The fate of a Wayne County EMS levy is still up in the air as official election results are expected to be tallied Monday. Eyewitness News said the levy, which would generate $2.6 million per year with a majority of the funding going toward a county-operated EMS service, is currently eight votes short of the … Read more
Olympic triathlete Taylor Knibb won the women’s time trial at the U.S. road cycling championships and that qualified her to compete in this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. Knibb zipped over the flat, out-and-back course around Charleston in 45 minutes, 54 seconds Wednesday, beating pre-race favorite Kristen Faulkner by 11 seconds. Three-time Olympian Amber Neben … Read more
Two parents in Mingo County are in jail after deputies said their two toddlers were living in inhumane conditions and not receiving medical care for serious illnesses. 23-year old Katie Jo Meade and 24-year old Curtis Meade, both of Matewan, face charges after deputies responded to the couple’s apartment on Indian Summer Lane on Monday. … Read more
Progress continues at Pipestem Resort State Park on the new Aerial Tram Project. The new tram will take visitors into the Bluestone Gorge. The Aerial Tram has been around since 1970. The new system will be more efficient with an increased passenger capacity, and it will include a freight car that will be able to … Read more
Plans to change the United State Postal Service’s mail delivery network have been put on hold. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said in a news release that the USPS has paused plans to change its mail delivery network until Jan. 1, 2025. The issue stems from USPS plans to modernize its agency, which late last year … Read more
The battle for an open Kanawha County Commission seat is clearer after the primary election on Tuesday. Former state senator Chris Walters won the Republican bid for the seat while Natalie Tennant won the Democratic nod. Walters left the legislature in 2017 and ran an insurance business in the Charleston area prior to his run … Read more
The case against two men accused in a police chase that ended in a barricade situation in Huntington has been sent to a grand jury. Tavoyn Morrison of Columbus, Ohio, and Aaron Moore of Groveport, Ohio, were taken into custody on April 30 after fleeing from police who attempted to make a traffic stop on … Read more
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey won the GOP primary for governor, according to the Associated Press. Morrisey is currently the state’s three-term attorney general who took office in 2013. Morrisey worked as a lawyer in Washington D.C. for eight years prior to that. Morrisey defeated businessman Chris Miller along with former delegate Moore Capito.
Three Charleston women have been charged after a pregnant woman was violently attacked at a grocery store earlier this month. 20-year old Neveah Joy Gresham, 19-year old Sarah Gresham have been charged with malicious or unlawful assault and 19-year-old Jayden Michelle Rose Heimbach has been charged with conspiracy, according to criminal complaints filed in Kanawha … Read more
Students at the Marshall University Bill Noe Flight School are now able to learn to how fly helicopters. The flight school celebrated the arrival of the program’s first-ever helicopter at West Virginia International Yeager airport Monday afternoon. The event showcased the new H-125 single engine helicopter along with a new virtual reality simulator to teach … Read more