Poca News

For nearly 60 years, the town of Buffalo in Putnam County has been celebrating the Fourth of July.

Paula Williams Ray's five-month search for three brothers came to an end in a tearful phone call around 2 p.m. a week ago.

Scott Dwight Lanham, 37 of Poca has been accepted into the Peace Corps and will be leaving for Zambia July 25 to begin pre-service training.

June 15 David Rogers and Teresa Rogers vs. Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia Inc.

A Putnam County man is facing several felony sex abuse charges as well as other charges after Hurricane police officers said the man tried to run them down.

An SUV shortage once again proves that Americans want - and need - big bad-ass vehicles because a Mini Cooper does not cut it in the vast wide open plains and hills that make up most of America.

Putnam County dispatchers have reported that searchers recovered the body of a teen who drowned in the Kanawha River near Midway.

Rescue crews still are searching the Kanawha River for the body of a Putnam County teen believed to have drowned.

Buffalo alum, Katie Pack, says she's hoping to see her old high school become brand new.

Union workers at the Rite Aid warehouse in Poca have approved a new contract by a narrow margin.

The Putnam County School Broad voted unanimously to hold a special bond election on August 29.

The honors are piling up for Poca Middle School It's now a West Virginia Exemplary School and was recently named a West Virginia School of Excellence.

The Putnam County School Board is set to consider a date for voters to consider a school bond referendum on Saturday, August 29th.

The 25 T-shirts pieced together in a colorful quilt are reminders of special motorcycle trips, laughter, and dreams.

A federal grand jury indicted a Lincoln County man Wednesday on charges that he produced, possessed and distributed child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

A Poca man was in jail Thursday on charges he kidnapped and beat his wife. According to documents on file in Kanawha Magistrate Court, Hope Skeens, of Poca, went to the Nitro Police Department on April 29 to complain that her husband, 24-year-old Joseph Daniel Skeens Jr., of Poca, had beat her up and kidnapped her the previous night in Nitro.

Karen Haynes has had her eyes on a certain piece of property across the river from Winfield for two years, thinking it would be a great place for the new Putnam County Animal Relief Center.

April 27 Tami L. Arbaugh vs. Physician's Choice LLC, Travis Hough, individually and as an individual member and officer of Physician's Choice LLC, Jeff Brooks individually and as an individual member of Physician's Choice LLC PA-Paul K. Reese; J-Stowers * Arbaugh worked for the defendant company as a bookkeeper and accounts manager.

The family of a Putnam County man has sued SunBridge Care and Rehabilitation and its subsidiaries for malpractice and negligence.

School Bus Advisory>>> Some Kanawha County school bus routes are being affected by continuing high water problems.