Officials in Wheeling have unanimously approved a resolution declaring racism a health crisis. Social justice movements across the nation helped spark Tuesday’s vote by the Wheeling City Council, which appears to be among the first in the state. The resolution says the city supports proactive and meaningful efforts to improve the quality of life and … Read more
FEMA has approved the West Virginia National Guard’s request to increase the number of personnel responding to the pandemic. Four-hundred Guard members are now part of the response, and the federal government will reimburse the National Guard for 75-percent of the cost.
There are more than two-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and five more people have died. Officials say two nurses recently died from COVID-19 complications.
Riverside High School will be closed today after a potential COVID-19 case. In-person classes are being canceled out of an abundance of caution. Online classes will continue.
Governor Justice says the state will continue its COVID-19 testing blitz, and is now processing around six-thousand people per day. The goal is to isolate “super spreaders.” Health officials say those few highly contagious people cause 80-percent of other infections.
Governor Justice is urging President Trump and Congress to keep negotiating on COVID-19 relief package, and to get it done before Election Day. The governor says he’s concerned that more small businesses will fold if they don’t get more financial help.
A West Virginia Department of Highway bridge inspection crew found something unexpected while doing a routine inspection on the Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge. The found a dog walking on the lower truss of the bridge. They lifted him to safety, and was reunited with his owner.
A man was killed in a tank explosion in Jefferson. He was an employee at a wielding and fabrication plant. He was welding a tank on a vehicle and some leftover fuel caused the explosion.
A woman accused of conspiring with her husband to fake her death at the New River Gorge is pleading guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice. After two days of searching, police four 44-year-old Julie Wheeler hiding in a closet in her house. She faces up to five-years in prison.
A George Washington High School student is under arrest in connection to a threat posted on social media. The student is in juvenile detention and charged with making a terroristic threat.