Senator Joe Manchin doesn’t think impeaching President Trump a second time is a good idea. He says lawmakers should let the legal system do it’s job and let investigations happen. Democrats introduced an article of impeachment against the President on Monday.
Two Jefferson County School employees are on administrative leave for attending last week’s rally in D.C. and posting threatening messages on social media.
The Capital High School show choir is adjusting to a new way of doing things during the pandemic. The Capital High VIPs are wearing masks and forgoing costume changes. The second semester is usually competition season for show choirs, and this year some competitions have made the decision to go virtual, with choirs sending in … Read more
West Virginia University’s Big 12 conference game scheduled for today with No. 2 nationally ranked Baylor has been postponed due to COVID-19. The conference said WVU was unable to meet the required COVID-19 thresholds set by the conference and they’ll work to reschedule the game.
West Virginia Division of Highways officials are reminding drivers to stay off their phones and be alert as road work resumes near the Nitro-St. Albans bridge. Crews are working on the bridge, also known as the Donald M. Legg Memorial Bridge. Workers will be clearing vegetation, installing erosion and soil control measures and preparing the … Read more
Fifty-three of West Virginia’s 55 counties were in red or orange on the latest version of the county alert map. The state Department of Health and Human Resources posted the map Monday based on Sunday’s data. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties were in orange. Cabell had been in red on the previous map. Two counties … Read more
Marshall University’s spring semester will look a lot like last semester. Students will return to campus next week. Freshman and graduate students will have the majority of in-person classes, and upperclassmen will have mostly online courses.
The state of West Virginia is making its own Personal Protective Equipment, and will be self-sufficient by later this month. The state is waiting for final approval on an N95 equivalent mask, and is also producing boot covers, bonnets, and will soon take delivery of a machine to make gowns.
Four counties moved from orange to red on the state alert map, putting forty-six counties in the red and eight in orange. Clay County is the only county in gold. West Virginia has the lowest person-to-person COVID-19 transmission rate in the country. The state’s Rt value is point-97.
West Virginia has reached a grim milestone with more than 100-thousand positive cases of COVID-19 since March. There are 14-hundred new cases of the virus, and twelve more people have died. The state is reporting over 29-thousand active cases.