News Staff An elderly couple is recovering from a violent home invasion on West Country Club Drive. A man and woman stole their truck and several items from the home. Police spotted the truck several hours later and took both suspects into custody.
Police are looking for 18-year-old Amar Richardson. He’s wanted in connection to a shooting earlier this month in Malden. He’s charged with malicious assault and wanton endangerment.
A Milton police officer was responding to a crash, when he crashed his patrol car at U.S. 60 and Smith Street. The officer suffered a neck fracture, and will be off work several weeks. The other driver wasn’t hurt.
A union representing Kroger workers voted “overwhelmingly” on Saturday to ratify a new contract. The new deal guarantees fully-funded health care benefits, raises for everyone and caps on prescription drug costs among other things, according to a news release from UFCW Local 400. The contract will last for three-and-a-half years. The agreement covers more than … Read more
Volunteers with the annual Frank Veltri Thanksgiving dinner won’t be able to serve food the same way in person this year, so they prepared meals to be delivered. Six hundred food bags were prepared last Thursday and Friday, and delivered to those in need on Saturday. Volunteers will hold a smaller in person meal on … Read more
All eyes are on West Virginia’s hospital capacity levels as positive cases continue to surge, especially in rural counties where options for care are limited. Dr. Carmen Burrell, a clinical director with WVU Urgent Care, told WCHS TV that there is usually a two week lag behind when we see case numbers starting to trend … Read more
An inmate at Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County died Friday night after being assaulted by another inmate. Brian Gifft died at a hospital following the assault, according to a news release from the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security. Investigators believe Gifft was attacked with a makeshift weapon that was found after the … Read more
Six counties in West Virginia are red and 13 are orange in the latest West Virginia Department of Education map. Jackson remained red. Cabell, Mason, and Putnam are among those in orange. Mingo, Lincoln, Kanawha, Clay, and Nicholas were all gold in the update. All other counties were yellow or green.
With COVID-19 cases rising, the City of Charleston is canceling this year’s Christmas parade. Mayor Amy Goodwin says last year’s parade was the largest in the city’s history. She was looking forward to bringing that excitement back this year, but says with the surge in COVID-19 cases, it was the best move to cancel the … Read more
Governor Justice says he is not shutting anything down, at this point, but West Virginia is trending badly. One reason for the sharp increase in COVID-19 cases is mass testing as a result of “Operation Drumstick,” five days of continuous testing ahead of Thanksgiving. There are over one-thousand new cases of the virus, and sixteen … Read more