SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man is in custody for allegedly stealing a Lincoln County ambulance Tuesday afternoon.
South Charleston Police said Holden Stapleton, 40, was arrested in connection to a robbery at the WVU Medicine Thomas Hospital in Kanawha County while workers were bringing a patient into the facility.
Authorities said they stopped the ambulance on Route 119 near Childress Road in South Charleston, and Stapleton was brought into custody without issue.
Stapleton is in the South
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — New West Virginia University Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Beverly Wendland, officially starts her new job on Wednesday but recently addressed the WVU Faculty Senate.
Beverly Wendland
Wendland comes from Washington University in St. Louis where she served as senior advisor to the chancellor. She also served for five years as provost and executive vice chancellor and is an accomplished scholar and academic leader.
She told the WVU Faculty Senate she is a
MORGANTOWN – Jesse Vermette was amazed at the accelerated pace. “This would have taken us months to do,” said Vermette, who is an events coordinator at Christian Help, the altruistic […]
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The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons, West Virginia, on Thursday, July 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home at 1 p.m.
The Rev. Steve Morrow will officiate and interment will follow at the Pifer Mountain Cemetery at St. George, West Virginia.
The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is honored to be in charge of the arrangements for Candace Beltz Sommerville.
Condolences may be expressed to the family at
MARTINSBURG — Elizabeth Romanek beamed, as she was crowned the winner of the Miss West Virginia Competition, at Airborne Church on Saturday night.
Her win was not a surprise to many, after the Miss Morgantown contestant won the talent portion of the competition, during its preliminary round. Her talent, a jazz routine to Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” was precise and dynamic — as was the case with the rest of her presentation on the competition stage.
For Romanek, the impression she
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler said he wants to see state officials get involved with soaring jail bill costs in West Virginia.
Wheeler discussed the out-of-control costs during an appearance on “580 Live” with Dave Allen Tuesday. He explained that individual counties pay a per-diem rate for each day an inmate spends in jail — that rate is calculated by the state of West Virginia. Wheeler said costs continue to rise, year after year.
Lance Wheeler
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The Inter-Mountain photos by Brad Johnson
A work crew raises a a racket and a cloud of dust while cutting through concrete to make repairs to a section of the former drive-thru of Citizens Bank of West Virginia on Kerens Avenue in Elkins Wednesday morning.
The Inter-Mountain photos by Brad JohnsonA work crew raises a a racket and a cloud of dust while cutting through concrete to make repairs to a section of the former drive-thru of Citizens Bank of West Virginia on Kerens Avenue in Elkins
ARMSTRONG CREEK, W.Va. — A Fayette County driver apparently survived an initial wreck into a creek before making contact with a live power line claiming his life.
Fayette County Sheriff Jess McMullen said the wreck occurred Sunday evening on Armstrong Creek Road.
Witnesses told deputies the man got out of his wrecked vehicle that had overturned in the creek and then made contact with a downed power line.
The man suffered fatal burn injuries after what appears to have been an electrocution. He
GRAFTON, W.Va – A United States Postal Service worker has been arrested after being accused of taking rebate checks from from residents on his route in Taylor County.
Police in Grafton said Eric Leighow, 49, of Grafton, an employee at the Grafton USPS office used rebate that did not beling to him that were taken from the mail of others.
A resident reorted a missing rebate check back in April from Menards and police said they have video surveillance of Leighow making purchases using the rebate
