News Staff The Public Service Commission is giving American Electric Power approval to advance to the next step in a sixty-million-dollar project to add multi-fiber cable to some of the company’s existing broad to bring internet service to customers along electrical service lines. The project includes installing more than six-hundred miles of fiber to provide high speed … Read more
The West Virginia National Guard is still waiting to be reimbursed for helping protect the U.S. Capitol after the January 6th riots. The Guard sent about 475 troops to the Capitol in mid-January in the lead up to the presidential inauguration. The state’s adjutant general says the National Guard won’t have the money for regularly … Read more
The Teamsters Union at the Coke distribution plant in Bluefield is authorizing a strike. The worker’s contract is set to expire on July 28th. The company wants workers to pay more for health insurance and is proposing a pay increase that is twenty-percent less than what the company’s workers are making in other parts of … Read more
Marshall Football Coach Charles Huff is being named the Grand Marshal of the Cabell County Fair Parade. Huff was hired as the Thundering Herd’s head coach in January and is preparing for his first season in Huntington. The parade is set for Sunday, July 25th and runs along route-60 in Milton.
Construction is ramping up on a 224-million-dolar widening project on I-64 between Nitro and the U.S. 35 interchange at Scott Depot. Blasting will start today and is schedule for Monday through Friday between noon and 2 p.m…That will require rolling roadblocks in the eastbound lanes of I-64, and ramps in both directions will be closed.
Today is the deadline to apply for federal assistance for damage from storms in February and March. FEMA is offering grants and loans for qualifying residents in Cabell, Kanawha, Mingo, or Wayne counties. The money can be used for child care medical costs, and help with damaged and uninhabitable housing. You can apply online at … Read more
Another business is moving out of Charleston Town Center. The Panera Bread location on Clendenin Street closed its doors. The store has been moved to a free standing location by Walmart in Southridge.
Charleston police are investigating a shooting on Central Avenue. The victim refused medical treatment at the scene. Cops are looking for the shooter.
Two men are accused of stealing nearly two-thousand-dollars in merchandise from a Ripley Walmart. The walked out of the store with a 35-gallon tote full of stolen goods. Both men are in custody and have outstanding warrants for shoplifting in Wood County.
A Kentucky man is under arrest for stealing a semi-truck and leading police on a chase through Portsmouth that ended with the truck being hit by a train. Then he climbed on top of the train. Police forced him off the train with a taser and took him into custody. He was transferred to a … Read more