CHARLESTON, W.Va. –On Thursday, the Kanawha County Commission approved a funding request of $80,000 from the Children’s Theater of Charleston. The funding will go towards the downpayment on a new building for the theater, who has never owned one for itself. “We have been around Charleston for 93 seasons and we have never owned our…
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. — A woman previously charged in a 2022 hit-and-run crash that killed a man in Kanawha City was sentenced on Wednesday. Sandra Cooper, 85, has been sentenced to serve five years of supervised release time, which included six months of home confinement. Authorities say Cooper struck and killed Danny Ray Bonhman along…
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. — A teenager is in jail and a Kanawha County Sheriff’s deputy is in the hospital after a high-speed chase Wednesday afternoon. Just before 2 o’clock, deputies attempted to conduct a traffic stop on Route 21 in Sissonville for a vehicle traveling at high speeds. The driver, a 17-year-old male, refused to stop…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Law enforcement agencies from across the country will be participating in Drug Take Back Day this weekend to help get expired and unused drugs out of cabinets. Drug Take Back Day is a nationwide effort that sees officers standing in front of participating stores to accept the drugs that need disposed of.…
LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. — A man is dead, and another person is injured as a result of a multi-vehicle accident in Logan County. Arnold Oney, 73, of Grayson, Kentucky, died after colliding with another vehicle along Route 10. The crash was reported near the Vocational School Road exit at about 1:45 p.m. The driver of…
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A Florida fugitive has been arrested after he fled to West Virginia. State Police were contacted by the Putnam County Sheriff Department regarding a fugitive from justice, believed to be hiding in Huntington. Troopers found Royal Sean Vance, 48, of Tampa, Florida, in the 1800 block of 9th Avenue, Wednesday. Vance led…
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. — A Kanawha County man in jail after being accused of setting fire to his own house. State Police were called to a fire on Orefield Road in Kanawha County where they found the residence engulfed in flames. Troopers determined that Jason Elliot, 41, of Tad, had set the residence on fire…
LETART, W.Va. — A small plane has crashed in rural Mason County. Reports say a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft crashed in a wooded area at around 4:45 Wednesday near the 2400 block of Vernon Church Road in the Letart area. The pilot of the aircraft reportedly suffered minor injuries. He was the lone occupant of the…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston City Council members voted Monday evening to approve a settlement involving former police chief Tyke Hunt. The $375,000 settlement will resolve a lawsuit filed against the city by former officer Chelsea McCoy. McCoy alleges that Hunt tampered with her polygraph results during her application process in exchange for sex. McCoy previously…
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. — A Clendenin man has been convicted in relation to a 2024 domestic incident involving his girlfriend. William Donald Heath, Jr., 44, pleaded guilty to strangulation and violation of a protective order. A Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office deputy was dispatched to Main Street in Elkview on August 8, 2024, regarding a disturbance.…