Former Charleston Mayor Danny Jones held the official opening for his new restaurant Wednesday. The restaurant is called Danny’s BBQ Stand and it’s on Quarrier Street. Jones retired from public office last year after serving four terms as the city’s mayor. Jones also owned several restaurants in the past, including Number 8 Capitol Street and … Read more
Yeager Airport officials say its passenger numbers are rising. More than 31,500 passengers came through the Charleston airport last month, which is an increase of more than 2,000 from this time last year. The airport said there were more than 15,800 people who left from Yeager last month and more than 15,700 passengers flying into … Read more
Another hospital is closing its doors. Fairmont Regional Medical Center announced it will close in sixty-days, and could affect six-hundred jobs. Governor Justice will meet with hospital officials today to try and find a way forward.
Five fire departments were on the scene of a fire at an abandoned apartment building in Jefferson. The building on MacCorkle Avenue was destroyed in the blaze. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The state Senate rejected a bill to cut state funding for greyhound racing. The bill would have ended 17-million-dollars in subsidies that benefit dog racing breeders and handlers. A WVU study found that greyhound racing generates 17-hundred jobs, and legislators say the Wheeling area can’t afford the job loss.
The City of Charleston Community Relations Coordinator, Alexandra Gallo, has resigned. She was arrested last November for forcing her way into her Grandmother’s home to retrieve her child. Gallo pleaded guilty to battery, public intoxication and trespassing. The city has not made a decision if a replacement will be hired.
One person was killed in a head-on collision with a Wood County School bus on Route 47 near WVU-Parkersburg. The person who died was in the other car. One child on the bus was treated for a minor injury.
Sanitation workers in West Portsmouth found a box that appeared to contain an explosives device. The bomb squad determined it was a military grade incendiary device and disposed of it at the secure facility.
A Nitro man is accused of firing shots from an AK-47 at a business and at his apartment. Thirty-year-old Gregory Blaylock is charged with wanton endangerment. No one was hurt. Blaylock suffers from PTSD and told officer people were following him, so he fired at them.
A South Charleston bank teller is accused of embezzling over 200-thousand-dollars from the Pioneer West Virginia Federal Credit Union. Dianne Richardson worked as a vault manager and falsified records to conceal cash shortages over a six year period.