News Staff U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is praising how West Virginia is handling the return to the classroom. Cardona took part in the Governor’s pandemic briefing. He is supportive of vaccination popup clinics, as well as 50-thousand-dollar incentives for school with highest vaccination percentages. The state Department of Education is listing twenty outbreaks at schools … Read more
Red is taking over West Virginia’s COVID-19 alert map. Thirty-five counties are now red, and eighteen are orange. Only Pocahontas County remains green. Active COVID cases are no over thirteen-thousand, and more than five-hundred people are hospitalized with virus. More than four-thousand West Virginians have been vaccinated since Wednesday, but Governor Justice says, “it’s still … Read more
A two-year-old boy is unharmed after a bystander jumped into the Ohio River to save him. The boy and his family we’re having a picnic at Harris Riverfront Park when a woman, who appeared to be under the influence, told the boy to run toward a boat the river, and he did. The woman dragged … Read more
An eight-year-old is recovering after being shot in the foot by a five-year-old. The children were playing with their grandfather’s gun when it accidentally went off at a home in the Coopers Creek area. The victim is expected to be okay.
One person is dead and three others were hurt in a shooting on Davis Street in Huntington. The crime scene stretches for blocks. So far, no arrests have been made.
An 18-wheeler carrying Moderna vaccine crashed on I-79 in Monongalia County. The driver lost control, hit a concrete barrier and went thirty-feet down an embankment. He was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The West Virginia Center for Preparedness helped recover some of the vaccine. It was bound for a foreign country.
West Virginia schools and libraries will receive over 48-million-dollars for technology in the classroom. Funding from the FCC can be used for laptops, tablets, and IT infrastructure to connect students, staff and library visitors.
Frontier Communications is hiring, to help build their fiber network across West Virginia. The company says it’s hired almost seventy field techs, and they need about one-hundred more. You can apply at the Frontier website.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to five-percent last month. That’s the lowest rate since January 2020, before the pandemic started. The unemployment rate is down in all fifty-five counties. Pendleton County has the lowest unemployment rate at two-point-seven-percent, and the highest rate is in McDowell Count at eight-and-a-half-percent.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will join West Virginia Superintendent of Schools Clayton Burch for a COVID-19 briefing today. They’re expected to announce a “back-to-school vaccination initiative.”