CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The rain and sub-60-degree temperatures didn’t keep people off the streets of Downtown Charleston Thursday evening during the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championship races.
Thursday was the first day of criterium races, which featured the men’s and women’s junior division and the men’s and women’s under 23 division.
Liam O’Connor, a cyclist on a Denver, Colorado-based team, is set to race on Monday. He says he got ride the course and get a feel for Charleston.
“It’s

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A Missouri man is in custody after he allegedly abandoned a trailer and caused more than $10,000 in property damage at a cemetery in Kanawha County.
Sean Koppenhoefer
According to a criminal complaint Sean Michael Koppenhoefer, 43, of St. Louis entered into Charleston’s Spring Hill Cemetery Sunday evening while he was driving for Central Expedited Inc.
Koppenhoefer is charged with destruction of property.
When the driver was unable to turn around, they reversed into a

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The Jefferson Road Project in South Charleston continues to make progress as the northbound lane opens up on the newly constructed bridge.
The project aims to improve safety and congestion in the area. It includes the reconfiguration of the road between U.S. Route 119 and U.S. 60, which is from Corridor G to MacCorkle Avenue. It will also include a bridge that stretches over Trace Fork gorge and a roundabout.
The project, which began in 2019, is a part of former Governor

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Project Echelon, cyclists who are participating in the 2025 USA Cycling Nationals, will be stepping away from the bikes for a little in order to visit pediatric patients Friday.
Cyclists, in partnership with CAMC, will be heading to CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital at 10 a.m. After they meet staff, they’ll make rounds to the Pediatric units and ICU before heading to CAMC Children’s Cancer Center.
Also, in partnership with the cycling event, community members will get the

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — A continuing problem with a Dominion transmission line caused a significant power outage in Greenbrier, Pocahontas and Monroe counties again Thursday.
The transmission line issue put more than 21,000 Mon Power customers in the three counties without service.
There was a similar outage on May 14.
Mon Power could not give a restoration time when contacted by MetroNews Thursday afternoon.
Appalachian Power customers in the area were not impacted.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Words like broken, fragmented, siloed, exhausting, and low priority were among those coming out of a work session to tackle issues with the child welfare system as the 7th of 8 listening tours was held in Martinsburg Wednesday night.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey
Gov. Patrick Morrisey sat in on the sessions.  He said he inherited a mess when he came into office related to child welfare in the state.
“I’m a big believer in aligning the incentives and improving communications.  I talk