LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. –Students at Logan Elementary School will return to the classroom next week after a fire damaged the school Saturday, though classes will be held in a different building.
The blaze was reported around 10:25 a.m. Saturday by personnel working at nearby Logan High School.
This week, Logan County Schools has focused on preparing to transition students to Logan Middle School.
Logan County Schools Communications Director Troy Alexander said the district plans to hold an open house

PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. –Two people are dead following a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 35 in Putnam County Thursday morning.
The T-bone crash was reported in the southbound lanes about 6 a.m. near Plantation Road and U.S. 35.
No other information is available.
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WHEELING, W.Va. –Four people entered guilty pleas Thursday in connection to drug trafficking in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
According to a release from U.S. Attorney Matthew Harvey, all four defendants admitted to trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl.
The release said that Steven Anthony Blatt, 63, and Jeanetta Nicole Sigler, 50, both of Paden City, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Blatt and Sigler had worked together to

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –An ex-law firm office manager in Huntington was sentenced Thursday for bank fraud.
U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers sentenced Todd M. Chapman, 58, of Huntington to four years and three months in prison, which will followed by five years of supervised release. Chapman was also ordered to pay $602,362.97 in restitution.
According to a release from U.S. Attorney Moore Capito, Chapman admitted to embezzling funds from a now-defunct Huntington law firm while he was employed

A sports safety bill named after a middle school football player who died after a football-related head injury during a practice will be considered by the full state Senate.
SB657, creating Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act, was discussed and advanced by the Senate Finance Committee today.
A similar bill was considered last year but was not passed into law. Last year’s legislation would have required all youth football players in West Virginia to wear a soft-shell cover such as Guardian

 
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. (U.S. Senate Photography)
WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito praised President Donald Trump and the tone set in the State of the Union Address this week. Capito visited Thursday for a short time with West Virginia reporters on her weekly conference call. She suggested the Administration had made the right moves so far on Iran and the situation with Medicaid Fraud.
On Iran, Capito said the President clearly doesn’t want a conflict.
“One