MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- An Eastern Regional Jail correctional officer faces charges of having sex with an inmate.

State Police arrested 27-year-old Joshua Barrett of Hedgesville on Thursday. Barrett is charged with imposition of sexual intercourse or intrusion on an incarcerated person. He remains free on $25,000 bond.

According to court documents, a 25-year-old female inmate told a regional jail investigator that Barrett allegedly asked her to perform a sexual act on May 22. The inmate said she agreed to perform the act in exchange for pills and cigarettes.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department is looking for a man who allegedly stabbed his ex-wife multiple times in Clendenin on Thursday evening.

A Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said a woman was stabbed on Maywood Avenue in Clendenin at about 9:30 p.m. The woman's name was not available this morning, but the dispatcher said she was taken to the hospital with multiple stab wounds.

A 'be on the lookout alert' was issued for the woman's ex-husband, John Alan Reed II, 29, who was last seen driving his ex-wife's yellow 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier with "Melissa" in yellow lettering across the front windshield and a Chevrolet emblem on the back window, according to the dispatcher.

Reed, a white male, was last seen wearing a cowboy hat. He allegedly used his ex-wife's credit card at a gas station in Clarksburg Friday morning, and the sheriff's department is obtaining a warrant for the suspect's arrest.

SISSONVILLE, W.Va. -- Warrants have been issued for four men more than four months after police say they beat an Illinois student with a baseball bat, stole his wallet and left him with a brain hemorrhage.

On Thursday, March 18, at 2:18 a.m., Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy A.J. Miller responded to an assault call at a home on Legg Fork Road in Sissonville, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Miller arrived at the residence around 2:34 a.m. but learned that the beating victim, Benjamin Craig, 20, of Peoria, Ill., had been taken to the Charleston Area Medical Center's Women and Children's Hospital and no longer was on scene, according to the complaint.

Miller spoke with the resident of the house, Justin Carpenter, 19, who said he had returned from the local 7-11 when he noticed there had been some sort of altercation at his home. Carpenter denied knowing any of the men that were involved in the altercation, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Fayetteville woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly embezzled hundreds of dollars from a children's football league and wrote more than 30 bad checks.

Carey Lynn McComiskey, 36, was charged with two counts each of forgery and uttering, one count of fraudulent scheme and one misdemeanor count of embezzlement, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office.

McComiskey, who was the cheerleading coordinator for the Fayetteville Midget Football League, allegedly embezzled about $600 from the league in June. She wrote the bad checks between 2005 and this year, according to the sheriff's office.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Huntington police are looking for people claiming to run a fundraiser on behalf of the department's K-9 Unit.

The scammers have been calling local residents to solicit donations for winter coats for children. The callers have identified themselves as being associated with the Huntington K-9 Association.

Police said neither the Huntington Police Department nor the local FOP lodge is involved in any type of solicitation, nor are they associated with any of the groups or people making the calls. They advised people to be careful to whom they give money or personal financial information.

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. -- Kanawha County sheriff's deputies have charged a 29-year-old St. Albans man with obtaining money under false pretenses after he allegedly claimed he was raising funds for sheriff associations in Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties.

Michael Anthony McDonald, 29, faces a similar charge in Putnam County. He was being held in Western Regional Jail on Thursday.

Deputies obtained a search warrant for McDonald's residence and "recovered numerous documents and paperwork related to this scam," according to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

McDonald allegedly used false information to obtain and solicit money from the Rite-Aid in Nitro, after he claimed to represent a fundraising organization, deputies said in a news release. 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Six people have been charged in connection with a methamphetamine lab and a wanted man.

On Wednesday, State Police Trooper L.W. Price got a tip that Drew Holstein, whom police say was involved with a meth lab, was inside a Cross Lanes trailer and was being picked up by a woman driving a white Mitsubishi Mirage with a green front license plate, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Price and State Police Cpl. K.E. Young went to Old Goff Mountain Road and pulled over the vehicle, but the only occupant was Ashley Lynn Keiffer, 25, of Poca, according to the complaint.

Officers searched the vehicle for weapons and allegedly found a glass pipe for smoking meth. Keiffer denied she had been with Holstein and said she had come from a friend's apartment, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A 20-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly fleeing from police and punching a police officer after he was caught fighting with several intoxicated people near St. Albans.

At 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Cpl. J.J. Haynes of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department responded to a call in the 1400 block of Rosedale Drive, near St. Albans, where a fight was going on outside an area residence.

When Haynes arrived at the scene, one of the suspects, Casey Jeffrey of St. Albans, ran behind a house and jumped into a vehicle. Haynes chased him behind the house and noticed Jeffrey appeared to be extremely intoxicated, according to the sheriff's department.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A Charleston resident has been charged with eight felony fraud counts after she allegedly withdrew hundreds of dollars from a local ATM and bought gas and items from a convenience store with a stolen credit card.

On July 20, Nastacha Marie Caudill, 21, of Sixth Avenue in Charleston, was at the home of Bradly Rublaitus on Ninth Avenue in South Charleston when she allegedly stole his wallet, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

On July 21, Caudill went to the 7-Eleven store on West Washington Street in Charleston and allegedly used the Huntington Bank ATM outside of the store to make numerous withdrawals using the stolen card, according to the complaint.

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. --  Three St. Albans residents were arrested this week in the alleged operation of a methamphetamine lab out of a home on Middle Drive.

State Police Sgt. L.W. Price responded to a call at 1015 Middle Drive in St. Albans on Monday about a possible meth lab in the residence and a possibly stolen all-terrain vehicle. When Price arrived, he saw a white Yamaha ATV parked in front of the residence, and a woman carry a bag inside the home and immediately shut the door, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

State Police knew several stolen ATVs had already been found. Price asked Thomas Lee Sampson, 19, and his father, Robert Lee Sampson Jr., 40, who owned the white ATV, according to the complaint. Neither said they knew.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A lawyer who beat his client with a baseball bat on Charleston's East End was given one to five years of home confinement on Wednesday by Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom.

Joshua Robinson entered a Kennedy plea to a felony charge of unlawful wounding in April. A Kennedy plea involves a defendant who doesn't admit guilt, but acknowledges he faces severe punishment at trial and has no genuine defense to raise against the charge.

On Wednesday, Robinson apologized to his client, David Lee Gump II, in court. Gump did not attend the hearing.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A Charleston man has been arrested after police found him with more than 42 bags of crack cocaine and other drugs on Charleston's West Side.

On Monday, Charleston police responded to a 911 call in the 200 block of Wyoming Street. The officers pulled up behind a black Dodge Durango where Stephen Trent Johnson, 30, was leaning in the driver side of the window, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

When the officers got out and identified themselves as Charleston police, Johnson fled on foot, according to the complaint. He stopped in the middle of the road after a short chase. As police escorted him back to their vehicle, Johnson allegedly began telling them that "he knew people" and that he was "a confidential informant."

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  A 20-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly fleeing from police and punching a police officer after he was caught fighting with several intoxicated people near St. Albans.

At 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Cpl. J.J. Haynes of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department responded to a call in the 1400 block of Rosedale Drive, near St. Albans, where a fight was going on outside an area residence.

When Haynes arrived at the scene, one of the suspects, Casey Jeffrey of St. Albans, ran behind a house and jumped into a vehicle. Haynes chased him behind the house and noticed Jeffrey appeared to be extremely intoxicated, according to the sheriff's department.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The suspect in a shooting early Monday has been arrested.

Dominique Davon Calhoun, 19, of Park Drive in Charleston, is accused of driving up to a house on Wertz Avenue at around 2:55 a.m. Monday and parking across the street. The residence belongs to Henry Johnson and Crystal Hale, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Calhoun and another man allegedly got out of the vehicle and walked to the front of the house. Johnson told police he saw Calhoun fire several shots at his window and then flee, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A teenager who stabbed an 82-year-old neighbor to death in her house on Charleston's West Side in June 2009 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday, the maximum sentence allowed by law.

Thomas Mallo, now 15, was transferred to adult status when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in February. He admitted that he stabbed Phyllis Jean Phares 35 times in her house on Frame Street.

During Wednesday's sentencing, Phares' oldest daughter, Karen Morris, called Mallo a "sick animal" who murdered her mother without provocation.

"Thomas Mallo does not deserve to walk the streets of society ever again," Morris told Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webster. "Please give my mother the justice she deserves."

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Beckley woman was killed Tuesday after rolling her SUV on a rural road.

Kimberly Grimes, 39, was driving her 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer west on Eccles #5 Road when she apparently ran off the pavement while attempting to turn onto Allentown Road, said Raleigh County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy D.E. Stafford.

Stafford said the Trailblazer went over an embankment and rolled over several times, trapping Grimes inside. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A woman has been arrested in the alleged robbery of another woman at gunpoint and theft of her purse in the Mardi Gras Casino and Resort parking lot in Nitro.

Around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a 19-year-old woman was waiting in a car while her husband went into the casino when a woman brandished a handgun and took her purse, according to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

The victim told police she saw the suspect, Ashli Logan Burdette, 26, of Campbells Creek, get into a silver 2000 Dodge Stratus and leave the parking lot, according to the sheriff's department.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Huntington police are investigating a Tuesday night shooting.

Mark Lowery, 48, of Huntington was fatally shot at about 7:30 p.m. in an alley next to the 1600 block of 11th Avenue, police said. Lowery was taken to Cabell Huntington Hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Police are conducting interviews, and the investigation continues. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 304-696-4420.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  Charleston residents will gather next week to tell crime to take a hike during the 27th annual National Night Out Against Crime.

The Tuesday event, which is being held for the 24th time in the city, will feature events across Charleston that encourage residents to be active in their neighborhoods.

Concerned neighbors will join with the Charleston Police Department, local firefighters, ambulance and rescue personnel and city officials to raise awareness of public safety and become part of the national crime prevention and safety awareness movement.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston Police have started a criminal investigation -- in addition to the ongoing internal investigation -- into allegations of sexual harassment by a member of the department's Professional Standards Division, said Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster.

Capt. M.L. White is accused of harassing a woman and illegally checking license plate numbers of people associated with her, sources with knowledge of the investigation have said.

White's criminal investigation is being handled by Charleston Police Sgt. Eric Hodges. The investigation is independent and parallel to the internal investigation, Webster said.

WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A Walmart manager was charged Tuesday after he allegedly embezzled $1,500 from the Hurricane store.

Jermey Bowles, 20, of Nitro, admitted to pocketing the money over the span of a month, according to a criminal complaint filed in Putnam County Magistrate Court.

A warrant was issued for Bowles' arrest on a felony embezzlement charge on Tuesday.

WESTON, W.Va. -- A Weston man accused of molesting six female relatives over several decades is in the Central Regional Jail on $200,000 bond.

State Police Cpl. Michael Clark says he spoke with the sixth victim Tuesday, and additional charges will be filed against 76-year-old Harry Goldsmith.

Goldsmith was arrested last Friday. He has a preliminary appearance Thursday in Lewis County Circuit Court.

One woman told police she was molested more than 3,000 times as a child, and she became alarmed when she recently saw Goldsmith in public with a young child.

ST. ALBANS, W.Va. --  A  St. Albans man has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting and impregnating an 11-year-old girl.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Department arrested Michael Duane Lacy, 36, of Ferrell Road in St. Albans, after the mother of the victim told police her daughter had been impregnated by the man, according to published reports.

The incident allegedly occurred in mid-May at Lacy's apartment. The girl had spent the night there with Lacy's daughter, who is approximately the same age as the victim, according to published reports.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police are searching for a father and son who they say followed a woman from North Carolina to a home in Hurricane on Saturday and assaulted her friend with a stun gun and a baseball bat.

An arrest warrant was issued for Denver Allen Higgins, 41, and Corey Allen Higgins, 19, both of Midland, N.C., after they broke into a Hurricane home, shocked William Dennis with a stun gun and beat him in the head and arms with a baseball bat, according to a criminal complaint filed in Putnam County Magistrate Court.

BEDFORD, Va. --  A Bedford County judge has thrown out the conviction of a former school administrator found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife, a former West Virginia University women's basketball player.

Circuit Judge James Updike on Monday threw out the conviction against Wesley Earnest, and set a new trial date for Nov. 8.

Jurors had admitted they saw Jocelyn Earnest's journals, even though Updike specifically barred the writings from being included as evidence.

Earnest is a former high school administrator in Lynchburg and Chesapeake. He was convicted in April in the 2007 shooting death of Jocelyn Earnest. The couple was involved in divorce proceedings at the time.

KINGWOOD, W.Va. -- The State Police has turned down a Morgantown newspaper's request for information on the investigation of a trooper who admitted to drinking while on duty.

The Dominion Post filed a Freedom of Information Act request earlier this month for information on the agency's investigation of Trooper First Class J.R. Martin of the Kingwood detachment.

Martin crashed his cruiser into a guardrail in May, and was found four hours later drinking in a fire hall.

Last week, State Police denied the request, saying internal investigations are exempt from disclosure.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police are looking for gunmen in three unrelated shootings in the city over the past few days.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said police are looking for anyone with information about a shooting early Monday outside the Kickback Lounge, 935 Central Ave. Hodges said an altercation broke out outside the bar at about 3 a.m., during which shots were fired.

Hodges said Terry Lamb, 34, of Charleston was hit in the leg by gunfire. His injuries are not life threatening.

GREEN VALLEY, W.Va. -- Officials say two men have died while attempting to swim to shore on a Mercer County lake.

Hoy Murphy with the state Division of Natural Resources said Monday the two drowned after jumping off a boat Saturday night at the Kee Reservoir.

The men were identified as Francis Jennings, 45, and Donald Anthony, 41. Murphy did not know where they lived.

Jennings and Anthony were among three men who had jumped off the boat about 10 p.m. Saturday night. The third man made it to shore.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Nicholas County man was in jail following a shooting in Richwood on Sunday.

Richwood Police Chief Shane Boggs said Timothy Michael Jones, 23, allegedly shot and killed 46-year-old James Ronald Ellison at about 12:40 p.m. at Jones' home on Elizabeth Street in Richwood. Other members of Ellison's family were also there at the time, but Boggs did not say what led up to the shooting.

Jones was charged with murder. He was being held without bond in the Central Regional Jail.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mingo County authorities discovered the body of a man in a burned-out house early today.

A spokesman for the Mingo County Sheriff's Department said the fire apparently broke out in the house on Gilbert Creek at about 2 a.m. Authorities are still investigating the blaze.

JULIAN, W.Va. -- State Police say they've caught eight people who stole $30,000 worth of copper from a Boone County coal mine.

State Police say the theft was uncovered when an officer looked in the bed of a truck and saw the copper. Police say it came from Patriot Coal's Hobet 21 mine in Boone County.

Police say two suspects are charged with transferring and receiving stolen property and conspiracy. Five others are charged with grand larceny and conspiracy. One man faces two counts each of conspiracy and grand larceny.

Police say all the suspects have confessed.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The FBI is investigating a West Virginia state trooper who is accused of handcuffing a man to the floor of the Princeton detachment and beating him. The incident is alleged to have occurred because the man was sleeping with the trooper's wife.

On July 10, 2008, Trooper C.N. Workman arrested Travis W. Barker after pulling him over in a traffic stop, according to a lawsuit filed by Barker's lawyer John Bryan.

Workman asked if there were any weapons in the car. Barker, a federal corrections officer, told him that he had a handgun in the center console. The trooper confiscated the weapon and arrested Barker for carrying a concealed weapon, according to the lawsuit. Barker was also later charged with assault on a law enforcement officer. Both charges are still pending.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An Alum Creek man was arrested Thursday after trying to pass off two forged prescriptions at a South Charleston pharmacy, police said.

Justin Carrier, 29, allegedly took two prescriptions to the Rite Aid Pharmacy on MacCorkle Avenue.

The prescriptions for generic Xanax and oxycodone appeared to have a forged signature, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two men have been charged with operating a methamphetamine lab out of a South Charleston trailer.

State Police Sgt. L.G. O'Bryan received numerous tips over the past several weeks saying that David Owen Huffman, 30, of Graceland Circle, was making meth in his mobile home, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

On Wednesday around 9 p.m., O'Bryan went to the Graceland Circle trailer and smelled a strong meth odor coming from the residence. A nearby resident said there was a meth lab in the residence, and he had seen Coleman fuel, acetone and flasks inside the home, according to the complaint.

ROBSON, W.Va. -- A Fayette County man has died after his SUV was hit head-on by a coal truck on W.Va. 61 on Wednesday.

Justin A. Davis, 19, of Oak Hill, was driving on W.Va. 61 when a coal truck, driven by Larry Evans, crossed the centerline and struck Davis's Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV head-on, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Department.

Davis was ejected from the vehicle, and his passenger, Adam Sizemore, 19, was also injured. Both men were airlifted to the Charleston Area Medical Center.

At about 1:35 p.m. Friday, Davis died as a result of the injuries he received in the accident. Sizemore is listed in stable condition.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A Morgantown woman who embezzled more than $120,000 from a senior citizens program between 2006 and 2009 has been ordered to repay the money.

Amy Mick, 32, pleaded guilty last year to embezzlement, uttering and two counts of forgery.

On Thursday, Monongalia Circuit Judge Russell Clawges sentenced Mick to five years of probation. He also ordered her to write an apology to the agency she victimized, then repay the debt.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Pocahontas County man died after wrecking his motorcycle on a rural road.

A passing motorist spotted the body of 46-year-old Robert Franciso Jr. of Marlinton along W.Va. 92 near Minnehaha Springs around 7 p.m. Tuesday, according to West Virginia State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous.

Baylous said authorities believe Francisco may have crashed the previous night, and think alcohol may have been a factor in the wreck.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A 16-year-old girl was taken into custody Wednesday night after allegedly shooting a 62-year-old man four times with a handgun.

According to the Mason County 911 Center, the shooting occurred around 11 p.m. in the 700 block of Grandview Avenue in Point Pleasant.

The victim, John Bartles, was shot four times in his home, but does not appear to have any life-threatening injuries.

The juvenile female was taken to a Dunbar juvenile detention center.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State police are searching for an Elkview man who has been missing since the first of the month.

Robert A. Shaffer, 24, was last seen on July 1 after being picked up by Charleston firefighters and taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Charleston, said Cpl. S.A. Hatten of the South Charleston state police detachment. She said Shaffer had apparently gotten drunk and hurt himself.

Hatten said Shaffer apparently walked out of the hospital and has not been seen since. His backpack was later found at nearby CAMC General Hospital.

Shaffer is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds, with dark hair and a deformed right arm from a childhood accident. Hatten said he reportedly has a history of mental illness.

A North Carolina man has been arrested after attempting to throw away a small amount of marijuana after he was pulled over, West Virginia State Police said.

Senior Trooper M.J. Napier pulled over a rental car on Interstate 77 at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, according to the State Police.

When Napier asked the two occupants, Raheem Heading, 37, and Lamar A. Mitchell, 32, both of Greensboro, N.C., to step out of the car, police say Heading threw a small amount of marijuana out of the car.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two Oak Hill men are in the hospital after a coal truck crossed the center line and collided head-on with their vehicle.

Justin A. Davis, 19 and Adam Sizemore, 19, were driving on W.Va. 61 near Beards Fork at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday when a coal truck crossed the center line and crashed into their Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Department.

Davis, the driver, was ejected from the vehicle, according to police. Sizemore was also injured in the collision. HealthNet flew both men to Charleston Area Medical Center, where Davis was in critical condition and Sizemore was in stable condition.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man has been charged with growing marijuana on his front porch.

Kanawha County sheriff's deputies responded to a house on Mullins Lane near Charleston after getting an anonymous tip that the resident, Nathan King, 33, of Charleston, was growing marijuana on his front porch.

Deputies found three mature marijuana plants growing in planter ports that were ready for harvest and carried a street value of about $3,000, according to the sheriff's department.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A former sheriff 's deputy convicted of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl will return to the town where the crime occurred but remain on home confinement.

Robert Fields, 33, was convicted in 2007 of sexually abusing a girl in his office at Morgantown High School. He was then a resource officer for the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department.

Fields began serving a 10- to 20-year sentence, but won early release in April after serving 21/2 years of his term. Since then, he's been on home confinement in Elkins.

Judge Russell Clawges on Wednesday approved a transfer back to Morgantown. His lawyer says Fields can find work more easily in Morgantown.

HARRISONBURG, Va. -- A January trial is scheduled for a Virginia couple facing a federal charge in the slaying of a West Virginia man.

Lorie Ann Taylor-Keller and Nakia Keller are charged in federal court with crossing state lines to kill Taylor-Keller's ex-husband, 36-year-old Dennis "Chip'' Taylor.

U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad on Wednesday scheduled a Jan. 11 trial in federal court in Harrisonburg.

The Fulks Run couple, both 35, also face state murder charges in West Virginia. They're accused of killing Taylor, his 39-year-old wife Allaina Taylor and her 5-year-old daughter, Kaylee Grace Whetzel.

SMITHERS, W.Va. --  A Charleston man has been charged with throwing a Molotov cocktail at a building in Smithers more than a month ago.

The Gertrude Apartments in Smithers caught fire on the afternoon of May 29, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Department. After putting the fire out, firefighters from Smithers, Montgomery and Boone County Fire contacted the state Fire Marshal to conduct an investigation, according to the sheriff's department.

Assistant State Fire Marshall Anthony Domingo determined the fire had been intentionally set using a Molotov cocktail -- a container filled with gasoline and thrown against a structure. Domingo also discovered the container used to set the blaze was a milk jug.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man has been arrested in the alleged flight from a State Police officer on a suspended license and possession of marijuana.

State Police Sgt. L.G. O'Bryan was driving along Dry Ridge Road in St. Albans around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday when he noticed a defective registration light on a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

The driver, Jamie Lee McClure, 20, of Charleston, saw O'Bryan back up, turned rapidly and fled from the officer, according to the complaint. McClure got to the Dry Ridge Apartments and allegedly ran into an apartment.

HERNSHAW, W.Va. --  A Charleston man has been arrested after being accused of allegedly stealing a vehicle from a trucking company in Boone County.

Deputy D.A. Cadle with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department was called to the 5000 block of Lens Creek Road in Hernshaw.

Cadle was told by dispatchers that a man at the scene allegedly stole a silver Toyota Tacoma from the Harvey Trucking Company in Boone County, according to the complaint.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County man has been arrested after getting into a bar fight with another man and allegedly kicking him in the head while he was on the ground.

Kristopher A. Hammond, 24, of Charleston, was at the Coral Bar and Grill at the intersection of Coonskin Drive and Greenbrier Street in Charleston Tuesday evening when he allegedly got into a fight outside the bar with Chadwic Pauley, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Hammond and Pauley allegedly fought until onlookers stopped the fight outside the bar. However, the fight resumed a few moments later in the roadway of Coonskin Drive, according to the complaint.

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. --  A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the alleged sexually assault of a 14-year-old girl in Buckhannon.

The Upshur County Sheriff's Office arrested John O. Darnell III, 19, of Buckhannon on Tuesday on a felony charge of third degree sexual assault.

Darnell is accused of sexually assaulting the girl at the Valley Green Apartments in Buckhannon.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Authorities have re-opened Interstate 64 after a flurry of afternoon accidents left all eastbound lanes shut down near the Institute exit, a Kanawha County emergency dispatcher said.

Shortly before 3 p.m., there was a three- or four-vehicle accident on the eastbound lanes, she said. No one appeared to be injured, and emergency personnel are on the scene.

Earlier, around 2:30 p.m., a minivan went into the retaining wall near the 52 mile marker near Dunbar, which closed the fast lane, she said. That lane has also been reopened.

Nitro Police were also on the scene of a three-car pileup in the westbound lanes, she said. That accident happened in the on-ramp feeding into the fast lane, and authorities have also closed the fast lane heading westbound near the 45 mile marker.