Charleston News

Four prisoners and four correctional officers are charged with trying to kill an inmate at the Western Regional Jail.

Charleston police are searching for the driver of a truck who fled on foot after a crash.

It is refreshing, at least for me, to learn about a business that is succeeding again after falling on difficult times.

As a typical Guy, I've complained loudly about the deadliness of another Guy's gas.

The 13th and 15th House of Delegates districts are about midway between Charleston and Huntington, with the 13th extending north to Ravenswood.

Charleston police are taking technology to the streets and hoping a new security camera will curb crime at a west side convenience store at the center of a lot of problems.

The state Division of Tourism will have more money to spend on advertising West Virginia in the wake of the Jan. 9 chemical spill and water emergency in parts of nine counties.

In this week's Behind The Kitchen Door, the IHOP on MacCorkle Avenue in Charleston received eight critical and four non-critical violations from the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.

Tuesday's arrest of a suspected methamphetamine maker was the first involving a clandestine laboratory in northern Hancock County in more than 10 years, a drug task force official said.

Bob Wojcieszak/Daily Mail University of Charleston running back Josef Hinnant breaks for open field Thursday at the University of Charleston Stadium.

Frustrated by the ways of Washington and often at odds with leaders of his own party, Sen. Joe Manchin is leaving his options open - including a possible run for his old job as West Virginia governor in 2016.

Firefighters and police officers in South Charleston will see their salaries go up a little more each year.

After 23 years on the job Charleston Fire Chief Chuck Overstreet is retiring. His last day at work is Friday.

It's always good to know when a public official has been cleared of any possible criminal wrong-doing.

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Thursday that his office is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by the city of Charleston regarding a gun law passed by the Legislature.

MetroNews affiliate WVOW Radio in Logan is reporting at least one employee at Arch Coal's Mountain Laurel Complex in Sharples, W.Va.

A Mercer County woman was sentenced to a 15-month prison term Wednesday at her sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Charleston.

Two West Virginia-based Boy Scouts of America councils are planning to merge. Members of the Huntington-based Tri-State Area Council and the Charleston-based Buckskin Council will vote on whether to approve the merger on May 29. Tri-State Area Council serves parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is among the guests set to join WCHS for a town hall meeting on Tuesday to discuss moving forward after the West Virginia water crisis.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom will hear a dispute next Tuesday between the City of Charleston and the Kanawha County Prosecutor's Office over domestic violence cases.