Police arrested Joshua and Lacey Shadd, both 24, in Boone County Wednesday evening.

The Shadds entered a 70-year-old Logan County man's home near Kelly Hollow and stabbed him. County dispatchers did not have any more details as of late Wednesday.

WCHS reports that the man is in critical condition.

Kathryn Gregory

Losing an officer in the line of duty affects the whole department, said Charleston Police Lt. Valerie Strege, of the department's Community Services Division.

"We are a family and sometimes, if it's a younger person especially, we feel like its one of our kids," she said.

Police put their lives on the line every day so that people can go about their lives in relative freedom and safety, said acting governor and Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin.

The Journal reports that 38-year-old Samuel K. Bunner has agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony embezzlement. In exchange for his plea, prosecutor would drop a second charge of falsifying accounts.

The plea agreement was announced Monday during a pretrial hearing in Berkeley County Circuit Court.

If the court accepts the deal, Bunner would receive a suspended sentence and probation. He also would have to make restitution.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said two teenagers got into a fight at about 8:30 p.m. near the 1500 block of Washington Street East. During the scuffle, one of the teens struck the other in the face, causing minor cuts, Hodges said.

Hodges said the victim's mother originally thought the boy had been stabbed, but the youth later told police the teen who punched him apparently had on a ring or had something in his hand that caused the wounds.

Police are looking for a black male about 17 years old, roughly 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing about 135 pounds.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police have released the names of those involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 64 near Institute Friday night.

Jordan C. White, 20, of Huntington was traveling west just before midnight when he lost control of his 1996 Saturn and became stranded in the left lane facing the barrier, according to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

Jennifer McCorkle, 26, of Poca was also traveling west on I-64 when she crashed into the driver's side of the Saturn, killing White.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Five West Virginia University students from four states have been charged with malicious burning in some of the 29 fires that kept Morgantown fire crews busy all weekend.

It was the end of finals week at WVU, but the blazes didn't appear to be part of organized celebrations, said Fire Capt. Ken Tennant. Rather, they were set randomly, both day and night, from Thursday night through Monday morning.

All 18 street fires and 11 trash bin fires were in the downtown and Sunnyside areas.

The investigation is part of a renewed effort by the State Police to resolve more than 30 cold cases in nine southern counties.

The bodies of 24-year-old Daniel Whitely and his 20-year-old wife Debra Sue were found in their mobile home near Wright's Mountain in May 1982. They both had been fatally shot.

Sgt. D.W. Miller Jr. says that he wants people to contact him if they have any information, even if they think it's irrelevant.

Charleston Police stopped grand jury prosecutor Scott F. Reynolds after he drove his jeep through a red light and turned east onto the boulevard near California Avenue, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Patrolman C.E. Sizemore said the prosecutor smelled of alcohol and slurred his words as he spoke. Reynolds' eyes were glassy and he appeared to be confused, the complaint states.

"Do we really have to do this?" Reynolds asked the officer as he began to administer three field sobriety tests, the complaint states.

Chris Dorst

"Jeff will never be paroled from his paralyzed mind and body until he dies," Robert "Jeff" Moore's brother, Sam Moore, tells Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. during Friday's sentencing of his brother's assailant, Earl "E.M." Moore. Kanawha County assistant prosecutor Tera Salango is seated in the background.

"None of that was supposed to happen to him," Moore, 42, of Charleston said just before Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. sentenced him to spend the next 50 years in prison for the brutal beating. "If I could take that night back I would."

The beating left Robert "Jeff" Moore, 53, in a coma for 56 days last summer.

Jeff Moore, who is not related to his assailant, was a well-known Legislative Services employee when he was attacked. He suffered permanent brain injury in the attack. He lives in a Charleston assisted-care facility and cannot button his own shirt or go to the bathroom without help.

George Hughes Jones

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- A Fairmont man was arrested Thursday and charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in his care.

Cpl. A.W. Scott of the West Virginia State Police Crimes Against Children Unit arrested George Hughes Jones, 48, of Fairmont on Thursday and charged him with six counts of sexual abuse by a parent or guardian, six counts of incest and three counts of child neglect creating the risk of injury, according to State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous.

The victim, a 17-year-old girl, had been sexually abused over the course of several years, Baylous said. Troopers removed the girl and four other children from Jones' home, he said.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Three people have been charged with malicious burning stemming from fires set in Morgantown to celebrate the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Morgantown Fire Capt. Ken Tennant said Thursday the three were charged after they were identified through photographs and other investigative measures.

Tennant identified them as Benjamin Trujillo, of Morgantown; Rebecca Urbanski, of Alexandria, Va.; and Kathryn Sullivan-Buterbaugh, of Fairfield, Pa.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Cross Lanes woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to bite a Kanawha County sheriff's deputy.

Lt. Sean Crosier of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department said Cpl. M.B. Cummings went to a home on Oakwood Road in Cross Lanes at about 8 p.m. to investigate reports of a woman who was "acting crazy." When he got there, Crosier said he spotted Brenda Sue Roberts, 42, standing in the yard yelling and waving a large wooden stick at a man.

Crosier said Cummings tried to calm Roberts down, but she instead turned on him and tried to hit him. Roberts allegedly kicked Cummings and tried to bite him as she was arrested.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Huntington police are looking for someone who apparently shot and killed an Ohio man on Thursday.

Cpl. M.C. McMillian of the Huntington Police Department said officers got a call about a shooting in the 1600 block of Artisan Avenue on Thursday. When they got there, they found Henry Clinton Earle Jr., 28, of Proctorville, Ohio, dead behind a house at 1664 Artisan Ave.

The body has been sent to the state medical examiner's office to determine the exact cause of death. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call 304-696-4420.

Roddruss Clay

Morgantown Police arrested Arron Henry, 21, and Roddruss Clay, 22, both of Clarksburg, in connection with the shooting of Marlan Joseph Robinson on April 26.

Robinson was found lying on the ground around 9:15 p.m. in a parking lot off First Street between Hall Street and Beechurst Avenue just off WVU's campus in Morgantown, according to police.

He had been shot once through his forearm and a second time through his stomach. That bullet pierced his spleen and part of his intestines before coming out the other side of his body.

Lt. Bryan Stover of the sheriff's department said Deputy Lt. J.S. Bailes was on a routine patrol in the Patrick Street area at about 2:30 a.m. when he saw a man driving a 2011 Toyota Camry make an illegal turn into the K-Mart parking lot.

Bailes turned on his lights and siren to stop the Toyota, but the driver sped off toward the Bert Wolfe Ford dealership.

Stover said the driver rammed through the service center gate, sped through the lot and crashed through the back fence before smashing into a tree. He then jumped out of the car and ran away into a wooded area behind the car lot.

Angelo Miller

Kanawha County Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. on Thursday sentenced Angelo "P.J." Miller to two to 10 years on fleeing charges.

In October, Miller, 31, was reportedly drunk and weaving in and out of traffic in the westbound lanes of MacCorkle Avenue in St. Albans when Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy A.R. Crawford attempted to stop him.

When he saw the deputy, Miller slowed down but did not stop. Crawford followed Miller's car until they reached a red light at an intersection near the Nitro-St. Albans Bridge, according to the original complaint field in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A man has been accused of having sexually explicit photos of minors developed at a Walmart store in Barboursville.

State Police arrested Dustin Hill, 27, of Barboursville at the store on Monday. Investigators say the photos showed teenage girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

A criminal complaint says Hill went to the store Monday to develop the photos and a manager recognized him as the same man who had similar photos developed there on April 6.

Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department, said police believe the same man is responsible for robbing a BP convenience store, Exxon gas station and Subway restaurant on the West Side in the past few days. In all cases, the man was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, pulled out a revolver, and had his face partially hidden by some type of mask. Cooper said the suspect is described as a black male between 35 and 45 years old and between 5 feet, 7 inches and 5 feet, 9 inches tall. Some witnesses said he has yellowed eyes.

Police said a man walked into a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Washington Street West at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, pulled out a gun and robbed the store of an undisclosed amount of money.

Video surveillance of the robbery shows a man in a grey hooded sweatshirt and black baseball cap pull out what appears to be a snub-nosed revolver before walking behind the counter and robbing store staff.

Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department, said police believe the same man is responsible for robbing a BP convenience store, Exxon gas station and Subway restaurant on the West Side in the past few days. In all cases, the man was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, pulled out a revolver, and had his face partially hidden by some type of mask.

In April, Maj. Mark DeBoard, academy commandant, called the association and told a receptionist that they would no longer be able to speak at the academy, the Gazette reported last week.

In an email provided to the Gazette by a person requesting anonymity, Col. Jay Smithers said that he wanted to clarify the Gazette article, which he called misleading.

"Contrary to what was reported in the news article, the opportunity still exists and will continue to exist for future classes as far as I am concerned," Smithers wrote on Friday. "I felt that it was important to address this issue within our State Police family; however, I believe it to be counter productive to allow this or any issue to be tried in the court of public opinion."

Detective Sgt. Larry Lilly of the Raleigh County Sheriff's Department said a man wearing a dark hooded jacket and blue jeans walked into the Grandview Shell station at 2267 Grandview Road at about 12:30 a.m.

The man allegedly pulled out a gun and demanded money from the clerk. He then left with an undisclosed amount of money.

Craig Edward Hite

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State Police are searching for a Georgia man they believe killed one person and injured two others Wednesday morning in Mingo County.

Craig Edward Hite is wanted in Georgia for home invasion and is the suspect in the Varney killing, said Sgt. Michael Baylous, spokesman for the West Virginia State Police.

He is considered armed and dangerous, Baylous said.

Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said a man walked in to the Kentucky Fried Chicken along Washington Street West just before 9 p.m. Tuesday with a gun and demanded money before fleeing from the store.

This is the fourth robbery since last Tuesday within city limits, including previous robberies at a BP gas station, an Exxon gas station and a Subway restaurant.

Dispatchers said the man was wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt and a black mask. Police believe the man jumped in to a vehicle and fled the area.

Fannin

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Police say a Huntington man shook a 4-month-old baby to death last weekend while he was babysitting the child.

On Saturday, the girl was brought into Cabell Huntington Hospital suffering from "severe head trauma and other life threatening injuries," that had occurred the previous day, according to State Police.

The infant died on Monday as a result of her injuries. Doctors told troopers the baby died from a severe case of shaken baby syndrome.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Police say a Huntington man shook a 4-month-old baby to death last weekend while he was babysitting the child.

On Saturday, the girl was brought into Cabell Huntington Hospital suffering from "severe head trauma and other life threatening injuries," that had occurred the previous day, according to State Police.

The infant died on Monday as a result of her injuries. Doctors told troopers the baby died from a severe case of shaken baby syndrome.

BLOOMINGROSE, W.Va. -- A Boone County man was arrested Monday after State Police troopers allegedly found him hiding under a bed with a shotgun.

State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous said troopers were on their way to a call in Bloomingrose at about 6 p.m. Monday when they were met by a speeding car coming the other way. Baylous said the car nearly ran the troopers off the road, so they turned around to chase the vehicle.

Baylous said the driver, Christopher Thuener, 35, of Ashford, crashed the car a short time later, got out and ran away on foot. Thuener ran into the house of some people he knew and hid, Baylous said.

Mark Thompson, 19, of Alum Creek, is charged with animal cruelty

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police say an Alum Creek man high on bath salts killed his neighbor's pygmy goat and that neighbors found him in his bedroom, dressed in a bra and panties, next to the dead animal, said Lt. Bryan Stover of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department.

Mark Thompson, 19, of Greenview Road, is charged with animal cruelty after police got a call from a woman who said he stole her goat at about 3:15 a.m. Monday, Stover said.

Lisa Powers said she bought the goat on Friday as a gift to her 4-year-old grandson. They named the male goat Bailey after a female character on the Disney Channel television show "The Suite Life on Deck."

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police believe a man responsible for two armed robberies on the West Side has struck again.

Sgt. Eric Hodges of the Charleston Police Department said a man walked into the Subway restaurant at 1605 Kanawha Blvd. W. at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, pulled out a revolver and demanded money. He then ran away on foot after taking an undisclosed amount of cash.

The suspect is described as a black man between five feet, eight inches and six feet tall with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, and had his face covered with a surgical mask and a pair of sunglasses, Hodges said.

The Herald-Dispatch reports that a Wayne County Circuit Court jury ordered Bobby Lynn Frazier of Louisa, Ky., to pay 80 percent of the award. The April 22 decision also orders a car dealership in Ashland, Ky., to pay 20 percent.

Frazier entered a Kennedy plea in 2009 to four counts of drunken driving causing death and other charges. He was sentenced to six to 26 years in prison.

Police said Frazier was driving a pickup truck stolen from the dealership that hit another pickup head on. All four occupants of the second pickup were killed.

See a timeline of the police's theory here.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Shawn Lester sits in a jail cell, awaiting trial for the killing of Jeanie Patton in 2003. Lester is the central player in a plot involving methamphetamine, three seemingly random homicides and a Mexican drug dealer named "Tito," police say.

The investigation into the deaths of Patton, Gary Carrier Jr. and Okey Meadows Jr. has involved a countless number of investigators and literally tens of thousands of man-hours, said Lt. S.A. Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police.

A preliminary hearing for Kelly Lynn Redman, 22, is set for Monday in Jackson County Magistrate Court. She faces a charge of child neglect causing risk of injury.

Police were called to Redman's mobile home last week. A criminal complaint says officers couldn't get through the home without walking through trash. Two children were found naked on the floor and their hair appeared to be matted with feces.

Media outlets reports Redman's children, ages 2, 1 and 6 weeks, were placed under the care of Child Protective Services.

State Police tell WVVA-TV that Mary Bowles, 67, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Cathy Jo McCoy. She was arrested Thursday evening at a residence in Hinton.

McCoy was last seen in Hinton in 2004. Her remains were identified earlier this week.

Gazette file photo

Joseph Lavigne Jr. at his 2010 hearing in Putnam County.

Joseph Lavigne Jr. was sentenced to 17 to 45 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault and incest.

Lavigne's daughter was brutally raped outside their Hurricane home, and had to undergo extensive surgery after the assault.

On Friday, Putnam Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding vacated the jury's ruling and granted Lavigne a new trial.

A Lincoln County man was in critical condition after being shot by State Police early this morning.

Ronnie Britton II, 40, was shot two or three times after pointing a shotgun at troopers, according to State Police Sgt. C.G. Wiles of the Lincoln County detachment.

According to a Lincoln County emergency dispatcher, firefighters went to a house on Turley Road in Alum Creek at about 1 a.m. When they got there, they were met by Britton, who was allegedly armed with a shotgun and ordered them to get off his property.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Charleston police need help identifying a man they believe robbed two West Side convenience stores.

A black man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt walked into the BP gas station at 301 Pennsylvania Ave. at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, pulled a gun and ran off with an undisclosed amount of money, Charleston police say. They believe the same man used a gun to rob a store clerk at the Exxon convenience store at 1400 Kanawha Blvd. W. at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Both robberies are on tape, but detectives say the suspect was wearing a hood and is difficult to identify. Police are looking for a black man between 5 feet, 7 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing between 170 and 200 pounds.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Mingo County woman sought in the abduction of her young daughter and charged with killing her husband surrendered Thursday in western Tennessee, authorities said.

Task force members apprehended Crystal Seigler Clark without incident at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at a motel in Jackson, Tenn., said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Jeff Holt. Jackson is about 90 miles northeast of Memphis.

Clark's 13-month-old daughter was found unharmed with her and was turned over to Tennessee Child Protective Services.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said a 17-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with first-degree robbery in the attack on a woman in a Town Center elevator at about 1 p.m. Monday.

The woman told police she was getting into the elevator when a black male and a black female got in with her. Lt. Steve Cooper, Charleston Police chief of detectives, said the trio rode to the first floor of the parking garage on the Lee Street side of the building, where the 43-year-old Cross Lanes woman was attacked.

Cooper said the suspect tried to take the woman's purse, punching her in the face and dragging her across the parking lot before running off with her purse. The woman who was with him ran away in another direction.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The commandant of the State Police Academy has contacted the Troopers Association to say the association will no longer be allowed to speak to cadets at the academy, said Elaine Harris, head of the local Communication Workers of America, a sister organization of the Troopers Association.

The association had been talking to cadets in the evenings after their classes for years -- at least since 2001, when Harris became affiliated with them, she said.

A person who telephoned the Gazette and identified themselves as a state trooper on Wednesday called the move political and said the association had been meeting with cadets informally in the evenings for about 20 years.

Brent Davis

On Monday, Brent Lamar Davis, 26, pleaded guilty to causing a collision that left a motorcyclist brain dead. Kanawha Circuit Judge James Stucky allowed Davis to remain on home confinement until he was sentenced in June.

The next day, county home confinement officers received a tip that Davis had violated the terms of the house arrest, which prohibit him from using drugs and alcohol. The officers searched Davis' Facebook page and found that he had bragged in several posts about using the substances.

One of the posts read "Drinkin' the pain away, ok let's get it."

An Amber Alert issued Tuesday night said Crystal Seigler Clark, 32, is accused of taking her daughter, Chloe Clark, from their home in Varney.

Clark also is wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of her husband and the girl's father, David Clark, Mingo County chief sheriff's deputy James Smith said Wednesday

A neighbor found David Clark's body in his home Tuesday. He had been shot twice, Smith said.

"Our intention is to do that if the evidence is solid enough," assistant Kanawha County prosecutor Dan Holstein said Wednesday.

Belle Police Chief Darrick Cox said city police arrested a 17-year-old Riverside High School student on Monday and charged him with three counts of arson in connection with a series of fires set last month.

Cox said someone deliberately set a dumpster ablaze at Belle Elementary School at about 5:15 a.m. March 24. A short time later, someone set fire to the cover of a motorcycle parked in a car port nearby, he said. That fire set the motorcycle, the car port and a garage to which the car port was attached afire.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The son of a former West Virginia University basketball player was shot twice in Morgantown Tuesday evening and was "touch and go" after surgery Wednesday.

Police found Marlan Joseph Robinson lying on the ground around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, in a parking lot off 1st Street between Hall Street and Beechurst Avenue, according to the Morgantown Police Department.

An operator at Ruby Memorial Hospital said Wednesday afternoon that Robinson was coming out of anesthesia after undergoing an operation. His condition was not listed, but people close to the family said it was "touch and go" and "50-50" as of Wednesday afternoon.

Sgt. Eric Hodges said a man came into the BP station at 301 Pennsylvania Ave. at about 9:15 p.m., pulled out a gun and demanded money. He then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Police are reviewing surveillance camera footage of the robbery, but Hodges said the suspect kept his head down and did not show his face. The store clerk said the man may have been wearing a mask.

Police are looking for a black man about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing dark pants and a dark gray hooded sweatshirt.

WVVA-TV reports that the remains have been identified as those of Cathy Jo McCoy, who had been missing for seven years.

State police say McCoy was last seen on Third Avenue in Hinton in 2004.

A state road crew found a skull March 30 while clearing a culvert on Hix Mountain. State police found the rest of the remains the next day.

Mingo County Sheriff's deputies received a call around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday about an apparently deceased male at a home in Spice Branch.

Police found the man alone in the home and are now investing his death as a homicide.

In addition, authorities are looking for a young girl they say has been abducted in connection with the homicide.

Commissioners Kent Carper, Dave Hardy and Hoppy Shores approved the ordinance at a regular meeting, but said the new law won't go into effect until June 10, to allow pawnshop owners time to review the ordinance and comment on it.

Sheriff's Detective Scott Deitz, who proposed the ordinance, said some county pawnshops already enter serial numbers and the identities of people who pawn items into a national computer database, but some don't. The information helps track down stolen property taken to pawnshops and secondhand stores.

Deitz told commissioners last month he personally had recovered 48 stolen guns, about half the stolen items he had recovered, from pawnshops that enter their records into the database.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Police say a robbery in the parking garage of the Charleston Town Center Mall on Monday was an "isolated incident" and that detectives are close to arresting a suspect.

A woman reported that her purse had been stolen and she had been punched in the face around 1 p.m. Monday in one of the elevators in the mall's parking garage.

Charleston Police Detective J.F. Taylor, who is working the robbery case, said the time of the incident is "definitely unorthodox."

GUTHRIE, W.Va. -- The state Department of Agriculture has lost communications with the outside world because copper thieves cut its phone and data lines.

Service is expected to be restored by Wednesday afternoon, spokesman Buddy Davidson said.

The department is asking consumers not to make non-emergency calls until services are restored.

The Journal of Martinsburg reports that Leonard Woods Jr. of Lewisville, Ohio, entered his plea Monday in Berkeley County Magistrate Court. Another 74 animal cruelty counts were dismissed under a plea agreement.

Magistrate Harry Snow also barred Woods from owning or possessing any animals for five years and fined him $300 on each of the 20 misdemeanor counts.

The charges stem from the seizure of 90 dogs from the Yip Yip Kennel outside Martinsburg last August. Authorities say the dogs were living in deplorable conditions.

Kenny Kemp

Karen Mance, Jeanie Patton's sister, is comforted by her parents, Joyce and Larry Patton, in front of a group of reporters on Monday. They had just left a hearing for Shawn Lester, the man accused of shooting Jeanie Patton to death in 2003.

In a packed courtroom, Lt. S.A. Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department, laid out the basics of the case against Shawn Lester, who is charged with shooting and killing Jeanie Patton in 2003.

Kanawha County Magistrate Joe Shelton held the hearing in Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib's courtroom. After the preliminary hearing, Shelton sent the charges against Lester to a Kanawha County grand jury.

Cooper testified that police believe another local man, Monk Ivanhoff, was also involved in the 2003 shootings. Heidi Copeland, Lester's ex-girlfriend, told police that the two men were running a drug operation out of Lester's garage on Rutledge Road.