A Westover woman is facing drug charges after officers found her asleep in her car with drugs inside. Twenty-seven-year-old Kelsey McClung passed out in her car while it was parked at the gas pumps at the Little General gas station on White Hall Boulevard. Officers found almost three-grams of heroin, digital scales, packaging materials, and … Read more
The City of Charleston is lowering flags to half-staff to honor former city councilman Rick Burka, who passed away Friday morning. Burka was on the city council for ten years and retired in 2018 because of health concerns.
Friends and family are mourning the loss of fallen Charleston firefighter Jason Cuffee. He was laid to rest yesterday at Tyler Memorial Gardens in Cross Lanes. Funeral services were held at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Cuffee suffered a medical emergency while on duty Monday.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a shoplifter. The suspect is accused of stealing more than two-hundred-dollars’ worth of merchandise from a Speedway on Route-817 in Winfield. Investigators are looking for a man with brown hair and tattoos on his arms and neck. Call police if you have any information.
A Crown City mother is facing murder charges after the death of her sixteen-month-old baby. Twenty-five-year-old Joyceann Ruane admitted to shooting the baby following an argument with the child’s father.
Charleston police are investigating a shooting in the 17-hundred block of Kemp Avenue. A man was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. No arrests have been made.
A former WVU professor is pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud. Dr. Qingun Sun admitted to defrauding the university and filing a false tax return.
A 55-year-old Mason County woman has died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 103. There are seventy new cases of the virus, bringing the total to over 55-hundred. Nearly ninety people are in the hospital.
Governor Justice will keep bars closed for another ten days in Monongalia County. The county remains a COVID-19 hotspot with nearly three-hundred active cases of the virus.
Kanawha County is scaling back access to courthouse facilities after employees in three different county offices tested positive for COVID-19. Public access hours will be scaled back to 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.