News Staff Five churches in West Virginia are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks. Twenty-eight people tested positive at Graystone Baptist in Lewisburg. State health officials remind parishioners to wear face masks and practice social distancing.
There are twenty-four new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total to over 23-hundred. The death toll remains at 88, and the positive test rate is below two-percent.
A WVU football player has tested positive for COVID-19. Several other players may have been exposed. They will be self-quarantined for fourteen-days. Monday was the first day for voluntary workouts in Morgantown.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling blocking construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The justices ruled that the U.S. Forest Service has the authority to grant the pipeline right of way under the Appalachian Trail in the George Washington National Forest. The 600-mile pipline still requires a number of other permits.
Three people from West Virginia are under arrest in California. Police found a stolen motorcycle in the back of their pickup, and that led them to forty-pounds of marijuana, cash, a loaded handgun, and signs of drug sales in their hotel room.
A Scott Depot woman was killed and a man was hurt in a motorcycle crash in Lawrence County, Ohio. The motorcycle dropped off the side of the road and both riders were thrown from the bike on Route 93. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
One person is dead and another person was hurt at the former Philip Sporn Power Plant in New Haven. The workers were preparing a building for demolition when it collapsed prematurely.
Emotions ran high when a group of demonstrators gathered to hold a Black Lives Matter protest in Ripley. They were met by a group of counter protesters armed with “we back the blue,” and “defend not defund” signs. The protest was peaceful.
This weekend is West Virginia’s annual free fishing weekend. Today and tomorrow no fishing license, trout stamp, or national forest stamp is required. DNR stocked nearly six-thousand pounds of channel catfish in over forty ponds and lakes.
Senator Joe Manchin is one of the U.S. senators supporting a proposal that would require the U.S. Department of Defense to remove Confederate names, monuments, or symbols from military bases and equipment. At least five military bases would have to change their names. That process could take up to three-years.