CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Organizations battling the opioid epidemic are receiving a boost from the city of Charleston, with more than half a million dollars in settlement funds being allocated for local groups. Those grants were guided by the city’s Opioid Community Council, and according to Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, the council was organized to make…
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. — A Kanawha County man is charged with first degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed his wife early Saturday morning at the couple’s home in Sissonville. Jason Phillips (KCSD) Kanawha County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on Allens Fork Road in at 3 a.m. after Jason Phillips, 46, of Sissonville,…
Story by Morgan Pemberton CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state’s consolidated laboratory project is moving forward as construction goes out for bid and the facility receives a new name. Adam Krason The 285,000-square-foot building, now called the West Virginia Center for Laboratory Sciences, will be located at the West Virginia Regional Technology Park in South Charleston and…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Over 1,000 children in the area will have gifts to open on Christmas thanks to the Charleston Police Department. CPD’s Citizens’ Academy, which is the non-profit arm of the department, finished distributing toys from the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center early Friday afternoon, though the effort was supposed to last until the…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Lincoln County man is facing charges after police say he shot his girlfriend’s children. Anthony Lee Volpitta, 56, was apprehended late Saturday night near Oakwood Road on U.S. Route 119. State Police and Charleston Police helped make the arrest. According to State Police, the girlfriend was in the vehicle with the…
CROSS LANES, W.Va. — Kanawha County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man who made a brazen heist from a rental business in Cross Lanes. Video surveillance shows the man breaking into United Rentals on New Goff Mountain Road early Friday morning. The man stole a Ford F-550 pick-up truck, two Polaris Side-by-Side vehicles, a…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Children’s Theatre of Charleston claimed Best in Show in the Charleston Area Alliance and Chamber of Commerce Charleston Holiday Window Display Contest. The alliance’s Susie Salisbury said judges went out and selected the best window of those around the city. “They were our Best in Show,” Salisbury said. Children’s Theatre President Megan…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — It appears it’s going to be Saturday night before most customers of Appalachian Power and Mon Power impacted by Friday’s power outage will have service restored. It’s the ongoing breezy conditions that will slow the restoration through the day Friday. “It’s not safe for us to put a bucket (truck) up in…
Powerful winds knocked off power to nearly 82,000 customers of Appalachian Power and Mon Power in West Virginia early Friday morning. Appalachian Power reported nearly 39,000 customers without service as of 5:30 a.m. There are more than 10,000 customers without service in Kanawha County. High outage numbers were also reported in Logan, Mingo, Wyoming, Raleigh and…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin has announced that more than half a million dollars of opioid settlement funds will be going to over a dozen programs and initiatives in the city. The grants will go towards the investment in evidence-based treatment, prevention, and recovery efforts. “These investments represent a meaningful step forward…