News Staff A virtual commencement ceremony has been scheduled for May graduates at West Virginia State University. The school announcedthat the ceremony will be hosted on Zoom at 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 13. All May graduates are also invited to return to campus in December to participate in the university’s traditional December 2020 commencement.
Governor Justice says he did not use foul language during a news conference on Tuesday. He says there was an audio glitch that made it sound like he said a “bad word.”
A man in Augusta is charged with making terroristic threats after telling a state trooper he had coronavirus during a traffic stop. Forty-two-year-old Shawn Sieben was evaluated at a local hospital and cleared of any medical complications.
Week three of Governor Justice’s reopening plan will slow down the number of businesses that can re-open next week. The list is short, on purpose, so officials have time to evaluate. Drive-in movie theaters and physical therapy centers will be allowed to open next week.
State officials are responding to questions about face masks distributed to first responders across the state. Governor Justice says the masks may not have been ideal, but the state was scrambling for protective gear. The masks did not meet CDC recommendations, but were approved by the FDA for situational use.
The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is making plans to resume public mass. The governors reopening plan allows church services to resume this week with safety precautions. Each parish will submit an action plan that must be approved by the bishop before public mass can resume.
A St. Albans man is under arrest for burglarizing a home on High Street, and fighting with deputies during his arrest. Thirty-year-old Craig Scott tried to take an officer’s stun gun.
Clay County Sheriff Donald Triplett resigned abruptly to deal with personal family matters. Former Sheriff Randy Holcomb will fill the position on an interim basis.
State Senator John Unger is proposing that voluntary COVID-19 testing should be made abatable for free to all West Virginians. He wants the cost covered by the one-and-a-quarter billion-dollars the state received from the federal government.
There are four more positive cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total number of cases to 12-hundred, and the death toll remains at 50. The positive test reault rate is still below three-percent.