Less than one-fourth of Charleston’s 162 police officers are currently certified to use Tasers, according to the city attorney’s office. Thirty-six officers are currently certified to use Tasers, leaving 17 of the department’s remaining working Tasers unused. The information was released following a Freedom of Information Act request by Eyewitness News. Charleston Police Chief James … Read more
Three men were indicted this week in a November 2020 double murder case in Mason County. Brandon A. Smith of Milton is accused of killing two men — Ivan Lambert and Ricky Pickens — and injuring another, James Smith Jr., in a shooting on Whitten Ridge Road near Hannan. Two of Smith’s alleged accomplices, Corey … Read more
A community college’s plans to move into the former Stone and Thomas building in Charleston has hit a roadblock. BridgeValley Community and Technical College’s Board of Governors voted Friday afternoon to pull its master plan off the table. That master plan included moving students from its South Charleston campus to the former department store building … Read more
Students at the Marion County Technical Center learning carpentry and electrical work recently built a tiny house. It’s 432 square feet and includes insulation, framing, installing windows, siding, shingles and the students did all of it. The students also do repairs around the building and have also built Mannington City Hall. They’ve built handicap ramps … Read more
Street sweeping will begin on Tuesday in Charleston. The City says it has tried to be accommodating while people have been working from home, but they need to clean the streets to keep drains from clogging. It will start on the East End on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. on the southbound side of the streets … Read more
Six a.m. alcohol sales will start on Monday. The legislature passed a bill that will allow the sale of beer and wine from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. every day. Retail outlets can sell liquor between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m., Monday through Saturday, and on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Huntington Fire Chief Jan Rader took the stand in the opioid civil trial at the Byrd Federal Courthouse. She testified that at the height of the opioid epidemic in 2017 firefighters were seeing an average of five overdose deaths a month. Huntington and Cabell County are suing the “Big 3” drug distributors for sending one-hundred-million … Read more
The state Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting six more COVID-19 deaths. There are almost three-hundred-forth new cases of the virus, and over seven-thousand active cases. The average age of those being hit with the virus is now 34.
Vaccine manufacturers are warning that this is just the beginning of a long battle against COVID-19 and its variants. Moderna and Pfizer officials believe booster shots will be needed every year, similar to the flu shot. Moderna released initial data this week indicating a single shot of its vaccine given as a booster appears to … Read more
Governor Justice says he will lift the mask mandate on West Virginia’s 158th birthday, on June 20th. Health experts project that, by then, 65-percent of West Virginians ages 12 to 35 will have a least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and that 75-percent of the population over fifty will have at least one shot.