News Staff Marshall University has changed plans for the 50th anniversary plane crash memorial. The football memorial rededication will take place at 10 a.m. Nov. 10 online. The Marshall football memorial statue was restored and the ceremony to unveil it had a larger-than-anticipated response so they decided to live stream the event at 11 a.m. The posthumous … Read more
Firefighters in Huntington battled an apartment building fire Wednesday morning. The fire was in the 800 block of 3rd Street, on Huntington’s south side in an abandoned building. The fire marshal shut down the building about a month ago due to another fire. There were no injuries.
Mineral County joined Mingo in the red in the latest West Virginia county alert map, while Cabell County shifted to yellow a day after being in green. The map from the Department of Health and Human Resources included nine counties in orange – Putnam and Jackson were among them. Wayne, Lincoln, and Logan counties were … Read more
Charleston police are launching a campaign to reduce theft and burglaries. It’s called the “9 p.m. routine” that encourages you to remove valuables from your vehicle and lock the doors before bedtime every night. Ninety-percent of vehicle break-ins in Charleston are because people forgot to lock their doors.
The family of Boston crime Boss, James “Whitey” Bulger, Jr., is filing a lawsuit against eh Federal Bureau of Prisons for failing to protect him. Bulger was beaten to death when he was transferred to a West Virginia prison two years ago.
There is a new COVID-19 test available in Charleston. It’s called COVflu-19, and detects three viral infections from one swab, including influenza A and B, and COVID-19. The test is available at the Mako Medical lab off MacCorkle Avenue.
The West Virginia Department of health is reporting eleven more COVID-19 deaths, raising the state’s death toll to 469. There are almost 360 new cases of the virus, and the state’s positive test rate is around four-percent.
One person died in an ATV crash in Putnam County. It happened on Turkey Creek Road in Hurricane. The victim died at the scene.
Police are looking for two men who escaped from home confinement in Greenbrier County. Thirty-three-year-old Brandon Keeney was last seen in Frankford, and thirty-three-year-old Kip Sears walked away from his home in Lewisburg.
There was a power outage at a precinct in Sissonville, but backup generators provided power, and voting wasn’t interrupted.