News Staff The state Office of Emergency Medical Services will file an emergency amendment to temporarily suspend EMS licensing requirements for fire departments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fire departments will be allowed to operate under an affiliation agreement with an EMS agency to provide emergency services.
Lincoln County High School has been closed this week after two students tested positive for COVID-19. The Lincoln County High School and Point Pleasant High School football game was also canceled, but the rest of the schools in Lincoln County are operating normally. Lincoln County school administrators will decide later this week whether to open … Read more
Courtney Wallace pleaded guilty to two charges in connection to a bizarre St. Albans murder where a woman was stabbed to death and sexually abused. Wallace pleaded guilty to charges during a virtual plea hearing on Wednesday. Wallace was arrested in January 2019 after Cheri Simpson was killed at a home on Furlong Avenue. Wallace … Read more
Capitol and Hale streets in Charleston will remain closed to allow additional outdoor dining through the end of October. Streets will be closed each Friday beginning at 7 a.m. through Sunday at 9 p.m. The city of Charleston said Capitol Street and Hale Street will be closed from the Kanawha Boulevard to Lee Street. One … Read more
The latest county alert map on the DHHR website is based on data as of Tuesday, and has the same three counties in orange as the previous day – Kanawha, Boone and Barbour. Four counties remained in gold as they were the previous day – Lincoln, Wayne, Wyoming and Upshur. The next color-coded map for … Read more
There are 180 new cases of COVID-19 and eight more people have died. There are over four-thousand active cases of the virus, and more than 170 patients are in the hospital.
The West Virginia Education Association say it will file an injunction in Kanawha County Circuit Court challenging changes made to the state’s color-coded county alert map. The teachers union is questioning whether continued changes to the map have compromised the safety of students and employees in public schools.
More than 94-thousand absentee ballots are being requested in West Virginia. The Secretary of State’s Office says more than 90-percent have been sent to voters. The deadline to request an absentee ballot is October 28th.
During the presidential debate last night, President Trump claimed West Virginia mailmen sold ballots. Secretary of State Mac Warner has not reported any incidents of ballots being sold by mailmen. A Pendleton County mail carrier was charged with changing voter registration from Democrat to Republican on several absentee ballots in May.
A Greenbrier man is accused of threatening to blow up a video gambling parlor if he didn’t get his winnings. Fifty-one-year-old Timothy Snead claimed he’d been there the night before and won big money. He’s charged with making terroristic threats.