Jeffersonville police have arrested a 41-year-old woman accused of stealing a police vehicle and hitting an officer during an investigation over the weekend. Officers responded to The Meranda apartments around 6:04 p.m. on Feb. 7 following a report of a battery that was later determined to be a robbery. Police said they found a woman … Read more
Louisville Metro Police have arrested a third juvenile in connection with a fatal shooting in the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood that investigators say was part of a planned act of revenge. The 17-year-old suspect, identified only by the initials “CB” due to age, is the fourth person overall and the third juvenile charged with murder … Read more
The trial is underway for a Louisville mother accused of shooting and killing her 10-year-old son in 2021. Prosecutors said Kaitlyn Higgins admitted to the killing, which happened in April 2021 at a home on Algonquin Parkway. Court testimony Tuesday revealed disturbing allegations, including claims that Higgins attempted to perform an exorcism on her son … Read more
A West Virginia state trooper rescued two people from a house fire in Upshur County over the weekend. Trooper C.J. Elmore was the first to arrive at a structure fire on Kalafat Street in Buckhannon on Saturday afternoon, according to a news release from the West Virginia State Police. Officials said Elmore entered the smoke-filled … Read more
Troopers have charged a man after he allegedly sold drugs to a woman who later overdosed and died in Logan County. Jimmy Dale Conley Jr., 56, faces charges of drug delivery resulting in death and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine following an incident last week in Chapmanville, according to a news release from the … Read more
Authorities arrested a Kanawha County man accused of abandoning a pregnant dog inside a camper, according to court records. David Manville McKean, 43, of St. Albans, faces a charge of animal cruelty, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. Deputies said they received a complaint in mid-January about an abandoned dog. … Read more
Investigators in Mingo County arrested a man Monday after accusing him of sexually abusing two girls in his care. Dakota Ryan Hatfield, 30, faces two counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in a position of trust to a child, according to a news release from the West Virginia State Police. … Read more
An inmate at West Virginia’s only maximum-security prison received a life sentence after a conviction in the killing of another inmate, prosecutors said. Paul Thompson, 56, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received his sentence during a hearing Tuesday, according to a news release from the Fayette County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said Thompson was … Read more
Federal authorities have released the first surveillance images showing a “potential subject” as investigators continue searching for Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “TODAY” show host Savannah Guthrie, in what authorities describe as a disappearance and alleged kidnapping case. FBI Director Kash Patel shared the photos and two videos in a post on X Tuesday afternoon. … Read more
A Sissonville man found guilty in the death of a woman whose body was dumped in a well received his prison sentence Tuesday. A judge sentenced Michael Wayne Smith, 46, to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years under the state’s recidivist trial. He also received 40 years for second-degree murder, … Read more