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The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources will stock 30-thousand trout in streams around the state next week, so anglers and their families can enjoy a day of fishing over the holidays.

Police responded to a possible bomb at the McDonald’s in Southridge. The bomb gave the all clear. The suspicious packaged turned out to be a box of clothes in the restroom.

U.S. Marshals arrested a man for shooting and killing two people at the Copa Bar in Huntington in September. Twenty-six-year-old Devon Carey was arrested in Ohio.

A woman is recovering at CAMC General after she was hit by a train. Twenty-eight-year-old Shayla Stephenson was struck by a Kanawha River Railroad Train at the intersection of Crescent Road and Buchanan Street. Charleston Police are investigating.

After a threat of cancellation, the annual Wreaths Across America event will go on at Arlington National Cemetery this weekend in Washington DC, with new safety precautions. The team at Wreaths Across America place thousands of wreaths at veterans’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery every December, and family members were allowed to visit the cemetery … Read more

Forty counties were in red or orange in the latest West Virginia county alert system map. State Department of Health and Human Resources’ officials posted the map Tuesday based on Monday’s data. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties remained in orange. The county alert system map released by the DHHR is a daily snapshot of how … Read more

West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles’ regional offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year’s holiday weekends, but many services will still be available online and at kiosks. The agency said offices will close from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Saturday, Dec. 26, for the Christmas holiday, and again from Thursday, Dec. 31, through … Read more

Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power are seeking a surcharge to cover infrastructure investments. They submitted a proposal to the West Virginia Public Service Commission to raise rates three-and-a-half-percent in June 2021. That’s a monthly hike of about five-dollars for a customer using a thousand-kilowatt hours.

Governor Justice is initiating mandatory testing for all college students on West Virginia campuses. He says the 18-to-35 demographic is the target of asymptomatic people who are spreading the virus without knowing it.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are at a record high in West Virginia. More than seven-hundred people are in the hospital, and almost two-hundred are in the ICU. There are over one-thousand new cases of the virus, and ten additional deaths.