The West Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in a lawsuit over whether Governor Justice must live in Charleston. The High Court will hear an appeal of a Kanawha circuit judge’s ruling that denied the governor’s motion to dismiss the two-year-old case filed by Delegate Isaac Sponaugle.
A group of students and parents gathered outside the Capitol to protest online learning restrictions. The state’s color-coded alert map shows nine counties in the orange or red, requiring those counties to start the school year with remote learning only.
Kanawha County Schools has a total of nine positive COVID-19 cases at eight schools. The latest cases were reported at St. Albans High School and McKinley Middle School.
Kanawha County School Superintendent Tom Williams says the first day of 100-percent online classes wasn’t perfect, but there were many positives. More than 46-thousand students and parents logged in to the county’s online platform. There were some connectivity issues, and some confusion about schedules and passwords.
Two more West Virginia State University students have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total on campus to 27. The students are being quarantined off campus.
Marshall University is conducting random daily COVID-19 testing. Sixty students, faculty, and staff members will be tested daily to identify people who may not be showing symptoms.
Another person has died from COVID-19 in Kanawha County, raising the county’s death toll to fifty. There ae fifty new cases of the virus, for a total of almost 18-hundred.
Charleston Area Medical Center says that COVID-19 numbers are spiking, and they are expected to climb coming off a holiday weekend, in addition to schools and sports starting up. CAMC implemented a no-visitor policy over the weekend and are opening an additional drive through testing location at Women and Children’s Hospital.
West Virginia’s “Rt” number is the highest in the country at one-point-two-eight. The number is a measurement of how COVID-19 is spreading from person to person. The state’s active cases are up to nearly 28-hundred.
The West Virginia Supreme Court has set oral arguments in a lawsuit over whether Gov. Jim Justice must live in the state capital. Arguments are set for Oct. 14 in an appeal of a Kanawha circuit judge’s ruling that denied the governor’s motion to dismiss the 2-year-old case. Delegate Isaac Sponaugle wants Justice to live … Read more