CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A state Public Service Commission task force is finalizing proposed rules for 50,000 fire hydrants in operation across the state. The Fire Hydrant Task Force held its third and final meeting Monday at PSC offices in Charleston. Charlotte Lane The PSC ordered a general investigation last year after a few situations where…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Board of Education has given final approval to a policy that will govern a new school security program. Plans are to rotate plain clothes, armed security personnel in the county’s middle and elementary schools beginning next fall. The school board approved the hiring of five security officers in May…
MONTGOMERY, W.Va. — The chief of the Montgomery Fire Department, Benny Filiaggi, died Friday of an apparent heart attack. A procession was planned to escort Filiaggi’s body to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Charleston Friday evening. Filiaggi, a Montgomery native, was sworn-in as chief of the department in 2020. He had been an assistant…
WINFIELD, W.Va. — A dump truck hauling asphalt on U.S. Route 35 in Putnam County crashed Friday afternoon and burst into flames. Authorities said the driver lost control of the truck at about 2 p.m. near Tacketts Creek not far from Winfield. Both northbound and southbound traffic was still being impacted by the wreck and…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County has its first electric school bus. KCS Transportation Director Jason Redman signed the paperwork Friday for the GreenPower Beast model bus that rolled the company’s assembly line in South Charleston. The bus will operate out of the St. Albans Terminal. (Photo/KCS) “This is the first one built in West Virginia…
GLASGOW, W.Va. — A man who was originally charged with malicious wounding in Kanawha County has had those charges upgraded to first degree murder. State Police filed the new charge against William Cobb, 72, of Ansted, in the death of Billy Wayne Palmer. Cobb and Palmer got into a fight June 5th on Cobb’s property…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Board of Education is taking advantage of a new law and have adopted a new meeting pay rate for board members. The board voted Thursday evening to raise pay from the current $160 per meeting to a maximum of $260 per meeting. The legislature passed the bill in the…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Commission is expected to choose a new county prosecutor at its meeting Thursday evening. Prosecutor Chuck Miller announced his retirement earlier this month, effective Thursday. Three Republicans, Assistant Prosecutor Debra Rusnak, Assistant Prosecutor Don Morris and Gregory McVey have applied for the job. Rusnak won the GOP primary election…
RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. — The future of manufacturing is well underway at the Timet construction site in Jackson County. Aaron Valentine Timet, which is short for Titanium Metals Corporation, is building a plant where it will use large furnaces to melt titanium. “It’s lighter than steel but stronger and it’s used in aerospace, Department of Defense-type…
DUNBAR, W.Va. — A man is in custody charged in a Monday morning stabbing in Dunbar. Joshua Davis, 31, of Dunbar, is charged with malicious wounding. Police said the stabbing happened at a residence in the 500 block of 24 Street at about 7:30 a.m. Davis is being held in the South Central Regional Jail.