MARTINSBURG, W.Va. —  In less than two weeks, West Virginia Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, who was injured in the line of duty while patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. last fall, will have a follow-up surgery, according to his mother, Melody.
“It’s actually less than a month. It’s not this week. It’s the following week,” Melody Wolfe said Monday on WEPM Radio’s Panhandle Live.
“He’ll have his cranioplasty, which is where they will go in and put a piece It’s actually a 3D

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Police now confirm the four victims of a fatal wreck in the Capital city are from Raleigh County.
The four victims of the Saturday night crash are James McDaniel, 20, Colten Garcia, 20, Kaden Ashby, 21, and Kaiden Radford, 21. All are from Raleigh County and were killed instantly when their vehicle ran over the retaining wall on the elevated intestate at the I-77/64 split. The pickup truck crashed 42 feet below in the Martin-Marietta gravel yard.
Charleston Police

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former Fayette County Delegate Elliott Pritt pleaded not guilty to three federal charges during a brief hearing Monday morning in federal court in Charleston.
Elliott Pritt is pictured at the Carter County, Ky. Detention Center.
Pritt, 36, was indicted last week in connection with what federal prosecutors describe as grooming by Pritt of a 15-year-old girl, forcing her into a sexual relationship. Pritt was a school teacher in Fayette County at the time.
Pritt pleaded not

GRAFTON, W.Va. — Officials at Grafton City Hospital believe some personal information may have been compromised during a recent data breach.
The hospital has issued a notice of a data security incident after an email account was compromised May 6, 2026.
After the incident hospital officials secured the network, engaged additional third-party experts, enhanced its data security, and commenced an investigation that determined certain personal or medical information could have been subject to

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County Delegate said the time has come to take a look at the safety of the elevated interstate in Charleston. Four people were killed in a Friday night crash when their pickup truck jumped over the median wall and landed in the Martin-Marietta gravel yard 42-feet below.
The wreck was the third in recent days on the elevated interstate–and one of those three involved Delegate Dana Ferrell’s daughter and her boyfriend. They were struck by another vehicle and while

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–Green Power school buses started with great promise, but have never delivered
–A deadly weekend on West Virginia highways
–Changes are coming to the way votes are canvassed after an election in West Virginia
–In Sports: it’s game week for high school football teams in West Virginia
Listen to “MetroNews This Morning 8-24-26” on Spreaker.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The zipper merge may make a return to some West Virginia highway construction projects.
Todd Rumbaugh
At least a form of it.
The state legislature asked state Transportation Secretary Todd Rumbaugh about the status of the zipper merge.
Rumbaugh talked about it at the most recent legislative interim committee meetings.
“West Virginians have always done the early merge,” Rumbaugh told lawmakers earlier this month. “We have tried to do the zipper merge in the past. It doesn’t