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Putnam County voters approved medical cannabis growing and processing facilities, and dispensaries in their county.

The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a missing Sissonville woman. Twenty-three-year-old Nicki Israel was last seen on Friday. She recently made plans to go to Whitesville. She has blue eyes, brown hair, is five-feet-tall, and weighs 130-pounds.

There are ten new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total to nearly 22-hundred. The death toll remains at 84, and the positive test rate is under two-percent.

Over one-hundred inmates have recovered from COVID-19 at Huttonsville Correctional Center. The prison has five active cases remaining. An outbreak there prompted statewide testing at all correctional facilities in the state, which turned up five additional cases.

Incumbents Tim Armstead and John Hutchison have won reelection to the state Supreme Court. Former legislator Bill Wooton is leading the race for a third seat on the high court, but that race is too close to call. Judicial elections are nonpartisan in West Virginia, there is no general election.

West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael lost his bid for a third term in office. Amy Grady won the Republican nomination to represent Senate District 4. Grady will face Democrat Bruce Ashworth in the general election.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito easily defeated two other GOP challengers to win the Republican nomination. She will face Democratic challenger Paula Jean Swearengiin in the fall.

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice won his bid for the Republican nomination for reelection. Justice held off six challengers. He will face Democrat Ben Salango in November. Salango won the Democratic nomination over Stephen Smith.

The Cabell County Fair is on this summer after the board voted to move forward with some restrictions. The Cabell County Fair Board voted this week to hold the fair Thursday, July 23 through Saturday, July 25 with no carnival. They’ll still have a demolition derby and mud bogging, and kids will be able to … Read more

Parents of kids 18 and under can pick up meal kits from the Kanawha County Schools’ Summer Food Service Program now. The kits include breakfast and lunch boxes for five days and milk. Kanawha County Schools say parents should drive up to the tent or front door check-in, open their trunk and staff will load … Read more