Montgomery unveiled its new Amtrak station Friday with a ribbon cutting and public ceremony. Mayor Greg Ingram said the city has been in talks with Amtrak for about five years. The station is a $1.8 million investment by Amtrak, and it’s one of several upgrades coming to train stations in the mountain state, totaling almost … Read more
West Virginia officials announced a $101.3 million settlement Friday in an antitrust suit against 11 asphalt and paving companies the state accused of cornering the market and driving up project costs. West Virginia,” Attorney General Patrick Morrisey called it the state’s largest antitrust settlement and said the savings can be directed to road rebuilding and … Read more
Governor Justice presented a more than two-million-dollar check to the City of Huntington for the Thundercloud broadband expansion project. It will provide a high-speed fiber connection between the Village of Barboursville and the heart of downtown Huntington.
Charleston police are enforcing work zone speed limits through the construction zone at the new intersection being built at Oakwood Road and Corridor-G. There’s a traffic lane shift and a reduced speed limit of forty-miles-per-hour through the work zone.
Street closures for outdoor dining are changing in downtown Charleston. Restaurants on Capitol Street between Quarrier and Lee streets will no longer offer outdoor dining and will reopen their part of the street. All other road closures will stay in place. Capitol Street will be closed between Kanawha Boulevard and Quarrier Street until 7 o’clock … Read more
Friday was record setting day for COVID-19 numbers. There are more than five-hundred new cases of the virus, and 240 patients are hospitalized. Eight more people people have died, raising the state’s death toll to over 450.
Governor Justice is ordering a COVID-19 testing blitz after a record number of positive cases this week. Counties in the “gold” will now get the same kind of massive free testing as counties that are in the “red” and “orange.” The goal is ten-thousand tests per day statewide.
COVID-19 testing is underway in Boone County after a possible exposure at a trunk-or-treat earlier this week at the Racine fire station. Officials say the risk of exposure is low, and they are acting with an abundance of caution.
Governor Justice is touting October revenue numbers. He says collections will come in at more than twenty-million-dollars above estimates when the books officially close this weekend. Four months into the fiscal year the state is running over 110-million-dollars ahead of estimates. Officials say, Consumer Sales Tax, and Personal Income Tax are performing better than expected.
Reta Mays, the ex-nursing assistant linked to eight patient deaths at the Clarksburg VA, is scheduled to be sentenced in mid-February. Her lawyers are gathering her mental health records to present possible mitigating factors during her sentencing hearing. Mays faces consecutive life terms for seven murders, and another twenty years for assault with attempt to … Read more