St. Albans

Almost everyone I talked to told me it feels as though the people who run this state, the lawmakers and elected officials, the policy elites and think tankers, have turned against the schools that still serve some eighty-five percent of kids here.

Marissa Jackson lives in St. Albans, about twenty minutes outside the state capital in Kanawha County, the name of which I have apparently been mispronouncing for most of my adult life.

Turns out it's not Kanawha.

Kanawha, Kanawha County.

A Maryland man is going to spend a decade in prison for a 2025 shooting death in Charleston.

34-year-old Joshua Scales shot and killed St. Albans man Ethan Chick Colbert in January 2025.

Kanawha County Circuit Judge Kerry Webster sentenced Scales today.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jordan Gonneau read a letter from Chick Colbert's family during the hearings.

But it was about probably 20, 25 miles away from where she was supposed to be.

It was in the St. Albans, West Virginia area where the cell tower, where it pinged.

And she got down there and made a call to this place called Recommended Shop.

where they were going to repair her vehicle.

But let me just say this.

McKenna Hope is going to be performer, singer-songwriter from St. Albans.

Her dad's a P1 listener.

Roots in classic country.

Reach out to Dave Hendrickson today and get your case resolved.

Coming to you from the Stone Church Studio in St. Albans, West Virginia, this is the Touchdown City Show.

Thanks for tuning in to the Touchdown City Show presented by Hendrickson and Long, West Virginia's top mediation attorneys.

I'm Anthony Lewis at the Stone Church Studio this week with Derek Bailey and the GOAT, Avon Coburn, as we celebrate.

Yeah.

It's based in St. Albans.

Mm-hmm.

They've done a spectacular job-

Then there was the case of Gerald and Dewey Davis, a father and son who were both sent to prison after Fred Zane once again presented forensic evidence as far more incriminating than it actually was.

Their story begins on February, 1986 in St. Albans, West Virginia.

That evening, a 20-year-old woman identified in court as E.W. went to a trailer where 28-year-old Gerald Davis lived with his 53-year-old father, Dewey.

E.W. knew the family and had gone there to pick up some laundry.

Uh, was actually born in Knoxville, Tennessee.

My father was in law school at U- University of Tennessee when I was born, but, but was raised in St. Albans, West Virginia.

Oh, wow.

Did you have siblings?