Marshall University is refunding students over four-and-a-half-million-dollars in fees for services they aren’t utilizing while campus is closed. Students will be reimbursed over 37-percent for meal plans, housing, parking and rec fees.
Work Force West Virginia’s second call center is open to handle the record number of unemployment claims. A third call center will go online soon. Ninety-thousand people filed for unemployment benefits in in March, and almost 36-thousnd claims have been filed already in April.
The state’s COVID-19 czar, Dr. Clay Marsh, says the numbers are encouraging, but it’s still early in the pandemic. More than 80-percent of people who tested positive for coronavirus are in home isolation, less than 20-percent were hospitalized, and nearly sixty people have recovered and are out of quarantine.
United Mine Worker members and bankrupt Murray Energy have a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. It allows workers to keep their jobs once Murray emerges from bankruptcy, and workers will get a one-dollar-per-hour raise.
Charleston police are investigating after shots were fired through the front window of a home Prezioso Place. About five shots were fired into the house. No one was hurt, and the shooter took off on foot.
An 89-year-old woman from the Sundale nursing home in Morgantown has died from COVID-19, making her the state’s fifth coronavirus death. Eighty people have tested positive for the virus in Kanawha County, and the statewide total is over 500. Governor Justice signed an executive order taking additional steps to ensure proper social distancing at golf … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice expanded his coronavirus hot spot restrictions to Marion County this week after the area reported a jump in cases. The governor had previously strengthened existing virus protocols in Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, Harrison, Monongalia and Kanawha counties after they emerged as virus clusters that make up most of the state’s growing caseload. In … Read more
Mountain Mission delivered 70 emergency food boxes Thursday afternoon to elderly homebound residents at three Charleston-area living facilities. The food went to Brooks Manor, Agsten Manor and Jacob Arbors.
Local volunteer fire departments will soon be receiving “hero grants” for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. The Kanawha County Commission will be issuing emergency checks for $3,000 each to 27 volunteer fire departments in the county. The grants can be used for purchasing supplies for the department or helping its members during the crisis.
Kanawha County deputies released the names of two men who face charges in a shooting that occurred at a Cross Lanes motel. Jahson Anthony Gresham of Charleston and Isaiah Daniels-Boyd of Dunbar are charged with first-degree robbery and malicious assault. The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said the two are accused of being involved in a … Read more