Doctors and dentists are buying PPE for themselves and their employees. WCHS TV reported that some offices are taking new measures to help pay for all of this equipment by adding a surcharge to their patient bills. The dentists that are doing it hope to drop the extra charge by October. Some insurances may cover … Read more
Marshall University will now open their season at home on September 5th against Eastern Kentucky. Appalachian State has also been added to the schedule. Earlier, Marshall lost games against Pitt, Boise State, Ohio University and Old Dominion University.
Four more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia, including an 86-year-old Kanawha County man. There are just under one-hundred new cases of the virus, and the state’s positive test rate is over two-percent.
A COVID-19 outbreak at a Taylor County nursing home is being traced back to a local church. A care provider contracted the virus through an outbreak at the West Hill Methodist Church. Nearly thirty residents and six staff members have tested positive for the virus.
More than 20-thousand West Virginia voters have requested absentee ballots since the application period opened last week. The state is allowing the pandemic as a reason for receiving a mail-in ballot. More than 200-thousand people voted by mail in the June primary.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate fell below ten-percent in July. WorkForce West Virginia says 46-hundred people went back to work last month. More than 75-thousand people are still out of work.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races is laying off over five-hundred employees. Parent company, Penn National, is reducing staff at a dozen other casinos in eight different states.
A woman is under arrest for a string of car break-ins in St. Albans. As many as twenty-five vehicles have been broken into since Saturday night. The suspect ransacked unlocked cars and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of property.
A Lucasville woman is facing child endangerment charges. Thirty-nine-year-old Mary Carver is accused of breaking out a window at a house on Greenbrier Road. She was bleeding and police found her standing down the street with two naked children covered in blood, and a baby lying in a ditch unconscious. The baby is still in … Read more
A Charleston firefighter who died on duty last month died of an accidental overdose. Police are launching an investigation into firefighter Jason Cuffee’s death. The medical examiner found fentanyl and xylazine in his system.