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A MAN ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IS ON THE RUN THIS MORNING. TODD BOYES ESCAPED FROM THE SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL JAIL EARLY THIS MORNING. HE’S 5’6″, 220 POUNDS, BALD, AND WAS LAST SEEN WEARING...

PRESIDENT TRUMP RECOGNIZED WEST VIRGINIA IS HIS ADDRESS ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS. THE PRESIDENT ISSUED A NATIONAL HEALTH EMERGENCY YESTERDAY, SAYING ONE IN EVERY FOUR BABIES IS IMPACTED BY OPIOID ABUSE. THERE WERE NEARLY...

A homicide investigation continues after a body was found Wednesday afternoon near the 500 block of Pacific Street on Charleston’s West Side. Police say 20-year old Crystal Marie Young of Charleston was shot to...

Some areas of Charleston and South Charleston should see higher speeds in their internet and other data-processing services in the next year or sooner. The State Journal reports that Hurricane-based Alpha Technologies is installing...

Fix Charleston, a program of Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association, has spayed or neutered more than 2,000 owned pets since opening on June 7. The veterinary clinic provides affordable spay/neuter, vaccines. Fix Charleston also provides low-cost...

THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WANTS TO TRIPLE THE ENTRANCE FEE TO MOUNT RAINIER AND OTHER NATIONAL PARKS. THE PARK SERVICE IS PROPOSING INCRESING ENTRANCE FEES FROM 25-DOLLARS PER VEHICLE TO 70-DOLLARS. THE FEE HIKE...

A 4-MONTH-OLD GIRL IS RECOVERING FROM DEHYDRATION AFTER BEING LEFT ALONE IN MURDER VICTIM LINDA SWEEZER’S HOUSE. POLICE FOUND THE BABY WHILE INVESTIGATING SWEEZER’ DEATH. THE BABY WAS LEFT BEHIND IN HER CRIB.

POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN CONNECTION TO THE MURDER OF A WOMAN WHOSE BODY WAS DUMPED AND PARTIALLY BURNED IN A LAKE TAPPS NEIGHBORHOOD. POLICE ARRESTED 25-YEAR-OLD LANCE ROUGEAU FOR THE DEATH OF...

FIREFIGHTERS ARE GETTING CLOSER TO FULLY CONTAINING THE SONOMA COUNTY WILDFIRES. THE THREE FIRES HAVE BURNED OVER 110-THOUSAND ACRES, AND DESTROYED NEARLY 7-THOUSAND HOMES. CAL FIRE EXPECTS TO HAVE FULL CONTAINMENT BY TOMORROW.

A WRONG WAY DRIVER IS DEAD AFTER CRASHING HIS SUV IN TO THE CENTER DIVDER ON I-880 IN FREMONT. THE CRASH HAPPENED EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING NORTH OF AUTO MALL PARKWAY. THE DRIVER WAS PRONOUNCED...