CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for Saturday for most of West Virginia.
Most of WV under the watch set for Saturday. (NWS-graphic)
The watch begins Saturday afternoon and currently stretches until late Saturday night.
All counties are included with the exception of the eastern mountain and eastern panhandle counties.
The message from the Weather Service said:
“Multiple rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast to affect the watch area,

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A potential trial for a former Kanawha County ambulance driver charged in an April dragging death remains on hold.
Attorney Tim Carrico (left), Alyssa Middleton (second from left), attorney Robbie Long, and Kanawha County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ryanne Ball at the July hearing.
Alyssa Middleton, 19, is charged with voluntary manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, and fleeing the scene of an accident-causing death, all felonies, in the April death of John Lucas,

West Virginia is one of the many states to receive a threatening letter from the U.S. Department of Justice over federal efforts to gain access to private voter data and election records.
Thirty states, including West Virginia, have faced U.S. Department of Justice lawsuits over voter records. The letters sent this month ordered states officials to preserve all 2024 election files under a “litigation hold” or risk criminal sanctions.
Kris Warner
West Virginia’s letter was addressed  to Kris

RANSON, W.Va. — Retired Army Officer John Cornelius makes his home in Jefferson County, but on September 11, 2001, he was an 18-year-old student at Greenbrier East High School.
He remembered that morning when he spoke Friday as the Independent Fire Company in Ranson marked the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and honored first responders.
“Walking through a hall and saw another classroom watching the news and wondering how an airplane could accidentally crash into the towers and then

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — The annual fall rafting season on West Virginia’s Gauley River is underway.
For the next six weeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will do controlled releases of water from Summersville Dam downstream into the Gauley River. The scheduled releases create some of the best whitewater rafting rapids in the eastern United States.
“It’s busy. It’s really busy. Hundred and hundreds of people from about every state in the union,” said Jerry Cook, co-owner of Ace Adventure Resort

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Tower Press Box project at Milan Puskar Stadium is staying right on schedule.
West Virginia University Director of Athletics Wren Baker reported to the WVU Board of Governors Friday morning that fundraising for the project, which has been going on for nearly a year, has gone well. Design studies for the project have been compiled over the past couple years.
Wren Baker
“The best news I can give you is, right now, it’s on time and on budget,” Baker said. “We’re

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Former Clarksburg FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Section Chief Tom Bush says September 11, 2001 reached a new level.
“As much evil as I have seen and as much evil as the FBI has been involved in–that was raised to a different level,” Bush said Friday at the FBI’s 9/11 remembrance service in Clarksburg. “It almost renders you speechless when I think about that day.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey also addressed the crowd in Clarksburg Friday. He thanked the first responders,