BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — A Sissonville woman accused of locking her two adoptive children in a shed last year will remain on home confinement after previously posting a $200,000 bond. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers on Tuesday denied a request from Mark Plants, an ...
CHARLESTON — A suspect in a Pittsburgh double-murder case died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Kanawha County Monday morning. Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Joe Crawford said authorities learned at around 6 a.m. that Dennis Rahuba, 50, was driving toward Kanawha ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — A Kanawha County mother says her whole family got “ripped apart” after the death of her 2-year-old son. The boy’s babysitter is now heading to prison. “I trusted somebody with his life, and I will forever regret that decision,” Caleigh Cheeks ...
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE CHARLESTON — A Lewis County man, a suspect in a deadly arson fire that claimed multiple lives, took his own life in eastern Kanawha County Monday morning, a few hours after the blaze was reported. The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department said Luke Wilson, 45, of ...
CHARLESTON — An avian flu case has been confirmed in Kanawha County. The state Department of Health said it’s the first case of avian flu, H5N1, in a non-commercial backyard flock in West Virginia since 2006. The department said the public health risk is limited to those who had ...
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE CHARLESTON — This week’s discovery of two children locked in a shed at a Kanawha County home has landed those two children along with three others in the custody of West Virginia’s Division of Child Protective Services. The adoptive parents of all five children, ...