News Staff Investigators with the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement say a Pennsylvania couple is being charged with illegally producing and selling moonshine for almost thirty-years. An investigation into 79-year-old Glenn McCleester, and his 65-year-old wife Barbara McCleester began in April of last year after an online complaint accusing the couple of being bootleggers.
Police are looking for a suspect in two separate burglaries in Barboursville. Investigators are looking for a blue Nissan Cube that could be connected to the burglaries. Call the Cabell County Sheriff’s Office if you have any information.
A Kanawha County woman is being charged with murder for setting a deadly house fire on MacCorkle Avenue earlier this week. Forty-eight-year-old Patricia Kay White set a fire inside the back door of the abandoned home after an argument with her husband. The victim was found in an upstairs bedroom. He was unresponsive, but breathing, … Read more
Companion bills working their way through the West Virginia Senate would make major changes in jobless benefits and what you need to do to keep them. The changes could more than halve the amount of time someone could get an unemployment check. A half-a-percent rise in unemployment would add a week more of benefits to … Read more
Two people were charged with neglect after investigators found a missing child with autism without shoes and their Kanawha County home in deplorable condition early Thursday. Deputies said Phillip S. Duelley and Stacy L. Mullins were charged after a 13-year-old with autism, who was reported missing early Thursday morning, was found several miles from their … Read more
Mixed precipitation is expected today with total snow accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of up to two-tenths of an inch possible. Kanawha County Emergency Management groups are on standby and Appalachian Power crews are working through the weekend if there are power outages. Much of the country is crippled by wintry … Read more
West Virginia State University joined a statewide overdose prevention initiative created for college and university campuses. The “Be The One” program focuses on the opioid epidemic from a bystander’s perspective and encourages staff and students to be the one that saves a life. Phase one of the initiative will install six overdose rescue kits, known … Read more
The West Virginia Natural Resources Police have issued citations for illegal trapping in Clay and Nicholas Counties. Investigations in early 2022 led Officer Jeremy Quinn to discover multiple trap lines that had been set illegally, according to a post on the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Facebook page. Police say the traps were sprung or … Read more
A federal judge has dismissed a 2019 lawsuit that former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blakenship filed against various national news networks, newspapers and political organizations. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver issued the ruling in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Blankenship reacted on social media saying he was “shocked … Read more
A Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge denied bond for a Charleston woman accused of killing another woman last summer. Virginia Marie Smith is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Cheyenne Johnson after Johnson’s body was found deep inside a well last May in the Sissonville area. Michael Wayne Smith, who deputies previously said … Read more