News Staff An explosion that injured three people at a chemical plant in Belle also resulted in one fatality. Kanawha County Commission president Kent Carper confirmed the death Wednesday. The explosion happened after 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Chemours plant in Belle. WCHS-TV said the explosion involved chlorinated dry bleach and methanol. Chemours formed as a spinoff … Read more
Marshall’s football matchup Friday with Charlotte in Huntington has been canceled because of injuries and a lack of available scholarship student-athletes at key positions for the Thundering Herd. The school said a small number of COVID-19 issues also affected the situation. This was a game that was arranged after Marshall’s game with FIU was canceled. … Read more
Tributes poured in this week to honor the legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. He grew up in Hamlin and joined the army in 1941, starting out in airplane maintenance and joined the flight program a year later. In World War II, he survived being shot down over France to take out 13 enemy planes. His … Read more
Congressman Alex Mooney is introducing a resolution to count every legal vote and to investigate and punish any election fraud found in the 2020 presidential election. The resolution also encourages neither President Trump, nor President-Elect Biden to concede the race until the investigation is complete.
Senator Joe Manchin says progress is being made on an agreement between Democrats and Republicans on what should be included in the over 900-billion-dollar framework of the COVID-19 relief package. Manchin says one of the biggest issues is protection for some businesses in connection to COVID-19 lawsuits.
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting over nine-hundred new cases of COVID-19, and twenty-nine more people have died. More than six-hundred people are hospitalized with the virus.
An Upshur County man is pleading guilty to making a bomb. Twenty-six-year-old Eric Rowan admitted to making a destructive device last fall. He faces up to ten-years in prison.
Fire destroyed an abandoned car wash in Dunbar. The entire building was gutted. No one was hurt. Investigators say homeless people were staying inside, and the fire was started by candles.
Thousands of people lined the streets to pay respects during the funeral procession of Charleston Police Officer Cassie Johnson. Hundreds of law enforcement officers, from as far away as New Jersey, escorted the procession. Johnson was honored with a hero’s funeral after losing her life in the line of duty last week.
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in Culloden. A woman, sitting in her car on 3rd Street, was shot and killed. Investigators are looking for a gold Chrysler minivan.