A man is in stable condition after an officer-involved shooting on the city’s West Side. Thirty-three-year-old Denaul Dickerson lunged at officers with a knife when he was shot. Dickerson can be heard on bodycam video telling officers to shoot him because he didn’t want to go back to jail. No officers were hurt. The shooting … Read more
A landmark federal trial will get underway in Charleston next week. The City of Huntington and Cabell County filed a lawsuit against three major drug distributors for funneling opioid pills into small communities. Federal Drug Enforcement Administration statistics show that more than 850-million pain pills have been shipped to West Virginia since 2006.
Closing arguments will get underway today in the Joshua Drennen trial. He’s accused of attacking and killing a 77-year-old during a carjacking, and attacking a Charleston police officer.
West Virginia’s former first lady Gayle Manchin will serve as the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. President Biden announced the nomination last month, and she was approved by the Senate Thursday. The Appalachian Regional Commission is a federal body that focuses on economic and regional development in 13 states making up the Appalachian region, … Read more
Senator Shelley Moore Capito and President Biden are discussing the president’s over two-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Republicans are proposing a scaled down nearly 570-billion-dollar plan. Capito says she had a “constructive and substantive” call with the president, and in-person meeting is on the table in the near future.
Glenville State Junior Kristen Lopez is the first recipient of the “Cassie Johnson Memorial Scholarship.” Johnson was killed in the line of duty in December. Glenville State plans to endow the one-thousand-dollar scholarship, which will be awarded annually to a criminal justice major.
Marshall University’s Board of Governors is approving a slight increase in fees. Out of state under grads, graduate and professional students will see their fees go up just under two-percent, but in-state undergraduate students are exempt from the increase.
Police are still looking for nineteen-year-old Dekotis Thomas in connection to the death of KJ Taylor earlier this month. Court records show that a misdemeanor gun charge against Thomas was dropped last year.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate dropped to five-point-nine percent. Some businesses are struggling to find workers, and are offering incentives for people who apply. Workforce West Virginia says that with enhanced unemployment benefits extended through the fall, some people aren’t showing up for interviews.
At the beginning of the vaccine roll-out, rural health departments were having to send their patients to larger, regional clinics. Now as they face the same hesitancy wall as everyone else with better supply, they are faced with more challenges and fewer resources. The state’s map indicates that Mingo County currently has a vaccination rate … Read more