The state Supreme Court says that AAA prep soccer teams can play in the state championship this weekend. The high court reversed a lower court ruling halting the tournament over COVID-19 testing disparities. The boys championship games is this morning at 10 a.m., and the girls at 1:30 p.m.
There are over five-hundred new cases of COVID-19 for the second day in a row, and there are over six-thousand active cases of the virus. Seven more people have died, raising the death toll to 487.
Governor Justice says he is on high alert as the positive COVID-19 test rate jumped to over three-percent. That was a threshold the governor previously said would mean slowing down reopening measures, but he says a lot has changed and that shouldn’t be a line in the sand. Justice says if we continue on this … Read more
WVU is in Austin to take on the 22nd-ranked Texas Longhorns. kickoff is at noon…The 16th ranked Thundering Herd will host UMass this afternoon at 2:30 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.
An Illinois fugitive is under arrest in Beckley. After an initial traffic stop in Ohio, Juan Torkelson fled to West Virginia. He was arrested in May, and is accused of stabbing four people, and one died. He tried to shoot an officer in Ohio, but the gun misfired. U.S. Marshals tracked Torkelson down at a … Read more
More than twenty people are under arrest for shoplifting, and police recovered about four-thousand-dollars in stolen merchandise. Lowe’s in Kanawha City has lost thousands of dollars in merchandise from shoplifting. Police conducted a weeklong sting operation.
The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a person of interest in a Rutland shooting. An injured woman was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in unknown condition. Deputies are looking for 54-year-old Anthony Smith. He may have been injured in the shooting.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in the Malden area. The victim was shot in the arm in the 200 block of General Drive. He’s expected to be okay. No arrests have been made. Police are investigating after a man walked into CAMC General with a gunshot wound. Investigators believe it’s connected … Read more
Kanawha County health officials are preparing for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. They are being told to have a vaccination plan in place by November 15th. The first doses of the vaccine will go to front-line health care workers and emergency responders.
The West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission filed a petition with the state Supreme Court to get a temporary restraining order overturned. A Berkeley County circuit judge issued the restraining order stopping the AAA high school boys and girls soccer tournament set for this weekend in Beckley over a COVID-19 testing disparity.