News Staff The Mountain Health Network is requiring all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Workers will need to be fully vaccinated by October 30th, unless they are exempt for medical or religious reasons.
The Nicholas County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a man drowned at Summersville Lake. The man was fishing in the Salmon run area and was unable to get out of the water.
A man was hurt in an officer involved shooting on Nutter Street in Clarksburg. Police were in pursuit when the shooting happened. No officers were hurt. The suspect was flown to the hospital in unknown condition.
Parts of two Marshall University classroom buildings will be closed for the rest of the week. Floodwater got into several ground floor classrooms. Duct work was damaged at the Cam Henderson Center, and will take several weeks to replace.
Huntington Mayor Steve Williams is calling Monday’s flooding a “one-hundred-year rain event, and the worst he’s ever seen. He says the water system hasn’t been updated since the 1950s, and the city needs to invest 100-million-dollars to upgrade everything.
Governor Justice is declaring a state of emergency in all West Virginia counties due to the threat of flash flooding from now Tropical Depression Ida. Some areas could see up to six-inches of rain today.
The number of COVID-19 patients in West Virginia hospital intensive care units is approaching the high mark in the pandemic. As of early Tuesday there were 203 virus patients in ICUs across the state, the most since Jan. 11. The record is 219 set on Jan. 6, according to state health data. There are 640 … Read more
Red and orange once again dominate West Virginia’s color alert system map with all but two counties in those colors. Putnam is in red and Kanawha and Cabell are in orange on the map shared Tuesday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources. Thirty-five counties are in red including Putnam, Wayne, Mingo, Logan, … Read more
Court records said a woman accused of taking a 5-year-old boy from his family and throwing him into the Ohio River and later jumping in herself told a deputy, “This is international waters. Police cannot do anything to me.” The incident happened August 27th at Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington, and Kimberly Maxwell of Ashland, … Read more
Marshall University resume its regular class schedule Tuesday, after flash flooding on Monday. All classes except for those meeting on the first floor of the Science Building and the lower level of the Education Building are back on schedule. Some classes were canceled or moved to a virtual platform while flood damage is being assessed.