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By Staff reports

Multifest, an annual Charleston event promoting cultural diversity, returned this weekend for its 28th year. The event kicked off Friday and continues through Sunday, when several gospel performers will perform during the day. Sunday night, jazz musician Ronnie Laws will perform. Multifest started in 1989 as an alternative to and protest of the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta. This is the third year the festival has been held at Haddad Riverfront. In prior years, the event has taken place at the state Capitol Complex.

By Caity Coyne

Representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been working in several Northern West Virginia counties this week to assess the damage from last weekend's flooding, according to FEMA representatives and local county officials.

By Phil Kabler

Ten former employees of the West Virginia secretary of state's office who were fired by new Secretary of State Mac Warner have filed wrongful termination lawsuits in Kanawha Circuit Court.

By Staff reports

National Farmers Market Week begins Sunday and is meant to encourage consumers to meet, and buy from, farmers and other vendors at their local farmers market.
The West Virginia Department of Agriculture kicked off festivities with its 12th annual corn roast on Thursday at Capitol Market at the Capitol. Gritt's Farm provided the corn, and sold produce alongside Crihfield Farm to statehouse employees.

Preschool open houseThe YWCA Mel Wolf Child Development Center is having a Preschool Open House from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the center, 201 Donnally St. Parents of 3 and 4-year-olds are invited for refreshments and to check out their new technology library, their wide-screen digital learning displays, interactive raised gardening beds, classrooms and teachers. They also offer full and partial scholarships based on need. For more information, call 304-340-3560
Neighborhood watch meeting

MusicBUCK AND COMPANY: 7 p.m. Adults $5, Kids 12 and under $3. Jerry Run Summer Theater, Route 20, Cleveland, Near Holly River State Park. Call 304-493-6574.
JOHN CONLEE: 7 p.m. Tickets $26.50 to $37.20. Milton Performing Arts Center, WV Pumpkin Park, 1 Pumpkin Way, Milton. Call 304-654-1339 or 304-743-8774.
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West Virginia Paving will mill Daverton Road, from Kanawha Turnpike to Gordon Drive, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday:

By By Lacie Pierson
Staff writer

A total of 83 people were indicted by a Kanawha County Grand Jury on Thursday, including five people who were indicted for murder in four separate cases, Prosecuting Attorney Charles Miller said Friday.
Two of the people indicted, Bobby Gene Hall and Misty Rucker, were charged in connection with a fatal shooting that happened in February.

By Staff reports

A new Kanawha County magistrate has been appointed to fill the vacancy left when former magistrate Julie Yeager resigned last month.
Chief Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey has appointed Angela Perdue for the role, according to an order filed Wednesday. Neither Bailey nor Perdue could be reached for comment Friday.

By Eric Eyre

Former West Virginia Senate president and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jeff Kessler called out the party's leadership Friday, saying it never should have recruited Gov. Jim Justice, who jumped to the Republican Party on Friday just seven months into his term.
"It's time for a change at the top, particularly when you have someone who embraced someone who turned on the Democratic Party," Kessler said. "They need some new leadership at the Democrat chair."