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By Giuseppe Sabella

A Charleston police officer has been indicted on three misdemeanor charges after he allegedly caused a deadly crash earlier this year.
Officer Stephen Doss, of the Charleston Police Department, reportedly crashed into a woman's car in the 400 block of Washington Street West, near the intersection of Maryland Avenue, on Jan. 4.

By Giuseppe Sabella

Two men are facing animal cruelty charges after they allegedly abandoned two puppies Tuesday on Charleston's West Side.
Hakeem Ford, 22, and Jonathan Williams, 29, abandoned the pit bulls in an alley, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.
A tip led Charleston Patrolman Jacob Cooper to find the dogs behind Andrews Floor Covering Company on Central Avenue, according to the complaint.

By By Lacie Pierson
Staff writer

HUNTINGTON - A Kentucky doctor who recently was acquitted of federal fraud charges became somewhat of an internet star following a Thursday night rally hosted by the President Donald Trump in Huntington.

By By Jenna Johnson
The Washington Post

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. - While it is highly unusual for a sitting governor to change political parties while in office - as West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced he would do during a rally with President Trump on Thursday night - the process of crossing over was familiar to many in the crowd that night.

The Pineville Municipal Water Works has issued a boil-water advisory for customers from Sycamore Street in Pineville to the end of the system at Wyoming, following a water main break.
Customers in this area should boil their water for at least one full minute prior to use until further notice.

By The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence has turned over emails from a private AOL.com account he used to conduct official business while he was Indiana's governor.
A spokeswoman for current Gov. Eric Holcomb says Pence's attorneys last month handed over an electronic database containing the emails, which are public records.
The Republican governor's office has been grappling with a backlog of public records requests. Some are more than a year old and most are seeking emails from Pence's private accounts.

By Staff reports

On Friday morning, everyone on the staff of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice came to work.
That's not an announcement Butch Antolini, a spokesman for Jusitce, has normally made, but it was an understandable necessity in the wake of Justice's statement he would be switching parties from Democratic to Republican.
The governor had not arrived at the Capitol as of late Friday morning.

By By Matt Zapotosky
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that the Justice Department has more than tripled the number leak investigations compared to the number that were ongoing at the end of the last administration, offering the first public confirmation of the breadth of the department's efforts to crack down on unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information.

By By Anthony Izaguirre
The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Nearly two decades of using heroin and a year of living on the streets of Philadelphia had led Steven Kemp to a simple conclusion: It was time to get sober. But when he staggered into a detox facility on a recent Friday night, his head brimming with the thought that suicide would end the pain, he was told he couldn't be admitted because he didn't have a photo ID.

By The Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Authorities say the West Virginia office of a U.S. senator has been vandalized with spray-painted expletives.
News outlets report Sen. Shelley Moore Capito's office was vandalized Sunday between midnight and 9 a.m.
Morgantown police Chief Ed Preston says the words were spray-painted outside Capito's office. The owner of the building was unaware of the vandalism before being notified by authorities.
The graffiti has been removed.