News Staff West Virginia’s state revenue surplus is coming from a variety of areas and has been boosted by an influx of federal pandemic money and a huge, recent spike in the energy severance tax linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. State officials said this week that the numbers show West Virginia will end the budget … Read more
Montgomery is among the list of possible new locations for the Nitro Preparatory Academy. WCHS TV reported Accel Schools confirmed the charter school’s officials are looking at some of the old WVU Tech buildings in town, now owned by Bridge Valley Community and Technical College. While some are now being used by the college and … Read more
A play based on the 2010 Upper Big Branch coal mining disaster that killed 29 miners will be performed in southern West Virginia next month. “Coal Country” recently ended an off-Broadway run in New York City. The play’s dialogue is taken directly from dozens of interviews with survivors and family members conducted by husband-and-wife team … Read more
Fayette County deputies said a man wanted in connection with a shooting early last week has been taken into custody. Bernard Reynolds Jr. had been sought on malicious wounding and attempted murder charges in connection with the shooting of Amanda Miller on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office said the U.S. Marshal’s Southern West Virginia CUFFED Task … Read more
Because of decreasing enrollment, Kanawha County Schools will cut some positions. The drop in the number of students will lead to an expected loss of millions of dollars in state funding, and 55 positions will be cut as a result. The district will lose 13 service positions and over 40 professional positions. Some of of … Read more
Cabell County’s prosecutor said a man accused in two fatal drive-by shootings pleaded guilty to a charge in one of the deaths and was sentenced to the maximum 40 years in prison. Justin Groff entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder in the death of Toni Cremeans, Cabell County Prosecutor Corky Hammers said Tuesday. Groff … Read more
Two people pleaded guilty in relation to a fraud scheme to obtain vehicles from car dealerships in Kentucky and West Virginia. Millard Patrick and Mindy Turner admitted that Turner passed a bad check at a car dealership in Louisville, Kentucky in last June so they could buy a Ford Explorer, which they turned around and … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice has appointed Charles O. Lorensen to the state’s newly created intermediate court of appeals. Lorensen has been appointed to a six-and-a-half year term that was vacated by the withdrawal of Donald Nickerson Jr. in December. The new appointee has previously served in public offices as chief of staff for then-Gov. Earl Ray … Read more
A former teacher’s aide at Horace Mann Middle School pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of misdemeanor battery. James Lynch was indicted last October on seven counts after the indictment alleged that Lynch struck a student several times from February to March last year. Eyewitness News previously confirmed through the victim’s attorney Ben Salango that … Read more
St. Albans police said Caleb Moore of St. Albans was arrested Sunday morning for child neglect after overdosing in the car with a woman and her 4-month-old daughter. Officers said Moore was not responsive when they got to the scene on MacCorkle Avenue near Roadside Park. St. Albans police said they gave Moore two doses … Read more