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Morning news anchor for WSAZ.

Huntington, WV
Joined July 2009
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I-64 is still a mess after a tractor trailer crash near the Huntington Mall. The driver is fine... but traffic is backing up badly in the westbound lanes. One lane is open...the contraflow lane.
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The Wal Mart in Ashland is closing at 2pm today and won't reopen until Sunday because too many employees have come down with Covid.
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One man has died and one person arrested for the killing in New Haven, West Virginia. Lots of police cruisers there.
It will go into the old Nitro High School building.
Nitro Prep Academy just go the go ahead to open. It's the only charter school to open in our area of West Virginia.
Charter School Board just approved the first brick and mortar Charter Schools in state history.
Traffic is flowing again on Rt. 52 in South Point after deadly accident.
Route 52 is closed to all traffic in both directions after the death of a pedestrian in South Point.
A pedestrian was just hit and killed by a semi truck on Rt 52 in South Point, Ohio. In front of Lowe’s store.
Marshall University just named Brad Smith as the new president.
CNN says Colin Powell just died from Covid.
Jason Aldean's concert tour truck has crashed in the west end of Huntington on I-64. It is closing one lane of traffic. It's in the median right now. Don't know if anyone is hurt. It's his equipment truck... so it's very unlikely he would be in the truck.
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We are currently airing Whacked Out Sports because we can't seem to make any of our production equipment work. We can't get the news to go on the air. We're standing in the studio waiting for the computers to be fixed. We'll be back with the news as soon as we can.
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A semi truck went through the retaining wall on Rt. 35 in Putnam County. The road will be closed for a while because the median barrier is in the middle of the road. One person hurt, too.
USA Today says Simone Biles is back in the Olympics for Tuesday!
Part of Route 2 in Mason County, WV has collapsed. It's in Flatrock...outside Point Pleasant.
A head on crash just happened on 13th Street in Ashland. A caller says it involved a police cruiser. It's right in front of Ashland Community College.
This is the current look at I-64 near Milton after a whole series of crashes on the icy road. Some traffic is moving...but it's slow going.
Traffic is finally moving on the 31st Street Bridge in Huntington. Closed all morning by a crash and icy conditions.