Local News

An inmate is accused of assaulting a correctional officer at the South Central regional Jail. The inmate knocked the officers to the ground Thursday afternoon. The officer suffered a cut on his head and...

A CSX train derailed in the Buffalo Creek area of Logan County. Five cars derailed along Route 16 in Johnson Hollow. No injuries were reported. Crews worked most of the night to clean up...

Police have identified the suspect accused of posing as a police officer in Wayne County. Twenty-one-year-old Justice Staley will be charged with impersonating an officer for pulling over drivers in the Ceredo and Kenova...

Police are looking for a woman who stole a package from a porch in Poca. It happened Wednesday afternoon on Dupont Road. Surveillance video captured the woman. She has long brown hair, and a...

The man that the Wayne County Sheriff’s department says has been impersonating officers has been identified. The Sheriff’s office says 21-year old Justice Staley of Prichard admitted to stopping a vehicle on RT. 75...

The Charleston Salvation Army could use a boost in its annual Red Kettle campaign. They’re struggling to meet the goal of $225,000 with donations down so far this season. The Red Kettle Campaign is...

A Charleston federal judged has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Constellium from making radical changes to the health insurance for about 1,500 aluminum plant retirees and their families. Judge Thomas Johnston this week ordered...

A two-day mediation session continues today in Yeager Airport’s lawsuit against 10 construction and design contractors and their insurance carriers. The Gazette Mail reported the mediation is being led by a McDowell County judge....

WVU’s “man behind the musket” has died. Seventy-eight-year-old Marvin Wotring passed away Sunday at his home in Morgantown. Wotring was gunsmith who built every muzzleloader used by the WVU Mountaineer mascot since 1977.

Diversified Gas and Oil has made a deal with state regulators to plug oil and gas wells over the next fifteen years. The company entered a consent order with the West Virginia Department of...