News Staff Marshall University decided not to renew the contract of head football coach Doc Holliday. The news follows three losses at the end of the Thundering Herd’s football season, including the loss on Christmas Day to Buffalo in the Camellia Bowl. Marshall finished the season at 7-3 and lost the Conference USA championship game to the … Read more
The Kanawha County Public Library branches will reopen Monday, Jan. 11 with curbside services after a closure for the holidays. The library system’s buildings will remain closed until the end of February. The main branch location at the Charleston Town Center will not offer curbside service, but instead will offer take out service at its … Read more
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said it has closed its main office over COVID-19 exposures. Sheriff Ross Mellinger said they have folks coming off of quarantine and other folks going into quarantine, and some positive cases so they’ve closed the office to in-person visits. All working deputies will continue to respond to calls normally. Following … Read more
The Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center and three other arenas in the state are getting a boost from CARES Act funding. Each venue will receive 500-thousand-dollars.
Starting today you’ll be able to call a phone number to get the latest details on COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Anyone 80-years-old or older can make an appointment to get vaccinated.
Kanawha County health officials say nearly one-thousand people received the COVID-19 vaccine over the weekend. That includes first responders, and those over 80 and their caregivers.
There are over 17-hundred new cases of COVID-19 statewide, and three more people have died. The number of hospitalizations dropped to just over eight-hundred.
Kanawha County is among forty-seven counties in the state that are in the red on the COVID-19 alert map. Seven of the eight remaining counties are in the orange. Calhoun County is the only county in the yellow. The positivity rate in Kanawha County is over eight-percent, and the infection rate is over 56-percent.
Putnam County EMT and volunteer firefighter Jason Wurster was remembered at a memorial service over the weekend. He died from COVID-19 on December 29th.
An officer at St. Mary’s Correctional Center has died from COVID-19. Fifty-eight-year-old Corporal Mark Rustemeyer is the first West Virginia correctional employee to die from the coronavirus. St. Marys’ has the largest COVID-19 outbreak in the prison system with over 250 active cases.