More improvements are planned at Slack Plaza

Charleston City Council voted to approve the City Center Improvement District’s budget for the fiscal year. Although the total budget is nearly $1.3 million, around $92,000 of those funds run through the City of Charleston. The city center at Slack Plaza and surrounding areas will see more upgrades under the improvement district’s plans. The first … Read more

Cabell County Schools could move to later start times

The Cabell County School Board is looking into possibly later school start times for middle and high school students. A later start gives students more sleep, and that leads to better concentration in the classroom, according to research. The board is in the beginning discussion stages and they held a public information session yesterday afternoon. … Read more

Mercer County man faces charges after domestic incident

An investigation has brought charges against a Mercer County man for dismembering or displacing a dead body. Police responded to a home on Ball Street in Princeton on May 23 about a destruction of property report. A victim there said her ex-boyfriend, identified as 36-year-old Daniel Lee Agnew, had thrown her clothing and electronis into … Read more

Nitro’s Pickleball community continues to grow

Nitro hosted the third annual Metro 911 Pickleball Tournament last weekend, and organizers say it’s grown in just three short years. They started off the first year with about a hundred participants and now they have over 300 participants from 15 different states. About sixty percent of the participants are out of the Kanawha Valley, … Read more

Wayne County crash claims the life of an Ohio woman

A woman was killed and four others were injured in a two-vehicle crash Sunday in Wayne County. Chelse Nicole Aldridge, 29, of Proctorville, Ohio, was killed in a head-on crash just before 4 p.m. Sunday along Route 37 near Wayne, according to a news release from West Virginia State Police. Troopers said Aldridge’s vehicle was … Read more

Marshall researchers discover new prehistoric water species

Marshall University researchers identified a group of fossils that belonged to a new type of prehistoric aquatic reptile from millions of years ago that was unknown before the discovery. The fossils, discovered in British Columbia, Canada, belonged to a genus of elasmosaur now named the Traskasaura sandrae and was described as a 39-foot, long-necked creature … Read more