News Staff An ex Kanawha County middle school teacher, and former Miss Kentucky, Ramsey Bearse, will spend two years in prison for sending nude photos to a teenage boy. Bearse was arrested in 2018 and charged with four counts of sending obscene material to a minor.
A Charleston man is under arrest in connection to a shooting over the weekend on Seventh Avenue. The victim was shot in the neck and leg. He’s expected to be okay. Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Burdette is charged with malicious wounding.
Marshall University is canceling the commencement ceremony for the class of 2020 in August. There ceremony was postponed in May. Instead, the class of 2020 will now be recognized at the Winter Commencement planned for December 12th.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department tested more than 850 people for COVID-19 at a drive-thru testing event at Capital High School. More than 15-hundred people were tested over the weekend, and nearly forty people tested positive.
COVID-19 cases continue to climb in West Virginia. There are more than ninety new cases, bringing the total number of positive cases to over 44-hundred. Nearly sixty people are hospitalized with the virus, and 24 of those are in ICU.
A former nursing assistant at the Clarksburg VA Medical Center is pleading guilty to killing seven patients by injecting them with insulin. Forty-six-year-old Reta Mays faces consecutive life terms for seven murder counts. The charges and plea follows a two-year investigation into several suspicious deaths at the VA.
The trial date for a man accused of killing a 77-year-old woman on the west side, and hitting a Charleston police officer in the head with an antique iron, is being postponed until a psychiatric report is finalized. Twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Drennen is currently at psychiatric facility in Weston.
Community activist, Howard Swint, submitted a formal request, with more than 77-hundred signatures, to remove the Stonewall Jackson statue from the state capitol grounds.
The City of Charleston is launching a citizen action group called the “Charleston Council for Outreach and Empowerment,” or “C-Core.” It is a diverse group of 25 people that will work to bridge gaps in communication and action throughout the city.
More than 65-hundred entries were submitted to an online survey seeking suggestions for a new name for Stonewall Jackson Middle School. The top three include West Side Middle School, Katherine Johnson Middle School, and Charleston Middle School. The Kanawha County Board of Education will meet tomorrow to discuss the suggestions.