News Staff A woman is under arrest for prescription fraud. Forty-one-year-old Amber Perdue is accused of using the information of a doctor she used to work for to get a Xanax prescription. She failed to appear at an arraignment hearing earlier this month.
Huntington Police are investigating a gas station robbery. It’s the second robbery in a week at the Red Lightning Exxon on Route 60. The thief flashed a gun and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. No one was hurt.
The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering Clarksburg officials to provide a clean source of drinking water after elevated lead levels were found in some homes. The EPA says conditions present a health risk and ordered the Clarksburg Water Board to submit a plan to resolve the issue by August 1st.
Kanawha County Schools’ plan for its incoming $82 million in federal funding is focused on retaining what was lost during the pandemic, and the public is encouraged to look at it and provide input. Under the proposal, 56% of funding would go toward learning recovery and innovation. About 30% would be for infrastructure – air … Read more
A dozen community-based organizations have been given minigrants from the Marshall University Minority Health Institute. The awards are for as much as $5,000 and are intended to help groups that work to promote health equity and predominantly serve racial or ethnic minorities in West Virginia. The groups receiving the awards include Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Dunbar … Read more
Fayette County deputies said a man who told officers he picked up stray dogs along the roadway to bring them home faces charges after 19 of the animals were found in extremely poor health and covered in fleas. Randolph A. Blevins of Fayetteville was charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty. The Fayette County Sheriff’s … Read more
West Virginia health officials reported one new COVID-19 death and 80 new positive cases on Thursday. The latest death was a 69-year-old man from Preston County. The DHHR’s data shows there are 19 cases of the delta variant of COVID-19 in the state, including one in Kanawha County.
The West Virginia residents who remove trash from state highways each year will be honored at a daylong event next month. The 32nd annual Adopt-A-Highway Volunteer Appreciation Day will be held Aug. 7 at the Tamarack Convention Center in Beckley. The event gets underway at 9 a.m. with bingo, broom making, a painting class, children’s … Read more
A Harrison County man is the fourth million-dollar winner in the “Do it for Babydog” vaccination sweepstakes. A Riverside High School football coach won a new custom outfitted truck, and another truck was given away in Nicholas county.
Active COVID cases are increasing in West Virginia for the first time since May. DHHR is reporting almost eighty new cases and seven more deaths. Just over 55-percent of state residents twelve and older have been fully vaccinated.