Police are looking for a teenager who ran away from home. Seventeen-year-old Amandalee Barnett is five-foot three-inches tall and weighs 128 pounds. She has blue eyes and brown hair. Call the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office if you have any information.
Boone County prosecutors say they were essentially forced to dismiss kidnapping charges against Kevin Woodrum in a high profile torture case after the West Virginia Supreme Court ordered a new trial. The High Court ruled that jury instructions during Woodrum’s original trial were incomplete, and they had no choice, but to reverse the decision. Woodrum … Read more
Marshall University is indefinitely postponing it’s football game against East Carolina University due to COVID-19. The Herd was scheduled to play ECU in the same place, against the same team… that they played 50 years ago before the Marshall plane crash, to honor those lives lost.
Nearly a thousand inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Center are being tested for COVID-19 after more than thirty people tested positive in a medical unit.
Nine more people in West Virginia have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll close to two-hundred. There are more than ninety new cases of the virus, and nearly 150 people are hospitalized.
State and county health officials are rejecting a recommendation from the CDC that suggests people exposed to COVID-19 donn’t need to be tested, unless they were having symptoms, are older, or other medically vulnerable. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department says it will continue to do contact tracing and test people, even if they are asymptomatic.
The remnants of Hurricane Laura are making their way toward West Virginia. The storm will move through tonight into Saturday and we could see some heavy rain and gusty winds. Emergency Management officials are preparing for a severe weather threat.
Heavy rain caused flooding in Nicholas County. Water, rocks, and mud are all over the road on Birch River Road and Dille Road. There are three mudslides in the area. The Birch River area picked up about five-inches of rain in three hours.
A Kanawha County couple is under arrest on firearms charges. Police were looking for an Ohio murder suspect and found him hiding behind some furniture in a family member’s home in the Jordan Creek area. Henry and Laura Harper are charged with prohibited people in possession of a firearm.
A Kentucky man is under arrest following a shooting in Huntington’s West End. Two people were hurt. Twenty-four-year-old Adrian White is charged with malicious wounding.