Jury selection begins in case of man charged with assaulting WV senator
By Staff reports Jury selection began Wednesday in the case against a man charged with malicious assault in the beating of then-candidate Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan. Jonathan Porter, 42, of Holden,...
View ArticlePolice: Current, past Boone school board members under investigation
By Giuseppe Sabella West Virginia State Police are investigating Mark Sumpter, a former member of the Boone County Board of Education, and Danny Cantley, a current member, as part of an embezzlement...
View ArticleTrial approaches for South Charleston man charged in child's killing
By Kate White Before jurors decide the fate of a South Charleston man accused of killing and stuffing a 2-year-old boy in a freezer, prosecutors must decide which charge they want him to be found...
View ArticleNC man gets max sentence in Boondocks shooting death
By Kate White Jerome Sutton said Thursday that he knows a North Carolina man didn't set out to kill his brother during a shootout last year at a North Charleston bar. But Jacques Slade, of Gastonia,...
View ArticleBlankenship moved to halfway house
By Staff reports With less than two months left in his federal prison sentence, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been moved to a halfway house in Phoenix, according to the U.S. Bureau of...
View ArticleMan convicted of sexual assaults asks judge to reconsider sentence
By Kate White Prosecutors asked a Kanawha County judge on Friday to allow the state parole board do its job in the case of an East Bank man, who has served nearly eight years of a possible 35-year...
View ArticleBody reportedly found in Kanawha River in Nitro
By Staff reports The Nitro Police Department is investigating after a body was found in the Kanawha River near 12th Street, a Kanawha County 911 dispatcher confirmed. Media outlets report police...
View ArticleOn file: March 26, 2017
MarriagesThe following people filed for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between March 16 and 23, 2017: Mark Christopher Ratliff, 28, and Crystalyn Spring Sowards, 33, both of Cross Lanes. Douglas...
View ArticleCrime Report: March 26, 2017
The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department between March 16 and 23, 2017: East District:Lee Street East 200 block, petit larceny, March 16, 2 p.m. Lee Street East 200...
View ArticleMaryland woman convicted in fatal drunken driving wreck
By The Associated Press MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Maryland woman has been found guilty in a drunken driving accident in West Virginia that killed two women. Media outlets report a Berkeley County jury on...
View ArticleTwo wounded in hotel shooting early Saturday
By Staff reports The victims of a double shooting early Saturday morning tell police they don't know who fired between 10 and 15 shots through the window of a Kanawha City hotel room where they were...
View ArticleMagistrate: Effort to discredit it preceded end of domestic violence program
By Kate White In the six months leading up to news last week that Kanawha County's domestic violence court would disband, Kanawha Magistrate Julie Yeager said five of her decisions have been appealed...
View ArticleWV jails photocopy mail and destroy originals
By The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia authorities say the regional jail system has revamped its inmate mail policy so inmates receive photocopies of all mail from family...
View ArticleDiesel spills after fatal Greenbrier County crash
By Giuseppe Sabella Authorities in Crawley worked through Monday afternoon to clear a scene where one person died and a shipment of diesel spilled near the Shawvers Crossing area. About 300 gallons of...
View ArticlePolice identify man found dead in Kanawha River
By Staff reports Nitro police say the man found dead in the Kanawha River on Saturday afternoon was from Jackson County. Authorities found the body of Chris Woodall, of Ravenswood, on a stretch of the...
View ArticlePolice: Charleston woman kept dead cats in refrigerator
By Staff reports The Charleston Police Department arrested a 31-year-old woman Friday after authorities allegedly found several dead cats at her apartment, including one in the refrigerator and...
View ArticleMan might not have had a gun at Littlepage shootings
By Kate White After a 19-year-old woman was shot to death on Charleston's West Side last Fourth of July, police described a shootout between two men, Danny Fortune and Clarence Murray. Murray was...
View ArticleKanawha man admits sex abuse, assault of girls
By Kate White During an investigation into claims made that a Kanawha County man sexually abused a 5-year-old girl, Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies discovered that the man had sexually assaulted...
View ArticleTrial for man charged in beating of now-WV senator moved out of Logan
By Kate White A judge agreed Monday to move out of Logan County the trial for a man charged with malicious assault in the beating of then-Senate candidate Richard Ojeda. The trial for Jonathan Porter,...
View ArticleEx-Roane sheriff Williams gets home confinement in meth theft
By Kate White SPENCER - A former Roane County sheriff was sentenced Tuesday to home confinement for stealing methamphetamine from a police locker, despite a prosecutor's request for prison time....
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