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wsaz.com | Kimberly Keagy
CABELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Our Hometown Hero award celebrates a coach who has spent more than four decades in public education. At Barboursville Elementary School, when the bell rings at the end of the day, most students grab their backpacks and head to the school bus, but you’ll find Coach Rich Williams and the Village Magic jump rope team putting the work in after school. “I think this is year 43 in teaching,” Williams said.
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wsaz.com | Kimberly Keagy |Kristen Bentley
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Just days after Gov. Patrick Morrisey assumed West Virginia’s top office in January, WSAZ reached out, trying to get information and transparency from those tasked with protecting the state’s most vulnerable children. “When I first took office, I received a letter from a local media outlet about one of their Freedom of Information Act requests that had essentially been stonewalled and ignored by the previous administration,” Morrisey said about WSAZ’s FOIA request.
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wvva.com | Kristen Bentley |Kimberly Keagy |Marlee Pinchok
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced six steps on Wednesday that are aimed at improving the state’s child welfare system. It follows the death of teenage girl Kynnedi Miller in Boone County after investigators say she was starved to death in her home. We started asking the state questions about what it knew before Miller died.
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wsaz.com | Marlee Pinchok |Kimberly Keagy
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced six steps on Wednesday that are aimed at improving the state’s child welfare system. The first step includes providing increased transparency and disclosing additional information about child fatalities and near-fatalities. “This is a major change from the failures of the past,” Morrisey said.
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2 weeks ago |
wvva.com | Kimberly Keagy
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A truck driver accused of damaging several headstones at a cemetery has been arrested. Sean Koppenhoefer, 43, of St. Louis, is charged with felony destruction of property. Charleston Police said Koppenhoefer crashed his tractor-trailer in Spring Hill Cemetery and then took off Sunday afternoon. Several headstones destroyed at cemeteryKoppenhoefer is at the South Central Regional Jail. Copyright 2025 WSAZ. All rights reserved.
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