News Staff A memorial for aviation legend Chuck Yeager is being planned for mid-January in Charleston. The West Virginia native died earlier this month at the age of 97. Yeager will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The West Virginia National Guard is preparing for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine. They conducted distribution drills over the weekend. The vaccine is expected to arrive today in the Mountain State.
There are over one-thousand new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia and two more people have died. More than seven-hundred patients are in the hospital with the virus. More than half of West Virginia counties are in the red or orange on the state’s COVID-19 alert map. Over forty of the state’s fifty-five county school … Read more
West Virginia’s five members of the Electoral College are in Charleston today to cast their ballots in the 2020 Presidential election. All five votes will be cast for President Donald Trump.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an oil spill in a stream leading to Lake Chaweva in Cross Lanes. Residents reported a fish kill and the strong smell of petroleum. Officials say about fifty-gallons of oil spilled into the creek.
The body of one of the men who has been missing since Wednesday morning when a building collapsed has been found. Doug Gray’s body was found in the rubble of the Killen Generating Station near Manchester. One other man is still missing.
Five people are under arrest in connection with the death of a Carter County man. The body of twenty-five-year-old John Waggoner was found at a home on South View Court in Grayson, Kentucky.
A juvenile is charged with murder in the deaths of two adults and two children at a home near Elkview. A relative found the bodies of a man, his wife, and three and twelve year old sons in a house on Cemetery Hill Drive.
Nearly two weeks after Charleston Police Officer, Cassie Johnson was shot in the line of duty, many people are still honoring her memory. The Hurricane Christmas parade was held over the weekend and some of those walking had blue ribbons attached to their shirts to honor the fallen officer. Before joining the Charleston Police Department, … Read more
A West Virginia woman suspected to be involved in a 2019 murder was arrested. Charleston police took Samantha Ilise Slater into custody Thursday afternoon in Dunbar, related to the July 17, 2019, death of Adam Swim. He was found dead in his Charleston home with a gunshot wound on his head, according to police.