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Sixty-five employees at Panther Creek Mining in Eskdale are being laid off. The cuts will take place in March, and impact more than one-hundred family members in Kanawha County.

The Kanawha County Commission received confirmation from the FAA that hours will not be cut for the Yeager Airport tower. Nighttime flights will not be affected, and the tower is not at risk of any future reductions.

Fire destroyed an abandoned home in Sissonville. Firefighters say the home on Fields Lane had been abandoned for so long they decided to let It burn. No one was hurt.

A Pikeville man died in a crash with a Floyd County deputy’s cruiser. Donald Tackett, Jr. crossed the center line on Bays Branch Road and hit the police car head-on. The deputy was treated at a local hospital and released.

Vandals trashed the Milton Little League baseball field press box for the second time in recent months. The mess left behind includes multiple folding chairs, a TV, food trash and clothes that were thrown through the windows of the press box. Shattered glass is littered all across the grass. The inside of the press box … Read more

With a heavy dose of snow causing numerous crashes throughout Kanawha County, a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Herbert Hoover High School is postponed. The ceremony had been set for noon Tuesday at the site for the new school, which is in the Given Fork area between the Elkview exit off Interstate 79 and U.S. … Read more

Bad weather contributed to more than 70 accidents on Kanawha County roads on Tuesday. Metro 911 said it also has had more than 450 phone calls as slippery road conditions were reported throughout Kanawha County. WCHS TV reported at one point more than 20 cars were in a ditch along Childress Road in Alum Creek, … Read more

The second of the three-event Charleston Winter Series is scheduled to happen this weekend. Organizers say the next event will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at the University of Charleston Pharmacy parking lot. The run will be 8 kilometers (about 4.9 miles), while the walk is 4 kilometers (about 2.4 miles). The Winter … Read more

Yeager Airport TSA officers confiscated a 22-caliber handgun in a man’s carry-on bag. The man was detained for questioning, and cleared to fly, without his gun. He’s facing weapons charges.

A police pursuit ended when a man crashed his car into a Huntington pizza place. Twenty-four-year-old Tanner Miller took off when police tried to stop him for outstanding warrants. He crashed into Husson’s Pizza at Fourth Avenue and Hal Greer Boulevard. No one was hurt.