GLEN JEAN, West Virginia, March 19 -- The National Park Service New River Gorge National Park issued the following news release: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is pleased to announce it has been awarded a grant from the National Park Foundation's Park Ventures program in partnership with Active Southern West Virginia's Get Active in the Park (GAP) initiative. The grant will go towards increasing accessibility information on park trails and river accesses, and for adaptive programs p  more

ELKINS, West Virginia, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: William Albert Flinn, Jr., age 45, of Moorefield West Virginia, was sentenced today to 195 months in federal prison for methamphetamine and firearms charges. Flinn pled guilty in August 2023 to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime. Accord  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Christopher D. Spaulding, also known as "Casino," 32, of Huntington, was sentenced today to 12 years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl. Spaulding admitted to providing controlled substances containing fentanyl to two individuals who overdosed, one of them fa  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Aaron Zachary Slash, 23, of Huntington, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute heroin. According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 5, 2023, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic s  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Today, two men pleaded guilty today to roles in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl in the Southern District of West Virginia, and a Kanawha County woman pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting one of their co-defendants. Christopher Anthony O'Dell, 38,  more