PLEASANT VALLEY, W.Va. — A single engine aircraft crash landed at the Fairmont-Marion County Airport Friday afternoon injuring the pilot and passenger. Reports indicate a small aircraft with two aboard overshot the runway and went into some trees and down an embankment at 3:16 p.m. Frist responders had to use ropes and a patient basket…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Monongalia County jury has convicted a former chief of the Bunners Ridge Volunteer Fire Department in a sexual assault case from the 1990s. Roger Channell (WVRJA) Court documents said Roger Channell had sexual contact with a female juvenile during the time she was between 9 and 11 years old. At the time,…
SPENCER, W.Va. — West Virginia’s rural farmlands today look like a scorched earth in some cases. The typically lush and green pastures and meadows in the Mountain State are a deep shade of brown with a severe lack of rainfall in recent weeks. A new drought map showed five counties in the central and western parts…