Vice-President Mike Pence will be at the Greenbrier today for a fundraiser. Governor Justice says he doesn’t know much about it, but he doesn’t think the crowd will violate state guidelines limiting gatherings to twenty-five people. Justice does plan to greet the Vice-President. It costs 25-thousand-dollars-per-person to attend.
Senator Joe Manchin is urging Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to maintain postal services. Manchin toured postal facilities around the state on Friday, and says DeJoy won’t talk to senators or congressman. The Postal Service has warned 46 states and Washington, D.C. that it cannot guarantee election officials will receive absentee ballots on time as the … Read more
A judge has approved a plan for Thomas Health to exit Chapter-11 bankruptcy protection. The plan includes terms that provide for discounted refunding of about $145 million in bond debt. Financing is expected to be complete by mid-September. Thomas Health serves 275-thousand patients annually in Kanawha County.
Four more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia, raising the state’s death toll to 157. There are almost two-thousand active cases of the virus, and 135 people are in the hospital. The infection rate is around two-point-four-percent.
The West Virginia Department of Education posted a map that shows the locations where kids can connect to Wi-Fi when school resumes. The six-million-dollar Kids Connect initiative will be completed when classes begin on September 8th. The project will create over one-thousand wireless access points across the state.
Logan County is the only county in the state currently in the red. The county has had over eighty new cases of COVID-19 in the past week. Grant and Mingo counties are in the orange, and will only be allowed to start school with remote learning.
Governor Justice unveiled his color-coded plan to determine whether it’s safe for schools to reopen. All, but three counties will be allowed to reopen under the plan. Each county in the state will receive a green, yellow, orange, or red code that will change daily. Counties in orange or red will have to shut down … Read more
A major lighting project along I-77 is complete, and will provide increased visibility and safety for drivers. The over one-and-a-half-million-dollar project involved installing high mast lighting towers at the Edens Fork and Tuppers Creek exits.
A former Capital High School student is under arrest for his role in prostitution and sex trafficking at least nine young women in Michigan. Twenty-three-year-old Dallas King is accused of befriending college-aged women and grooming them to engage in prostitution. King is also under investigation for engaging in sexual activity with a minor.
A Scioto County man is under arrest for assaulting an elderly man. Thirty-eight-year-old Noah Riggs is accused of beating a 65-year-old man in West Portsmouth. The man was treated for injuries to his head and face, and is expected to be okay.