News Staff The Capitol dome will be unveiled by the end of November. The restoration project has reached the point where the protective covering can be removed and it will take a couple more months to remove the scaffolding.
The third annual “State of Lung Cancer” report is out, and West Virginia has the highest adult smoking rate in the country, at more then 25-percent. The number of new lung cancer cases is second worst to Kentucky.
WVU is shifting classes to online starting Monday through the end of the fall semester. Originally classes were supposed to go online after Thanksgiving, but officials moved up the date because of spiking COVID-19 numbers.
There are a record number of West Virginians in the hospital with COVID-19. Four-hundred people are hospitalized, and 116 are in ICU. There are almost 865 new cases of the virus, and thirteen more people have died.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to six-point-four-percent in October. It marks six consecutive months of improving unemployment numbers. There are about 48-thousand people out of work.
Snowshoe is delaying the start of its ski season until December 4th. An unseasonably warm November has made it difficult to make snow.
Twenty-two-year-old Courtney Wallace will spend forty-years in prison for a bizarre St. Albans murder in which the victim was stabbed and sexually assaulted. The judge said he found her actions incomprehensible, and handed down the maximum sentence.
A woman was hit and killed by a CSX train n Jefferson. She was walking on the tracks with her back to the train at Kanawha Terrace and MacCorkle Avenue.
A Kentucky fugitive is under arrest in Milton. Officers found over three-hundred grams of meth and heroine at a home on Shaw Avenue. Thirty-two-year-old Kirsten Hayes tried to get away, but officers were able to stop her at Sheetz and take her into custody.
More than one-hundred health care officials signed a letter supporting a SOAR, a group that is under investigation for distributing needles in healthcare kits without proper authorization. The support letter says SOAR’s needle exchange is an important part of the solution and be backed by city officials.