LOGAN, W.Va. — Water is flowing from an old mine in Logan County. Logan County emergency officials received calls around 5:30 Monday evening near Holden Road and Orange Creek Avenue. Heavy amounts of weekend rain in the area caused the pressure of the water inside the abandoned mine to blow out a portion of the…
ST. ALBANS, W.Va. –– A couple has been arrested after being found asleep in their vehicle with drug paraphernalia and an infant in the backseat. Jordan Wade Loudin, 29, and Amy Nicole Briers, 33, of South Charleston, were arrested Friday night and charged with child neglect creating risk of injury. Authorities were called to the…
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. — Around 3,800 Putnam County residents are without power due to a Friday afternoon outage, according to an Appalachian Power Company outage map. Reports say a voltage line tripped out around 4 o’clock Friday, causing some residents in Hurricane and Culloden to lose power, as well as customers in the Nye area.…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County officials are gearing up for more potential flooding. Just a week after dealing with flooding, the county could see more high water over the weekend. Between two and four inches of rain could fall in parts of the state from Saturday until Sunday, according to forecasters. On Thursday afternoon, the…
Update: 12:09 p.m. –Police have identified the man who crashed into a gas station pump in Huntington has died. Police say Dustin Jacob Vega, 24, of Huntington was driving on State Route 152 and going off the side of the road. Sgt. Stuart Swope says that Vega’s car ended up over a creek bank and…
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. — Former Putnam County Commissioner Steve Deweese has been sentenced to one year of probation in a fraudulent financial activity case. Deweese entered an Alford Plea last December after allegations arose of him misappropriating $4,000 from 2017-2019while serving as the county’s sheriff. Those allegations stemmed from four $1,000 checks made out to…
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — An Indiana woman has been sentenced to life in prison with with mercy for her role in a Fayette County murder. Amanda Don Soultz, 32, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced today for her involvement in the January 2023 shooting death of Michelle Smith, 41, of Fayette County. Soultz previously pleaded guilty to…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals cut the ribbon for its new cancer institute Friday. The new center, which is called WVU Cancer Institute at Thomas Memorial Hospital, is located at 500 Poplar Street in South Charleston. The center offers 17 exam rooms, 32 infusion bays, and a procedure room to its patients. The…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Longtime Charleston City Council member Jack Harrison has died. Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, in a statement, said Harrison served the city’s tenants with respect and contributed to a large city effort. “Council Member Harrison was a committed public servant who always put people first and he was a forward-thinking leader who…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A second suspect has been arrested in relation to a Kanawha County shoplifting incident. Jon Christopher Halstead, 57, turned himself in Friday and was charged with receiving/transfer of stolen goods. Halstead, Jimmie Wade LeMaster Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Browning, were seen on surveillance video shoplifting a nearly $1,000 welder from the Cross…