MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A fast-moving weather system rolled through Berkeley County late Thursday evening, flooding city streets and backing up traffic. 
Flooding at the Queen Street Underpass in Martinsburg. (Photo/Travis Bishop)
Quickly, scanner and neighborhood social media pages filled up with reports and pictures of people trying to walk through water almost up to their knees. There were reports that areas that normally don’t flood, like Foxcroft Avenue in front of several restaurants, were

BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. — Two Bruceton Elementary School aides are facing charges after being accused of dragging an autistic student into a room with no supervision.
State police in Preston County have charged Melissa Kent, 61, and Leah Nolan, 41, with misdemeanor maltreatment of a disabled child and are free on a $2,500 bond each.
Troopers began the investigation into the alleged incident April 26 that was reported to the Preston County prosecutor on April 2.
Authorities said the investigation

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — A major deal for a new data center under construction in Mason County.
Various business reports Thursday said Anthropic which runs Claude AI will pay Nscale $45 billion over six years to rent about a third of the storage space coming at Nscale’s Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant.
Nscale has not commented.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey described the reports as ” an extraordinary vote of confidence in our state and the strategy we put in place.”
Morrisey also posted on

ROMNEY, W.Va. — The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind dedicated its new Administration Building Memorial Thursday on the historic campus in Romney.
The memorial creates a new entrance to the school campus in Romney. (Photo: Appalachian Drone Photography/Cole Roomsburg)
The memorial is the outline of the front of a building in memory of the former Administration Building that was destroyed in a February 2022 fire.
Schools for the Deaf and Blind Superintendent Clayton Burch said the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A labor dispute in West Virginia recently passed the 100-day mark.
Joshua Sword
Members of Teamsters Local 175 remain on strike against The Beverage Market.
The union members hit the picket line near Sissonville in Kanawha County on May 12. Most of the striking workers are drivers who deliver Coors, Miller, and Modello beer to stores and bars across 30 West Virginia counties.
West Virginia AFL-CIO President Josh Sword said the striking workers are maintaining their energy.

CHARLESTON, W.Va – The trial date is set for a former Kanawha County sheriff’s deputy charged in federal court with sexually assaulting a female inmate.
Cass Close (WVRJA)
Cass Close, 56, of Charleston, entered a not guilty plea to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law on Thursday. He is accused of sexually abusing an inmate at the Kanawha County Judicial Building in July 2025 while working as a court bailiff.
Federal Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley set Close’s trial for October 6