A Pikeville man died in a crash with a Floyd County deputy’s cruiser. Donald Tackett, Jr. crossed the center line on Bays Branch Road and hit the police car head-on. The deputy was treated at a local hospital and released.
Vandals trashed the Milton Little League baseball field press box for the second time in recent months. The mess left behind includes multiple folding chairs, a TV, food trash and clothes that were thrown through the windows of the press box. Shattered glass is littered all across the grass. The inside of the press box … Read more
With a heavy dose of snow causing numerous crashes throughout Kanawha County, a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Herbert Hoover High School is postponed. The ceremony had been set for noon Tuesday at the site for the new school, which is in the Given Fork area between the Elkview exit off Interstate 79 and U.S. … Read more
Bad weather contributed to more than 70 accidents on Kanawha County roads on Tuesday. Metro 911 said it also has had more than 450 phone calls as slippery road conditions were reported throughout Kanawha County. WCHS TV reported at one point more than 20 cars were in a ditch along Childress Road in Alum Creek, … Read more
The second of the three-event Charleston Winter Series is scheduled to happen this weekend. Organizers say the next event will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at the University of Charleston Pharmacy parking lot. The run will be 8 kilometers (about 4.9 miles), while the walk is 4 kilometers (about 2.4 miles). The Winter … Read more
Yeager Airport TSA officers confiscated a 22-caliber handgun in a man’s carry-on bag. The man was detained for questioning, and cleared to fly, without his gun. He’s facing weapons charges.
A police pursuit ended when a man crashed his car into a Huntington pizza place. Twenty-four-year-old Tanner Miller took off when police tried to stop him for outstanding warrants. He crashed into Husson’s Pizza at Fourth Avenue and Hal Greer Boulevard. No one was hurt.
Groundbreaking is set for around noon today at the new Herbert Hoover High School. The new school will be built on the Given Fork site, just off I-79 at the Elkview exit. The former high school was destroyed in the 2016 flood.
Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin says more positive changes are coming in 2020. The Mayor gave her first State of the City Address last night. Her vision for the coming year includes focusing on infrastructure, road paving, and sports tourism.
Morgantown police are trying to find the owner of a large amount of cash that was found by a city employee over the holidays. To get it back, the owner will have to know the amount of money that was found, where it was lost, and how it was packaged.