Food Truck Friday was postponed last week due to the weather but it returns today to Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston. The city of Charleston said the trucks will be on Kanawha Boulevard from Capitol to Court streets. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Trucks that will be there include Mr. Choo Choo’s Hot Dogs, … Read more
The mayor of Charleston is requesting local officials seek further assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the county’s fight against an HIV outbreak. In a letter on Wednesday, Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin “strongly urged” Dr. Sherri Young, executive director and health officer for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, and its board … Read more
A West Virginia family court judge will be sworn in next week as a circuit judge. Family Court Judge Kenneth Ballard will be sworn in Monday as a circuit judge in Kanawha County, according to a statement from the West Virginia Supreme Court. Justice John Hutchison will deliver the oath of office. Attendance is limited … Read more
A Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has switched to the Republican Party. Raleigh County Delegate Mick Bates changed his voter registration Wednesday, increasing the GOP’s supermajority in the House to 78-22. Bates is a physical therapist and small business owner who is in his fourth term in the House. He was … Read more
First Lady Jill Biden will be in West Virginia today. She will be accompanied by Senator Joe Manchin, and actress and Charleston native Jennifer Garner. The First Lady will visit a vaccination center and make remarks at Capital High School. Due to a COVID-19 quarantine in the school district, the First Lady will no longer … Read more
The CDC has given the greenlight for kids between twelve and fifteen to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. West Virginia health officials say they will immediately begin offering the vaccine to kids.
Governor Justice is considering getting rid of three-hundred-dollars-a-week in additional unemployment benefits for thousands of West Virginians. He says employers can’t fill jobs, and people need to go back to work. Nine other states have already decided to eliminate the additional benefits.
An employee for AmerisourceBergen, one of the “big three” drug manufactures; will be back on the witness stand today in the opioid trial. He talked about interactions with the Drug Enforcement Agency and said that one distribution point was temporarily shut down by the DEA for not reporting suspicious orders.
A man is under arrest for firing nearly twenty shots throughout a Williamson neighborhood. Twenty-five-year-old Andrew Hicks was standing in his front yard randomly firing a gun. He fired at police, but they did not return fire. Hicks eventually listened to verbal commands and put down the gun.
A man is under arrest after an ATV pursuit in the Crum area. Officers pursued the ATV on Jennies Creek Road, and then the suspect took off on foot. Police caught up with him and found a revolver in his back pocket, along with crystal meth.