West Virginia has been approved for an over 68-million-dollar FEMA grant to provide three-hundred-dollars-a-week in unemployment benefits, and the state will kick in an additional one-hundred-dollars-a-week. Federal benefits were cut in July, so if you’re still unemployed, you will get back pay for the last three weeks, with a lump sum of 12-hundred-dollars.
The Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association has a hurricane-relief team in Texas to rescue more than forty dogs and puppies. The crew is rescuing pets from an overcrowded facility in Livingston, Texas, and is expected to be back in Charleston this afternoon. The dogs will be available for adoption soon.
Several local EMS teams are on the Gulf Coast to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. The Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority is sending seven ambulances, and the Logan Emergency Ambulance Service Authority is sending one ambulance to Gonzalez, Louisiana. They’re part of a FEMA “Ground Ambulance Strike Team”
Firefighters say lightning may have sparked a fire at an abandoned house in Point Pleasant. It took nine different fire departments to put out the blaze on Leon Ferry Lane. No one was hurt.
A Kentucky man is under arrest after police found a body inside his apartment. Officers responded to a drug overdose at the Demsey Housing apartment complex in Warfield, where they discovered the body. Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Newsome is charged with manslaughter and drug trafficking.
Two men are in serious condition after crashing their ATV in the Fayetteville area. It happened on Waterplant Road. One of the victims was flown to CAMC for treatment. They both suffered broken ribs, broken collar-bones, and head trauma. Police are investigating.
Police are looking for a teenager who ran away from home. Seventeen-year-old Amandalee Barnett is five-foot three-inches tall and weighs 128 pounds. She has blue eyes and brown hair. Call the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office if you have any information.
Boone County prosecutors say they were essentially forced to dismiss kidnapping charges against Kevin Woodrum in a high profile torture case after the West Virginia Supreme Court ordered a new trial. The High Court ruled that jury instructions during Woodrum’s original trial were incomplete, and they had no choice, but to reverse the decision. Woodrum … Read more
Marshall University is indefinitely postponing it’s football game against East Carolina University due to COVID-19. The Herd was scheduled to play ECU in the same place, against the same team… that they played 50 years ago before the Marshall plane crash, to honor those lives lost.
Nearly a thousand inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Center are being tested for COVID-19 after more than thirty people tested positive in a medical unit.