MANNINGTON, W.Va. — Two Marion County residents have been charged after West Virginia State Police found two juveniles living in unsafe conditions with drugs in the home.
Deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Department reported the home on Flaggy Meadow Road had no utilities, smelled strongly of animals and feces, trash, dirty laundry, and drug paraphernalia.
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Ryan Ledsome, 39, and Jessica Riggs, 37, were found in the home with a blue plastic egg containing 4.01 grams of

Tony Brown, a television journalist, educator and civil rights advocate who grew up in West Virginia, has died.
He was best known as the commentator of the long-running syndicated television show Tony Brown’s Journal.
He died June 17 at his home in Newport News, Va., at age 93. His death from coronary heart disease was announced on Friday on his Facebook page.
Brown was born April 11, 1933, the youngest of five children to Royal Brown and Catherine Davis Brown in Charleston.
Royal Brown left

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — There’s a job fair in Mason County on Tuesday to highlight positions available with the coming Nscale data center.
AI infrastructure company Nscale is taking over and expanding the Monarch Compute Campus in the county.
The job fair will be held at the former Mason County Armory in Point Pleasant from noon until 7 p.m.
Jason Bechtle
Jason Bechtle, Monarch site manager for Nscale, told WMOV Radio that the job fair is a great event for the community.
“This will be an

Delegate Daniel Linville, who recently lost in the primary election, has submitted his legislative resignation and cites new opportunities ahead.
“A new opportunity to continue this work has been brought to me — one which requires that I resign the Office of Delegate of the 22nd District,” Linville, R-Cabell, wrote in a letter addressed to House Speaker Roger Hanshaw.
Linville did not specify the opportunity.
Linville, a Cabell County resident, lost by three votes in the Republican primary

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A WVU Medicine employee is suspended and an investigation has been launched after a video recording device was found at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital Friday.
A spokesperson from WVU Hospitals released the following statement:
“On Friday, June 26, a WVU Hospitals employee cleaning a facilities team member working in non-public, staff restroom at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital found a hidden video recording device. After a brief, internal investigation by hospital security, an

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

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–The Greenbrier’s casino license may be in peril after a key deadline for renewal was missed
–Senate Education Committee Chair says lawmakers need to work faster on a solution to public ed funding
–Wounded Air Guard member Andrew Wolfe is recognized as a Hometown Hero
–In Sports: the Class AAAA All-State Baseball Team is named
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