COVID-19 numbers continue to trend downward. West Virginia health officials are reporting over six-hundred-fifty new cases of the virus, and nine more people have died. Hospitalizations dropped to under four-hundred-sixty. That’s the lowest number since November.
West Virginia Senator Shelly Moore Capito is part of a ten-member group of Republican senators proposing an alternative to President Biden’s one-point-nine-trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief plan. The senator’s proposal is considerable smaller, at 600-billion-dollars, and they believe it can gain bipartisan support.
The Bear Rocks and Allegheny Front Preserve will become America’s 600th National Natural Landmark. The more than 12-hundred acre tract adjoins the Monongahela National Forest and its Dolly Sods Wilderness.
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting. A man was shot on Nancy Street when an SUV pulled up beside him and fired several shots. Forty-one-year-old Theon Anderson was shot in the arm, and is not cooperating with police. He’s in stable condition. No arrests have been made.
A Mingo County man is under arrest for stealing more than 15-thousand-dollars of cable and insulators from Frazier Creek Mining property. Richard Smoots is also accused of assaulting an officer.
Morgantown police have found the body of a woman who was reported missing on Thursday. Alexa Randolph’s body was found in the cargo are of her vehicle in a Walmart parking lot. The Medical Examiner’s Office is determining the cause of death.
A rock slide closed part of Elk River Road North. State road crews are working to clear the roadway, and say it should reopen today around noon.
A Kanawha County K-9 helped crack a case last week. K-9 Djambo and his handler, Cpl. C. D. Lyons, were assisting with a breaking and entering investigation Thursday night when Djambo was called in to find a suspect, according to a news release from the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Djambo followed a scent … Read more
A juvenile in Lincoln County is accused of shooting and killing his step-grandfather over the weekend. Troopers found 60-year old Bobby Walden Jr. with a gunshot wound just after 10 p.m. Friday along Maple Street in Hamlin. West Virginia State Police said the investigation revealed the juvenile shot Walden, who died while on the way … Read more
An application period for low-income residents in West Virginia to apply for an energy assistance program has been extended to Feb. 5. The federally funded program assists eligible state residents in paying home heating bills. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said eligibility is based on income, household size and whether the household … Read more