News Staff The West Virginia bsketball team will replace Tennessee in the Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 2 against top-ranked Gonzaga. It will be the opening game of the men’s basketball doubleheader in Indianapolis. Baylor will face Illinois in the second game. The Mountaineers had been scheduled to host Youngstown State in their home opener on Dec. … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice said West Virginia may see its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-December. Emergency workers and health care providers will be among the first to get the vaccines, along with the elderly in nursing homes. Nearly half of the state’s fatalities during the pandemic have come from nursing homes.
The West Virginia University and Oklahoma football game scheduled for Saturday in Morgantown has been postponed. WVU said the game was being canceled because Oklahoma was unable to meet required COVID-19 thresholds. The conference has rescheduled the game for Dec. 12 in Morgantown. The game time and television network will be announced at a later … Read more
Small businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, which makes the holiday shopping period more important than ever. Small Business Saturday is coming up tomorrow and it’s an opporutnity to support family-owned businesses that were already struggling to competee against big chains and online retailers before the pandemic. A study said three in four … Read more
West Virginia State Police said two people face charges after a large amount of drugs were found at a Putnam County hotel. Stephanie Hill of Danville and Jimmy Conley of Chapmanville were charged after troopers responded Sunday to the Holiday Inn Express in Teays Valley. State Police said officers entered a room and saw Hill … Read more
Residents of a couple of West Virginia towns will be able to meet with a representative of the state attorney general’s office next month to talk about consumer-related issues. Danielle Adams, a consumer outreach and compliance specialist with the office, will be at the events in Milton and Hurricane. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office said … Read more
Yeager Airport says that if you’re planning to fly today through the busy weekend to take some extra precautions due to the pandemic. The TSA precheck line will make boarding quicker and you will have less contact with TSA officials.
Charleston police will have extra officers patrolling Town Center during the holiday season. Officers will be highly visible and will provide and escort to your vehicle in the evenings. The mall is closed Thanksgiving Day, but will have extended hours this weekend.
Nearly five-hundred people are in the hospital with COVID-19 statewide, and almost one-hundred-thirty are in intensive care. There are almost one-thousand new cases of the virus, and fifteen more people have died.
Charleston Area Medical Center is quickly reaching its peak of COVID-19 patients. The hospital is treating eighty patients with the virus. CAMC reached a peak of 82 COVID-19 patients in mid-September, and expects to go over that number today.