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Man attempts to flee police after being arrested for sleeping in car
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - A Lewis County man is being charged with battery on an officer and DUI after being arrested for sleeping in his car. On Tuesday, April 30th, police were told about a man unconscious in a vehicle near a Go-Mart in Weston. When police arrived on scene,...
W.Va. woman allegedly stole truck, claimed her kids were murdered, and said she was 'hunting pedophiles'
WESTON, W.Va. (TCD) -- A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly stealing a truck and then fighting with police officers while claiming to be a U.S. Marshal. According to court documents cited by WDTV-TV, on April 27, a man called West Virginia State Police and allegedly claimed Clarissa Burr stole his truck. Troopers reportedly learned that Burr was driving to Central Regional Jail and saying that her kids had been killed.
Woman arrested for selling drugs in Lost Creek
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Police made an arrest last night after finding a woman selling drugs in Lost Creek. Police went to a home in the area, and found two people with marijuana on the scene. Upon investigation, they found a large amount of methamphetamine in an outbuilding on the...
West Virginia GOP County Commissioners removed from office after arrest for skipping meetings
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A three-judge panel ordered Wednesday that two county commissioners in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle be removed from office over a month after they were arrested for purposefully jilting their duties by skipping public meetings. Circuit Court Judges Joseph K. Reeder of Putnam County, Jason A. Wharton of Wirt and Wood Counties […]
Steel plant falls in West Virginia, but no one hears a sound
WEIRTON, West Virginia — The hum is gone. It was a sound that told locals that men and women were working. It told small businesses that have tried to hold on, after each cutback at the iconic steel mill that for over 100 years defined their skyline, that people would need their services. Services from […]
Nationwide crisis: Cats are roaming free, West Virginia has about 180,000 stray cats
BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) Kitten season is once again here. This is the time of year where there is an influx of pregnant cats which adds strain to animal shelters across the Ohio Valley. May and June are the peak times where the highest number of kittens enter the shelters. Brooke County Shelter Volunteer, Steve […]
Georgia man sentenced for stealing identities, cash from credit union customers in West Virginia
WHEELING, WV (LOOTPRESS) – One man has been sentenced for stealing identities and cash from credit union customers in West Virginia. According to U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld, Brandon Rayshawn Watkins, 30, of Douglasville, Georgia, was sentenced today to 13 months in federal prison for bank fraud. According to court documents and statements made in court, […]
How will West Virginia respond to white supremacist group’s march?
Last Saturday the white supremacists came to town. While many in Charleston were attending the YWCA’s annual Race to End Racism, the group, wearing khaki pants and hats, some carrying shields and others carrying upside down American flags and another flag that evokes the original symbol for fascism marched from the Stonewall Jackson statue at the Capitol to downtown. I’m here to say that white nationalism, neo-Nazis, and facism are all bad. The post How will West Virginia respond to white supremacist group’s march? appeared first on West Virginia Watch.
West Virginia has one of the biggest drug problems in the United States
WEST VIRGINIA — President Richard Nixon started the “war on drugs” in June 1971, and since inception the United States has spent over a trillion dollars in the fight. The personal-finance website, WalletHub recently released its report on the States with the Biggest Drug Problem and highlights the areas that stand to be most affected […]
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