Roane County News

Keeping the mom and pop store alive in Roane county. In July of 2001, Tim Morgan and his wife were tired of main stream city life.

A Roane County Schools technician has been charged with possession of child porn after State Police found images on his computer of children engaging in sexually explicit activity.

A Roane County man pleaded no contest to destruction of property charges for crashing his car into the West Virginia Veterans Memorial at the state Capitol Complex in March 2007.

Nearly 120 of these new Hino snow-removal trucks will be a part of the West Virginia Division of Highways' snowplow fleet.

Two Civil War historians looking for paw paws made a discovery atop Fort Boreman Hill.

Former Ravenswood High School coach Dale Hinkle will be one of six inductees honored into the West Virginia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame today at the Embassy Suites in Charleston.

You could call it a sign the economy may be slowly moving toward a recovery. According to the labor market information report from WorkForce West Virginia for September, nine of the 10 counties in the Mid-Ohio Valley saw the unemployment rate decrease from August to September.

A Roane County man is in the Central Regional Jail accused of shooting his brother twice in the head with a pistol late last week.

A Roane County man was recovering Wednesday after being shot in the head by his brother.

A late frost this Spring has lead to fewer walnuts this year, but that will not stop the Annual Black Walnut Festival, which is now in its 55th year.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Gov. Joe Manchin's REAP program are hosting a tire collection in Spencer to rid Roane County of old tires.

Health care reform efforts spilled into the streets of Charleston as the debate heats up on Capitol Hill.

When I moved to a farm, my first goal was to get some chickens. Lots of chickens.

Those in the market for used farm equipment are in luck. This Saturday, a farm equipment auction will be held starting at 10 a.m. in an open field near 2860 Charleston Road, along U.S. 119, about five or six miles from Spencer.

The state Department of Agriculture says it is giving up attempts to contain the emerald ash borer's spread within the state just two years after the insects were first detected.

Eyewitness News has learned more information about the Roane County family charged with varying counts of sexual abuse and neglect.

"We knew it would be only a matter of time before it happened here, because we knew it was here," Cabell-Huntington Health Department Director, Harry Tweel, said.

State Police say a Roane County man accused of sexually abusing two children is behind bars, along with three family members who allegedly knew about the abuse but did nothing to stop it.

A Roane County family home was shattered by a family secret. Four members of teh Boggs family are in jail accused of crimes related to alleged sexual abuse.

Wirt County Circuit Court Judge Bob Waters confirmed there is an on-going investigation in Wirt County.