Last weekend Charles Town put the finishing touches on an abbreviated month of racing in September with a trio of live ...

TWO LOCAL STREAKS continued on Friday night high school football last night. Depending on who you are rooting for, one is a ...

I called a longtime friend the other day, a fellow sports fan, to catch up, and we spent the first 20 minutes talking about ...

Politicians should be more restrained than Miss America contestants and not aspire to bring about “world peace” during their tenure. Besides the increasing doubtfulness that world peace will happen in ...

My Democrat uncle was elected sheriff in an otherwise completely Republican county in Indiana in the 1950s. As a youngster at the time, I saw how he refused to evict ...

On Thursday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m., the AARP Chapter 799 will hold its monthly meeting at Asbury United Methodist Church at 110 ...

The country’s next president will need a friendly Congress to make his or her policy dreams a reality, but control of the two ...

Stories about John Brown’s historic 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, considered a precursor to the American Civil War, invariably ...

Harriet Pearson, a former lawyer for the tech industry, gave a lecture at Shepherd University on Sept. 24 about possibilities ...

Charles Town Mayor Bob Trainor sat for several hours at a recent Jefferson County Commission meeting waiting his turn to speak. He waited listening to discussions about new hires and ...

A Ranson woman was charged with felony assault for allegedly attacking a man at a Ranson bar on Sept. 2, leaving him with a head laceration and facial fractures.

The Charles Town Library has acquired a new assistive technology to aid those who are visually impaired, dyslexic or who have other reading differences or challenges.