News Staff The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources said Friday that it has started mailing permits for a limited antlerless deer firearms season in select areas. The give the chosen hunters a chance to hunt antlerless deer in counties or areas of the state where wildlife biologists have determined harvesting necessary to meet management goals. You … Read more
Kanawha County grand jurors made indictments Friday in some high-profile incidents, including two attempted murder cases. Walter Pannell, a former aide at Horace Mann Middle School, was indicted on battery charges in connection with a case of alleged abuse inside a special needs classroom at the school. Bruce Hargis, was indicted on several charges in … Read more
A bill to limit West Virginia employers in their ability to require workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus passed the House of Delegates on Friday The proposal would allow certain medical and religious exemptions to company COVID-19 vaccine mandates. It remains pending in the Senate. The bill covers businesses and state government agencies. Employers … Read more
Grant Wells passed for over three-hundred-yards and two touchdowns, and then ran in for three more TDs, as Marshall rolled over North Texas 49-to-21 last night. Marshall scored touchdowns on six straight possessions in the first half.
Bridge Day will be celebrated virtually today, for the second year in a row. Organizers are asking you to share your favorite Bridge Day memories through social media, and there will be contests on Facebook and five grand prizes will be given away.
A Nicholas County woman is accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the Richwood Cherry River Little League. Twenty-nine-year-old Ashley Freeman embezzled more than 28-hundred-dollars on a credit card, and stole 15-hundred-dollars by not depositing money into the league’s bank account. Freeman is the wife of former police chief Billy Freeman who resigned from his … Read more
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department will hold a county wide vaccination event call, “Arms Across Kanawha,” today from 9-to-3. The event will be held across eight sites in the county and off free flu shots and COVID shots. Flu season is from December to March, and the CDC says almost three-hundred patients nationwide were admitted to … Read more
Kanawha County has reached a grim milestone with over four-hundred COVID-19 deaths. A 46-year-old and a 73-year-old man passed away, bringing the death toll to 401. Neither was vaccinated. Statewide, sixty more people died from the virus. There are three-hundred new cases, and active cases are over ten-thousand.
An Ohio man is under arrest for robbing the Star USA Federal Credit Union in Huntington last week. Twenty-six-year-old Dandre Noble and another man entered the credit union armed with guns and demanded money. Officers found Noble near the credit union after the robbery, but he was able to get away before being arrested. Police … Read more
West Virginia will use one-billion-dollars in state and federal funding to expand broadband to around two-hundred-thousand homes and businesses. Governor Justice says, “It’s like nothing that we’ve ever done before.” More than seven-hundred-million-dollars is expected to be allocated by the fall of 2022. State Economic Development Secretary Mitch Carmichael says the focus of the program … Read more