News Staff Local school districts have less than a month to come up with a plan to reopen classrooms. State School Superintendent Clayton Burch says August 14th is the deadline. The plan is required to cover all aspects of the school day, from transportation, to cafeteria arrangements, to classrooms and cleaning. The first day of school is … Read more
Part of a tree fell on a parked car on 11th Avenue in Huntington. City workers cleaned up debris that was scattered across the street. No one was hurt. The car was significantly damaged.
The trial of a Dunbar woman accused in a bizarre, deadly stabbing and sex crime is being pushed back to November ninth. Courtney Wallace is accused of stabbing the victim multiple times and performing a sex act on her unresponsive body. Her attorneys are challenging a psychiatric evaluation that found her competent to stand trial.
A second man is under arrest in connection to a robbery at the Hot Spot in Dunbar. Forty-two-year-old Joseph Campbell is charged with accessory to robbery. He initially faked being a victim of the robbery. Another suspect is under arrest, and a third person is still on the run.
More than fifty airmen returned to Charleston this week from Kuwait. The members of the 130th Airlift Wing were providing support for C-130 operations in the Middle East, and were deployed at Ali Al Salem Air Base as part of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
Capitol and Hale streets in downtown Charleston will be closed again this weekend, so restaurants can expand outdoor dining. Both streets will be closed between Kanawha Boulevard and Lee Street.
West Virginia schools are expected to open on September eighth, and the Cabell County Board of Education approved its reopening plan. The plan includes in-person learning, virtual learning, and a blended version of instruction. Due to the pandemic, plans could change. The board will provide updates on their website.
The 31st annual Great Kanawha river Cleanup event is canceled to COVID-19 concerns. The even typically takes place the first weekend in September. The event is expected to be rescheduled in 2021.
State revenue numbers are above projections for July. That was expected since the April 15th tax deadline was pushed back to this week. More than two-hundred-million-dollars was collected in the first two weeks of July. That’s over eighty-million-dollars ahead of original projections.
Monongalia County’s current rate of positive COVID-19 case qualifies it as one the country’s hot spots. The county has confirmed more than six-hundred cases of the virus, and four-hundred cases are active. The Harvard Global Health Institute says 25 cases over a seven day period poses a risk to public health, and stay-at-home orders are … Read more