News Staff State Lottery revenue is over a billion-dollars. Both Racetrack Video Lottery and Limited Video Lottery numbers are up. Revenue from Powerball and Mega Millions missed the mark due to a lack of large jackpots. It’s the 18th year in a row the Lottery has topped over one-billion-dollars in sales.
The West Virginia Senate is calling for a convention of states to change the U.S. Constitution. The resolution calls for term limits in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. It still needs to be passed by the state House of Delegates.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site of the new Herbert Hoover High School in Elkview. The new school will replace the building that was destroyed in the 2016 flood. The school will open in 2021.
The Cabell-Huntington Board of Health unanimously approved an indoor vaping ban. It eliminates electronic smoking devices in public places. The Kanawha-Charleston Board of Health passed a similar policy last week.
Riverside High School basketball player, 14-year-old Braydin Ward, went in for a dunk and shattered the backboard at Tuesday night’s junior varsity game with George Washington. No glass fell, but the game was canceled as a precaution.
Five more years will be added to Todd Boyes sentence. He’s the inmate who walked out of the South Central Regional Jail in 2017 and was recaptured a few days later trying to cross the border into Mexico. Boyes is already serving up to 25-years for attempted murder.
Three teenagers are facing charges in a shooting that injured a man in Lesage. The victim was checking on his father’s property when the suspects fired three shots into his vehicle and hit him in the arm. One suspect is charged with malicious wounding.
Three men are under arrest for breaking into several cell tower sites in Cabin Creek. The men stole copper wire and did thousands of dollars in damage, knocking out cell service on the Turnpike. All three suspects are charged with breaking and entering.
Kanawha County deputies said three men face charges in an investigation of seven break-ins at cell tower sites in Cabin Creek that cost cell phone companies thousands of dollars. 22-year old James Canfield, 28-year old Jeremy Powers, and 30-year old Johnnie Boggess III of Miami face charges after the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said a … Read more
The City of Charleston’s next public art project is in the works, and it honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Drivers on the interstate will be able to see the mural on the side of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center. Community members and students can help by painting a panel that … Read more