The U.S. Bureau of Prisons will not transfer out-of-state COVID-19 positive inmates to federal prisons in West Virginia. Inmates will be tested before being transferred to the state and inmates that test negative will be separated from the general population.
The Governor says West Virginia is a trend setter for keeping coronavirus rates low, and for being the first state in the country to do statewide testing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
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