News Staff Governor Justice is urging anyone over eighteen who had the Pfizer vaccine more than six-months ago got get a booster shot. About twenty-percent of people in the hospital are fully vaccinated. Justice says that number is directly linked to the need for boosters as the effectiveness of the vaccines wane.
The Fayette County Assessor’s Office will be closed for a week after a COVID outbreak. County assessor Eddie Young says the office currently has six active COVID-19 cases, and will be closed until Monday, Oct. 18.
West Virginia’s active COVID-19 cases continue to fall, dropping to just over eleven-thousand. Health officials are reporting just over one-thousand new cases in the past 24-hours. Hospitalizations are down to under nine-hundred, and no new deaths were reported over the weekend.
Marshall University unveiled a statue honoring basketball legend Hal Greer. The nearly eight-foot bronze statue is located next to the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington. Greer played basketball for Marshall in the 1950s and is credit for breaking the color barrier in West Virginia college sports. Greer won an NBA Championship in 1967 and had … Read more
Final in-person interviews will be held this week for the five candidates looking to become the next president of Marshall University. There will be community receptions at both the South Charleston and Huntington campuses. President Jerome Gilbert will step down from the university when his contract expires next July. The Board of Governors will make … Read more
State lawmakers are in special session today to complete the redistricting process and allocate millions of dollars in federal funding. Governor Justice’s agenda include over thirty items, with the most attention on redistricting efforts, but most of the bills being considered are proposed supplements to the state budget that add up to about one-billion-dollars.
Baylor handed the Mountaineers their third straight loss Saturday 20-to-45. As the Mountaineers head into their first and only bye week of the season, Coach Neal Brown said everything is on the table.
A West Virginia National Guard firefighter was surprised with a new sports car to kick off the latest round of the “Do it for Babydog” COVID-19 vaccine incentive giveaways. Michael Beall is a member of the 167th Airlift Wing. He was attending the Rod Run and Doo Wop, and thought he receiving a firefighter related … Read more
More blasting is scheduled for this week near the St. Albans interchange as part of the I-64 project. No blasting is scheduled for today, but will resume Tuesday at 12:30, and each day for the rest of the week. Traffic will temporarily be held at the I-64 eastbound/westbound on-ramps at the St. Albans interchange and … Read more
Fire destroyed a building just south of Logan at the Yuma Suites on Route-44. No one was hurt. The building was not in use and is a total loss. A neighboring structure was also. The cause of the fire is under investigation.