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There are more than two-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and five more people have died. Officials say two nurses recently died from COVID-19 complications.

Riverside High School will be closed today after a potential COVID-19 case. In-person classes are being canceled out of an abundance of caution. Online classes will continue.

Governor Justice says the state will continue its COVID-19 testing blitz, and is now processing around six-thousand people per day. The goal is to isolate “super spreaders.” Health officials say those few highly contagious people cause 80-percent of other infections.

Governor Justice is urging President Trump and Congress to keep negotiating on COVID-19 relief package, and to get it done before Election Day. The governor says he’s concerned that more small businesses will fold if they don’t get more financial help.

A West Virginia Department of Highway bridge inspection crew found something unexpected while doing a routine inspection on the Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge. The found a dog walking on the lower truss of the bridge. They lifted him to safety, and was reunited with his owner.

A man was killed in a tank explosion in Jefferson. He was an employee at a wielding and fabrication plant. He was welding a tank on a vehicle and some leftover fuel caused the explosion.

A woman accused of conspiring with her husband to fake her death at the New River Gorge is pleading guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice. After two days of searching, police four 44-year-old Julie Wheeler hiding in a closet in her house. She faces up to five-years in prison.

A George Washington High School student is under arrest in connection to a threat posted on social media. The student is in juvenile detention and charged with making a terroristic threat.

Kanawha County Schools is preparing for a five-day week of in-person learning beginning October 12th for students who are signed up for it. Superintendent Tom Williams said the decision to skip an extra planned week of blended learning came after several teachers requested to do so and the board approved by a narrow margin. 13,000 … Read more

A K-9 that retired from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office several years ago has passed away. In a Facebook post Tuesday, the sheriff’s office shared the news about the loss dog, Boss, a black Labrador retriever that actively served the community for nine years from 2008 to 2017. Boss spent his years after retirement living … Read more