WQBE News

Huntington police are investigating an armed robbery at the Shell Station on 8th Avenue. A man with a gun demanded money from the register, and ran from the scene with cash.

A Massachusetts man is under arrest for threatening a Kanawha County judge. Forty-year-old Keith Lessard is accused of mailing threatening letter to the judge in a scheme to extort money.

Two men are under arrest for child trafficking and soliciting minors. Both men are accused or luring teenagers and traveling to engage in sex acts with a minor. They’re facing up to thirty-years in prison.

The trail of a former Marshall student, accused of raping two students, will continue today in Cabell County. Twenty-two-year-old Joseph Hardin is charged with sexual assault against two women in 2018. The jury heard open arguments yesterday.

A vape pen and bottle of hand sanitizer caused a car fire in nitro. The vape pen overheated and burst into flames and a nearby bottle of hand sanitizer help spread the fire. It melted the center console and filled the car with smoke. No one was hurt.

Drivers could see delays because of a large hole in the road. The sink hole closed one lane of Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston Tuesday morning and the westbound slow lane and sidewalk area in the 1500 block on Kanawha Blvd. East were shut down. Crews may still be working in the area.

The West Virginia University Mountaineer mascot and alternate will get to serve an extra year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Colson Glover, a junior from Lewisburg, became Mountaineer in April, and Brooke Ashby, a senior from Mannington, is alternate. They have not made in-person appearances since beginning their duties. The Mountaineer Advisory Council announced Monday … Read more

Residents in one Fayette County community said they are fed up with years of having high levels of iron and other possible chemicals in their tap water. Customers of the Page-Kincaid Public Service District took their protest to the streets Monday in their community. They held signs and bottles filled with brown water. An Eyewitness … Read more

Kanawha County deputies made two arrests over the weekend in investigations related to child trafficking and soliciting minors. Mark Alan Armstead of Dunbar and Jonathan Vazquez-Gonzales of Nitro were arrested. Both face felony charges that carry sentences of five to 30 years incarceration and up to $25,000 in fines.

Two more people have died from COVID-19. The latest deaths were an 83-year-old Kanawha County man, and a 74-year-old Logan County man, raising the state’s death toll to over 140. There are over 19-hundred active cases, and more than 120 people are hospitalized with the virus.