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Marshall Men’s basketball cruised to a 75-to-67 win over Charlotte Friday night. The two teams will wrap up their series this afternoon at 2 p.m.

Number six WVU will end its regular season this afternoon against a red hot Oklahoma State team. Tipoff is at two o’clock at the Coliseum.

Two people were hurt in an explosion and fire at the Washington Motel in Ravenswood. Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the explosion and fire, but say it started in a room where home oxygen was in use. Everyone made it out safely. Six rooms were damaged and several people are displaced.

A Grafton man will spend up to thirty years in prison for stealing a fire truck and causing thousands of dollars in damages. Witnesses saw Jason Lyons driving the firetruck in circles and then crashed through a gate. Lyons is also charged with failure to register as a sex offender.

More than forty people are under arrest and are facing drug and violent crime charges. It was part of a multi-agency operation this week that started with executing five narcotics search warrants around the Huntington area. A second phase of the operation included a city-wide warrant sweep, which resulted in the following 37 arrests.

The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a blowout at the former T-and-T Mine Complex in Preston County that is dumping acidic water in the confluence of Muddy Creek and the Cheat River. The leak peaked at 62-hundred gallons per minute, and has slowed down to the 35-hundred gallons. The acidic water is ten … Read more

West Virginia is entering Phase 2-A of the COVID-19 vaccination plan. Anyone fifty-years-old or older is eligible for the vaccine, in addition to people who have high risk or chronic conditions and anyone with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The state has about 60,000 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine ready to go.

The federal government is nearing a settlement with seven families whose loved ones were killed at the Clarksburg VA. The nursing assistant who admitted to killing the patients is still waiting to be sentenced.

Federal investigators say the December explosion at the Optima facility in Belle happened in an industrial dryer unit. The plant was trying to remove water from chlorinated dry bleach. Dark spots were observed in the powder before the explosion in which one person died and another person was hurt.

Governor Justice is rolling out his plan to cut personal income tax. The plan would cut state income tax by sixty-percent starting next year, and a full phase out within three years. Sales tax would increase one-point-nine-percent, in addition to creating a luxury tax and implementing a sin tax on soda, alcohol, and cigarettes.