The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Saturday that residents of Boone County can now apply for assistance for damages caused by storms April 11 and 12. Boone County residents can now file applications for funds to aid with temporary housing, essential home repairs, medical or dental expenses. Boone County joins Hancock, Kanawha, Marshall, Ohio, Roane, … Read more
It’s a big honor for a local TV station. Eyewitness News picked up a National Edward R. Murrow Award, which is considered to be among the most respected journalism honors in the world. WCHS for its 2023 story of how serial rapist Charles Woods Sr. could have been stopped years earlier. Assistant news director and … Read more
On Friday, first responders had to hop to it, after a kangaroo delayed morning commuters in Logan County. Dispatchers received multiple calls after the roo escaped its enclosure and was spotted along Mud Fork Road in Verdunville. Deputies responded to the area and learned the owners adopted the marsupial after it had spent years in … Read more
Once no big deal, Friday’s shut down of the Wirt County Courthouse due to staff COVID cases seemed like an unusual event. The county commission president said six confirmed cases of the virus had exposed nearly all the offices in the building. The closure was made as a precaution. Some of the practices used to … Read more
The West Virginia Public Service Commission filed an order on Thursday for Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power Companies to provide more information related to a rate increase request.The PSC said it was suspending the rate increase until the commission finishes its investigation of the utilities’ request. Some the utility companies’ customers took to the streets … Read more
According to court documents. Bradley Nigel Clutter, 33, of Leon, has been charged with child abuse resulting in injury in a criminal complaint filed in Mason County Magistrate Court. The complaint said law enforcement was dispatched to a Henderson home Sunday evening in response to reported abuse. The complaint said Clutter allegedly “whooped [the child] … Read more
Nearly a quarter of a million people attended the 2024 Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, generating $38.8 million, city officials said. The Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau announced Wednesday that the annual festival attracted an estimated 235,000 attendees, according to a news release. The city also announced that the 2025 event will be held July 3-6. Mayor … Read more
Point Pleasant High School is getting a therapy dog through the Friends with Paws program. The Friends with Paws program has been in existence for 3 years, and has put 34 therapy dogs in West Virginia schools, and it’s the only one of its kind in the nation. Farley is a golden retriever who has … Read more
Nearly a quarter of a million people attended the 2024 Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, generating $38.8 million. The Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau announced this week that the annual festival attracted an estimated 235,000 attendees, with a fifth of them traveling from more than fifty miles away. The event supported an estimated 9,729 jobs in its … Read more
Downtown Huntington is set to showcase the sights, sounds and tastes of Italian heritage Saturday. The 2024 Italian Festival is scheduled from 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. on Aug. 17 and proceeds will benefit the Facing Hunger Foodbank, according to event organizers. The festivities will include food, vendors and live music set up between 10th and … Read more