BECKLEY, W.Va. — Beckley Police have a man in custody who was caught at a high school football game with a firearm.
Authorities approached the individual, whose name was not released, Friday night at Van Meter Stadium where Woodrow Wilson was playing Huntington. Police, in a news release posted to social media, says they received a tip the man could be armed.
When questioned he resisted and a scuffle broke out. Authorities say a concealed handgun was found on the man. He was changed possession

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A federal agency has threatened to take a bald eagle from West Virginia that has been a therapy animal for military veterans for the last 11 years.
Jo Santiago and her wounded partner.
The American Eagle Foundation (AEF) has announced plans to phase out the sub-permittee program under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Eagle Exhibition Program.
Handler Jo Santiago said 11 years ago she was a motivational speaker for the State Department of Workforce Development. As a

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A Mercer County jury has convicted a Bluefield man in the January 2024 shooting death of a woman.
Cory Callen
Cory Callen, 36, was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of Leona Edwards. The investigation showed Edwards had filed a domestic violence petition against Callen before the shooting.
Callen shot Edwards mulltiple times as she was getting out of her car near her residence on Gardner Loop Road in Mercer County.
Callen will be sentenced at a later

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A Cabell County jury has convicted a Huntington man in the 2021 death of his three-month-old daughter.
The 12-member jury found Shannon Overstreet, 53, guilty Friday afternoon of first-degree murder, child abuse causing death and concealing a dead body.
The jury is currently hearing the mercy phase of the trial.
Overstreet killed his young daughter, Angel, in 2021. He took her body to his Kentucky farm where he burned her body. Her remains were found in a barrel.
Overstreet