Clarksburg, WV

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center in Harrison County is moving from Bridgeport City Hall to the Harrison County Courthouse. The new location opens Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. Residents who were victims in the August flooding in Harrison County are able to speak with representatives from FEMA and the Small Business Administration…

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Police in Harrison County arrested one person in connection to a stabbing of a woman. Clarksburg Police arrested Tre Plaugher, 31, of Clarksburg. He’s accused of stabbing a woman in the stomach area. The wound was around 1.5 inches wide. The stabbing followed a verbal altercation . Police charged Plaugher with malicious…

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Early voting turnout in Mineral County and across West Virginia has been running higher than expected for the 2026 mid-term election.

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Police in Harrison County arrested two people in connection to the abuse of a middle school-aged student. The child reported to school with bruising consistent with abuse. The resulting investigation ended with the arrests of Willie Miles, 59, of Clarksburg, and Denise Holt, 45, also of Clarksburg. Investigators said the child had…

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A Clarksburg woman charged in the killing of her mother in 2025 is now reportedly competent. The Harrison County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that Shanna Van Norman, 42, of Clarksburg, was restored to competency at William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital in Weston. She has been transferred to North Central Regional Jail. Van Norman…

Barbara Darlene “Bobby Dew” Ryder, 79, of Thornwood, passed away Friday, October 2, 2026, at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg. Born May 29, 1947, in Thornwood, she was a daughter of the late Tracy and Salley Starks Lambert. Bobby Dew was a member of the Thornwood Community Church, she enjoyed working in the woods with […]

Veldia May Hess, 84, of Reynoldsville, passed away on Monday, September 28, 2026 at the United Hospital Center in Bridgeport. She was born in Clarksburg, August 18, 1942, a daughter of the late Sewell Neil and Ernestine Lena Moore Day. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Charles Edward Hess, Sr., whom she […]