Nine new officers have joined the Huntington police force. The city held a swearing-in ceremony for the new probationary police officers Monday , and that brings the department’s staffing to 98 officers. The new officers will start their training May 17, which will include 10 weeks of in-house training and 10 weeks at the State … Read more
Sentencing is happening today for Reta Mays – the fired nursing assistant who admitting to killing seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. She faces up to life in prison for each of seven counts of second-degree murder. Mays admitted at a July plea … Read more
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks to $3.02 per gallon. That’s a little over a dollar higher than a year ago. The costs of crude oil and ethanol are also on the rise ahead of the summer peak driving season. The highest average price in the … Read more
Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said Monday that the Augusta, Ga.-based Hull Group will buy the Charleston Town Center property. WCHS reported the group owns 33 malls in 16 states. Marketing materials described Town Center as one of the largest enclosed malls in the United States. There has been a growing list of businesses that have … Read more
Police are looking for a suspect involved in a carjacking near the WVU campus. The man pushed the driver out of the way and took off with a silver Nissan Sentra. No one was hurt. The suspect is described as a man in his mid-20s with dark hair, a beard and a hat.
Week two of the landmark opioid epidemic trial gets started at the Byrd Federal Courthouse. Four witnesses will take the stand this week in the case against the Big-three drug distributors.
The freshman retention rate at Marshall University is at an all-time high. Nearly eighty-percent of first-time students who enrolled in the 2019 fall semester returned the following year. The new fall semester will begin August 23rd with plans to resume in-person classes.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting just over four-hundred new cases of COVID-19. Active case rose slightly, to just over seven-thousand. Health officials project that 65-percent of West Virginians 12-years-old and older will be vaccinated by June 20th, and that’s when Governor Justice says he will drop the mask mandate.
The sentencing phase of the Reta Mays murder trial starts tomorrow. She pleaded guilty to killing seven vets at the Clarksburg VA medical center. She faces multiple consecutive life sentences.
Power is slowly coming back on to thousands of homes and businesses across state after strong winds yesterday. Appalachian Power says, at its peak, about 30-thousand customers were in the dark on Sunday.