Beckley Mayor is OK After Being Hit By a Car
Beckley Mayor Bill O’Brien is recovering after he was hit by a car while leaving a baseball game this week. It happened Tuesday evening outside Linda K. Epling Stadium, where the West Virginia Miners...
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Gas Prices Drop
Gas prices continue to go down. The average price for regular unleaded gasoline has fallen nationally for 27 consecutive days. Triple A says gas prices in several West Virginia metro areas decreased eight cents...
Hurricane Firefighters Eye Recruiting Grant
Volunteer firefighters in Hurricane have a lot more money to work with. Hurricane Fire and Rescue is on track to get a $577,100 grant, awarded by the Dept. of Homeland Security. It’s called the...
Blankenship Attorneys File Motions to Outline Evidence at Upcoming Trial
Attorneys for Don Blankenship want evidence about the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster to be kept out of the jury’s hands. A new court filing insists that the evidence is not relevant to the...
Farrell May Plead Guilty
Prosecutors are asking a judge to schedule a guilty plea hearing for Freedom Industries executive Dennis Farrell. Federal pollution charges relate to the January 2014 Freedom tank leak in Charleston spurred a tap-water ban...
Pilot Chuck Yeager Enters Hall of Fame
Record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager and former astronaut Jon McBride are among eight people inducted into the West Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame. The other inductees include former U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller. Yeager became...
Man Arrested After Trying to Steal a Vehicle
A man trying to steal a vehicle on Brick Lane in Cross Lanes ended up in a tense confrontation with a deputy Tuesday. Chad Lynn Hartness of Statesville, NC was approached by an officer...
State Board of Education Meets Today
State School Superintendent Dr. Michael Martirano will release the results from last school year’s standardized testing in West Virginia during today’s state Board of Education meeting. Students in grades 3-8 and 11 took the...
Officer Involved in Shooting Says He Had No Choice
A Nitro police officer who fatally shot a man August 1st at a boat dock says he had no other choice. Sgt. T.A. Jarrell tells WSAZ-TV that 52-year-old David Lane Cooke of Nitro fired...
Mayor Jones Makes Appointment for City Clerk
If the city council approvees, Charleston lawyer J.B. Akers will become the next city clerk. Mayor Danny Jones said on his Facebook page Monday that he’s appointing Akers to be Charleston’s City Clerk, and...