News Staff The man wanted for murdering Capital High School senior KJ Taylor is being indicted in a 2019 murder in which a man was shot and killed on I-77 in Charleston. Nineteen-year-old Dekotis Thomas is still on the run.
A man is dead and a West Virginia state trooper is recovering after he was hurt in a shootout in Martinsburg. State police were looking for a murder suspect when he barricaded himself inside a house. The trooper’s ballistic vest saved his life. The suspect was found dead in the house.
Former West Virginia pitcher Alek Manoah tossed six scoreless inning to lead the Blue Jays to a 2-to-0 win over the New York Yankees in his Major League Baseball debut. Manoah pitched three seasons at WVU.
A Logan County woman will spend over a year-and-a-half in jail for embezzling more than 200-thousand-dollars from a South Charleston credit union. Seventy-year-old Dianne Richardson was a credit union employee and stole several-thousand-dollars every month for five years.
Hurricane edged out Huntington 6-to 5 to win the MSAC championship game last night at Appalachian Power Park.
WVU knocked off the top-seeded Texas Longhorns 5-to-1 in the first game of the Big-12 Baseball Championship. The Mountaineers advance to the winner’s bracket and will take on Oklahoma State tonight.
The number of passengers in and out of Yeager Airport is back to pre-pandemic levels. Yeager is averaging about four-thousand travelers per week. Hundreds of passengers a day are boarding low-cost flights to Orlando and Myrtle Beach.
The ACLU is challenging West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban. The lawsuit is being filed on behalf of 11-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, who is a transgender athlete and is not allowed to try out for her middle school cross country team.
Former state delegate Derrick Evans is pleading not guilty to charges stemming from the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. Evans is talking with federal prosecutors about a possible plea deal.
Ohio’s Vax-a-Million campaign has its first two winners. A woman from Silverton won one-million-dollars, and a teenager from Englewood won a full-ride scholarship. The campaign was created to encourage Ohioans to get vaccinated.