CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A South Carolina construction company has agreed to pay the United States $191,070 to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act. Thompson Construction Group Inc., of Sumter, South Carolina, allegedly violated the act by submitting false claims for payment from federal disaster recovery grant funds. The company did so…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A regional economic development organization, Advantage Valley, continues to address the child care deficit head-on. The organization is currently in the process of holding a total of twelve free child care start-up business workshops across the nine-county region it serves– Boone, Cabell, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and Wayne counties. The…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The Kanawha County Board of Education is moving forward with plans for a brand-new elementary school, which will serve four communities on the eastern end of the county. Plans were able to get underway once the School Building Authority awarded $20 million to Kanawha County Schools for the school’s construction in mid-December. Those…
Photo courtesy City of Nitro NITRO, W.Va. — UMWA President Cecil Roberts helped lead Sunday’s special recognition of Vietnam veterans in Nitro. Cecil Roberts The soon-to-be-retired Roberts gave the keynote address at the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day event at Nitro Living Memorial Park. “It’s very moving when you think about the time you were…
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. — A bus hauling an Ohio-based lacrosse team went up in flames after an incident along Interstate 77 Friday evening. Crews responded to the incident at around 7 p.m. near the Haynes Branch Exit. The bus was carrying a team from Medina, Ohio, which included 18 players and three coaches. No injuries…
BUFFALO, W.Va. — A driver is hospitalized after the tractor trailer mail truck he was driving crashed early Friday morning in Mason County damaging a bridge and causing a fuel spill. The state DOH said the driver lost control of the truck on U.S. Route 35 south on the Sixteen Mile Creek Bridge at about…
SALT ROCK, W.Va. — The corpse of what appears to be an infant and a damaged casket were found at a Cabell County cemetery Thursday night. Cabell County Sheriff Doug Adams says deputies were dispatched to Baylous Cemetery in Salt Rock at a little after 7 p.m. “Upon arrival deputies found a corpse of what…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A pedestrian has suffered injuries after being struck by a vehicles side mirror in Charleston. According to Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, in the 1300 block of Greenbrier Street. Police say that when two vehicles’ mirrors struck each other, one of them flew off and hit a…
JEFFERSON, W.Va. –A bicyclist suffered injuries in Jefferson Thursday after colliding with a moving car. According to police the injured person was an adult male who was taken to the hospital with a broken ankle as a result of the collision. The incident happened near the Marantha Fellowship Family Life Center. The person driving the car…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man pleaded not guilty to a murder charge during an arraignment Thursday in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Anthony Grose Anthony Grose, 39, of Charleston, appeared before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey, who set his trial for July 7. Grose was indicted on a murder charge from the September 2024 fatal…