Judge won't dismiss 20-year-old Fayette murder indictment
By By Susan Williams For the Gazette-Mail FAYETTEVILLE - A judge ruled that even though some witnesses are dead and some evidence missing he would not throw out a murder indictment that grew from...
View ArticleTeamsters urge McKesson shareholders to reject CEO pay plan amid opioid probe
By Eric Eyre The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union is urging shareholders of drug giant McKesson Corp. to vote down the company's proposed executive pay plan amid lawsuits and a...
View ArticleMan waves down ambulance after being shot in Charleston
By Staff reports Charleston police were investigating a shooting that left a man wounded Monday evening on the West Side. One man sustained non-life threatening injuries when he was shot at least...
View ArticleWebster out, Cooper in as Charleston police chief
By Staff reports Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster is leaving the post and will become the city's director of public works, city officials announced at a news conference this morning. Lt. Steve...
View ArticleMorgantown landlords to pay $600,000 in sex harassment case
By The Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The Justice Department has settled with the owners and former managers of more than 70 rental properties in the Morgantown area, who will pay $600,000...
View ArticleSinger Landau Murphy Jr. arrested on charges of domestic violence
By Giuseppe Sabella "America's Got Talent" winner Landau Murphy Jr. allegedly sent a woman to the hospital with injuries to her head and face on Monday. A verbal fight turned physical at Murphy's home...
View ArticleTrial begins for man accused of murder in 2015 West Side shooting
By Kayla Asbury Nearly a year after a juror prompted a mistrial, witnesses took the stand Tuesday in the trial of a Charleston man accused of shooting a Jackson County man in 2015 on the city's West...
View ArticleYeager Airport announces appointment of new police chief from CPD
By Giuseppe Sabella A veteran employee of the Charleston Police Department will soon take over as the chief of police at Yeager Airport. Cpt. Eric Johnson will begin his duties at the airport on July...
View ArticleTech Park plans to sue BridgeValley for unpaid rent
By Jake Jarvis The West Virginia Regional Technology Park plans to sue a community college it says hasn't paid rent in more than two years, according to documents obtained by the Gazette-Mail. The...
View ArticleTestimony continues in Charleston murder trial
By Kayla Asbury A man who said he stayed in the same jail pod as Tremaine Jackson testified Wednesday that Jackson spoke about killing a man. Daniel Holt said he was detained in South Central Regional...
View ArticleKanawha costs in Matulis investigation over $8,500 so far
By Lori Kersey So far, Kanawha County commissioners have agreed to pay more than $8,000 to a special prosecutor to handle the case of a Charleston doctor accused of sexually assaulting patients....
View ArticleFor WV to NC pipeline, court says woman must let surveyors on her land
By The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the company developing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in a lawsuit against a woman who sought to keep...
View ArticleRand man sentenced to 30 years in shooting death
By Kayla Asbury Through tears, Lisa Ratliff said in court Thursday that her uncle, Keith Wade Jones, was like a father figure to her. But, she said, that was before he shot and killed her boyfriend...
View ArticleJackson testifies, jury begins deliberations in West Side murder case
By Kayla Asbury After Tremaine Jackson took the stand in own his defense Thursday, attorneys made closing arguments and the jury began deliberations in the case surrounding the shooting death of a...
View ArticleWV man gets prison for gun possession and choking officer with tie
By The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for illegal gun possession and choking a deputy federal marshal by pulling on...
View ArticleNitro Police captain under multiple investigations after argument
By Giuseppe Sabella A video, posted to Facebook on Thursday night, revealed about one minute of an argument between an armed off-duty police captain and several men. Capt. Richard Foster, of the Nitro...
View ArticleCharleston man allegedly sets dog on fire
By Giuseppe Sabella A Charleston man allegedly set a small dog on fire Thursday night. Teddy Estep, 22, scorched the 20-pound dog and forced it to suffer extreme pain, according to a criminal...
View ArticleWest Virginia woman found guilty of concealing corpse
By The Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia woman has been found guilty of concealing a deceased human body. The Herald-Dispatch reports that 48-year-old Alfreda Steele was...
View ArticleSt. Albans man sentenced on child porn charge
By Kayla Asbury A St. Albans man was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for distribution and exhibition of child pornography. Gary Adkins, 33, possessed 291 videos and four images that depicted...
View ArticleMan charged after pursuit that injured two St. Albans officers
By Giuseppe Sabella Kanawha Magistrate Pete Lopez arraigned a Charleston man on Friday after he allegedly led police on car chase that injured two officers and endangered an infant in St. Albans. St....
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