3 days ago · ELKINS – Heavy rainfall coupled with snow melt is causing flooding throughout the area today, forcing street and road closures and early dismissals at schools in multiple counties, including Randolph. At approximately 12 p.m., the National Weather Service in Charleston issued a Flood Warning through Saturday morning in the …

Dec 31, 2024 · Photo courtesy of the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office Randolph County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a car crash on the Georgetown Road early Friday morning to find the driver and passenger of this crash left prior to first responders arriving on scene.

4 days ago · The Northern District of West Virginia has had a number of excellent U.S. attorneys over the past half-century. Add outgoing U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld to that list. Ihlenfeld, who served as top prosecutor during the Biden and Obama administrations, stepped down earlier this month. In total, he served as U.S. attorney for 10 years. “Serving […]

Jan 4, 2025 · At a time when both public and private colleges and universities in West Virginia are struggling financially, does it make any sense to gift $5 million in taxpayer dollars to a private vocational college based in Steubenville, Ohio — essentially to move into West Virginia and offer the same services as the state’s community and […]

Dec 31, 2024 · ELKINS — Probable cause was found Monday in the case of an Elkins resident who allegedly beat a sleeping man with a baseball bat. Jeremey Keith Schoonover, 46, who is facing felony charges of malicious wounding and burglary, appeared in Randolph County Magistrate Court on Monday morning with his attorney. He is currently being held […]

Jan 6, 2025 · On Friday, a Randolph County Board of Education representative told The Inter-Mountain that the public hearings and BOE vote on closing the Harman K-12 School will be held tonight, even if classes in all the county schools have been canceled for the day due to the weather. Randolph County Schools sporting events and other extra-curricular […]

3 days ago · Mary Ellen Hinchman, 92, years, a resident of Elkins, passed away Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in the Davis Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be under the direction of the Tomblyn Funeral Home of Elkins for Mary Ellen Hinchman. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.tomblynfuneralhome.com.

Jan 11, 2025 · Now that West Virginia’s rolling mountains have turned from green to fall’s signature patchwork colors, and then to bare limbs waiting for spring’s breath of life. Now that the cold and snow has arrived to the state and to Morgantown. Now that fall’s days have expired and we are officially in winter, it feels like […]

2 days ago · The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar Kelley Floodwaters from Friday’s intense rains continued to rise in some parts of the area Saturday morning. Officials blocked off the entrance to Glendale Park in Elkins, as floodwater covered the park’s roads and fields.

Jan 13, 2025 · Declan Madden takes a break from sledding down the hill at Davis & Elkins College Friday. The 7-year-old received some pointers from his father Joshua, who had made several trips down the hill alongside Declan.