A former Washington County man was killed in a helicopter crash in West Virginia Friday. Leo Basile, 57, of Arthurdale, W.Va., was piloting a helicopter for the Waco Oil & Gas company when it crashed about 7:45 a.m., near Marlinton, W.Va., in Pocahontas County. Basile was the sole occupant ...
Editor’s note: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western ...
West Virginia State Police Kingwood Detachment has activated a Silver Alert in an attempt to locate an 84-year-old Preston County man. Willard A. Dewitt is 6 feet tall, 240 pounds, with hazel eyes and gray hair. He was most likely last seen wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt, black suspenders ...
A man from Washington was sentenced in federal court in West Virginia Thursday for selling methamphetamine. According to a press release from the U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District of West Virginia, James Thomas Howard was sentenced to 77 months in prison. Howard, 37, sold 32 ...
An eighth casualty has been confirmed in Saturday’s flash floods in Ohio County, West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday morning. During a press conference, Morrisey said an unidentified male was found dead. His name will be released once next of kin is notified. Morrisey ...
The suspected gunman in an attempted homicide case in Greene County was shot in the hand during a police pursuit in West Virginia on Monday. Jonathan Trump, 24, of Maidsville, W. Va., had been on the run since June 3 before he was arrested in Harrison County. His last known whereabouts were ...
