News Staff The Basketball Tournament tips off today at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Two local teams, Best Virginia and Herd, are co-hosts of the sixteen-team regional. The number-three-seeded Herd will play Team DRC at noon Saturday,and Best Virginia plays Woco Showtime at 2 p.m.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after someone threw a dog out of the window of a moving car on Highway-34 in Winfield. The Putnam County Animal Shelter is caring for the dog, and it does not have any broken bones. The dog cannot be adopted until the investigation is over.
A 21-year-old South Charleston man, accused of murdering a man in Meigs County on East morning, is pleading not guilty. Jaquan Hall was indicted on murder charges in connection to the death of 25-year-old Kane Roush in Pomeroy. Charleston police arrested Hall walking down Kanawha Boulevard last week. His bond is set at two-million-dollars.
An Ohio man is under arrest for leading police on chase down I-77 at speeds of more than one-hundred-miles-per-hour with a child in the car. Twenty-seven-year-old George Cherry is accused of fleeing from Ravenswood police during an attempted traffic stop. During the pursuit on the interstate, a Ravenswood officer lost control of his vehicle and … Read more
The federal eviction moratorium is set to expire at the end of this month, and the West Virginia housing development fund says the state is following federal guidelines. More than three-million people nationwide could face eviction in the next two months. There will still be assistance available for West Virginia renters in need through the … Read more
A woman is facing charges for throwing a rock and shattering a window at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in downtown Charleston. It caused about twelve-thousand-dollars’ in damages.
There are almost one-thousand active COVID cases in West Virginia. That number climbed for a second straight day with eighty new cases in the past 24-hours. Less than four-hundred people were vaccinated on Wednesday.
The West Virginia National Guard says the federal government owes them millions of dollars for deploying more than two-hundred soldiers to Washington D.C. after the January 6th riots at the Capitol. If the state isn’t reimbursed soon, it will be forced to cancel two National Guard training exercises. The Pentagon says the total cost for … Read more
West Virginia’s new needle exchange law is getting a green light from a federal judge after dissolving a temporary restraining order. The judge said objections to the law wouldn’t hold up in court. The ACLU is not ruling the possibility of a future challenge to the law.
A Ravenswood police officer was hurt in a crash on I-77 during a pursuit that reached speeds of more than 100-miles-per-hour. Ravenswood Police tried to make a traffic stop when the driver took off and lead them on chase across two counties. It ended when the suspect’s vehicle crashed into a ditch in Tuppers Creek.