News Staff A convenience store, just minutes from the West Virginia border, in western Maryland, sold the winning 730-million-dollar Powerball ticket. The winner hasn’t come forward, yet. The Mega Millions jackpot drawing tonight is worth up to 970-million-dollars.
Governor Justice is getting ready to appoint a judge that will hear the residency lawsuit filed against him. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Charles King, who was hearing the case, died in December. The residency case would fall to the appointee unless that person decides not to hear the case.
Governor Justice says the state is rolling out a new online registration system for COVID-19 vaccinations. He hopes it will be online by Monday morning, and eliminate the need to make multiple calls. Anyone sixty-five and older is eligible to get the vaccine.
Seniors trying to make an appointment to receive the COVID-19 vaccine overloaded the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department’s call center. People were left on hold for hours, disconnect, or unable to get through at all. There is not enough vaccine to meet the demand, and the health department only takes calls when appointments are available.
A Charleston woman will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud and stealing mail. Thirty-six-year-old Samantha Miller altered stolen checks and cashed them at several banks around Kanawha County. She’s accused of stealing nearly two-thousand-dollars.
A deadly house fire in Greenbrier County last month has been ruled a murder suicide. Investigators say 25-year-old Oreanna Myers shot her five children before setting the house of fire, and then walked outside and shot herself. Myers left a note that read, “Mental health is not a joke.”
A woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after a house trailer fire in Mason County. The man is being treated at a Pittsburgh burn unit. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The Kanawha County School Board is proposing a plan to consolidate Cedar Grove Middle School students into DuPont Middle School, and using the Cedar Grove building to accommodate elementary students. The move hinges on the approval of more than ten-million-dollars in funding from the school building authority.
An inauguration ceremony for West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and other state officials is scheduled for today at 1 p.m. on the north side of the State Capitol building. The ceremony will include the swearing in of the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, state auditor, commissioner of agriculture and members of the … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice appointed Harold Ward as the state’s new environmental secretary this week. The Department of Environmental Protection is in charge of regulating everything from air and water quality to overseeing abandoned mine lands. Ward was most recently deputy secretary of operations and director of the mining and reclamation division. He joined state government … Read more