News Staff West Virginia’s unemployment rate went down in November. It dropped to six-point-two-percent, that’s down two-tenths of a percentage point from October. WorkForce West Virginia says nearly 48-thousand people are still out of work.
A second teenager has been charged in a Kanawha County family’s deaths. The 17-year-old girl has been charged after a family that was found dead in the Pinch area Sunday. Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford said Wednesday the female is being charged along with a 16-year-old male who was previously charged with murder. Rutherford said … Read more
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Justice Tim Armstead took the oath of office this week and his term will last for the next 12 years. Armstead claimed the win for the Division One seat in June. He was first elected to the Supreme Court in 2018, filling a vacancy left by Justice Menis … Read more
City officials in Hurricane are warning of scams this time of year. Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards said common scams this month involve what seems like a charity, but it’s not. There have been reports of people asking for help to pay bills or wanting money or gift cards to buy Christmas presents. Schemes like that … Read more
Forty-one of West Virginia’s 55 counties were in the red or orange in the latest version of the county alert system map. The state Department of Health and Human Resources posted the map Wednesday based on Tuesday’s data. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties remained in the orange. Logan and Fayette counties were among those in … Read more
A ribbon cutting is planned in South Charleston for a new business described as a board game café. The Board Game, located at 35 RHL Boulevard, will serve craft beers and coffee and will have tables set up for customers to play board games. The South Charleston Chamber of Commerce said the new place will … Read more
Secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection, Austin Caperton, is stepping down. He says he want to move on and focus on projects outside of government. Caperton’s departure is effective on January 18th at the end of Governor Justice’s first term in office.
A grizzly milestone in the pandemic…West Virginia’s COVID-19 death toll is now over one-thousand. Thirty-four more deaths were reported in the last 24-hours, setting a single-day record. For the fourth day in a row, there are more than one-thousand new cases of the virus, and the number of hospitalizations is close to eight-hundred.
Three more West Virginia hubs will receive the COVD-19 vaccine today. All five hubs will be able to distribute the vaccine to health care workers and nursing homes by the end of the day.
Charleston received one thousand doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and CAMC administered its first fifty doses to it’s hospital staff. ER Doctor Adam Crawford was the first to get it, and he says it was less painful than the flu shot.