News Staff Cabell County Schools will offer a new virtual learning option for students during the upcoming school years. Registration is open for the Cabell Virtual Learning Academy. The academy was planned before 2020, but school officials used remote learning to see what worked, and what didn’t. Students will be taught by teachers dedicated to the academy, … Read more
You may have noticed military aircraft flying over Charleston the past few days…The West Virginia Air National Guard is taking part in a joint training drill called “Exercise Sentry Storm 2021.” The drill involves about five-hundred service members from the Air Force, Army and Navy, so they can practice communication and hone their combat skills.
A national political organization is sending a letter to President Biden, calling on him to invoke the Defense Production Act, to save jobs at the former Mylan Pharmaceuticals plant. More than 12-hundred worker will be laid off in just over a week as part of the new operator’s “global restructure initiative. Mylan and Upjohn, a … Read more
A federal judge is blocking West Virginia’s new law banning transgender athletes from school sports. The judge granted a temporary injunction that will allow a transgender middle schooler to run on the cross country team this fall. Judge Joseph Goodwin concluded that the law violates the girl’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the … Read more
A new Chick-fil-A location is coming to the Park Place development in South Charleston. The new development at the old FMC Fly Ash Pond is on schedule, and developers have nearly thirty tenants in mid for the location. No opening date has been set.
Marshall University’s presidential search committee will host another round of listening session in the search for the university’s next president. The session will be held August 3rd and 4th at the Huntington and South Charleston campuses.
The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is offering a one-thousand-dollar reward for information that will help them capture a man who led them on a chase through several counties. Thirty-three-year-old Anthony Davis cut off his ankle monitor while on furlough from jail. Police used stop sticks to end the pursuit and Davis ran into the woods. … Read more
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office and West Virginia’s state Fire Marshall are investigating Tuesday night’s fire at the Hobet Mine site. There were kids in the old office building before the blaze broke out, but the cause of the fire hasn’t been determined. It’s the second fire at the site in less than a year, … Read more
A second arrest has been made in connection to a stabbing at a motel in the Ranson area. Charles Cook Jr. and Amanda Frey were both taken into custody in Berkeley County. Investigators say a fight took place in a motel room, and the victim was stabbed to death.
Eleven West Virginia counties now find themselves in the Orange, gold, or yellow on the COVID-19 alert map. Webster County is the only county in orange. There are almost ninety new cases of COVID-19, and over one-thousand active cases. Hospitalizations are up, and one more person has died.