CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police have upgraded charges to first degree murder in the shooting death of a Kanawha County woman in the parking lot of a Sheetz convenience store in Charleston. Jacob Fields (WVRJA) Charleston police announced Wednesday afternoon that after further review of evidence the charges against Jacob Fields, 18, of Charleston, have been…
Story by Chris Lawrence CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A woman is dead and a teenager faces charges after a tragic incident at a Charleston convenience store early Tuesday morning. Jacob Fields was arraigned on the charges Tuesday afternoon. (Photo/WCHS-TV) According to Charleston Police Chief of Detectives Lt. Tony Hazelett, the victim, Tiffany Adkins, 42, of Marmet,…
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — BridgeValley Community and Technical College President Casey Sacks is going to work as a consultant with the U.S. Department of Education workforce issues for the next six months. Casey Sacks The BridgeValley Board of Governors has approved a resolution allowing for BOG Chairman Mark Blankenship to work with state Higher Education…
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — GreenPower, the electric bus maker set up in South Charleston, has laid off a number of workers. More than a dozen workers were notified by email on Friday. The company confirmed the layoffs to MetroNews Monday morning. The news first surfaced at a meeting of the BridgeValley Community and Technical College…
AMANDAVILLE, W.Va. — A St. Albans woman is being held on $10,000 bail after she allegedly stabbed her sometimes boyfriend early Friday morning at his residence in Amandaville. Kanawha County sheriff’s deputies arrested Terry Jo Duncan, 54, Friday night and charged her with malicious wounding. The victim was stabbed several times. Deputies said his injuries…
AMANDAVILLE, W.Va. — Kanawha County deputies said a man was stabbed several times during a domestic dispute Friday morning at a residence in Amandaville. Deputies are looking for the woman who they believe stabbed the victim. The couple have been in an on-again, off-again relationship for about five years and recently separated again, deputies said.…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Vandalia Health President and CEO Dave Ramsey has announced he’ll retire in July 2026. Dave Ramsey “It is hard for us to believe that we have been in West Virginia, and at CAMC and now Vandalia Health, for almost 25 years,” Ramsey said in a Thursday news release. “My wife and I…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County circuit judge sentenced a Clendenin man to the maximum of six additional years in prison after a previously guilty plea in the attack of a former girlfriend. William Heath William Heath, 44, was sentenced Thursday to 1to 5 years after pleading guilty in April to strangulation and one year…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A meteorologist with the National Weather Service says “all hazards are in play” with a powerful storm system set to hit the state in two separate waves Friday. ) The first wave, that arrived in the far western states before noon, is less severe. It includes rain and some isolated thunderstorms. NWS…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police have released the names of the four people involved in a double fatal crash on Mother’s Day morning at the I-77/I-64 split in Charleston. Police said the crash claimed the lives of driver Tiara Pitts, 29, and passenger Katelyn Berger, 30, both of Charleston. Two men who were passengers in the…