The History Channel’s American Pickers will be in West Virginia this April, and they’re looking for people how might have items to showcase. The documentary series that explores the world of antique picking as the show hunts for valuable antiques and the stories behinds them. They’re looking for private collections now and stores won’t be … Read more
A new flight school is on track to start this fall at Yeager Airport. The Marshall University Bill Noe Flight School is under construction now at the airport and will feature a classroom building along Taxiway B, along with a 12,000-square-foot hangar. It’s a nearly $7 million project that will help students earn a commercial … Read more
West Virginia State Police are looking for a man on multiple warrants. Jamie Morgan is wanted for burglaries and larceny. The West Virginia State Fire Marshall’s Office is offering at five-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to Morgan’s arrest for arson. Morgan is described as being 5?5?, weighing 120 lbs., and having long light brown hair. … Read more
The state House Health and Human Resources Committee could take up a proposed bill next week that would make changes to the Above Ground Storage Tank Act. The legislation would redefine what an above ground storage tank is, in order to exempt oil and gas tanks from regulations, including tanks that are upstream from drinking … Read more
The number of active COVID-19 cases dropped to below eight-thousand in West Virginia. One more person has died, bringing the death toll to almost 23-hundred. The state’s daily positive test rate is below four-percent.
Governor Justice anticipates fifteen-thousand additional weekly doses of COVID-19 vaccine with initial federal approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s on top of what the state is already getting from Pfizer and Moderna. Total weekly doses will be almost sixty-thousand. Justice says the additional doses could start arriving next week. So far, West Virginia … Read more
A vehicle crashed into the Branchland Family Dollar store on McClellan Highway. The accident left a gaping hole in the side of the building, and knocked merchandise off the shelf inside the store. No one was hurt. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after an 85-year-old woman died in a house fire outside of St. Albans in the Amandaville area.
A Fayette county man will spend up to thirty-five-years in prison for attacking a woman in 2019. Thirty-three-year-old Justin Conner strangled the woman until she was unconscious before sexually assaulting her, and a month later he kicked in her door and attacked her multiple times.
The Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority is rejecting a proposal from SOAR, a grassroots harm reduction group, in an effort to get state certification. The Ambulance Authority says it doesn’t have enough information about SOARS program to provide any type of support. The state denied SOAR’s certification after failing to gain support from city or … Read more