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Kroger workers are rejecting a contract offer from the grocery store chain, and voted to approve a strike. Health care coverage is the main sticking point. A strike has not been scheduled.

The Charleston Fire Department has a new Chief. Mayor Amy Goodwin appointed Shawn Wanner to the position. He is the current Assistant Fire Chief, and has been with the department since 1996. Wanner succeeds Jeff Jackson, who is retiring.

Charleston Area Medical Center will give employees who worked full-time during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic a one-thousand-dollar bonus. More than 450 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

The state Supreme Court says that AAA prep soccer teams can play in the state championship this weekend. The high court reversed a lower court ruling halting the tournament over COVID-19 testing disparities. The boys championship games is this morning at 10 a.m., and the girls at 1:30 p.m.

There are over five-hundred new cases of COVID-19 for the second day in a row, and there are over six-thousand active cases of the virus. Seven more people have died, raising the death toll to 487.

Governor Justice says he is on high alert as the positive COVID-19 test rate jumped to over three-percent. That was a threshold the governor previously said would mean slowing down reopening measures, but he says a lot has changed and that shouldn’t be a line in the sand. Justice says if we continue on this … Read more

WVU is in Austin to take on the 22nd-ranked Texas Longhorns. kickoff is at noon…The 16th ranked Thundering Herd will host UMass this afternoon at 2:30 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.

An Illinois fugitive is under arrest in Beckley. After an initial traffic stop in Ohio, Juan Torkelson fled to West Virginia. He was arrested in May, and is accused of stabbing four people, and one died. He tried to shoot an officer in Ohio, but the gun misfired. U.S. Marshals tracked Torkelson down at a … Read more

More than twenty people are under arrest for shoplifting, and police recovered about four-thousand-dollars in stolen merchandise. Lowe’s in Kanawha City has lost thousands of dollars in merchandise from shoplifting. Police conducted a weeklong sting operation.

The Meigs County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a person of interest in a Rutland shooting. An injured woman was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in unknown condition. Deputies are looking for 54-year-old Anthony Smith. He may have been injured in the shooting.