A Keyser woman is under arrest for holding people hostage with a shotgun at the Chessie Federal Credit Union. Police stormed the building and took 38-year-old Mary Ann Crossland into custody. No one was hurt. She’s facing kidnapping and weapons charges.
Senator Joe Manchin continues his tour of postal facilities around the state. He was in town to tour the Charleston Processing and Distribution Center and is calling on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to ensure that postal service operations will be undisrupted or he should resign.
The Cedar Ridge Nursing Home in Sissonville is fighting a COVID-19 outbreak. More than thirty residents and staff members have tested positive for the disease, and one resident died over the weekend. It’s the 20th nursing home outbreak in the state.
Governor Justice is making some adjustments to his color-coded school restart plan. The first tweak changes the ways workers who contract COVID-19 at places like jails and nursing homes are counted, and the second adjustment will sync the state’ map to the Harvard model. The changes put Boone, Mingo, Lincoln and Taylor counties into the … Read more
Two correctional officers at a Boone County juvenile detention center are under arrest for helping an inmate escape. Eighteen-year-old Dominick McClung was being held on a murder charge, and was able to escape during a medical transport with help of the two officers. he was captured a few hours later.
Seven people were hurt when a boat exploded on Cheat Lake. Fumes built when the boat was refueling a Edgewater Marina, and when the operator tried to start the engine the boat burst into flames.
A jury found former Marshall Student Chase Hardin guilty of two counts of sexual assault against one victim and not guilty on two counts against another victim. He faces up to fifty-years in prison.
A man who defrauded a Cabell County church out of nearly half-a-million-dollar has been sentenced to almost three years in prison. Seventy-six-year-old Robert Adkins served as the treasurer of the Antioch Baptist Church, and wrote checks on the church’s account for his own benefit.
Identical twins from Boone County are checking items off their bucket list by the day. Landen and Garrett Napier are working to complete the Triple Crown of long-distance hiking, which spans three trails and thousands of miles. They’ve completed two of those trails — one of which ended up averaging a marathon a day — … Read more
A historic movie theater will receive a new projector and sound system thanks in part to an anonymous gift. The Marshall Artists Series at Marshall University said in a statement that it received the gift to invest in equipment to expand program offerings at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in Huntington. The upgrades were set … Read more