News Staff A man accused of fatally shooting a Charleston police officer pleaded not guilty to all charges from an indictment that was handed down several weeks ago. Joshua Phillips pleaded not guilty Thursday during his grand jury arraignment in Kanawha County Circuit Court. He is accused of fatally shooting Patrolman Cassie Johnson last December as she … Read more
A St. Albans man pleaded guilty this week to federal drug and gun charges stemming from a 2019 incident. Ricky Lee Clark Sr. is accused of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition along with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office. He pleaded … Read more
LEGO fans are in luck…The BrickUniverse LEGO Fan Festival is coming to Charleston in June. It will feature a massive LEGO and fifty world landmarks built out of the plastic blocks.
West Virginia’s World War II hero, Woody Williams, is the nation’s last living Medal of Honor recipient. The nation’s oldest recipient, Charles Coolidge, died earlier this month in Tennessee. Williams recently celebrated his 97th birthday.
A new study shows that West Virginia has the nation’s second slowest internet speeds. The Mountain State is getting some much needed funding to help expand broadband with 350-million-dollars in federal funding.
The state has reached a grim milestone with eleven more COVID-19 deaths; the death toll has reached 28-hundred. DHHR is reporting over four-hundred new cases of COVID-19, pushing the number of active cases to almost 73-hundred.
Over fifty-percent of West Virginians who are eligible have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Governor Justice is pushing to get that number to seventy-percent, and he says if we do that, “masks will be just a memory.”
Mayor Amy Goodwin is announcing a new initiative to bring remote workers to Charleston and fill high demand positions. “The Charleston Roots” initiative is trying to bring people back to the city that have family or friends here. The program includes up to five-thousand-dollars for initial expenses, and memberships and incentives to local organizations.
An 84-year-old Gallipolis man died in a house fire in Gallipolis. It took crews about two hours to put out the fire. The Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
One person was rescued from a burning home on Glenwood Avenue. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.