News Staff Senator Joe Manchin says he supports President Biden’s gun control measures. He’s in favor of common gun sense and supports background checks and control of “ghost guns.” Manchin says people need to calm down, and that he “doesn’t know a single Democrat or Republican who wants to take your guns.”
The state Senate passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in school sports. The bill bans transgender girls and women from playing sports at the elementary, secondary, or post-secondary level. The Human Rights Campaign says West Virginia is one of thirty states to introduce anti-LGBTQ legislation this session.
Governor Justice is praising the Senate for approving a tax cut bill, and now he hopes the House of Delegates will do the same. Delegates are concerned about how increasing the sales tax will affect middle-class and lower income households, and small businesses.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department will hold a COVID-19 vaccination clinic tomorrow at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. There is a limited number of first dose appoints for anyone sixteen and older. Second shots are available for those who received their first dose in the first part of March.
A former employee at River Valley child Development Services is accused of stealing millions of dollars in federal funding. Sixty-eight-year-old Marie Philips is accused of funneling almost five-million-dollars into her own account over more than thirty-years.
A Ritchie County woman, who gave birth at home, is accused of not trying to resuscitate the infant or call for help. The baby was blue and not breathing, but she did not attempt to revive the child. She wrapped the baby in a towel and placed it beside her bed.
The Capital-South Charleston basketball game took on a different meaning Thursday night as the students mourn the loss of 18-year-old K.J. Taylor. The former Capitol High School basketball and football player was gunned down on Central Avenue near the Jarrett Terrace apartments. No arrests have been made.
The West Virginia Division of Forestry is seeking information from the public about a wildfire in a state forest last month. The cause of the 30-acre fire in the Clay Run area of Coopers Rock State Forest remains undetermined and the division said anyone with information about the March 23 fire is encouraged to call … Read more
Ground was broken this week on a new Interstate 64 St. Albans-Nitro bridge. Gov. Jim Justice, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Commissioner of Highways Byrd White were on hand to kickstart the project that will widen the road in the area and help ease congestion near the Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge. The project … Read more
Boone County deputies said a traffic stop led to drug and child neglect charges against a couple with active warrants for cruelty to animals. The driver, Sandra Maynard of Big Creek, and a passenger, Frankie Maynard of Gordon were stopped for multiple traffic violations by deputies on routine patrol in the Six Mile Road area. … Read more