CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The spring forest fire season came to a close this week, but the possibility of fire continues to exist.
“Starting on June 1st you can burn any time of the day. You are still required to stay with it the entire time. You’re required to have the minimum 10 foot safety strip around it. That’s what I would encourage the public is that if they do decide to burn during the summer months, especially July and August it gets very dry and we can have summer fires,” said West Virginia

West Virginia Democrats have a competition for leader of the state party.
Teresa Toriseva
Teresa Toriseva, who currently serves as first vice chair of the West Virginia Democratic Party, says she is running for the top spot currently held by Mike Pushkin, who also serves as a state delegate from Charleston.
“This is not a civil war within the Democratic Party. On the contrary, the party is quite unified in message and in mission. And that’s what I found as I’ve been campaigning to run for chair,

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Cabell County grand jury has returned a murder indictment on a man charged with killing an individual five years ago.
Quintel Thompson is charged with first degree murder in the January 2021 slaying of David Thompson.
David Thompson was found dead in a home on 6th Avenue at the time. Quintell is currently being held in a Kentucky jail on unrelated charges. He’ll be extradited to West Virginia to face the charges once he faces the charges in Kentucky.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Cabell County Grand Jury has handed up a murder indictment against a man who is no stranger to the charge.
Carson Jeffers
Carson Jeffers, 62, was already convicted of second-degree murder and has now been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in a separate case. The grand jury indicted him this week in connection with the August 2025 death of Michael Christian. The shooting happened last August on the city’s 6th Avenue.
Jeffers had previously been convicted on the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A man charged with breaking into Little League and other sports facilities in Cabell and Lincoln Counties made an appearance Tuesday in Kanawha County Circuit Court.
Adrian Pennington (WVSP)
Adrian Pennington, 35, of Charleston faces six counts of breaking and entering for the May 26th break-ins of the Little League buildings in Hamlin, the athletic building at Lincoln County High School, and Little League facilities in the Cabell County community of Ona.
When he was

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A former grave digger at a Cabell County cemetery has been indicted in a bizarre case in which a child’s casket and corpse were removed from a grave.
The Cabell County grand jury handed up the indictment this week in the case of Matthew Fortner. He’s charged with transporting unlawfully removed human remains from a cemetery and then lying to investigators about the removal of those remains.
According to investigators Fortner dug a grave in the Baylous Cemetery in Salt Rock