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Recycling Center May Get Financial Help

Recycling Center May Get Financial Help

Help could be on the way for Kanawha County’s recycling problems. The Department of Environmental Protection is considering helping the Solid Waste Authority redevelop the recycling program, even seeing it as an emergency need....

Sobriety Checkpoint Planned for Saturday

Sobriety Checkpoint Planned for Saturday

Heads up for drivers this weekend…The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Governor’s Highway Safety Program plans a high visibility sobriety checkpoint on Saturday from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. on WV...

Inmate Gets More Prison Time for Escaping

Inmate Gets More Prison Time for Escaping

An inmate has pleaded guilty to escaping the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson. Fifty-four-year-old Patricia Alfieri of New York was captured in Lewisburg on June 28 after 10 days on the run. Federal prosecutors...

Guilty Hearing Set for Former Freedom Exec

Guilty Hearing Set for Former Freedom Exec

A judge has scheduled a guilty plea hearing for former Freedom Industries executive Dennis Farrell, the last executive charged the 2014 chemical spill. In Charleston federal court Wednesday, Judge Thomas Johnston set an Aug....

Lower Gas Bills Predicted for Winter

Lower Gas Bills Predicted for Winter

The Public Service Commission expects lower gas utility bills this fall and winter. The PSC says Natural gas utilities that serve almost all of the natural gas customers operating in the state have filed...