News Staff The state Board of Education is rejecting an attempt to delay public comment on the state’s updated charter school law. Board member Debra Sullivan says it’s been less than two months since the legislature passed the law and there hasn’t been enough time for an entire review.
Carter Bank and Trust is pushing back against Governor Justice and his family’s companies. The bank says, “allegations in the lawsuit regarding negotiations between the parties are false and misleading.” The bank says it intends to collect the nearly 370-million-dollars it loaned to the Justice companies.
Two dozen teams have qualified for the regional rounds in high school baseball. The best of three series begins Monday.
An Elkins man turned himself in connection to an arson fire at a trucking company over one-year ago. Forty-five-year-old Elwood Hebb is a former employee of the company. He admitted to starting the fire that caused nearly 60-thousand-dollars in damages.
A convicted felon is under arrest in Raleigh County. Police were serving a search warrant and round 170-thousand-dollars’ worth of drugs, a handgun, and nearly seven-thousand-dollars in cash. Forty-six-year-old Mario Ward is facing drug and weapons charges.
A 21-year-old woman is under arrest for stabbing another woman in the hallway of an apartment complex on Renaissance Circle. The victim is in stable condition.
Dozens of people filled the LaBelle Theater in South Charleston for a town hall on utility rate hikes. Appalachian Power and West Virginia American Water filed rate increase requests to the Public Service Commission in April. The Kanawha County Commission wants the legislature to get involved and stop the increases.
The last stretch of U.S. 35 to be widened to four lanes is expected to open to traffic by the end of August after years of planning. The 15-mile segment is the last part of U.S. 35 from Interstate 64 to the West Virginia-Ohio state line to be upgraded. The state Department of Transportation said … Read more
James Hoyer leads the state’s pandemic taskforce, and said this week that demand for the Johnson and Johnson one-shot vaccine has almost dropped off completely. Demand continues for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, which requires two doses. The state has administered nearly 84% of all vaccine doses in stock, and the hope is that the … Read more
State fire marshals said a man suspected of setting a fire at an Elkins trucking company where he had worked, causing nearly $60,0000 in damage, has been arrested. Elwood “Lynn” Hebb of Elkins turned himself in to authorities June 3 in connection with a May 25, 2020, fire at the Anytime Trucking Company in Elkins. … Read more