CRIME & SAFETY
One dead after SUV collides with motorcycle, name of victim released
SAINT ALBANS, WV (LOOTPRESS) – One man has died after an SUV and motorcycle collided on Sunday afternoon. According to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the area of Miracle Drive on Winfield Road in Saint Albans this afternoon just after 2:00 p.m. when a motorcycle collided with an SUV. Investigators determined the […]
Car rolls over on Corridor G, 1 taken to hospital
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — One person was taken to the hospital after a crash in the southbound lanes of Corridor G, dispatchers say. Photos sent to 13 News show a car flipped over on Corridor G just before Trace Fork Boulevard. The extent of the person’s injuries is unknown at this time. The road […]
West Virginia Supreme Court grants hearing for man seeking appeal in 2008 Taco Bell murder
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Supreme Court says a man serving a lifetime sentence with no chance at parole for murdering his girlfriend at a Charleston Taco Bell will get a hearing in circuit court that he was initially denied by a judge. The hearing is needed to pave the way for an appeal he wants to pursue.
Detroit man sentenced to 80 years for fatal shootings of 2 West Virginia women
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Detroit man was sentenced on Monday to 80 years in prison for the slayings of two West Virginia women. Marquis Jermayne Goodman, 24, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of second-degree murder in the 2021 fatal shootings of Bria Nicole White, 26, and Kytiana Belcher, 22, in Charleston, West […]
Police rescue wayward snake from downtown
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Snakes downtown -- that was the case Monday morning when a serpent ended up during the morning rush in downtown Charleston. According to the Charleston Police Department, Patrolman D. Johnson, “one of the biggest animal lovers around,” rescued the wayward snake. “He picked the...
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