CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The newly formed West Virginia Monument Construction Committee hopes to get the ball rolling for the West Virginia Memorial to Fallen Heroes of the Global War on Terrorism two years after legislation passed that created the group.
Chelsea Ruby, Secretary of WV Dept. of Tourism
During the 2023 legislative session lawmakers passed House Bill 3398, which created the committee and outlined what they were responsible for. The bill was introduce and later passed in order to preserve

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney’s Association is hoping to clarify recent statements made by a Raleigh County prosecutor that said that women who experience miscarriages should contact local law enforcement, or they could potentially face criminal punishment.
The association put out a news release Monday morning after Prosecutor Tom Truman was asked the question “Could women in West Virginia who miscarry at home be charged with crimes related to the disposal of fetal

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison Monday for her role in the 2022 beating death of inmate Quantez Burks.
Kimberly Burks, mother of Quantez Burks speaks at a March 2023 rally. (File Photo)
Ashley Toney, 25, of Fairdale, previously pleaded guilty to violating Burks’ constitutional rights by not protecting him from unreasonable force from corrections officers. She was sentenced Monday by U.S.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — One state leader will now be heading up West Virginia’s troubled jails and corrections system, and says he plans to keep making the necessary improvements toward fixing it.
Governor Patrick Morrisey recently appointed current House of Delegates member and pastor from Tyler County, David Kelly as the new commissioner for the state’s Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
David Kelly
Kelly said that during his 7 years in the legislature, and his 20-year background in law

RIPLEY, W.Va. — Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger said a man’s call to 911 to self-report killing his girlfriend was as intense a call as he’s ever heard.
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“This 911 call comes in and this fellow tells our dispatchers, ‘I just had an altercation with my girlfriend and I think I killed her,'” Mellinger told MetroNews Monday.
The call, made around 3 p.m. Friday, immediately became the top priority for first responders in the county. As deputies were dispatched to the man’s

CROSS LANES, W.Va. — A man was struck and killed in the middle of a Kanawha County highway early Monday morning.
Kanawha County deputies said the man was on a motorized scooter that had stopped in the middle of Goff Mountain Road in Cross Lanes at a little after 5 a.m. when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
The collision happened in the 100 block of Goff Mountain Road near Cadle Drive.
An investigation is underway.
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