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Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009 ; 06:11 PM Post Comment Updated Wednesday, December 2, 2009; 09:09 AM The issue hits close to home for one county family.

West Virginia State Police will on the lookout for impaired drivers this weekend in Putnam County.

Toyota's plant in Fremont, Calif., is scheduled to close in March 2010, and workers at the company's Putnam County plant are watching the process closely.

A Putnam County school gets involved with the Toys For Tots program. Collecting toys became a school project at George Washington Middle School in Eleanor.

Volunteers say there is no permanent shelter or reliable transportation and few options for food and clothing by Elaine McMillion HURRICANE - As Tiffany Laurens loads her trunk with plastic bags full of bread, beans, Tuna Helper, peanut butter, canned veggies and cheese, she confesses the hard truth of her family's eating patterns.

A Putnam County man pleaded guilty Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court to leaving the scene of an accident involving death.

The driver of a tractor-trailer involved in a Saturday accident that killed one young man and sent three other teenagers to the hospital has been charged with driving under the influence.

The driver of a tractor-trailer involved in a deadly accident Saturday continued to drive nearly a half mile before stopping after he rear-ended a car on a Interstate 64 exit ramp, according to a Putnam County criminal complaint.

An Indiana truck driver is now facing charges for the death of a Putnam County teenager.

An accident in Putnam County leaves one person in critical condition. According to county dispatch, a tractor-trailer hit a passenger car on the Teays Valley, eastbound on-ramp of I-64 around 10 p.m. Saturday.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, a semi tractor trailer hit a passenger car on I-64 Eastbound at the Teays Valley exit in Putnam County.

One person is dead after being hit by a tractor trailer in Putnam County. It happened around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 4100 block of First Street in Nitro.

Putnam County's Link Crew program is getting national attention. Next month, Winfield High School teachers Allison Allbritton and Jon Hemmelgarn will present their school's link crew model at the Blue Ribbon Schools National Conference in Florida.

Some Putnam County residents got an early jump on their Thanksgiving Dinner. The 15th Annual Putnam County Thanksgiving Dinner was held in Poca today.

A woman was killed when she was struck by a tractor-trailer in Nitro, emergency dispatchers said.

A man was hit and killed by a CSX train in Putnam County early Tuesday afternoon.

Liberty National Insurance Company in Teays Valley is looking to hire more customer service, management and sales positions.

A possible hazmat situation has been reported in Putnam County. Emergency crews were called to the banks of the Kanawha River in Poca Sunday afternoon after a barrel containing a suspicious substance was discovered.