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Huntington police are investigating an armed robbery at Star Federal Credit Union on Third Avenue. No one was hurt. The suspect got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. No arrests have been made.

A mother and her boyfriend are facing charges after her four-year-old child suffered a skull fracture and may have ingested drugs. The man told Portsmouth police he was playing with the child and tossing her into the air when he dropped her onto the pavement and she hit her head. They were staying at a … Read more

Two women were found shot to death hours apart on the city’s west side. The first victim was found on Hunt Avenue after neighbors heard five gunshots. The second victim ran and was found behind a house on Grant Street. The two women lived together, and witnesses saw someone wearing dark clothing flee east on … Read more

A Marshall University football player is under arrest and facing a felony drug charge. Twenty-year-old Knowledge McDaniel is accused of telling a person to meet with a member of his “trafficking organization” to buy marijuana at a Buffington Avenue apartment. That person was busted leaving the apartment with marijuana. A SWAT team searched the apartment … Read more

Governor Justice got stuck in an elevator at the Governor’s Mansion. He was trapped for nearly thirty-minutes and rescue crews had to pry open the doors with a crowbar to get the governor out. Justice says he’s fine, and that the first-lady had a similar problem a week ago. Maintenance crews are thoroughly inspecting the … Read more

West Virginia is reporting twenty-seven more COVID-19 deaths, and over 15-hundred new cases of the virus. There are over eleven-thousand active COVID cases statewide. Twenty-three counties are red on state’s County Alert Map.

Governor Justice is naming West Virginia NAACP President, Owens Brown, to a vacant state Senate seat. He will take the place of Senator Bill Ihlenfeld, who was confirmed this week to be the federal prosecutor for northern West Virginia. Brown will be the first African-American man to serve in the Senate.

A man connected to the death of Charleston police officer Cassie Johnson will spend up to three-years in prison for his role in selling drugs to the man who pulled the trigger. Forty-five-year-old Richard Chapman pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver. He’s accused of selling drugs to Joshua Phillips before Johnson was shot.

Governor Justice will call a special session of the Legislature starting Monday to complete the redistricting process. Lawmakers will alter state Senate districts, settle on 100 single-member House of Delegates districts and divide West Virginia into two congressional districts. The special session will also include allocating federal dollars for some state agencies.

Former state Health Officer Dr. Rahul Gupta is on the way to confirmation as the country’s next drug czar. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved Gupta’s nomination from President Joe Biden, and it now goes to the full Senate. Gupta most recently has been senior vice president for the March of Dimes. Before that, Gupta … Read more