Charleston’s St. Agnes School will close at the end of the school year. The private school’s accompanying child-care facility will also close. The parish cites a three-hundred-thousand-dollars shortfall and declining enrollment as reasons for the closure. Only forty-students are enrolled this school year.
Marshall University’s aviation school is ready for take-off. The University has purchased three airplanes for just over a million-dollars. The board also approved a name, it will be called the Bill Noe Flight School. The school will be located at Yeager Airport.
The state House of Delegates adopted a resolution calling for an investigation into the business practices of Alecto Health Care Services, which owns Fairmont Regional Medical Center, and also owned the now closed Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling. The resolution says Alecto promised to improve its bottom line in 2014, and that didn’t happen.
Governor Justice says he’ll do everything he can to keep the doors open at Fairmont Regional Medical Center. Justice met with hospital officials yesterday. More than six-hundred doctors, nurses and staff received 60-day layoff notices.
The Kanawha County Commission is opposing the state Senate’s tax proposal. The commission says eliminating property tax on machinery and equipment, and increasing sales tax, will hurt local governments. Commissioners say the county stands to lose over 20-million-dollars in revenue.
The Kanawha County Commission is planning to stock a thousand pounds of rainbow trout in the Elk River this weekend. The Indian Lake fish hatchery will provide the trout. It’s the third trout stock in less than six months.
Expect lane closures on the South Side Bridge today through Tuesday. One Northbound lane will be closed so crews can install a work platform.
A Nitro woman is accused of stabbing a man after arguing about money she lost at the casino. When he tried to leave she stabbed him in the chest. The victim was able to get to his car and drive himself to the hospital. He’s expected to recover. Sixty-three-year-old Isaura Reyes is charged with malicious … Read more
The man accused in a west side murder, and a crime spree that included hitting an officer in the head with a flat iron, was released from the hospital and arraigned on multiple charges. Twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Drennen is charged in the murder of 77-year-old Barbara Steele, who was found dead in her Georgia Street home … Read more
The driver who died in a head-on collision with a school bus has been identified as an admissions counselor at a nearby university. David Shutts was pronounced dead on the scene of the crash Wednesday in Parkersburg. The Wood County Sheriff’s Office said it appeared his vehicle crossed the center line and collided with the … Read more