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More COVID-19 cases are being linked to travel to Myrtle Beach. There are now twenty-six cases in Preston County. More than forty cases in six counties have been linked to the popular tourist destination.

More than half of new COVID-19 cases are in Kanawha County. There are thirteen new cases statewide, bringing the total to over 25-hundred. A 74-year-old Berkeley County woman has died, bringing the state’s death toll to 89.

Crowds gathered outside the Kanawha County Board of Education to rally for changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Middle School. The board will take up the name change at a meeting on July 6th.

Police are looking for an Ashland man who shot and wounded a 19-year-old woman during an argument. She got into a car and tried to leave when 20-year-old Dwayne Kemper shot into the vehicle. She’s in stable condition. Kemper is on the run.

A toddler is in the hospital after ingesting heroin. The 18-month-old was found unresponsive in a Knights Inn motel room. He’s in stable condition. The boy’s mother and grandmother were in the room when it happened. It’s not clear where he got the heroin.

A Cross Lanes man is facing multiple charges for leading police on a chase that started in the Rock Branch area and ended in a crash in St Albans. Officers tried to pull over 29-year-old Quentin Brown for reckless driving when he took off and eventually crashed.

The State Fair of West Virginia has been canceled due to a coronavirus outbreak. The fair’s board of directors, which last week had voted to move ahead with the event, said an unfolding virus flareup linked to a church in Greenbrier County has caused them to reverse course and scrap the festival for the first … Read more

A second West Virginia University football player has tested positive for the coronavirus. School officials said the student-athlete will enter a self-isolation period for the next two weeks. Additional members of the football team were identified as possibly having been exposed to the virus by the player. Those students have been mandated to self-quarantine. Voluntary … Read more

A push to remove Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s name from a Charleston middle school is growing. Those who support changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Middle School marched at the Kanawha County Board of Education on Saturday. The school’s student body is 42% African American, which is the highest proportion among public middle schools, according … Read more

Kids of all ages got the chance to have an Easter egg hunt Saturday after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the originally scheduled event in April. The hunt was held Saturday morning at St. Albans City Park.