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NITRO, WV (WOWK) - A vehicle believed to have been stolen by a man wanted by the FBI for making threats against President Donald Trump and law enforcement was found in the Nitro area. He is believed to be armed and dangerous. According to the FBI a vehicle Shawn Christy, 26, of McAdoo, Pennsylvania, is suspected of stealing from Butler Township, PA on July 29th, 2018 was located on August 2nd, 2018 in the Nitro area.

He’s the son of a state trooper. He was reared in a fundamentalist church. He graduated from a fundamentalist school, Bob Jones University, and worked there for 14 years as business manager. He married, had three children and landed back in West Virginia, where he taught art and English. At Nitro High School, he made headlines when some parents wanted to ban Pat Conroy books from his classroom. He won that war. Surely enough material for a column right there. But there’s another whole side to Steve Shamblin’s story, an overriding thread that defines him. He’s gay. When he came...

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if Richard Dowling's statue ended up saving a whole lot of lives. Here's what happened now. Andrew Cecil Schneck, 25, was charged with attempting to maliciously damage or destroy property receiving federal financial assistance, federal prosecutors announced. A park ranger doing a routine patrol of the area around Hermann Park on Saturday caught Schneck kneeling in the bushes near the statue of Richard Dowling, a commander in the Confederate army

According to a release from the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department, Nitro Police Captain Richard Foster has been arrested after a video surfaced of him brandishing a weapon during a dispute. According to Sgt. Brian Humphreys, a warrant was obtained for Foster in regard to an argument where he brandished a gun in the Berry Hills Drive area of South Charleston. Deputies investigating the altercation obtained a warrant prior to the arrest. Foster turned himself in to police willingly.

West Virginia man is charged with sexual assault after unwittingly 'admitting to it in his job interview to become a COP' A man was charged with sexual assault after he admitted during an interview to become a police officer that he had a sexual encounter with a woman while she was passed out from drinking. Tyler Ray Price, 21, of Nitro, West Virginia, was at the South Charleston Police Department on February 8 participating in the third phase of his interviews to become a cop. hat's when police say he said that he'd had a sexual encounter with a woman...

Saenz expands administration to reflect changing role of agency AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Department of Transportation today announced selections for the final three members of Executive Director Amadeo Saenz's leadership team. The new Assistant Executive Director for Engineering Operations is John Barton of Beaumont. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for District Operations will be lead by David Casteel of San Antonio. The newly-formed office of Assistant Executive Director for Innovative Project Development will be lead by Phil Russell of Austin. "John, David and Phil are all outstanding professionals," said Saenz. "All of them understand...

At the front of a quiet, dimly-lit auditorium inside Weatherford High School Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry and other friends eulogized the late Ric Williamson. Perry borrowed a quote from author Jonathan Swift to describe Williamson, who, as chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, was often at the center of controversy. “When a genius comes into the word, you will know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him,” Perry recited. “Jonathan Swift didn’t know Ric Williamson, but he pegged him.” Williamson, 55, was pronounced dead on Sunday after suffering an apparent heart attack while at...

Push for higher gas tax could follow chief's death The death of Ric Williamson, the fiery, whip-smart chairman of the state transportation commission, could upend the still-roiling debate over toll roads in Texas in the new year. Mr. Williamson died Saturday of a heart attack at age 55, sending shock waves through the nearly 15,000-employee department he led as well as the political and policy circles where his combative style and pro-toll-road agenda had engendered enormous change – and criticism. Always careful to credit Gov. Rick Perry, a close friend and former roommate, Mr. Williamson emerged as a lightning rod...

As chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, Ric Williamson made major and often controversial decisions about the future of state roads. He died Sunday of a heart attack, at age 55, in his hometown of Weatherford, leaving a legacy as the hard-charging official that steered Gov. Rick Perry's divisive vision of toll roads across Texas into state policy. It was stressful work, and Mr. Williamson suffered two heart attacks while serving. He had known his health was fragile. "I'm trying to avoid the third one, which the doctors tell me will be fatal," he told Texas Monthly in a June...

AUSTIN – State Transportation Commission Chairman Ric Williamson is proud that he can still work a bulldozer, a skill he learned early on the ranch and in the gas fields. Others would say he still drives it at meetings, committee hearings and town hall gatherings. Mr. Williamson, 55, is one of the most influential men in Texas. He has the ear of the governor, with whom he speaks almost daily. He is the architect behind the state's road plan for the next 25 years. He is smart, studious, self-made. And critics, who seem as endless as a West Texas highway,...

Q&A: Liquid explosives An alleged plot to blow up planes from the UK mid-flight and cause "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the plan "revolved around liquids of some kind". One theory is that the attack may have involved liquid explosive being carried on to a plane in either drink bottles or cans. Dr Clifford Jones, an explosives expert from the University of Aberdeen, says even...

The Ammunition Ship Crew Submitted by Archie Trader (USS Mount Hood Survivor) You can talk about your soldiers and the fighting mud Marines, Even talk about the Coast Guard and the Seabees, oh, so green, But you've never met a fighting man, a seaman oh so true Until you've met a sailor from an ammunition crew. His nerves of steel are legend and his eyes, they always gleam, He's always working cargo, sometimes even in his dreams. He's looking for some break time, and any scheme will do, Talkin''bout a sailor from an ammo ship's deck crew. Going into battles...