News Staff While its main location gets a $24 million renovation, the Kanawha County Public Library has temporarily relocated and officially opened in the Charleston Town Center. The renovation includes an enlarged children’s floor, study rooms, meeting spaces, new technology and a covered walkway attached to the Summers Street parking garage in downtown Charleston. Now that the … Read more
Police have identified a West Virginia pedestrian who was hit by a train and died. The man was 30-year old Michael Adam Woodrum of Charleston. Officers were called to the scene early Saturday when the man was hit by a CSX train traveling west southeast of downtown, and he died at the scene. The investigation … Read more
The Clay Center in Charleston has announced it will reopen Tuesday, July 7. The center will reopen the Avampato Discovery Museum, Juliet Art Museum and Caperton Planetarium and Theater at 10 a.m. that day. Admission time blocks will have to be reserved, and they’ll have limits of 100 people inside at a time with cleaning … Read more
The West Virginia State Museum will reopen July 7th. Capacity will be limited to just over fifty-people. Temperature checks, face masks, and social distancing wil be required.
WVU says that depending on the university’s financial outlook, there could be more furloughs and pay cuts. Officials say they will give staff members a thirty-day notice prior to any changes. Nearly nine-hundred employees were furloughed in May.
A WVU men’s basketball player tested positive for COVID-19. He is self-isolating for two weeks. Voluntary workouts for basketball players start July 6th. The football team started workout two weeks ago, and two football players have tested positive for the virus.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has completed an investigation into a discrepancy in active COVID-19 cases. Governor Justice says as many as three-hundred active cases may actually be people who have recovered from the virus.
Historic Powerball winner Jack Whittaker has died at 73. Whittaker won an over 300-million-dollar Powerball jackpot on Christmas night 2002, which at the time was the largest jackpot ever won by a single ticket holder.
A Charleston doctor will spend five year in prison for illegal drug distribution. Muhammed Samer Nasher-Alneam admitted to writing prescriptions for oxycodone and methadone that were not for legitimate medical purposes. He also agreed to permanently surrender his medical license.
The Public Service Commission is considering a rate hike request from West Virginia American Water. The utility is planning to spend 50-million-dollars on infrastructure improvements, and want a more than six-percent increase. That would add about two-dollars-a-month to your bill.