News Staff A spike in COVID cases will not change the plans for how lawmakers operate during the 2022 legislative session, which begins Wednesday. Legislative leaders say the start of the session will be business as usual until circumstance warrant some kind of change.
The state Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting almost 14-thousand cases of COVID-19. There are over four-thousand new cases in the past twenty-four hours, and nearly thirty more deaths.
Governor Justice is asking the CDC for permission to offer a fourth COVID shot to people fifty and older, as well as essential workers. Justice pointed to Israel, which last month became one of the first countries to approved a fourth dose. About half of West Virginia’s population is fully vaccinated.
The need for school bus drivers in the Berkeley County School District has reached a critical need. The district’s head of transportation says they need thirty drivers right away. Relaxing the requirements for bus drivers has not resolved the staffing shortage. Some routes had to be cancelled this week because no drivers were available.
There are reports of a person trapped in an underground limestone mine near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Emergency crews are on the scene outside the Laurel underground limestone mine after a collapse.
There are still smoldering tires in the large pile that caught fire on Christmas Day in Nicholas County. The investigation of West Virginia Tire Disposal may be burning for even longer. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is looking into whether any recent or new violations from the operator could be blamed for the … Read more
A Parkersburg man is facing a malicious assault charged for beating a man on Christmas Day who later died. Thirty-seven-year-old Bradley Wright is accused of hitting the victim with a baseball bat and knocking him to the ground. He was flown to a Pittsburgh area hospital where he died this week.
Fire damaged a Huntington body shop. The blaze broke out at Swell’s Auto Body on Eighth Avenue. Flames reached the ceiling, and were likely caused by a faulty heating unit. No one was hurt. The building suffered smoke and water damage.
A Portsmouth couple is facing child endangerment charges and multiple drug charges after the death of an 18-month-old girl. The details of the child’s death have not been released. Police searched two homes and found meth, heroine, marijuana, scales and 42-hundred dollars in cash.
West Virginians are still digging out from the first major winter storm of the year. Kanawha County and the Charleston area got eight to ten-inches of snow. The highest snow total recorded officially by the National Weather Service was in Canaan Heights at 15 inches. Kentucky highway officials say some roads are still closed. Primary … Read more