Story by Chris Lawrence Putnam County voters may be asked to approve a school construction bond in the general election in November. The county is also asking the state School Building Authority for help. John Hudson Putnam County Superintendent of Schools John Hudson said the Board of Education will vote next Monday during their regular…
JEFFERSON, W.Va. — St. Albans resident Junior Smith said he’s going to put a few of his 500 free gallons of gasoline to use right away. “We’re beach-bound,” Smith said Saturday not long after his name was drawn as the winner of the WVRC 500-Gallon Great Gas Giveaway A to Z Outlet and ParMar stores.…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County grand jury handed up indictments on 50 defendants this week including two murder cases. Markus Guy (WVRJA) Markus Guy, 31, of Charleston, was indicted in the February shooting deaths of Alisha Carnefix, 39, and Koda Jarrett, 14, of St. Albans. The victims were found in their home on Feb.…
EAST BANK, W.Va. — Kanawha County school officials say they are confident they’ll be able to find a solution to allow a local middle school football team to use their home field this fall. Kanawha County Schools Superintendent Tom Williams met with officials at East Bank Middle School this week. The meeting led to plans…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County circuit judge will allow the prosecution in a murder case to hire an expert to conduct a second forensic evaluation of a man charged with murdering his aunt. Chad Trent (WVRJA) Judge Carrie Webster made the ruling Thursday in the Chad Trent case. Trent, 32, of Marmet, is charged…
CLENDENIN, W.Va. — A man was killed in a house fire in Kanawha County Thursday afternoon. Fire crews were dispatched to the 4000 block of Jordan Creek Road near Clendenin at just before 3 p.m. The victim couldn’t make it out of the burning structure. The state Fire Marshal’s Office will try and determine what…
Story by Chris Lawrence CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The patriarch of a longtime Charleston business has died. Bill Pile, owner of Pile Hardware on West Washington Street in Charleston died Monday. He was 79. Bill was a lifelong resident of Dunbar, W.Va. and a graduate of Dunbar High School. He not only owned the store, but was…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Biden administration Drug Czar Dr. Rahul Gupta said he’s impressed with the newly expanded clinic at West Virginia Health Right on Charleston’s East End. Dr. Rahul Gupta Gupta, the former Kanawha-Charleston Health Department director and former state Chief Health Officer, got a tour of the recently expanded space during a visit to Charleston Thursday.…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A pair of decades-old Democratic Party strongholds in West Virginia have flipped to Republican in recent county voter registration numbers. Kanawha County now has 42,314 registered Republicans and 42,251 registered Democrats. Matt Herridge Fayette County has also recently flipped with 9,202 Republicans and 9,174 Democrats. Those registering as unaffiliated has also grown…
BUFFALO, W.Va. — Toyota West Virginia says it has started producing the fifth-generation hybrid transaxle at its plant in Putnam County. Toyota West Virginia President David Rosier said the assembly of the transaxles is part of a previously announced $300 million investments at the Buffalo plant to expand the company’s electrification of vehicles it makes.…