Dunbar News

It was nice to a oeget away from it alla for a few days recently at Virginia Beach with my daughter Gina and two of my granddaughters, Kassie and Bethany.

Seven members of the 1092nd Engineering Battalion of the West Virginia National Guard based in Parkersburg have sued a company whose work they guarded while the company was restoring a water plant to supply water to an oil field.

Fire destroyed a house near Charleston this morning. Flames had already consumed most of the home in Asbury Heights before firefighters from 3 departments arrived just after 8 o'clock. Ed Ray said his wife, Carla, was asleep in the house when the fire broke out.

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A Dunbar man pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from his October arrest involving sexual abuse of a 9-year-girl. Robert Allen Russell, 40, of Dunbar, was indicted in April by a Kanawha County Grand Jury on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse.

Three Kanawha County residents, including a former public school teacher, have been charged with operating a methamphetamine lab.

June 25, 2009 Temporary Exit Ramp Work of New I-64 Bridge to Affect Traffic Special to Huntingtonnews.net Charleston, WV - Construction progression of the new Dunbar/South Charleston bridge over Interstate 64 and its approaches will cause traffic patterns to change this week.

A member of the Mallo family, which lived across the street from a murdered West Side woman, made his preliminary appearance in a courtroom Wednesday.

It was a quick sellout for a special edition decanter offered by Blenko Glass in celebration of West Virginia Day.

It was a quick sellout for a special edition decanter offered by Blenko Glass in celebration of West Virginia Day.

Construction on what will one day be the longest continuous bridge span in the continental United States will mark a milestone on Wednesday afternoon.

Watch an audio slideshow about the bridge project at: SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Bridge-building history was made Wednesday, when the final concrete pour was made to complete the mid-river main span of the Dunbar-South Charleston Interstate 64 bridge over the Kanawha River.

Charleston police have charged a 14-year-old neighbor with the murder of an elderly woman found dead in her West Side home on Sunday.

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Dispatchers say a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in Dunbar. Kanawha County emergency dispatchers said a man, who has not been identified, was struck at about 7:4 5p.m. Tuesday on Dunbar Avenue near the Wendy's fast-food restaurant.

CHARLESTON ' Almost half of a proposed $15 million payment to a contractor for a Dunbar bridge along Interstate 64 would go instead to the West Virginia Turnpike if an amendment by Delegate Linda Sumner holds up.

Angered over a $15 million payment on a Dunbar bridge while West Virginia Turnpike tolls are about to rise, Senate Minority Leader Don Caruth staged a one-man protest Monday to an appropriations bill but wound up voting for it anyway.

Charleston, St. Albans and Dunbar on Monday joined the Kanawha County Commission in bailing out the county's financially troubled recycling center on Slack Street.

Requests under the Freedom of Information Act are free once more in the Dunbar, after City Council members rescinded charges to those who seek information from the city.

Kanawha County Public Library system will offer a variety of free children's programs as part of its annual Summer Library Club, which runs through July 25.