Boone County News

Brush fires are keeping firefighters busy in Boone County. Three areas were affected.

A total of $7.6 million in state coal severance tax money collected in the three-month period ended Sept.

One of two inmates who escaped from a work camp last month is back in custody. State corrections officials said Kenneth Ray Hager, 30, turned himself in to Boone County authorities Friday.

West Virginia American Water has lifted two precautionary boil-water advisories issued this week.

West Virginia American Water has lifted precautionary boil water advisories for customers in Boone County and those along a stretch of U.S. Route 21 in Sissonville.

BOIL WATER ADVISORIES>>> West Virginia American Water has issued a precautionary boil water advisory for a portion of Boone County and Kanawha County.

Owners of retailer Rite Aid claim West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw altered a suit over generic drug prices in a bid to escape federal jurisdiction.

A rock fell on a miner at the Alleniance Mine in the Seth area of Boone County, according to Boone County 911 dispatchers.

The focus of the search for two escaped Mount Olive Correctional Facility inmates is on their home counties rather than the Fayette County area, Jim Rubenstein, commissioner for the Division of Corrections, said Wednesday.

The Boone County Health Department this week has released the locations for the first in a series of vaccinations for community members.

Four members or associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club pleaded guilty to various charges in federal court Tuesday, becoming the first of the 55 defendants named in a sweeping, 44-count indictment to admit criminal wrongdoing.

Police are looking for two men who escaped from the Slayton work camp. MOUNT OLIVE- -- Two prisoners escaped from Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Mount Olive in Fayette County, and are believed to be heading to their hometowns.

Updated at 2:35 p.m. . A Scarboro man was killed in an accident at a Kanawha County mine Tuesday morning, according to officials with the company.

The West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training has confirmed that three people were involved in an accident that killed one miner.

A member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club plans to plead guilty to federal criminal charges.

Investigators for the Boone County Sheriffa s Department have been working on the case of David Daniels, 60, of Bob White for nearly 10 years, struggling to forge a case against a man they allege assaulted members of his own family.

Jennifer Pauley, right, demonstrates on Lisa Holstein the correct way to administer the H1N1 nasal vaccination at the Boone County Health Department.

One of 55 indicted members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club is going to plead guilty.

West Virginia American Water's venture into public-private pacts is shipping water to isolated pockets that once relied solely on fickle wells, lawmakers learned Wednesday.

The National Weather Service is predicting cold weather. The agency issued multiple freeze warnings for West Virginia on Sunday.