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CHARLESTON (AP) — A State Police trooper who fatally shot a man in Mercer County last weekend is under investigation for a separate fatal shooting in January. Media outlets say Trooper J.R. Coburn is a former Mercer County sheriff’s deputy from Princeton. Authorities haven’t identified the man killed Saturday night. The man was handcuffed inside [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — A Putnam County Family Court judge avoided contempt proceedings before the state Supreme Court by ruling on motions in a divorce case that languished for nearly two years. The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Judge William Watkins to rule on the motions by Tuesday or appear before the justices for contempt proceedings [...]
Continue reading …POINT PLEASANT (AP) — Point Pleasant’s fire chief says separate explosions at a munitions bunker and at a parked tractor loaded with ammunition were either deliberately set or caused by extreme heat. Jeremy Bryant, chief of the Point Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, said those are the only possible explanations for Saturday’s blasts. He says the [...]
Continue reading …BLUEFIELD (AP) — West Virginia State Police say a trooper shot and killed a man who grabbed a Bluefield police officer’s handgun and refused orders to drop it. Names of the trooper and the man he shot were not immediately released. State Police Sgt. Michael Baylous says the incident began about 11:45 p.m. Saturday when [...]
Continue reading …CLARKSBURG (AP) — A Virginia company that provided security for West Virginia’s All Good Music Festival denies its employees are responsible for paralyzing a 27-year-old man from the chest down. Event Staffing Inc. of Norfolk, Va., filed a formal response to his lawsuit in U.S. District Court earlier this week. Daniel Weaver of Hudson, N.Y., [...]
Continue reading …MADISON (AP) — The Boone County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a 22-year-old man in the theft of more than 1,000 feet of wire that was destined to restore power to residents hit hard by June 29 storms. The sheriff’s office says the copper and aluminum wire was found at the man’s residence in Bloomingrose. Deputies [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Kanawha County officials say only a few residents are signing up for federal assistance following a June 29 storm. County Manager Jennifer Sayre tells the Charleston Gazette officials believe many more people should be signing up based on damages to area homes during the storm. One week ago, President Barack Obama declared [...]
Continue reading …PRUNTYTOWN (AP) — In southern West Virginia, they often go to the coal mines. In the northern counties, they go to the oil and gas industry. But everywhere, corrections officers are fleeing the state’s regional jails and prisons for better-paying jobs. With the 49th-lowest starting salary in the nation, it’s no surprise. “I have officers [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — The Morgantown City Council has voted to limit gas drilling to 600 acres surrounding the city’s airport. According to media reports, the council on Tuesday unanimously approved six zoning ordinances restricting all mining and drilling to designated industrial zones around the Morgantown Municipal Airport. The city last summer tried to ban shale-gas [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — There’s a sand-colored garage on state route 25 between Dunbar and Charleston. The building appears innocuous. On the first floor, a bike shop pedals its wares, but on the second floor, an ominous sign looms — it says, “We sell doomsday supplies.” The sign belongs to Keller’s Survival and Pawn, a business [...]
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