Eric Fossell
Digital Media Producer
Huntington, West Virginia
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Eric Fossell is a Digital Content Producer at WSAZ NewsChannel 3. He’s a Huntington native who enjoys running, tennis and traveling. Among his fondest memories is a trip to Australia in the 1990s. He’s a graduate of Marshall University and was accepted into the MFA creative writing program at The American University in Washington, D.C. Eric enjoys leisurely afternoons with a good book and the company of his cats, Callie and Sunni.
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Updated: May. 8, 2020 at 7:49 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
As COVID-19 continues to claim lives and economically ravage communities, leaders in Kanawha County say local businesses stand to lose as much as $20 million this summer.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2013 at 9:52 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 598 ratified a two-year labor agreement, with 63 percent voting in favor of the agreement that Williams says is similar to the previous four-year agreement.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2012 at 8:55 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell
That decision was made despite nearly $54,000 owed to the city from the animal shelter – debt that dates back as far as April 2010, according to city Finance Director Deron Runyon.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2012 at 8:35 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
A tractor-trailer overturned Monday night on the West Virginia Turnpike, and the driver was trapped inside the cab until rescue crews arrived.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2012 at 9:42 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
The bridge will be part of the eventual Paul Ambrose Trail for Health project named in honor of the late physician -- a Huntington native who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Huntington City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of the contract. While the three-year contract does not necessarily guarantee a pay raise, it does provide stability regarding health-care coverage.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2012 at 9:24 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Council unanimously adopted a resolution to encourage CSX to “properly maintain railroad crossings” within the city.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2012 at 9:55 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Council members ultimately voted to transfer former Huntington Fire Department Station No. 4, located along 14th Street West, to the Huntington Urban Renewal Authority.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2012 at 8:11 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Huntington City Council on Monday night unanimously approved a nearly $40.9 million budget for fiscal year 2012-13 that had been agreed upon during a special meeting Saturday.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2012 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell
The fire at Mansbach Metal Co. was contained to a crane inside a storage building.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2011 at 9:02 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
47-year-old Dennis Gaines was killed.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
A 62-year-old man from West Portsmouth died Friday from injuries he received in a crash with another car at the intersection of Ohio 239 and Ohio 73.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2011 at 1:10 AM EDT
|By Tim Irr, Eric Fossell, Randy Yohe, Andrew Colegrove
Members of the Huntington Public Safety Committee met Wednesday night about a pending city ordinance to prohibit camping on public property.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM EDT
|By Sarah Sager; Andrew Colegrove; Randy Yohe; Eric Fossell
Once again, a lack of money became the key focus of attention during Monday's Huntington City Council meeting.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2011 at 6:19 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell, Carrie Cline
U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said he came to Huntington City Council “bearing good news,” and he had the statistics to back that up.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell
A car was reported underwater Tuesday evening in an area near East Mall Road at the Huntington Mall, Cabell County 911 dispatchers say.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2010 at 9:17 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell; Kristen Harker
U.S. Route 60 has been reopened in the Ona area.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell, Kristen Harker
I-64 westbound lanes are clear.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2010 at 7:34 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell; Josh McComas
Two Salt Rock men were arrested Tuesday in connection with the theft of recent equipment from a music group in Huntington’s Ritter Park during the weekend, Cabell County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. R.H. McQuaid said.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Firefighters say the house fire was difficult to bring under control because of no fire hydrants in the area of Township Road 275.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2010 at 7:20 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell; WSAZ News Staff
The suspect wanted for murder was arrested in Columbus, Ohio.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2010 at 9:00 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
One person was killed Monday evening in a traffic accident on Poindexter Road.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2010 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
The man was found dead along railroad tracks between the Calgon plant and the Marathon Oil Refinery along Route 757 in the Catlettsburg area.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2010 at 10:03 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
A diesel spill from a tanker truck in the 500 block of 6th Avenue led authorities to briefly close the intersection of 6th Avenue and 6th Street late Tuesday night, Cabell County 911 dispatchers say.
Updated: May. 12, 2010 at 7:01 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
The westbound lanes of Interstate 64 were reopened around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Cabell County 911 dispatchers say.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2010 at 6:58 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Firefighters battled a mobile home fire Wednesday evening in the Little Buffalo area of County Road 58, a Lawrence County 911 dispatcher said.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2010 at 8:09 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Kenova Police Chief Bob McComas tells WSAZ.com that he is 99.9 percent sure that the body pulled from the Ohio River Wednesday night is that of a man missing from Huntington.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2010 at 8:19 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Firefighters from several departments, as well as state forestry officials, are on the scene of two separate brush fires Wednesday night, Wayne County 911 dispatchers say.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2010 at 10:37 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
A bet between WSAZ.com’s Bill Murray and Chris Bailey cost Murray the price of lunch Friday.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell
A man wearing a black mask robbed a Subway restaurant Monday night along U.S. 60, dispatchers say.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2010 at 7:42 PM EST
|By Eric Fossell
A man was seriously injured Tuesday evening when his truck crashed into a utility pole on Ohio 7 just south of Athalia, an Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Seeing her son come home from school in tears after classmates called him “Retard” and placed a “Kick Me” sign on his back marked the turning point for Mary Calhoun Brown.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Huntington residents worried about neglected properties ruining their neighborhoods have renewed reason for hope. At Monday night's City Council meeting, Council unanimously approved second reading of an ordinance known as the land bank program to purchase and eventually turn around uncared for properties.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2009 at 10:12 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Charleston City Council passes ordinances to crack down on nuisance noise and make some changes to urban deer hunting.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2009 at 10:46 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
All current and future city employees must live within the city following a decision Monday night by City Council to not side with a civil Circuit Court case in which a Huntington firefighter and police officer challenged the residency requirement.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2009 at 10:43 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Huntington City Council voted unanimously Monday night to postpone second reading of an ordinance that addresses payment of delinquent municipal and refuse fees.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2009 at 12:15 AM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
While it was a night to honor heroes at Monday’s Huntington City Council meeting, it also was a night to wrangle over adding a controversial position to the Public Works Department. And perhaps the most highly anticipated item on the agenda – the second reading of an ordinance regarding the tethering of dogs – failed to advance at all.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2009 at 10:05 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
After months of controversy and legal issues, the Cabell County School Board unanimously approved the purchase of the University Heights property to build a consolidated middle school.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Despite going into executive session for nearly two hours Tuesday evening, the Cabell County Board of Education took no action on discussed property matters.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
While Huntington City Council voted Monday night to provide greater enforcement to police regarding nuisance properties, it continued to waver on a dog tethering ordinance.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Dave Benton; Eric Fossell
After heavy rain caused problems Wednesday in Huntington, including at a business that flooded along 8th Avenue, some people were left wondering how a sewer rate increase might help.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2009 at 11:16 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Once again the treatment of pets took center stage during a Huntington City Council meeting Monday night -- even though the issue wasn’t even on the agenda.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2009 at 10:15 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell; Scott Saxton
After three meetings, the Cabell County School Board has found its newest member. It turns out to be someone the board rejected in an earlier meeting.
Updated: May. 28, 2009 at 2:05 AM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
For the second consecutive week, the Cabell Board of Education failed to appoint a new board member to fill the seat vacated by Dr. Greg Borowski. While board members met specifically Wednesday evening to fill Borowski's remaining 13-month term, the three-and-a-half hour meeting ended with long awkward silences coupled with angry outbursts.
Updated: May. 20, 2009 at 2:47 AM EDT
|By Carrie Cline; Eric Fossell
Cabell County Board of Education President Ted Barr says candidate Rick Duncan is his pick for vacant school board seat.
Updated: May. 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones encouraged city leaders to proceed with plans for metro government, despite Gov. Joe Manchin’s recent veto of legislation to authorize metro government by a simple majority vote in the city and throughout Kanawha County.
Updated: May. 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Plans to hire seven new police officers are put on hold until Huntington city leaders find a way to deal with the enormity of the $130 million unfunded pension liability for existing and retired city police officers.
Updated: May. 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
Charleston City Council on Monday unanimously approved nearly $1.9 million worth of upgrades for two bridge projects.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM EDT
|By Eric Fossell
While Huntington City Council's approval of a weekly $1 user fee increase generated its share of heated discussion from the public Monday night, the treatment of animals turned into a fiercely debated issue among residents and council members.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2009 at 10:51 PM EDT
|By Dave Benton; Eric Fossell
Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe's administration is crunching numbers and getting details ready for City Council to show how money from a $1 weekly user fee increase would be spent.