News Staff The state Department of Health and Human Resources says less than 35-percent of West Virginians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. There are almost four-hundred new cases of the virus and five more deaths.
State police are cracking down on speeders in the I-64 construction zone in Cabell County. Troopers are stepping up patrols between Barboursville and Huntington after recent crashes and speed complaints. Fines are doubled in work zones.
West Virginia American Water is asking the Public Service Commission for a rate hike. The average residential water customer’s bill would go up over eleven-dollars-per-month and the average sewer bill would increase almost twenty-dollars-per-month. The new rates would not go into effect until February of 2022.
Two people are under arrest after a drug bust during a traffic stop in Chapmanville. The car had a strong odor of marijuana, and the passengers admitted to having marijuana. When officers searched the car they found two bags of meth. The car was stolen, and the driver, Malcolm Meade was driving on a suspended … Read more
The jury in the Joshua Drennen murder trial is deliberating after hearing closing arguments on Friday. Drennen is accused of killing 77-year-old Barbara Steel inside her West Side home in February 2020, and attacking a police officer with an antique iron. That officer ended up shooting Drennen. His lawyer says Drennen suffers from mental illness … Read more
A man and woman from Dunbar are under arrest for stealing a truck. Twenty-two-year-old Tyler Chapman was captured on surveillance video checking door handles, and 22-year-old Shaila Bradshaw acted as a lookout. The admitted to taking the truck and ditching it in the woods.
A man is in stable condition after an officer-involved shooting on the city’s West Side. Thirty-three-year-old Denaul Dickerson lunged at officers with a knife when he was shot. Dickerson can be heard on bodycam video telling officers to shoot him because he didn’t want to go back to jail. No officers were hurt. The shooting … Read more
A landmark federal trial will get underway in Charleston next week. The City of Huntington and Cabell County filed a lawsuit against three major drug distributors for funneling opioid pills into small communities. Federal Drug Enforcement Administration statistics show that more than 850-million pain pills have been shipped to West Virginia since 2006.
Closing arguments will get underway today in the Joshua Drennen trial. He’s accused of attacking and killing a 77-year-old during a carjacking, and attacking a Charleston police officer.
West Virginia’s former first lady Gayle Manchin will serve as the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. President Biden announced the nomination last month, and she was approved by the Senate Thursday. The Appalachian Regional Commission is a federal body that focuses on economic and regional development in 13 states making up the Appalachian region, … Read more