News Staff The City of Charleston will receive three-point-six-million-dollars in CARES Act funding to cover COVID-19 related expenses in March and April. The money will cover payroll expenses for police, fire, and sanitation workers, and expenses for cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment.
Police are investigating after two fisherman found a body in the Kanawha River. The body was found about 50-feet from the Mountain Pie Company. The medical examiner’s office is working to identify the man and the cause of death.
A Cottageville man says he was cleaning his gun when he accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old niece. Thirty-six-year-old Andrew Jackson shot himself in the hand during the incident. He is a convicted felon and not legally permitted to own a gun.
A murder suspect who escaped from police custody is under arrest. Eighteen-year-old Dominick McClung escaped from a transport vehicle in a GoMart parking lot in Danville and was captured a few hours late in Long Branch.
A murder suspect who escaped from police custody is under arrest. Eighteen-year-old Dominick McClung escaped from a transport vehicle in a GoMart parking lot in Danville and was captured a few hours late in Long Branch.
Police are investigating after a person was hit and killed by a train early Saturday morning. Charleston police were called to the intersection of South Park Road and Chesterfield Avenue about 2:25 a.m. after someone was reportedly hit by a CSX train. The individual was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident remains under investigation … Read more
Hundreds of people in Monongalia County are being asked to quarantine after a gym member tested positive for the coronavirus. Anyone who was at the Planet Fitness along Fort Pierpont Drive between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, is being asked to quarantine until July 8, according to a Monongalia County Health Department … Read more
A man said he was cleaning a gun Friday night when he accidentally shot his 11-year-old niece. The girl died after the shooting at Fisher’s Mobile Home Park in the Cottageville area. Jackson County deputies said Andrew Scott Jackson has been charged with felony child neglect resulting in death. Deputies said Jackson was not legally … Read more
An engineer error caused a CSX freight train to derail as it crossed the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, sending two cars into the water and damaging a footbridge that is part of the Appalachian Trail, according to a report from the Federal Railroad Administration. Seven empty train cars in total derailed in the December … Read more
Three finalists have been selected in the search for a new West Virginia State University president. They are Nicole Pride, vice provost for academic strategy and operations at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Patricia Ramsey, senior executive fellow at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund; and Rodney Smith, president and CEO of the University … Read more