More than nine-hundred Kanawha County teachers have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Governor Justice is pushing to have at-risk teachers vaccinated before in-person learning resumes on January 19th. Teachers are concerned because they will have only received the first dose of the vaccine.
Marshall’s weekend basketball series against Charlotte is postponed. Marshall doesn’t have enough players because of COVID-19, contact tracing and injuries.
The state Division of Natural Resources is filing charges against a suspect in connection to the deaths of three bear cubs. The cubs were found last month in the Talbott Road are of Barbour County. Additional charges are pending.
A Winfield man is facing arson charges. Thirty-seven-year-old Davis Thomas openly admitted to neighbors that he set his mobile home on fire. No one was hurt. The home is a total loss.
Kanawha County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man involved in a vehicle chase that started in Sissonville. The pursuit ended with a crash on Hunter Road in Rutledge and the suspect took off on foot.
West Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans says he will not voluntarily resign. He live streamed video showing him entering the U.S. Capitol among a group of protestors. Two state lawmakers are calling for his removal, and an online petition calling for his ouster has grown to more than 30-thousand.
Marshall postponed a two-game men’s basketball home series with Charlotte because the Thundering Herd does not have enough available players due to the coronavirus, contact tracing and injuries. Marshall and Charlotte were set to play today and Saturday in Huntington. The schools are working with Conference USA to reschedule the games.
It was announced this week that a handful of abandoned properties in Charleston, two of which recently caught fire, are no longer owned by West Virginia Health Right. Chief executive officer Dr. Angie Settle said on Facebook that the organization is no longer the owner of properties on Jackson Street and those structures have been … Read more
Sen. Joe Manchin denounced the violence in Washington D.C. this week and described the experience of having rioters so close to Senate chambers. Manchin said after hearing noises and commotion draw near, all of a sudden police ran in and started locking the doors downand securing the chambers. Immediately after that lawmakers were rushed to … Read more
A federal judge in West Virginia has set a new trial date in a lawsuit filed by the city of Huntington and Cabell County over the opioid crisis. U.S. District Judge David Faber set May 3 as the new trial date. The trial had been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit accuses drug … Read more