News Staff Police are looking for a suspect involved in a carjacking near the WVU campus. The man pushed the driver out of the way and took off with a silver Nissan Sentra. No one was hurt. The suspect is described as a man in his mid-20s with dark hair, a beard and a hat.
Week two of the landmark opioid epidemic trial gets started at the Byrd Federal Courthouse. Four witnesses will take the stand this week in the case against the Big-three drug distributors.
The freshman retention rate at Marshall University is at an all-time high. Nearly eighty-percent of first-time students who enrolled in the 2019 fall semester returned the following year. The new fall semester will begin August 23rd with plans to resume in-person classes.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting just over four-hundred new cases of COVID-19. Active case rose slightly, to just over seven-thousand. Health officials project that 65-percent of West Virginians 12-years-old and older will be vaccinated by June 20th, and that’s when Governor Justice says he will drop the mask mandate.
The sentencing phase of the Reta Mays murder trial starts tomorrow. She pleaded guilty to killing seven vets at the Clarksburg VA medical center. She faces multiple consecutive life sentences.
Power is slowly coming back on to thousands of homes and businesses across state after strong winds yesterday. Appalachian Power says, at its peak, about 30-thousand customers were in the dark on Sunday.
Less than one-fourth of Charleston’s 162 police officers are currently certified to use Tasers, according to the city attorney’s office. Thirty-six officers are currently certified to use Tasers, leaving 17 of the department’s remaining working Tasers unused. The information was released following a Freedom of Information Act request by Eyewitness News. Charleston Police Chief James … Read more
Three men were indicted this week in a November 2020 double murder case in Mason County. Brandon A. Smith of Milton is accused of killing two men — Ivan Lambert and Ricky Pickens — and injuring another, James Smith Jr., in a shooting on Whitten Ridge Road near Hannan. Two of Smith’s alleged accomplices, Corey … Read more
A community college’s plans to move into the former Stone and Thomas building in Charleston has hit a roadblock. BridgeValley Community and Technical College’s Board of Governors voted Friday afternoon to pull its master plan off the table. That master plan included moving students from its South Charleston campus to the former department store building … Read more
Students at the Marion County Technical Center learning carpentry and electrical work recently built a tiny house. It’s 432 square feet and includes insulation, framing, installing windows, siding, shingles and the students did all of it. The students also do repairs around the building and have also built Mannington City Hall. They’ve built handicap ramps … Read more