Fugitive and killer William Holly Griffith may have had a book and movie, both titled "Fools Parade" patterned after him, but on May 3, 2024, officials and historians in Gassaway, Braxton County, will remember one of the men he killed, Gassaway Police Chief Ord Thompson, who was fatally shot by Griffith on April 30, 1915.
BECKLEY (WVNS) – Residents at Crestview Village are concerned about the conditions of the road leading to their apartment complex. The complex is located off of Harper Road near the mansion of former Governor Hulett Smith. Residents want change, but nothing seems to be going their way. The road leading to Crestview Village is filled […]
On April 3, 1959, Elmer Bruner was executed for murder by the electric chair at the Moundsville Penitentiary. Two years earlier, a Cabell County jury had convicted Bruner of beating
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CHARLESTON — In spring 1982, Joanna Tabit was readying for her senior year in college and weighing law school when she learned then-Gov. Jay Rockefeller had appointed Margaret Workman as