News Staff The state Fire Marshal’s Office says a large scale investigation is under way into the arson fire that killed a West Virginia Air National Guard firefighter. They’re conducting interviews and reviewing surveillance video. The fire outside of Martinsburg claimed the life of thirty-year-old Senior Airman Logan Young.
South Charleston trash will pick up your Christmas tree and recycle it into mulch. The city donates the mulch to Manna Meals. Their garden grows enough food to feed thousands of peoples every year.
The Kanawha City, Winfield and Lewisburg DMV Regional Offices will be operating through appointment only until further notice, due to COVID-19 exposures. You can also get assistance online, or use a kiosk location.
Fifty-two- of West Virginia’s fifty-five counties are in the red or orange on state’s COVID-19 alert map. Thirty-eight counties are in the red, and one Randolph County remains in the green.
Health officials are reporting over seven-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and nine more people have died. There are over 24-thousand active cases of the virus statewide, and more than 700 people are hospitalized.
Governor Justice says all residents and staff at long-term care facilities in West Virginia have been offered the COVID-19 vaccine. The plan has been aggressive because of the impact the virus has had on nursing homes. People 70 years-old and older make up over 75-perecent of deaths from COIVD-19 in West Virginia.
An audit of WorkForce West Virginia found that employee misclassification is rampant, and the state lost as much as a million-dollars in personal income tax revenue between 2014 and 2018. The Department of Labor gave West Virginia a failing grade for detecting employee misclassification, which determines whether a worker is an employee or an independent … Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives approved increasing COVID-19 relief payments to two-thousand-dollars with West Virginia’s David McKinley and forty-three other Republicans joining a majority of Democrats in supporting the change.
Longtime Kanawha County Circuit Judge Charles King has passed away. King served on the court for more than forty-years. He was 73-years-old.
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after two pickups, a trailer and other equipment were stolen from the Seminole Coal complex in Powelltown. The theft happened between December 22nd and 28th. Police are looking for a green and a red Ford F250 with Ohio tags.