Alexander Shear (Boone County Sheriff’s Office)
DANVILLE, W.Va. — “What a great day. What an absolutely what a great day,” said Boone County Sheriff Chad Barker.
Barker confirmed the man who has been the subject of a weeklong manhunt in Boone County has been found. Alex Shear, 24, was cold and hungry, but otherwise okay.
“They’re getting him warmed up, getting some food and fluids in him with IV. We’ve talked to him a little bit and he just said he was out in the woods by himself,” Barker

CHARLESTON, W.Va – A Maryland man will spend the next ten years in West Virginia state prison for a 2025 killing on Charleston’s East End.
Joshua Scales, 34, appeared before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Carrie Webster on Tuesday to be sentenced after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of St. Albans resident Ethan Chic-Colbert.
Chic-Colbert was shot and killed in a parked car on Elizabeth St. in Charleston in January 2025. Police later arrested Scales using information from a

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GLEN DALE, W.Va. — A Marshall County man has pleaded guilty to receiving hundreds of images and videos depicting child pornography.
Jason Matkovich, 39, of Glen Dale, pleaded guilty Monday to receiving child pornography. He reportedly downloaded more than 600 images and videos, showing sexually explicit content, over a two-month period last year from online.
He’ll be sentenced on December 22.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — A Berkeley County man faces two misdemeanor charges in connection to a fatal Shepherdstown crash.
Shepherdstown police have charged Jose Rosales-Matos, of Martinsburg, with failing to yield to a pedestrian on a crosswalk and not properly exercising caution to avoid hitting a pedestrian on a roadway. His car reportedly hit Shepherdstown man Joseph Bullock on July 4, who later died from his injuries.
Police said Rosales-Matos cooperated with them after remaining on the scene

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Democrats are gearing up for Election Day with nearly five weeks to go.
Sean Hornbuckle
“We are going to gain seats in the House,” House Minority Leader and Del. Sean Hornbuckle, D-Cabell, told MetroNews. “We’re going to gain seats in the Senate. We’re gonna win some commission races, and it’s gonna be a message that people are tired of being lied to. People are tired of being played with, and they want action to improve their lives now.”
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