Reta Mays sentencing is scheduled for today. Her attorneys are trying to block some evidence from publication. She pleaded guilty to the murder of seven veterans at the Clarksburg VA Medical Center and faces multiple consecutive life sentences.
Senator Manchin says he had a productive meeting with President Joe Biden over the proposed infrastructure plan. Manchin says he has serious concerns about the two-trillion-dollar price tag. Manchin’s Republican counterpart, Senator Shelley Moore Capito will meet with the president on Thursday.
First Lady Jill Biden will visit West Virginia on Thursday, and she’s bringing a celebrity guest. Actress and West Virginia native Jennifer Garner will join Biden on a tour of Arnoldsburg Elementary School and a vaccination center at Capital High School.
A Georgia based real estate firm is buying Charleston Town Center Mall. The Hull Property Group owns more than thirty malls in sixteen other states. The group specializes in acquiring and re-positioning under-performing malls, and says it will go to work immediately to keep existing stores from leaving and attracting new ones.
RISE West Virginia is closing in on three-hundred completed housing projects. The pandemic locked down construction last March, but now the program is on track to complete about a dozen homes a month.
West Virginia will get more than one-million-dollars in federal funding to help the homeless. The money will come from the “American Rescue Plan” and provide emergency housing vouchers to housing authorities in Charleston, Huntington, and Morgantown.
An Illinois man is pleading guilty to sending a threatening Facebook message to a Putnam County law enforcement officer after a police-involved shooting. Thirty-seven-year-old Rodney Hanson faces up to five-years in prison.
Huntington police are investigating after two people were found dead inside a Guyandotte home. No arrests have been made.
Week two of the opioid trial is underway at the Byrd Federal Courthouse. A data expert took the witness stand yesterday and testified that the “Big 3” distributors on trial shipped 110-million doses of hydrocodone and oxycodone to Huntington and Cabell County between 2006 and 2014.
Busy Route 119 in Charleston is getting some new stop lights this summer. West Virginia Department of Transportation workers said it will help make traffic move faster. The project began in August 2020 to change traffic patterns coming out of Oakwood Rd. Canfield said drivers will be able to make safer turns because of it, … Read more