COVID-19 continues to spike at long term care facilities in West Virginia. Kanawha County health officials say more than twenty residents and staff members at the Marmet Center have tested positive for the virus. Major outbreaks are also being reported in Mercer, Monroe, and Taylor counties. Nursing are closed to in-person visits.
The West Virginia Department of Education is releasing some guidelines for spectators at high school sporting events and extracurricular activities based on the color-coded system. Immediate household members can attend events in counties that are in the green. Only parents or guardians will be allowed to attend events in counties in yellow, and counties in … Read more
Governor Justice continues to tweak his color-coded COVID-19 reopening plan. Counties with a population under sixteen-thousand will be asses on a fourteen-day rolling average, and counties with higher populations will be assessed on a seven-day rolling average. The change will eliminate a bias for counties with smaller populations. The governor is calling for a more … Read more
Authorities have identified the man who was hit and killed by a train earlier this week. Sixty-year-old Keith Rapport of South Charleston died in the accident near the Chestnut Street crossing.
A man connected to a New Year’s Day shooting in Huntington is under arrest in Detroit. Thirty-year-old Kymonie Davis is charged with seven counts of wanton endangerment and malicious wounding in a shooting at the Kulture Hookah Bar. He was also wanted for burglary and domestic battery in Huntington and he was wanted for fraud … Read more
A South Charleston woman is accused of leaving her baby alone in a car seat with the vehicle turned off while she got her nails done. Thirty-eight-year-old Kathleen Vetter is charged with child neglect. Firefighters rescued the eleven-month-old and treated the baby at the scene. The child was released to a family member.
A Huntington man will spend twelve years in prison for killing his mother in Wayne County. Thirty-year-old Charles Watts killed his mother, 50-year-old Kelli Watts, at her home on Piedmont Road in February of 2018. He claimed it was an accident when it happened.
A man wanted for several shootings in Ohio and Indiana is now a person interest in a fatal shooting in Milton earlier this week. West Virginia State Police are looking for 41-year-old Timothy Sargent. He’s accused of shooting a man at a homeless encampment on Monday in Cleveland, shooting and killing a woman in Akron … Read more
There will be no fans in the stands at Milan Puskar Stadium when WVU opens its football season against Eastern Kentucky on September 12th. WVU has five home games on the schedule and officials say they’ll decide on those games based on conditions at the time.
There are more than 180 new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia. That’s the highest number since the end of July. The spike in cases is being blamed on late summer vacations and students returning to college. Another person has died from the virus in Kanawha County.