A woman is recovering at CAMC General after she was hit by a train. Twenty-eight-year-old Shayla Stephenson was struck by a Kanawha River Railroad Train at the intersection of Crescent Road and Buchanan Street. Charleston Police are investigating.
After a threat of cancellation, the annual Wreaths Across America event will go on at Arlington National Cemetery this weekend in Washington DC, with new safety precautions. The team at Wreaths Across America place thousands of wreaths at veterans’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery every December, and family members were allowed to visit the cemetery … Read more
Forty counties were in red or orange in the latest West Virginia county alert system map. State Department of Health and Human Resources’ officials posted the map Tuesday based on Monday’s data. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties remained in orange. The county alert system map released by the DHHR is a daily snapshot of how … Read more
West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles’ regional offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year’s holiday weekends, but many services will still be available online and at kiosks. The agency said offices will close from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Saturday, Dec. 26, for the Christmas holiday, and again from Thursday, Dec. 31, through … Read more
Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power are seeking a surcharge to cover infrastructure investments. They submitted a proposal to the West Virginia Public Service Commission to raise rates three-and-a-half-percent in June 2021. That’s a monthly hike of about five-dollars for a customer using a thousand-kilowatt hours.
Governor Justice is initiating mandatory testing for all college students on West Virginia campuses. He says the 18-to-35 demographic is the target of asymptomatic people who are spreading the virus without knowing it.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are at a record high in West Virginia. More than seven-hundred people are in the hospital, and almost two-hundred are in the ICU. There are over one-thousand new cases of the virus, and ten additional deaths.
Governor Justice is one of the country’s first elected officials to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine arrived on Monday at the two hub locations in Kanawha and Monongalia counties. More than one-hundred Thomas Health workers will get the vaccine this week.
Three men in a drug investigation with ties to the death of Charleston Police Officer Cassie Johnson are facing drug and conspiracy charges. The suspects are accused of selling drugs to Joshua Phillips, the man accused of shooting Officer Johnson.
A sixteen-year-old boy is charged with killing four of his family members. Thirty-seven-year-old Daniel Long, thirty-nine-year-old Risa Mae Saunders and their three and twelve-year-old sons were found dead at a home in Pinch Sunday morning.