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Gov. Jim Justice appointed a new member to the Family Protection Services Board. Branches Domestic Violence Shelter Executive Director, Amanda McComas will now sit on the 7-member board which oversees domestic violence programs, and visitation and exchange programs. McComas has been working with domestic violence victims since 2010 and spearheaded an effort to open a … Read more

The shifting of counties to orange, gold and yellow continued Tuesday on the West Virginia county alert map as 20 counties – up two from the previous day – are now in those colors. Webster County, which had been the state’s sole red county last week, remained as the state’s only county in orange. The … Read more

Charleston police said some community events will be hosted as part of the annual National Night Out, when neighbors are asked to turn on outside lights and spend time outside with their neighbors and police. The event will be observed from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Many neighborhoods throughout Charleston will … Read more

Charleston police say an argument over stolen tennis shoes is what sparked a deadly shooting on Charleston’s West Side on Monday. Christopher Smith of Charleston is charged with first-degree murder and malicious wounding. Amanda Burdette was killed in the shooting while Jay Jerome Henry, Jr. was taken to the hospital after being shot multiple times … Read more

The Big-12 will lose Texas and Oklahoma after the 2024 football season, if not sooner. Both schools confirm they will not renew their media rights, which expire in the summer of 2024. That leaves the future of the Big-12 in limbo for the remaining eight schools, including West Virginia.

The colors continue to shift on the state’s COVID-19 alert map. Webster County moved from red to orange. Six counties are gold and eleven counties are yellow. West Virginia topped 15-hundred active cases for the first time in a month. Almost one-hundred patients are in the hospital.

Public hearings about redistricting start this week. The first meeting will be held tonight at the Putnam County Judicial Building. West Virginia is losing a Congressional seat, so lawmakers will have to determine how to split the state in half.

Closing arguments start today in the opioid epidemic trial. The City of Huntington and Cabell County claim drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health fueled the epidemic by dumping one-hundred-million pills into the area over the past ten years. The judge has set aside twelve hours for closing arguments.

Lincoln County school officials are working on a relocation plan after Duval Elementary and Middle School were closed because an engineering firm says the buildings are unsafe. Third through fifth graders will relocate to Hamlin PK-8 and sixth through eighth graders will go to the central office.

One person is in the hospital after an apartment in Cross Lanes. The blaze broke out in a second floor apartment on Stewart Park Drive. The cause of the fire is under investigation.