KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. –A firefighter was injured Thursday night after responding to a house fire in the Tornado area of Kanawha County.
The fire was reported around 6 p.m. near Gore Addition Road and Buckner Road.
The firefighter’s condition was not immediately known.
The Tornado, West Side and Institute fire departments, along with Kanawha County EMS, were also on scene.
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KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. –The Kanawha County Commission voted to reimburse county agencies for first responder training at the Sissonville Fire and Rescue School, highlighting its commitment to public safety.
Earlier this month, Commissioner Lance Wheeler pledged the commission would help improve volunteer fire departments by paying for any firefighter, police officer or EMS worker attending the school.
Kanawha County Emergency Manager C.W. Sigman said the county would reimburse the agency, which

The state Supreme Court has agreed to halt a circuit court order about West Virginia’s charter schools system while the case is reviewed.
A majority of justices granted a motion to stay. The order notes that Justice William Wooton would have refused the stay.
Justices are reviewing a permanent injunction order by Kanawha Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey about how charter schools are established in West Virginia. The circuit judge had also issued a 60-day stay of her own order in case of appeal.
The

Like many Americans, Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she has watched videos of protesting ICU nurse Alex Pretti being fatally shot by U.S. immigration enforcement officers and finds them upsetting.
Capito, R-W.Va., said she continues to support federal immigration enforcement but would like to see changes.
Shelley Moore Capito
“Well, I think the videos and the loss of life is not just sad, it’s very difficult as a nation to see something like this,” Capito said in a briefing with West Virginia

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A Michigan man convicted in the drug-related killing of a Lost Creek couple has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Allen Schaffer (WVRJA)
Allen Leon Schaffer, II, 44, of Carson City, Michigan, was sentenced Thursday to 40 years for each count of second-degree murder in the deaths of Chasity Wilkinson Romeo, 33, and Corey Steven Snider, 43.
Schaffer shot the pair in the Good Pike home in June 2022 and then set the home on fire.
The jury was unable to

Senators voted for a version of the Bible with a uniquely American backstory to be made available to fourth, eighth and 10th grade social studies classrooms.
Senate Bill 388 would make the Aitken Bible available to classrooms for those age levels, with private donations being used to obtain them. Organizations like one called “The First American Bible Project” make such donations.
The Aitken Bible is the first complete English-language Bible printed in America, published in 1782 by Philadelphia

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the state Senate Education Committee began discussing a teacher pay raise bill Thursday but had more questions than answers.
Scott Fuller
The bill, SB 516, whose chief sponsor is Sen. Tom Takubo, R-Kanawha, would raise the minimum starting salary of teachers in West Virginia to $50,000 plus provide an annual $2,000 raise for all teachers and an additional $1,200 raise for math and special education teachers.
The average starting salary for teachers in West Virginia

DAVIS, W.Va. — One of the biggest employers in Tucker County is shutting down.
Miners at Mettiki Coal’s Mountain View Mine learned today they are being permanently laid off and the mine is to be closed.
According to a WARN notice provided to the Tucker County Commission by the company, 199 workers will lose their jobs in the closure. They layoffs will take effect April 1st.
The company gave no reason for the action, but leaders say it will be an economic blow.
“It’s one of the major employers of