News Staff If there is ever a time to roll up your sleeves for the COVID-19 vaccine, now is maybe the best time. Governor Justice says the 100-dollar gift card program is ready to roll out. Anyone under the age of 35 is eligible to sign up and get a gift card or savings bond just for … Read more
The final Roads to Prosperity bond was sold on Wall Street this week. The program started back in 2017, and over that time, the state was able to raise more than one-and-a-half-billion- dollars on the bond sales. The state received an additional 62-million dollars in premiums.
President Biden signed a federal disaster declaration for Kanawha, Cabell, Mingo and Wayne counties following flooding in February and March. Individual grants will cover things like temporary housing, home repairs, and low-interest loans. State and local governments will be reimbursed for the cost of flood response.
Labor group in West Virginia are filing a lawsuit that claims a new state law that bans deductions from state employee paychecks is discriminatory and was passed out of spite. The law prohibits deductions for union dues and fees, unless a worker provides written consent. Unions representing teachers, firefighters, police, coal miners and corrections officers … Read more
WVU will play later this year in the 2021 Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic. The Mountaineer basketball program will join seven other teams from November 18th to 21st at TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina. The other teams are set to be St. Bonaventure, Marquette, Clemson, Boise State, Ole Miss, Temple and Elon.
New C-130 cargo planes will be flying out of the 130th Airlift Wing. The Air Force approved the upgrade to the new “J” series planes, in place of the old “H-model” that are 25-years old.
A Kenova man is charged with an arson spree in Lincoln County. Twenty-nine-year-old William Lusher is accused of setting three fires in the Harts area. He set fire to a vacant house, an empty store and a church. No one was hurt. The house is a total loss. There was only minor damage to the … Read more
Two people are under arrest after a police chase that ended with a vehicle catching fire. Clendenin police tried to stop the car on Reamer Road when the driver took off. The vehicle crashed and caught fire on Leatherwood Road. No one was hurt.
One person is dead after a car went over a guardrail on an I-64 bridge in South Charleston. The driver was heading west and lost control near the MacCorkle Avenue exit and the vehicle landed on the roadway below, near MacCorkle Avenue and Jefferson Road. The West Virginia State Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating.
The landmark opioid trial will continue Monday at the Byrd Federal Courthouse. Three local witnesses took the stand on Friday. An employee with the Huntington Mayor’s Office of Drug Control Policy testified that overdoses increased forty-percent from 2015 to 2016. A Cabell Huntington Hospital doctor testified that more than two-hundred babies a year are born … Read more