Murder suspect returned to W.Va. to face charges

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Police say a man wanted for a Friday evening murder in the city is now in custody. Police arrested Kerry Wiley, 64, of Belle around midnight Friday in the Charleston city limits. He was being sought for the murder of Ty Hall, 55, of Charleston earlier in the evening.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A North Carolina man is hospitalized after he was ambushed while sitting in a Charleston parking lot early Friday morning. Zion Mitchell, 22, of Gastonia, N.C., was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car at a vacant parking lot on Charleston’s west side. According to police Mitchell was there to meet another individual, but instead came under fire from a stranger.

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — A Fayette County father and two women are going to prison for 3 to 15 years for mistreating the man’s young daughter and then ignoring her when she got sick before she died. Eight-year-old Raylee Browning’s father, his girlfriend at the time and her sister...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The man who shot and killed Capital High School student “KJ” Taylor last year pleaded guilty Wednesday less than a week before he was scheduled to go on trial. Dekotis Thomas, 20, of St. Albans, entered a Kennedy Plea to first-degree murder. A second...

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Five people are recovering after they were struck by a vehicle Friday evening near the Mason County fairgrounds. According to Mason County Sheriff Corey Miller, The incident happened around 6 p.m. Friday on the Fair Ground Road just a few hundred feed from the fair entrance.

SPURLOCKVILLE, W.Va. — A father and son in Lincoln County are hospitalized with severe burns after an argument got out of control. State Police say they are still trying to sort out what happened at the home on Upper Mud River Road Thursday night near the community of Spurlockville.

NICHOLAS COUNTY, W.Va. — Nicholas County authorities arrested a Florida man on Wednesday for allegedly abducting a female juvenile. According to the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Department, Thomas Edward Grossman III, of Tampa, Florida, had traveled from Florida to Pennsylvania and abducted a female juvenile. Grossman was traveling back to Florida with the 14-year-old at the time of his arrest.

GALLAGHER, W.Va. — One person is dead in a Kanawha County house fire, according to emergency dispatchers. The blaze was reported late Friday morning in the 800 block of Middle Patch Road in Gallagher. No other information has been released. This is a developing story and will be updated.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Delaware-based chemical company announced Friday its plans to acquire Clearon Corp. and its South Charleston plant. Solenis wants to finalize its acquisition before the end of the year. The companies will continue to act independently from the other until the transaction is complete. Clearon...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Opioid-epidemic lawsuits filed on behalf of 600 children addicted in the womb are headed to the state’s Mass Litigation Panel. State Supreme Court Chief Justice John Hutchison made the referral following a request from attorneys representing children in 44 of the state’s 55 counties that have neonatal abstinence syndrome.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As Carl Lee prepares for his first season as head coach of South Charleston’s football program, he does so with a reshaped roster that will be forced to navigate one of the state’s more challenging schedules. Yet Lee, a Marshall Hall of Famer...

HURRICANE, W.Va. — A team of employees from the city of Hurricane are back in West Virginia after spending a week helping folks in Letcher County, Kentucky begin the long road to recovery. Ronnie Woodall lead Hurricane’s Mobile Infrastructure Response Unit into the city of Whitesburg, Kentucky back on...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Rite Aid has agreed to pay the state millions of dollars to resolve a lawsuit related to the opioid crisis. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday the settlement may add up to $30 million as the company addresses claims it failed to maintain diversion controls and contributed to the oversupply of opioid medications in West Virginia.

RIPLEY, W.Va. –The National Weather Service warned isolated and training thunderstorms had been possible just about anywhere in West Virginia this week and wherever those happened to hit could expect high water. The spot Mother Natural evidently selected was the town of Ripley and parts of southern Jackson County on Wednesday evening.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The governing body of West Virginia’s largest county has been vocal during recent meetings about its opposition to a proposed amendment to the state Constitution granting the West Virginia Legislature the authority to eliminate taxes on certain items. Its members now want to make sure other municipal leaders — as well as state officials — understand the reason for their disapproval.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state School Building Authority is putting the brakes for now on its annual meeting to fund school construction projects in the state because of the continued impact of high construction costs. The authority decided Thursday to cancel its December quarterly meeting where those funding decisions...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some members of the state Board of Education and the recently elected Lincoln County Board of Education are at odds over a recent local board decision to return Lincoln County High School to a traditional semester class schedule. The school had recently been operating under a...

CHARMCO, W.Va. — With a very young roster and new starters at almost every position on the field, the 2021 season was supposed to be a rebuilding year for Greenbrier West. The Cavaliers matured quickly and found their way into the playoffs with a six-win season. “It was a...

MetroNews has won its fifth National Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Directors Association since 2007, RTDNA announced Thursday. The organization’s reporting of the 2021 ice storm impacting parts of Cabell, Wayne and Putnam counties won in the Continuing Coverage category for Small Market Radio. The entry features reporting by longtime MetroNews anchor/reporter Chris Lawrence.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — If Marshall football fans were asked the likely choice to be the Herd’s starting quarterback going into fall practices, more often than not, Texas Tech transfer Henry Colombi would be the answer. Yet Marshall head coach Charles Huff says fans show slow those expectations, as...