News Staff Fifteen people are under arrest in Logan County on drug and firearms charges. West Virginia State Police say the arrests are the result of multiple investigations. They seized ten grams of crack cocaine, two-ounces of marijuana, a substantial amount of Xanax and six firearms.
Clean up continues in Boone County. Flash flooding washed out bridges along Lick Creek. An isolated intense storm caused flooding along three roads near Danville, and cut off access to about thirty mobile homes. No one was hurt.
Huntington’s mayor announced that all city employees and members of the public will be required to wear a mask in City Hall and other city buildings, regardless of vaccination status. Mayor Steve Williams cited an increasing number of positive COVID-19 cases in Cabell County as the reason.
Demolition is underway on the old Clendenin Elementary building. Flooding damaged the building five years ago, and the school and library building has been empty since then. Demolition began this week on the building, and the new consolidated Bridge-Clendenin Elementary School is expected to be completed in 2022. The new building be located on Wolverton … Read more
A Charleston man who police said made a lunging movement toward them with a knife before he was shot by police pleaded not guilty to charges. Denaul Lee Dickerson was indicted by a Kanawha County grand jury earlier this month on charges of breaking and entering, malicious assault of a law enforcement officer, assault on … Read more
City of Charleston officials say a road in the South Hills area is closed after road failure. The city released an email saying Stone Road is closed at the intersection of Overbrook Road to 1237 Stone Road and barricades and warning signs have been placed in the area. There is not currently a timeline for … Read more
WVU and Ohio University will play a three-game football series starting in 2025. The Mountaineers are 13-and-4 in previous meetings with OU. The las time the two teams played was in 2001.
Governor Justice is calling the Afghanistan situation a mess, and he’s not ready to say West Virginia should be a destination for people fleeing the country. Several governors are already offering to allow Afghan refugees to settle in their states.
The federal government plans to start making booster shots available beginning September 20th. Governor Justice says that’s no soon enough, and he’s pushing to get anyone older than sixty a third shot as soon as possible.
Eleven counties are red, and almost thirty are orange on the state’s COVID-19 alert map. More than four-hundred people are in the hospital with COVID, and there are over eight-hundred new cases of the virus for a total of over 75-hundred active cases in the state.