Rick Steelhammer

The remains of U.S. Navy pilot Jay Ross Manown Jr. were laid to rest on Oct. 29, 2024, at Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood, West Virginia. Manown's plane was shot down over the Palauan Archipelago in the South Pacific on Sept. 10, 1944. The veteran had been listed as Killed in Action since then.

KINGWOOD — Eighty years after his torpedo bomber was struck by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and spiraled into the harbor of an obscure island in the

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In "Unresolved Lives," published by Quarrier Press in Charleston, West Virginia, former Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette reporter Susan Williams revisits six unsolved murders in Fayette County, West Virginia, and sheds light on a seventh high-profile homicide case in which the killer was identified, tried and convicted.

The Risk Fas-Chek market in the Kanawha City neighborhood of Charleston, West Virginia was recently torn down. The Risk family plans to sell the lot on the southwest corner of MacCorkle Avenue SE and 53rd Street, which is zoned for commercial use. Two residences on adjacent lots that the Risks also owned were also torn down.

The Forensic Science Center at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, in partnership with the West Virginia State Police Department, Fusion Center and the Department of Health, has formed the West Virginia Forensic Genealogy Commission to expedite the identification of human remains and bring closure to families.

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has taken a step up the Republican Senate hierarchy by being elected to chair the Senate Republican Policy Committee by her GOP colleagues on Nov. 13, 2024 in Washington D.C. Her new role effectively makes her the fourth-ranking Senate Republican, one step above her current role as vice chair of the same committee -- a role she has held for the past two years. Capito was uncontested in her bid to become Policy Committee chair.

A statewide snowfall — ranging from less than one inch in the Huntington, West Virginia area to up to 8 inches in the northeastern mountains of the state — is expected to arrive in the wake of a cold front blowing in from the west by the afternoon of Nov. 21, 2024. The chilly system may linger into Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

A statewide snowfall — ranging from less than one inch in the Huntington, West Virginia area to up to 8 inches in the northeastern mountains of the state — is expected to arrive in the wake of a cold front blowing in from the west by the afternoon of Nov. 21, 2024. The chilly system may linger into Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

Updated 2 min to read Fayette County Schools closing early Due to predicted winter weather, Fayette County will be closing two hours early Thursday.