SLED report says Charleston County jail missed signs of suicide risk before Jordan Bell was found hanging in June 2024. No criminal prosecution sought.

TOLEDO — A bus driver for the company serving the Charleston school district is set to remain in the Cumberland County jail on charges of possessing and disseminating child sexual abuse material.

Officials have upgraded charges against an 18-year-old Charleston man who was arrested after a fatal shooting at the Kanawha City Sheetz gas station early Tuesday.

is seen in this undated photo. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in ...

A federal judge has sentenced a former West Virginia ... for what a Charleston jury found to be his role in the death of a Beckley man incarcerated at a state regional jail in Raleigh County.

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is seen in this undated photo. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal ...