Nicholas County News

Senators agreed Monday that judges and school boards in West Virginia need to follow the path laid out by Nicholas Circuit Judge Gary Johnson in dealing with truant students viewed as potential school dropouts.

A University of Charleston pharmacy student was remembered Friday. About a 100 people gathered in U-C's auditorium for the memorial of Margaret King.

A Clay County woman died Thursday in a vehicle crash in Nicholas County, police said.

An early Thursday morning accident in Nicholas County leaves one woman dead. Margaret King of Clay County was driving her truck when she hit a patch of ice.

A Clay County woman is dead after an accident Thursday morning in Nicholas County.

Boredom appears to be the leading reason why West Virginia high schoolers are dropping out before earning a diploma, a legislative panel learned Monday.

Though not as time-sensitive as that milk carton sitting in the back of the fridge, coaches want their wrestlers fresh for the season's stretch run.

Twenty West Virginia fire departments and ambulance services are sharing more than $3.4 million in federal grants.

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Students across West Virginia may soon go to school 180 days a year, even students in snowy Preston County.

Authorities say seven patients have been evacuated as a precaution from a low-lying nursing home in Richwood as rivers in Nicholas County and across West Virginia rise.

Mayor Robert Shafer told an assembly of Wood County officials the prospect of partnering the West Virginia National Guard to construct an armory and conference and events center is too good to pass up.

Abuse and neglect cases take up at least a third of a typical circuit judge's time, so the Supreme Court's Court Improvement Program Board this semester is underwriting the first-ever class solely on civil abuse and neglect law at the West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown.

The County Court of Pocahontas County, meeting in regular session in the courthouse in Marlinton on the 11th day of January 1960, appointed Robert S. Jacobson, Attorney at Law, of Franklin, to serve as Prosecuting Attorney of Pocahontas County, for the unexpired term created by the untimely death of Richard F. Currence.

Decades ago, police officers weren't recognized for the good they did, only the bad.

Thousands of children in southern West Virginia returned to school Monday after enjoying an extended Christmas break, thanks to Ol' Man Winter.

Southern West Virginia is the bull's-eye for yet another low pressure system, which meteorologists say will produce accumulating snow in most areas through early Saturday.

Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 ; 03:30 PM Post Comment Updated Friday, January 8, 2010; 04:12 PM Jeremy Lee Hanna, 31, of Nettie, W. Va., was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Thursday.

The State Supreme Court is teaming up with the West Virginia University College of Law to offer a new class focused on child abuse and neglect.

A Nicholas County man was sentenced to two years probation Monday for dealing marijuana from his son's dorm room at Davis & Elkins College.