Thousands Turn out at the State Capitol
School employees turned out by the thousands Monday at the West Virginia Capitol to protest on the eighth day of a statewide education strike, prompting officials to declare that no more visitors would be...
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Work Stoppage Stretches to a 9th School Day
Today will be the ninth consecutive day students have been out of school due to a statewide teacher and school service personnel walkout, or work stoppage. Several counties including Kanawha have announced school closures...
PROMISE Scholarship Deadline Could be Extended
With the teacher strike, students weren’t in school when the PROMISE Scholarship deadline passed and one lawmaker wants an extension. Delegate Jill Upson, R-Jefferson, said she asked the state Higher Education Policy Commission to...
Girls State Basketball Tournament Starts Wednesday
The girls state basketball tournament is kicking off tomorrow at the Charleston Civic Center. Class A, AA and AAA schools will be squaring off Wednesday through Saturday, according to the schedule posted on the...
SunTrust bank closing West Virginia branches
SunTrust Bank is closing its five remaining branches in West Virginia. The banks are located inside Kroger stores in Kanawha and Putnam Counties. SunTrust says it will notify customers well in advance of the...
Couple arrested for shooting up in front of 9 year old
A Fayette County couple is in custody after using drugs in front of their 9-year-old child. Officers had a warrant to search a home on Crow Hill Road in Beckwith. They found Raymond and...
Police find 100 needles in storage locker
Charleston police say they found more than one-hundred needles in a storage facility behind a business on Virginia Street. Police say someone broke in the storage facility and had been sleeping there. Officers are...
A “bad batch” of heroin
Fayette County officials are sending out a warning about a bad batch of heroin. EMS responded to several calls over the weekend, and are having to give massive amount of Narcan to reverse the...
Human remains found in Hurricane
A hunter found what appear to be human remains Saturday along State Route 34. The remains were found near Tacketts Branch Road and Whirlwind Storage in Hurricane. They’vebeen sent to the State Medical Examiner’s...
Frontier Communications hopes to resolve strike quickly
Frontier communications workers are on strike. After ten months of negotiations a contract extension expired Saturday. Union leaders say job cuts at Frontier “have gone too far,” and they want the company to invest...
