DUNBAR, W.Va. — Kanawha County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a deadly motorcycle crash. It happened at shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday westbound on Interstate 64 near the Dunbar exit. Westbound traffic was directed off the interstate onto state Route 25 at Dunbar for about two hours while the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department investigated the crash…
CROSS LANES, W.Va. — A West Virginia man was killed in Gallia County, Ohio Thursday night and a juvenile charged in the death was arrested in Kanawha County. The Gallia County Sheriff’s Department said Kyle Foltz, 20, of Mathias, West Virginia (Hardy County) was shot and killed at Sun Valley Drive apartment complex in Green…
EAST BANK, W.Va. — The demolition of Calvert Field in East Bank began Friday. The concrete homestands at the decades-old stadium in eastern Kanawha County are coming down after an engineer found the approximately 80-yard stands structurally unsound. Calvert Field in the 1990s. (Photo/The Montgomery Herald) The demolition includes the stands on the west side…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Police say a Charleston man is dead after being shot early Thursday morning during a fight with his girlfriend. Charleston police detectives said Chrishawn Perkins, 32, was in a very heated argument with his girlfriend at another person’s residence on Grace Avenue where they had been invited for the night. Police said…
The shooting was on Woodbine Ave. (Photo courtesy WCHS-TV) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An argument between neighbors Tuesday night left a Charleston man shot and another man in custody. Charles Myers (WVRJA) Police said Charles Myers, 60, shot his neighbor, Melvin Carpenter, during an argument on Woodbine Avenue. Carpenter was shot in the stomach and arm.…
There are going to be direct flights from Charleston to the New York City area for the first time in 11 years. Gov. Jim Justice Breeze Airways, Gov. Jim Justice and West Virginia International Yeager Airport announced the flights Wednesday. They’ll begin from CRW to Newark Liberty International Airport on Nov. 14. “This partnership with…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Public Service Commission has given the okay for a 150-megawatt solar electric generating plant on a former surface mine site in Nicholas and Clay counties. The PSC approved a joint stipulation agreement Tuesday between PSC staff and Deep Lake Energy Center which requires construction on the $386 million facility to…
Story by Chris Lawrence CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The opposition is already starting to mount against a $265 million rate increase proposed by Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power. Both an advocacy group and the Kanawha County Commission commented on the proposal Monday. Emmett Pepper The power companies filed the request with the state Public Service Commission to raise…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The question of misdemeanor charges for marijuana possession in the City of Charleston won’t be on the general election ballot. Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said Monday the citizens group that collected signatures didn’t have enough signatures to force a vote. “State code requires that there be 10% of all qualified voters,…
NITRO, W.Va. — An investigation is underway following a Monday morning fire in Nitro. The blaze at a house near the intersection of 2nd Ave. and 33rd Street came was reported at 11:22 a.m. Firefighters said smoke was showing when they arrived on the scene. The blaze was under control before noon. There were no…