Person shot on Oakwood Road
By Staff report A person was shot on Oakwood Road in Charleston Sunday, according to a Kanawha County dispatcher. One person was shot in the 100 block of Oakwood Road around 9:20 p.m., according to...
View ArticlePolice: Heroin overdose leads to funeral escort crash
By The Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Authorities say a driver overdosed on heroin behind the wheel and crashed into a police cruiser leading a funeral procession in West Virginia. The...
View ArticleVictim identified in fatal Oakwood Road shooting
By Staff reports Police are searching for multiple suspects after a shooting left one man dead on Sunday night. Jalil Myers, 20, suffered several gunshot wounds in the attack on Oakwood Road in...
View ArticleTrial rescheduled for man accused of threat to office
By Staff reports A trial has been rescheduled for a man accused of threatening to blow up a state office after he was denied unemployment benefits in 2015. Kanawha Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey...
View ArticleEPA order against Ron Foster not politically motivated, judge rules
By Ken Ward Jr. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement action against a Putnam County business was not taken as political retribution against the Republican family that owns the...
View ArticleMotorcyclist dead after collision on Fort Hill, police say
By Staff reports Police say one man is dead after he was involved in a collision while riding his motorcycle Sunday evening. Daniel L. Strait, 75, of Charleston, was transported to CAMC where he was...
View ArticleJustice family coal company sues Kentucky regulators
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A coal company run by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's family has sued two Kentucky regulators individually, claiming they're to blame for the company's reclamation delays that...
View ArticleResidents ignoring jury duty summons cost Wood County
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Officials in one West Virginia county have expressed concern over what they say is the persistent problem of ignored jury summons. Wood County Prosecutor Pat Lefebure said...
View ArticleJudge approves $23M settlement for Century Aluminum employees
By By Lacie Pierson Staff writer Seven years ago, Karen Gorrell sat on a couch in Ravenswood, crying and feeling defeated after she and hundreds of other former Century Aluminum employees lost their...
View ArticleCleckley, first African-American on WV Supreme Court, dies at 77
By By Lacie Pierson Staff writer Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Franklin D. Cleckley, who was the first African-American to serve on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, died Monday...
View ArticlePolice arrest fugitive in Charleston, recover gun from Kanawha River
By Giuseppe Sabella A fugitive is in federal custody after an encounter with Charleston police on Monday. Dana Stevenson, 26, is facing charges related to the alleged sale of drugs in Kanawha County,...
View ArticleManchin, Puccio listed in company's $15M debt complaint
By Jake Zuckerman A trustee for a real estate company requested last week that a firm with ties to U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin be declared in default of a $14.6 million debt and for someone to be appointed...
View ArticlePair pleads not guilty in Garrison Ave. murders
By By Lacie Pierson Staff reporter A man and a woman charged with murdering two other people pleaded not guilty to that and other charges in Kanawha County Circuit Court Wednesday morning. Bobby Gene...
View ArticleFormer Kanawha deputy resigning as Monroe County sheriff
By Giuseppe Sabella The Monroe County sheriff announced on Wednesday that he would soon resign, citing the need to support his family with a new opportunity. Sheriff Sean Crosier said in a news...
View ArticleTrial in East End killing delayed until December
By By Lacie Pierson Staff writer The trial for a Charleston man charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy has been delayed. William Ronald Pulliam, 63, was to go to...
View ArticleTrial date set for ex-GW counselor's suit against Kanawha school board
By By Lacie Pierson Staff writer The trial between a George Washington High School counselor suing the Kanawha County Board of Education over defamation claims will begin next week. The counselor,...
View ArticleMount Olive officer accused of smuggling drugs, phones to inmates
By Giuseppe Sabella A former correctional officer faces criminal charges after police said he smuggled drugs, phones and a knife into the Mount Olive Correctional Complex. Toby Stover, 43, resigned...
View ArticleWest Virginia office that supervises sex offenders will end
By The Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia office that has supervised sex offenders for nearly a decade will end. The Herald-Dispatch reports the Intensive Supervision Office...
View ArticleWV woman sentenced to probation for embezzlement
By Staff reports A woman was sentenced to probation for embezzling money between 2013 and 2015 from the law firm where she worked. Kristina Longfellow, 41, of Sinks Grove in Monroe County, was...
View ArticleRandolph County nurse sentenced for fraud
By Staff reports A Randolph County nurse was sentenced to jail, probation and ordered to pay restitution after she was convicted of Medicaid and other fraud, according to a news release from the West...
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