Governor Jim Justice still has his eye on over a billion-dollars in federal funding to cover the state’s budget gap, and Senator Shelley Moore Capito is touting a bi-partisan bill that will give cities and states more flexibility to use COVID-19 relief funds. The bill is meant to be used to replace revenue shortfalls resulting … Read more
The National Day of Prayer looked a little different yesterday in Cabell County. A drive-in ceremony was held at Christ Temple Church in Huntington.
Kanawha County deputies are looking for a missing woman and her infant son. Thirty-one-year-old Britney Foster and her one-year-old son Aiden were reported missing on Tuesday. A family member says she left their home in St. Albans to visit her boyfriend in Charleston, and no one has been able to contact her.
South Charleston is trying to help businesses reopen. City council retracted a sidewalk ordinance, so businesses can now set up outdoor dining areas on the sidewalk. The move allows all businesses to use the sidewalk in front of their stores, not just restaurants.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting ten new cases of coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to almost 13-hundred. The death toll remains at 51.
Kanawha County parks and golf courses will open this weekend. Coonskin, Big Bend, Meadowood and Pioneer Park will open Saturday morning with restrictions in place to protect visitors.
Kanawha County deputies said 33-year old Joseph Allen Parker of Campbells Creek, has been charged with attempted murder of his 80-year-old grandmother. Deputies said Parker went to his grandmother’s home in the 300 block of Gap View Drive on Campbells Creek just before 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning. While she was on the phone with 911 … Read more
The United Mine Workers of America is mourning the loss of its general counsel. Chuck Donnelly died Wednesday in Charleston. Cecil Roberts, president of the UMWA International, said Donnelly was a Marine veteran who served in combat in Vietnam. He called him “a brilliant labor lawyer whose dedication to treating workers fairly made the lives … Read more
Kanawha County’s positive COVID-19 total increased Thursday morning by two cases. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department’s website listed 177 total virus cases and 88 of those cases are active and 89 are closed. On Wednesday, Dr. Sherri Young, director of the health department, announced that four day care workers at separate facilities tested positive for the … Read more
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority are holding COVID-19 testing events next week in Montgomery and Institute. The first testing event will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, May 11, at the old City Hall at 706 Third Ave. in Montgomery. The second testing event is scheduled 10 a.m. … Read more