HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — State police have charged a Harpers Ferry woman with murder and arson after she allegedly killed her husband and daughter then set their residence on fire.
Nicole Taylor (WVRJA)
Troopers said Nicole Ellen Taylor, 55, of Harpers Ferry, was arrested Tuesday after a nearly year long investigation.
There was a fire at Taylor’s home on Blackberry Lane in Harpers Ferry on Sept. 30, 2025. Taylor escaped the burning house with serious burn injuries but her husband, Robert Hayne

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Around 400 school counselors, administrators, and more will come together in the Capital City Thursday for the third-ever Student Support Conference.
Hosted by the West Virginia Department of Education, the conference aims to support the workers in schools throughout the state who are instrumental in the current education environment. The conference runs from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center.
Stephanie Hayes
WVDE Instructional Leadership

PINCH, W.Va. — Kanawha County deputies are looking for a suspect after three people were injured in a stabbing Wednesday afternoon.
Deputies were dispatched to a residence in the 2600 block of Dutch Ridge Road near Pinch at around 12:40 p.m.
Deputies found three people with stab wounds at the scene. All of them were alert and talking, deputies said.
The search is ongoing for the alleged stabber.
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HINTON, W.Va. — A Summers County grand jury has handed up a superseding indictment in a sex crimes investigation that began with an arrest five years ago.
Matthew Keaton (WVRJA)
The panel this week indicted Matthew Keaton, 37, of Pipestem, on 394 criminal counts including sexual abuse, sexual assault, strangulation, kidnapping, attempted poisoning and other charges involving 27 known women and 32 other women listed as Jane Does over an 11-year period.
Summers County Prosecutor Chris Lefler told

Cabell County Circuit Judge Chris Chiles (Facebook)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Those in the Cabell County Courthouse have spent the week remembering longtime friend and colleague Chris Chiles who died this week. Chiles served more than three decades in the Cabell County Prosecutor’s office and nine years as Cabell County Circuit Judge.
“If you think of any major trial in the 80’s or 90’s until the time he left, Chris had something to do with it,” said current Cabell County Prosecutor Jason Spears who

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hope Gas is asking the Public Service Commission to allow it to increase rates to pay for replacing pipes in its system that are showing leaks.
The utility has requested a four percent increase in rates, about $4.37 a month for the average customer to pay for its Pipeline Replacement and Expansion Program (PREP).
Abraham Jones
The PSC began an evidentiary hearing on the request Wednesday.
Hope Gas Senior Director of Engineering, & Design Abraham Jones said increasing

CHARLESTON, W.Va – United Bank is deepening its roots in West Virginia with the opening of its new Charleston Operations Center on Wednesday.
The new hub brings together United employees across several departments to support the company’s entire footprint across eight states.
“It’s so important to us to be West Virginia’s bank, and really no company has been serving the state and its people longer than United, and we remain committed to and passionate about making West Virginia a great place to