News Staff House Speaker Roger Hanshaw is calling for Governor Justice to name Repbulican Mark Bate to fill the seat vacated by John Mandt. Mandt resigned after anti-Muslim and anti-gay comments were connected to his social media. Bate and Mandt are on the ballot next month.
Quenton Sheffield will spend life in prison for murder. Sheffield was sentenced to life without parole for the 2017 shooting that killed a man in Huntington. He was also found guilty of malicious wounding, and other charges. He’ll be sentenced at a later date on those charges.
Kanawha County Schools are preparing for a five-day week of in-person learning starting Monday. All kids are required to wear masks, classroom capacity will be limited, and class periods will be staggered, so the hallways aren’t full.
Ruffner Elementary School in Charleston has a confirmed case of COVID-19. It’s the latest case on the Kanawha County School systems coronavirus tracking page. There are a total of eight cases of the virus at seven different schools.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man reported missing for several weeks. Christopher Gill is a white male with hazel eyes and brown hair, and was last heard from on Sept. 4 in Cross Lanes. Gill is 6-foot, 2-inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. Anyone who has seen Gill since Sept. … Read more
Kanawha County school board members voted 3-2 to skip the second week of blended learning next week and to go to five days of instruction for those parents who have chosen that option for their kids. The decision came at a special board meeting on Monday. Under the vote, students will start in-person classes in … Read more
West Virginia’s mental health and addiction helpline has reached some milestones – its fifth anniversary and more than 50,000 people helped by the program. Help4WV was developed in 2015 and gives people going through addiction and recovery several resources for outpatient and inpatient treatment, including transportation. Calls have continued to increase over the years and … Read more
Kanawha County deputies rescued a driver out of a vehicle Tuesday morning after it drove over a hillside in Jefferson. It happened in the 1400 block of Chestnut Street and the vehicle slid down an embankment. When deputies arrived at the scene, the driver had a head injury and wasn’t coherent. The vehicle was against … Read more
A solar generating project in southern West Virginia has cleared a key hurdle. The Public Service Commission issued a final order granting Raleigh Solar a certificate for the construction and operation of a 90-megawatt generating facility in Raleigh County. The commission said it’s the first such certificate issued in West Virginia. The project will consist … Read more
Kanawha County has moved into yellow on West Virginia’s county alert map. The latest map posted on Tuesday (based on data from Monday) shows the color change for the county, which had moved to gold last week after spending weeks in red and then in orange. Kanawha’s positivity test rate has dipped to 3.95% after … Read more