takes a look at the drug problems facing the community of Oceana in Wyoming County.

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The McDowell County community was saddened to learn of the passing Sunday morning of Officer Shawn Wellman of the Welch Police Department.

There's only one hookah bar in the state of West Virginia, and after a recent Wheeling-Ohio County Board of Health meeting, it appears it will stay that way.

U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall said that the Larry Joe Harless Community Center in Gilbert would receive $5,000 to be used to assist in the purchase of new treadmills.

The McDowell County Commission has tracked down the location of an unmarked cemetery near Havaco - a small un-incorporated community a few miles west of the Welch city limits - and are preparing to work with volunteers from the Boy Scouts of America to initiate clearing efforts at the site.

Benjamin is scheduled to speak at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the McDowell County Courthouse in Welch.

A Northfork area man charged with a trio of felonies, including first-degree armed robbery, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors Monday in a deal negotiated with the McDowell County Prosecuting Attorney's office.

The West Virginia State Police responded Sunday morning to a report of a bomb threat that was called into Stevens Correctional Center in Welch, according to Trooper J.K. Weiss of the Welch Detachment of the West Virginia State Police.

Tour guide Doug Estepp, left, talks about the 1921 murder of Matewan Police Chief Sid Hatfield in front of the McDowell County Courthouse in Welch, W.Va. It's one of several stops on Estepp's West Virginia Mine Wars tour.

Bless all those who tilt at windmills - most especially including the participants in the ReConnecting McDowell project .

Today one family is marking a birthday that is touched by sadness instead of joy.

WELCH, W.Va. -- A new drug treatment clinic in McDowell County has a waiting list of more than 140 people.