Marshall University is holding new student orientation online, but plans to hold in-person classes when the fall semester begins in August. School officials say there will be some creative class scheduling to promote social distancing.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is reporting 165 positive cases of COVID-19 and four deaths from the virus. Statewide almost 11-hundred people have tested positive and the death toll is up to 37.
Governor Justice is rolling out a six-week plan to reopen the state’s economy. It calls for a measured reopening based on positive test results staying below three percent. Right now positive test results are less than two-and-a-half-percent.
Police are investigating after someone threw a brick through the window of Danny’s BBQ Stand on Quarrier Street. Owner and former Mayor Danny Jones says he’s still open for business and it will cost more than a thousand-dollars to replace the window.
A Hurricane man is under arrest for breaking into a woman’s vehicle and stealing her debit and credit cards. Thirty-three-year-old Justin Hager used the cards to buy a cell phone and a pizza. He’s charged with three counts of fraud.
More than eleven-thousand self-employed workers have applied for pandemic unemployment assistance benefits since Friday.
Protesters gathered between the State Capitol and the Governor’s Mansion. They’re calling for the Governor to reopen West Virginia for business immediately. Justice did roll out a plan to slowly begin reopening the state.
Charleston police are investigating after someone threw a brick through a window ad Danny’s BBQ Stand on Quarrier Street. That’s the restaurant owned by former capital city mayor Danny Jones, who retired from public office last year after serving four terms as the city’s mayor. Charleston police said nothing was stolen, and it was a … Read more
Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin said officials have retooled their planned door-to-door visits by city officials to let them still connect with residents and maintain social distancing. The reimagined Charleston Walks program is now called Connect Charleston and will mean phone calls from the Mayor’s Office instead of walks through neighborhoods to meet people. Charleston residents … Read more
One person died after an incident involving a dump truck Monday morning in the 7400 block of Sissonville Drive near Jimmy Dunn Excavating. Kanawha County deputies said the two men were doing maintenance work on the bed of a dump truck, which was being lifted by an excavator. The bed of the truck came down … Read more