West Virginia still has around 730-million-dollars in Cares Act funding to spend. Congress is allowing the funds to carry over into next year. Three-hundred-million is reserved to payback the state unemployment trust fund, and the rest will be used at the descretion of the governor and legislature.
A fugitive is under arrest for shooting a Pennsylvania police officer. The Mountain State Fugitive Task Force captured Koby Francis at an apartment complex in Clarksburg. He’s charged with aggravated assault and attempted homicide.
There will be big changes in leadership when the 2021 West Virginia Legislative Session begins in February. All four leaders for the Democrats are new, and the Republicans are seeing a key departure. Republican Senate President Mitch Carmichael lost his primary, so fellow Republican Amy Nichole Grady will take over his seat. The new Senate … Read more
Thousands of unemployed West Virginians will be covered until mid-March. The stimulus package signed by President Trump on Sunday includes extending three-hundred-dollar-a-week unemployment benefits. WorkForce West Virginia says there is no need to reapply for the extension. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says you could see the six-hundred-dollar stimulus check in your bank account this morning. … Read more
West Virginia has administered over 34-thousand doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Now all nursing home and long-term care facilities in the state have received the vaccine. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is hosting their first COVID-19 vaccine clinic for first responders. Once they get the vaccine, they’re automatically scheduled for the second dose, which usually happens … Read more
Health and Human Resources official are reporting over 13-hundred new cases of COVID-19, and twenty-one more people have died. There are more than 750 people hospitalized with the virus, and more than two-hundred are in ICU.
COVID-19 numbers continue to surge, Fifty-three of West Virginia’s fifty-five counties are in the red or orange on the COVID-19 alert map. Forty counties are in the red and thirteen are in the orange. Tucker County is in gold, and Calhoun is the only county in green.
An Ashland police officer helped deliver a baby in a parking lot. The mother was on the way to the hospital when her water broke. The officer arrived before the ambulance, and he helped deliver the baby girl. Mom and baby are doing well, and they finished their ride to the hospital in the ambulance.
The City of Charleston will suspend loose leaf collection as the street department transitions to winter readiness. The trucks used for loose leaf collection are also used for spreading salt and cold patching potholes. Leaves should be bagged, and will be collected during normal trash pickup.
Fire crews have given the all clear at Women and Children’s Hospital. They responded to smoke in the boiler room. It was coming from a motor, but there was no fire. Operations at the hospital weren’t affected.