News Staff The Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council kicked off their cookie season statewide Friday. The council says the cookie program encourages girls to discover leadership potential and use their earnings to create opportunities for their troop to help the local community. You can purchase cookies directly from your local Girl Scout troop or online. The … Read more
West Virginia Del. Derrick Evans, R-Wayne, has resigned from his position in the House of Delegates. Evans was charged with two federal misdemeanors Friday after court records said a video posted to his Facebook showed him “joining and encouraging a crowd unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol.” Evans said in a statement he takes full responsibility … Read more
DHHR is confirming a pandemic high, nearly 19-hundred new cases of COVID-19, and thirty-six more people have died. The number of counties in the red on the state’s alert map went down to forty-one of Fifty-five. The daily positive test rate dipped to under seven-percent.
More than a thousand people got the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass clinic at the Charleston coliseum and Convention Center. First responders, government workers, and anyone 80-years-old or older can get the vaccine.
The West Virginia Board of Education is considering a return to full, in-person instruction beginning January 19th, but counties that want to continue blended instruction can do so until all school employees are vaccinated. The Board says many county school systems have indicated they want to return to in-person instruction five-days-a-week as soon as possible.
Senator Joe Manchin says he favors removing President Trump from office as soon as possible, but he says, “We don’t need any more theater.” Manchin says that he’s heard Vice-President Mike Pence is not likely to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
West Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans is charged with knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building as well as violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. He was taken into custody at his home in Wayne County, and appeared in federal court in Huntington. Evans lived streamed video of himself and a group of … Read more
The body of a Boyd County, Kentucky, man has been found, nearly a month after a building collapse in Ohio. The body of Jamie Fitzgerald was located at the Killen Generating Station site. He and another man were killed, and three others were injured when the building they were demolishing collapsed.
A correctional officer and a nurse are in the hospital after they were potentially exposed to fentanyl at the South Central Regional Jail. Two inmates needed medical assistance and when the nurse and guard responded, they started to show signs of “medical distress.” The area where it happened is being decontaminated, and the incident is … Read more
A large garage fire in Sissonville caused thousands of dollars in damage. The blaze destroyed a garage on Cicerone Road. Two vehicles, an ATV, and camper went up in flames. The home next door was also damaged. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.