CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Charleston showroom of Goldfarb Electric is set to be demolished, news outlets reported Thursday. A demolition permit for the Virginia Street E. building was issued last week but it's unclear when any action will be taken, officials said. A chain-link fence has ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The chief judge of Kanawha County, West Virginia, has appointed a new magistrate for the area's court system. Judge Charles E. King, Jr. on Thursday named Gary Q. Sheff as magistrate following the retirement of Tim Halloran at the end of last year, according to a ...
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Seven people were injured in a shooting at a bar in West Virginia early New Year's Day, police said. The shooting happened early Wednesday at the Kulture Hookah Bar in Huntington, interim Huntington Police Chief Ray Cornwell said in a news release. The statement ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE undefined CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia sheriff was fined Thursday for hitting a car with a shopping cart then lying about what happened so his county would have to pay for repairs, officials said. Brooke County Sheriff Larry C. Palmer has agreed to pay the ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former correctional officer in West Virginia has settled three lawsuits by women who say he sexually abused them while they were inmates. Former guard James Widen agreed to settle the cases for a total of $240,000, the women's attorney and state Sen. Mike Woelfel ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday tapped the director of a General Motors dealership to lead the state's Division of Motor Vehicles. Everett Frazier, who has worked in the auto industry for more than three decades, will start as DMV commissioner Monday, ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bar where seven people were shot on New Year's Day was shut down Thursday as authorities work to identify who carried out the shooting. Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said officials have issued a cease and desist order to close Kulture Hookah Bar, ...
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press Golden eagles are back from Canada, spending the winter in the eastern U.S. Researcher Trish Miller said there are probably around 5,000 east of the Mississippi River, compared to estimates of 1,000 to 2,500 when she and her husband, Michael Lanzone, ...
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Seven people were injured in a shooting at a bar in West Virginia early New Year's Day, police said. The shooting happened early Wednesday at the Kulture Hookah Bar in Huntington, interim Huntington Police Chief Ray Cornwell said in a news release. The statement ...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A suspected drunken driver was arrested in a New Year's Day highway crash that killed another motorist in West Virginia, police said. The accident occurred early Wednesday along southbound Interstate 81 in Berkeley County, The Journal reported. Cody Wade ...
CROSS LANES, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia sheriff's deputies shot and wounded a man who fired a gun at them in a residential area, police said Wednesday. The shooting happened after deputies responded to a report of a suspicious person who may have pointed a gun another man Tuesday night in ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In late August, federal prosecutors said a sweeping criminal investigation into numerous suspicious deaths at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia would be their "top priority." Four months later, no charges have been ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University's chief of obesity medicine is investigating how to best help the state's primary care providers treat their obese patients. "Weight loss used to be designated to commercial programs, like stores selling diet products," Dr. Laura Davisson ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE undefined CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — West Virginia plans to begin training its corrections department staff about the Holocaust after a photograph of correction officer cadets giving Nazi salutes led to dozens of firings and widespread outrage, officials said Tuesday. A ...
Several West Virginia state parks and forests are offering free New Year’s Day hikes next week. Hiking is one of the main reasons visitors from inside and outside the state travel to parks, West Virginia State Parks Chief Sam England said in a news release. Hikers start out on a 2-mile hike ...
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A historic West Virginia home that played an important role in the area's African American history is changing hands as a way of continuing to preserve it. The Webb-Blessing House was the only residence owned by a free African-American family living in Charles ...
MOUNT OLIVE, W. Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials have shut off several water valves at a state prison while they continue to restore full water service at the Fayette County complex. Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety spokesman Larry Messina said Sunday that inmates will ...
MONONGAH, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been charged with animal cruelty after several dead dogs were found in her home, authorities said. Marion County sheriff's deputies found the animals during a search of 36-year-old Melissa Jones' home in Monongah on Monday, news outlets ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For Bernard Whittington, an enduring memory of his service as a U.S. Army corporal during the Battle of the Bulge was enduring bone-chilling cold. Seventy-five years after the Kanawha County man took part in the bloody, but ultimately successful, effort to counter ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — London's New Year's Day Parade is set to feature a little touch of West Virginia. Marshall University's marching band is heading across the pond to perform in London's parade ringing in 2020, the school said Friday. More than 100 members of the Marching Thunder band ...