News Staff West Virginia health officials reported 11 new COVID-19 deaths and 1,632 new positive cases between Wednesday and Thursday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources reported active cases were 18,177 on Thursday. The most recent deaths included a 60-year-old man from Kanawha County, an 82-year-old man from Putnam County, a 72-year-old woman from Putnam … Read more
Several counties throughout the region have already had to close schools or the entire district and not just for quarantines but for staffing issues. On Wednesday alone, Cabell County had about 200 call-ins, all requesting substitute teachers, bus operators, secretaries, custodians and aides. It has 300 active substitute teachers and this year, and WCHS TV … Read more
Fifty-three out-of-state residents have been selected in the inaugural class for Ascend West Virginia. The remote workers program aims to bring people into the Mountain State and the first group will be moving to Morgantown to live and work. Gov. Jim Justice said those in the first class come from as far away as Berlin, … Read more
Gas prices are up ahead of the Labor Day weekend. Gas Buddy reports the average price of gas in West Virginia is 3-01 a gallon. That’s the highest in seven years. Prices could continue to rise, because refineries are shut down in Louisiana after the hurricane.
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the terms of the settlement in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan. The makers of OxyContin will pay four-and-a-half-billion-dollars. The Sackler family will be removed from ownership, and also be protected from any future litigation.
Governor Justice says revenue collections for August came in nearly thirty-million-dollars above estimates. The August collection was over 380-million-dollars, and almost 16-percent higher than last year.
Blasting work will resume today near the I-64 St. Albans interchange. Blasting is scheduled for today and tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. Traffic will be temporarily shut down on parts of I-64 five to ten minutes before the blast.
Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver that killed a man on MacCorkle Avenue. The man’s body was found in the median near Hardee’s and Dow Chemical. South Charleston police are reviewing surveillance video to track down the driver.
Former West Virginia firefighter and ex-police officer, Christopher Osborne, is facing federal charges for sexually assaulting a sixteen-year-old girl, and destroying a woman’s property by starting a fire. Osborn was a probationary firefighter with the Charleston Fire Department. He was a firefighter with the Danville Volunteer Fire Department, and worked part-time as a Marmet police … Read more
Clean up continues in parts of West Virginia as Tropical Storm Ida dumped over four inches of rain in some parts of the state. The heaviest rainfall was just west of the mountains. There are no reports of widespread property damage, and no one was hurt. Overall, officials say it could’ve been much worse.