A Medal of Honor recipient’s portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...

Charles was born July 18, 1937, to the late William and Cora Mae McDowell in Kearneysville, West Virginia ... Charles is a veteran of the Vietnam War; served two tours of duty in that country.

A Medal of Honor recipient's portrait and citation are now out of a courthouse closet and back up on a courthouse wall. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph recently ran a letter to the editor from Ed ...

McDowell County, the southernmost county in West Virginia (WV), was created in 1858 and named in honor of James McDowell, the governor of Virginia from 1824 until 1844. Its county seat is at Welch.

Muhammad operates the Torchlight Academy Black History tours year-round, especially during black history month and Juneteenth. He says the words etched in stone is a sign that delineates segregation, ...

West Virginia, and the geographic center of the state is located near Sutton. In 1772, at Bulltown, a family of Delaware Indians was massacred by frontiersmen and a battle was fought there during the ...

It was established under Article VI of the West Virginia Constitution following the state's split from Virginia during the American Civil War in 1863 ... The state's most populous county, Kanawha ...

Dr. Ingrida Barker says there was a misunderstanding after the game that left the public and an assistant football coach with ...

On Friday morning, the McDowell County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported bomb threat at the McDowell County Courthouse in downtown Marion.As a precautionary measure, the courthouse and ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

What is happening in the occupied West Bank is a war on the very idea of a Palestinian state. It is a war of Judaisation and settlement expansion; a war on resistance, on the Palestinian Authority ...

proposing that Virginia seize what some would insist it never really surrendered in 1861, in the opening months of the Civil War: West Virginia. In one fell swoop, Virginia — the 12th-largest ...