News Staff The West Virginia Education Association said it filed an injunction Monday morning in Kanawha County Circuit Court, challenging the safety of West Virginia’s school re-entry map. President Dale Lee called attenention to changes made to the map and said the only way to restore confidence in the process is to adopt a new system. The … Read more
As students head back to class in person this week, police send the reminder to drivers to slow down in school zones. It’s been months since there’s been steady traffic around schools during drop-off and pick-up times, and Hurricane police are among the agencies sending the reminder. Officers are noticing a problem at several schools … Read more
West Virginia forestry officials said a couple has been indicted in connection with wildfires that burned 55 acres in Boone County. Katie Jean Holstine and Lovell Ruben Holstine, who live in Emmons on the Kanawha-Boone county line, were indicted on one count each for setting fires to land of another and conspiracy. The state Division … Read more
A car involved in a police chase in South Point, Ohio destroyed the backyards of at least five homes. The suspect smashed through fences in the Miller Court neighborhood. The driver is still on the run.
An 81-year-old Kanawha County woman has died from COVID-19, and there are 160 new cases of the virus in West Virginia. The state’s positive test rate is two-point-seventy-five-percent.
One school in Kanawha County will not open it’s doors. Several staff mebers at Horace Mann Middle School are being isolated for possible exposure to COVID-19. The school will remain on remote learning for the week as a precautionary measure.
Kanawha County will begin in-person learning today, for the first time since March. Kanawha County is in the “gold” category, which means all students in grades-three and above must wear face masks at all times, and extracurricular activities are limited to schools in the same county or other “gold” counties.
The Boyd County Coroner’s Office in investigating after two people were found dead in a car outside Catlettsburg. The pair were reported missing in late August.
A Huntington man is under arrest in connection to shooting a nine-year-old boy. The man was handling the gun when it discharged and hit the boy in the head. He had surgery Sunday night, and his condition hasn’t been released.
A woman is accused of stabbing another woman in an argument outside an apartment on Hutchinson Street. The victim is in the hospital with a stab wound to the arm. Fifty-one-year-old Nicole Dowd is charged with malicious wounding.