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Park Place Stadium Cinemas is closing temporarily over concern in the increase of COVID-19 activity, and due to a lack of new films being released. The theater hopes to reopen in mid-August.

The North Charleston Apostolic Church is suspending services after more than twenty members of the congregation tested positive for COVID-19. The church agreed to voluntarily close for three weeks, and will undergo deep cleaning. Members of the congregation are urged to isolate.

COVID-19 numbers continue to go up…There are one-hundred-fifty new cases, bringing the total to over 45-hundred. A 77-year-old Wood County man has died from the virus, raising the death toll to 98. The state’s positive test rate is over two-percent.

At least sixty members of the House of Delegates are calling for a special session to provide oversight of the state’s COVID-19 response, and the governor’s use of one-point-twenty-five-billion-dollars in federal relief funds.

Census workers will start knocking on doors today of a homes that didn’t complete U.S Census forms. West Virginia is 49th on the list of response rate. Just over 50-percent of homes filled out and returned the form the received in the spring.

The City of Charleston is opening a new Kayak ramp on the Elk River, behind the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. The ramp is the first of its kind along the river and cost nearly 70-thousand-dollars to build. It’s open to the public from 7 a.m. until sunset.

The Capitol Market is now accepting SNAP stretch benefits. The benefits increase the value redeemed from an EBT card. Anyone with the card can receive tokens in one-dollar and five-dollar values, and spend them in the outdoor market on eligible fruits and vegetables. The EBT value is doubled for a customer that is alone and … Read more

A Fairmont man is facing arson charges for trying to burn down a Subway restaurant. Police were doing a building check when the saw 20-year-old Nicholas Billups set fire to an accelerant. The officers were able to put out the flames, and detain Billups. There was a warrant for his arrest. He’s accused of leaving … Read more

Police are investigating a shooting on the West Side. The victim says an unknown man walked into her home and shot her in the leg and hand. She’s not cooperating with police. So far, no arrests have been made.

An ex Kanawha County middle school teacher, and former Miss Kentucky, Ramsey Bearse, will spend two years in prison for sending nude photos to a teenage boy. Bearse was arrested in 2018 and charged with four counts of sending obscene material to a minor.