HURRICANE, W.Va. — Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards is relieved American Electric Power Company recently decided to abandon plans to build nearly 20 miles worth of transmission line through the popular Meeks Mountain Trails in Putnam County. Scott Edwards “When I heard that AEP was going to look for alternative routes and avoid Meeks Mountain Trails,…
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va— A rally was held Monday in support of Machinists Union Local 598 IAM members who are on strike in front of the Dow Chemical facility in South Charleston. After their previous contract expired on Sunday October 20, Local 598 went on strike last week to demand fair wages and to fight for…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man has been found competent to stand trial after being accused of beating a Charleston woman to death with a vase. Izak Surface, of Charleston, pleaded not guilty on Monday to the beating death of Lora Farley, 36. Surface was indicted in August. Surface’s case will go to trial on March…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man has been found competent to stand trial for the stabbing death of his aunt in Kanawha County. Chaddrick Trent II pleaded not guilty Monday morning to first-degree murder in the July 2023 stabbing death of Irma Woody. Trent was found competend to stand trial by Judge Carrie Webster in July,…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Attorney Michael Carey says he is devoting all of his efforts moving forward to bring justice to eight families filing for abuse that has allegedly occurred to their children at a Cross Lanes daycare center. This follows the temporary shutdown and investigation into the Cross Lanes Child Care and Learning Center…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Sissonville man is being sentenced to a maximum of 45 years in prison on multiple charges including the attempted murder of a police officer during a February shooting incident. Nathan Oxley, 44, was sentenced before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers Monday morning. Akers sentenced Oxley to up to 15 years…
MARMET, W.Va. — A man was killed in head-on crash early Monday morning in eastern Kanawha County. Kanawha County deputies said Keith Jenkins, 38, was traveling west on state Route 61 between Marmet and Kanawha City at about 1 a.m. when his vehicle traveled across the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle. Jenkins died…