News Staff Just like the Grinch who stole Christmas, someone is stealing Christmas lights. Police are looking for four suspects who used wire cutters to steal decorations and four-hundred-dollars’ worth of LED Christmas lights from a home in Charleston.
Officials are releasing the name of the woman who was killed in a Greenbrier County house fire. Twenty-five-year-old Oreanna Myers died in the fire along with five children. Myers was the biological mother of three of the children. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Police are investigating after someone threw a rock in the parking garage at Charleston Town Center and shattered the rear window of an SUV. No one was hurt. The rock was about the size of a baseball. Charleston police are working to ensure your shopping trip is safe and will escort you to your car.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals in Morgantown will shut down next summer, eliminating 15-hundred jobs. Viatris, the company that owns the plant, says up to twenty-percent of it global workforce may be affected by restructuring. The company completed a merger last month the Pfizer’s Upjohn unit. The site has produced medicine since 1965.
The Chemical Safety Board, EPA and OSHA are investigating a deadly chemical explosion in Belle earlier this week. A Hurricane man was killed, and it forced a shelter in place order for two-miles around the plant. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Air Quality says the impact was minimal. Based on readings … Read more
WVU’s final football game of the season against Oklahoma is being canceled. WVU is pausing team activities due to COVID cases. The Mountaineers finish the season with a 5-and-4 record, and will wait to see if they get an invitation to a bowl game.
Enrollment at West Virginia community and technical colleges is down by 17-percent compared to last year. Three-thousand fewer full-time and dual enrollment high schools are taking classes in 2020. Enorollment is down nearly three-percent at Four-year colleges and universities.
There are more than 12-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and over twenty-thousand active cases. Twenty more people have died. Almost forty counties are in the red or orange on the daily COVID-19 alert map.
An FDA panel is recommending emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine. Formal approval from the FDA could come within days. Governor Justice says the state is requesting over 16-thousand dosed a week, and an initial allocation of 60-thousand doses.
Two Eastern Kentucky men are missing after a building collapsed at a former power plant in Ohio. The workers were demolishing a plant near Manchester. Three other people were hurt.