FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Members of the Marion County School System are already working to adjust after-school programming as a result of the DOGE cuts. Donna Heston A recent announcement that the AmeriCorps Flipside Afterschool Program would be a part of large-scale federal cuts has resulted in at least a 50 percent planned drawback of the number…

BECKLEY, W.Va. – A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced for his role in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Steven Nicholas Wimmer, 25, of Bluefield has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the death of inmate Quantez Burks in March 2022. His sentence will…

History was made Thursday afternoon, as the conclave of Catholic Cardinals chose Robert Francis Prevost to be the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. Prevost, who will now go by the name “Pope Leo XIV,” is the first American-born Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, as he is originally from the Chicago area.…

BELVA, W.Va. — Three people in Nicholas County are charged with child neglect as a result of a shooting investigation. Bobby J. Moore (WVDCR) Bobby J. Moore, 28, Caroline A. Stewart, 32, and Connie S. Moore, 58, were all arrested Thursday and charged with felony child neglect. According to the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Office, an investigation…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Testimony before U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in federal court in Charleston disputed whether the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its black lung screening program is actually shut down. Lawyers representing a West Virginia coal miner contend staff layoffs announced for NIOSH have made black lung screening programs impossible to…