CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A body was recovered from the Elk River in Charleston Saturday afternoon.
The body was spotted at about 1 p.m. near the Washington Street Bridge.
Charleston Fire Department crews were on the scene to recover the body.
Charleston police are investigating the death.
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NITRO, W.Va. –Employees at West Virginia American Water, both new and experienced, now have the opportunity to receive training in Nitro that includes classroom instruction and hands-on learning.
Main part of the training facility which will be used as a classroom
Company officials, local officials, and community members gathered Friday afternoon for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the company’s new distribution training facility in Nitro.
The facility, located at 135 Main Avenue, features modern

West Virginia’s charter schools are officially arguing in favor of religious exemptions to mandatory school vaccination requirements, in contrast to the position taken by the state’s more traditional public school system.
The West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board entered a friend of the court brief this past week in a state Supreme Court review of conflict between the state’s religious freedoms law and its mandatory school vaccination law.
As part of their argument, the charter

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. — A dozen handguns were reportedly stolen from a Hedgesville gun shop.
The Berkeley Armory reports that around 3:20 Friday morning, three young males wearing masks, black clothing, and gloves scouted the building, tried to break in unsuccessfully, then returned, smashing the glass in, jumping through the window, and stealing the handguns.
The post from Berkeley Armory reports they were traveling in a “white 4-door sedan and a dark colored mid-sized SUV.”
The Panhandle News

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. –An arrest has been made in connection with the 2022 disappearance of Gretchen Fleming, a Wood County resident.
Gretchen Fleming, 28, of Vienna, was last seen Dec. 4, 2022.
Parkersburg Police chief Matthew Board announced Friday afternoon that Preston D. Pierce, 58, was arrested in the Asheville, North Carolina, area by the United States Marshals Service, the West Virginia CUFFED Task Force and the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Board also announced that a Wood County