Funeral service honors West Virginia patrol officer killed in the line of duty

A member of West Virginia’s Air National Guard was fatally injured while responding to an arson call early Sunday morning, authorities said.  The airman, who was assigned to the 167th Airlift Wing in Martinsburg, was responding to a mutual aid response call to a structure fire on Charles Town Road when he was fatally injured. Investigators believe that this fire – and another one about three miles away – were set intentionally within 20 minutes of each other.

A service dog who went missing after a car crash on Interstate 95 in Virginia almost two weeks ago has been found safe. Andrew Breidenbach, a Richmond-area man with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), said his dog Kilo "freaked out" and fled when he crashed on Dec.

A West Virginia police department spread some holiday cheer this week by handing out gift cards instead of traffic tickets. The West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police donated $500 in Chick-fil-A gift cards to the South Charleston Police Department, which distributed them between Wednesday and Friday, according to local reports.

A North Carolina police officer was shot and killed and another officer was wounded Wednesday night in a shootout with a suspect who was also killed at the scene, according to reports. The gunfire happened in Concord, a city of about 79,000 residents, about 27 miles northeast of downtown Charlotte.

A 17-year-old girl has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder Wednesday in connection to an Elkview, W. Va. family that was found dead in their home earlier this week.

Screen Media has acquired U.S. digital rights to After the Murder of Albert Lima, a true-crime documentary thriller directed and produced by Aengus James and which counts Meredith Vieira among its executive producers. With the deal, it will be released as a Crackle Original in the first quarter of 2021.

The coronavirus has taken away a lot in 2020, but for students and teachers in one West Virginia district, the virus can’t take away the first snow day of the year.  On Tuesday afternoon, Jefferson County Schools published a letter saying that its schools would be totally closed on Wednesday for the first snow day of the year.  The letter, signed by Superintendent Dr.

A juvenile has been charged with four murders in connection to individuals found dead in a southern West Virginia home Sunday morning. According to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, police responded to a 911 call placed at around 10:40 a.m.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSienna Miller and Diego Luna star in writer-director Tara Miele’s “Wander Darkly” as a married couple with a baby who get into a horrible car crash.The film follows both of them as they contemplate and examine their relationship, but it’s unclear if they are alive or were killed in the accident.

A small North Carolina town is mourning after one of its police officers became the first to die in the line of duty. Mount Holly Officer Tyler Herndon, 25, was killed at a car wash Friday in a shootout with a burglary suspect.

Grainne Seoige and her hubby Leon Jordaan have swapped sunny South Africa for Irish shores this winter as they have finally made the decision to move back home.

ViacomCBS Networks International president and CEO David Lynn is stepping down after 24 years with the company, while Raffaele Annecchino has been hired in his place.

Residents in a section of Belle, W. Va., were told to shelter in place late Tuesday after a “chemical incident” at a local chemical plant, Reuters reported.

Three men have been arrested on drug-related conspiracy charges following an investigation into the Dec. 1 shooting death of Charleston, W.Va., police Officer Cassie Johnson, authorities said Saturday, according to a report.

A Missouri police officer has died after responding to a traffic stop where he was struck by a patrol car from another police department in a freak accident, according to reports. Herschel Turner, 54, was a sergeant with the Moline Acres Police Department when he was killed early Saturday.