CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former pizza restaurant worker was sentenced to a facility for youthful offenders for shooting another man in a Little Caesars drive-thru last October.
Jahtique Farmer (WVRJA)
Jahtique Farmer, 21, of Charleston, was sentenced Wednesday to spend two-to-ten years in a state correctional facility by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey. As part of his sentence, Farmer will go to the Anthony Correctional Center in Greenbrier County to enter a program there. He was given

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University will move forward with changes to Welcome Week that will also end a tradition that lasted nearly 30 years.
WVU Executive Director of Strategic Communications Shauna Johnson confirmed Wednesday that WVU will end FallFest as part of the Welcome Week for the coming fall semester. As a result of the change, the popular freshman-themed event Monday Night Lights will be moved to Sunday with a Mountaineer Midway and Movie event scheduled for Monday, Aug. 17

SPRING MILLS, W.Va. — Several people were attacked by a cat last week in the Spring Mills area. Turns out the cat had rabies.
Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office photo
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office Animal Control Division responded to multiple feline attacks occurring on June 2 to 3, 2026, in the area of Clendenin Drive and Eveningstar Lane in the Spring Mills area of Berkeley County.
Several individuals were attacked by the same feline and received medical treatment for injuries sustained

Lawyers for the owners of The Greenbrier and lawyers for an Omni hotels affiliate agree on at least one matter: They don’t want the state tax department to directly intervene in a federal court dispute over control of the historic West Virginia resort.
West Virginia’s tax division says they’re wrong, though.
Lawyers say the tax department is merely trying to maintain the state’s interest in millions of dollars in liens on unpaid taxes at The Greenbrier.
“Despite acknowledging that the Tax

Former WVU football assistant coach Bob Simmons has died.
Simmons was a member of Hall of Fame Coach Don Nehlen’s original staff in Morgantown–serving as outside linebackers coach from 1980 to 1987. Among those under his tutelage were the great Darryl Talley, who starred with the Buffalo Bills during a 14-year NFL career and Renaldo Turnbull, who played eight seasons in the NFL with the Saints and Panthers.
Simmons went on to coach at Colorado and then in late 1994 became head coach at Oklahoma

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU’s new chief financial officer addressed members of the WVU Board of Governors Audit Committee for the first time Wednesday.
Chris Kabourek, who previously worked at Ohio State University, told the committee Wednesday was his tenth day on the job.
“But I’ve been getting on board for the last six or seven weeks; it’s been great, and I can’t say how excited my family and I are to be part of the West Virginia University family and the direction we’re going in,” Kabourek said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A tropical air mass will continue to impact weather in West Virginia through the end of the work week.
Parts of 4 counties were under a flash flood warning Wednesday. (NWS graphic)
A line of storms fueled by that muggy air hit parts of Kanawha, Lincoln, Boone and Wayne counties hard during morning rush hour Wednesday.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for sections of those counties into early Wednesday afternoon.
“It was coming down at such a heavy