More than three-thousand Appalachian Power customers are still without service. Most of the outages are in Wayne County. Line crews will work through the weekend to get power restored. There are about three-hundred locations still in need of repairs.
Appalachian Power says the power is back on for more than ninety-percent of customers affected by the storms two weeks ago. Around six-thousand customers are still without power, and most will have service restored by tonight.
The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health is suspending clinical services at the Boone County Health Department after deficiencies were found in the county’s operations. Controversy surfaced in December when more than forty people were mistakenly given an antibody shot, rather than the COVID-19 vaccine.
A U.S. Court of Appeals will re-hear former state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry’s appeal over juror misconduct in his 2018 trial. Remote oral arguments are scheduled to start in May. Loughry was convicted on fraud charges in 2017 and has already served his federal sentence.
A new poll shows that over sixty-percent of West Virginians support raising the minimum wage to fifteen-dollars-per-hour. Senator Shelly Moore-Capito is in favor of a phased in ten-dollar wage increase, and Senator Joe Manchin says he would support an eleven-dollar minimum wage.
A St. Albans woman is facing animal cruelty charges. Two malnourished dogs and a dead cat were found at her home on First Avenue in Charleston. The home was in deplorable condition and the animals didn’t have any food or water.
Fire destroyed a vacant home in the Jefferson area. It’s the second time firefighters have been called to the house recently. No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
All Cabell County Schools will return to five-day in-person learning. The Board of Education voted in favor of pre-k through 12th grade returning to schools starting Monday, March 1st.
State lawmakers are considering a constitutional amendment that would give lawmakers final say in any rules created by the state Board of Education. The Supervision of Free Schools Modification Amendment passed the House this week and now goes to the Senate. If it’s passed in both chambers, the amendment will appear on the ballot in … Read more
Charleston police said Amanda Wallace is wanted on three animal cruelty charges. An arrest warrant was issued this week after a humane officer investigated complaints in January about abandoned animals at a home in the 1500 block of First Avenue in Charleston. The officer discovered that Wallace had lived at the home, but she moved … Read more