The City of Charleston has settled with a woman nearly 10 months after she was the center of a controversial use-of-force investigation involving the Charleston Police Department. The Charleston City Council agreed this week to put $80,000 in a trust for Freda Gilmore. Gilmore’s arrest on Oct. 14, 2019 was caught on video and caused … Read more
The Monongalia County Health Department has reported more than 100 new cases of the coronavirus this week and that’s a more than 60% increase in positive cases. But that recent spike hasn’t stopped West Virginia University officials from going ahead with plans for an on-campus experience this fall. They encourage everybody to wear their mask, … Read more
West Virginia Turnpike traffic numbers indicate travel over the July 4th holiday weekend was down from last year, but trending better than Memorial Day. Turnpike officials say the numbers are off by around twenty-percent.
The 130th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia National Guard welcomed home seventy airmen from Kuwait, and sixty more are waiting to be deployed to the Middle East as part of Operations Inherent Resolve and Spartan shield.
Governor Justice’s family companies received over six-million-dollars from a federal rescue package to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic. At least six Justice family businesses received the Paycheck Protection Program loans, including the Greenbrier Resort.
There are more than one-hundred new cases of the virus statewide, bringing the total to over 34-hundred. The death toll remains at 95. The positive test rate is up slightly to one-point-eight-percent.
Governor Justice is making face masks mandatory when you enter any building, other than your own home. Governor Justice says it’s a necessary step because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in West Virginia.
A Berkeley County woman is pleading guilty after fleeing to Mexico with classified national security documents. Elizabeth Jo Shirley pleaded guilty to willful retention of national security information that was classified at “top secret” She’s accused taking her six-year-old daughter to Mexico to make contact with Russian officials to resettle in a country that would … Read more
Former Richwood Mayor, Chris Drennen, pleaded not guilty to three felony charges linked to mishandling flood relief money. She’s accused of paying herself a month before a recover team was formed, as well as months after the team disbanded.
Charleston City Council unanimously passed Black Live Matter resolution that reaffirms the city’s anti-racism policies and ordinances. The council also approved donating the Kanawha Rifleman plaque to a museum. It was removed from Ruffner Park because of its Confederate history.