News Staff West Virginia’s hunting and fishing show is back this weekend. Last year’s show was canceled due to the pandemic. Organizers say about 175 exhibitors are scheduled to participate. The show runs through Sunday at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center.
A Kingwood man is accused of hiring two people to throw a Molotov cocktail at his ex-girlfriend’s car. Sixty-year-old Glenn Castell is also accused of stripping the wire on her phone charged and placing it on her bed to cause a fire when the wire got hot. He’s facing arson charges.
Governor Justice plans to deliver his State of the State address on Thursday. The governor was supposed to give his address on January 12th, but the speech was postponed after he tested positive for COVID.
A bill moving through the state legislature would prohibit mask mandates in public schools. Governor Justice says he will wait on the proposal’s final outcome before deciding how to act. Justice has left the decision on masks up to the individual counties. Around two-thirds of West Virginia county school districts require masks in schools now.
Over one-hundred West Virginia National Guard troops are being deployed to more than a dozen healthcare facilities across the state to combat a nursing shortage. About twenty-five National Guard members are currently working at CAMC. Adjutant Gen. Bill Crane said it has been a smooth transition for the guard because some work in healthcare in … Read more
Kanawha County is setting another daily COVID record with over nine-hundred new cases. It’s the third time this month the county has set a daily case record. There are over three-thousand active cases county wide.
West Virginia is inching closer to a record number of people in the hospital with COVID. The state is reporting 980 hospitalizations today, and the record is just over a thousand. That was set in September at the peak of the delta wave. Health officials say we still haven’t seen the peak of the omicron … Read more
West Virginian George Tanios and his accomplice Julian Khater’s trial date has been set for June 6th. The pair is accused of working together to assault U.S. Capitol police officers with pepper spray. Tanios is accused of buying and carrying the pepper spray, and Khater is accused of spraying the officers.
The family of mobster Whitey Bulger had their case against the Bureau of Prison tossed out of court. A U.S. District Judge dismissed the case saying the family could not sue the government over their decision to transfer the 89-year old Bulger to Hazelton in 2018. The former leader of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang was … Read more
Around fifty Natural Resource officers are being trained to work in West Virginia jails and prison. More than a quarter of the jobs were vacant before a COVID spike this week. Starting in February, Natural Resources police officers will work in support jobs, like perimeter security, guard towers, and control rooms.