Kanawha County health officials said the county’s death total related to COVID-19 has been reduced by 20 after a statewide review of death certificates. The county’s current number of deaths associated with the pandemic is now 298 after a review by the state Department of Health and Human Resources’ Office of Epidemiology. The Kanawha-Charleston Health … Read more
It is championship Saturday at the West Virginia Girls High School Basketball Tournament. Tug Valley and Cameron will face off in Class A…In Class AA, Parkersburg Catholic takes on Wyoming East…It’s Fairmont Senior versus Nitro in Class AAA…and in AAAA Huntington battles Cabell Midland.
A worker at a Barbour county mine is recovering after he was hit by falling debris from an overcast wall at the surface. It happened at the Leer South Mining Complex. His injuries are not life threatening.
Governor Justice says health officials are working on new ways to get the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of younger people. A vaccination clinic is set up at the state girls’ basketball tournament, and at WVU’s spring football game. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is working on holding smaller vaccine clinics throughout the county. Large scale … Read more
The state Department of Health and Human Resources says less than 35-percent of West Virginians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. There are almost four-hundred new cases of the virus and five more deaths.
State police are cracking down on speeders in the I-64 construction zone in Cabell County. Troopers are stepping up patrols between Barboursville and Huntington after recent crashes and speed complaints. Fines are doubled in work zones.
West Virginia American Water is asking the Public Service Commission for a rate hike. The average residential water customer’s bill would go up over eleven-dollars-per-month and the average sewer bill would increase almost twenty-dollars-per-month. The new rates would not go into effect until February of 2022.
Two people are under arrest after a drug bust during a traffic stop in Chapmanville. The car had a strong odor of marijuana, and the passengers admitted to having marijuana. When officers searched the car they found two bags of meth. The car was stolen, and the driver, Malcolm Meade was driving on a suspended … Read more
The jury in the Joshua Drennen murder trial is deliberating after hearing closing arguments on Friday. Drennen is accused of killing 77-year-old Barbara Steel inside her West Side home in February 2020, and attacking a police officer with an antique iron. That officer ended up shooting Drennen. His lawyer says Drennen suffers from mental illness … Read more
A man and woman from Dunbar are under arrest for stealing a truck. Twenty-two-year-old Tyler Chapman was captured on surveillance video checking door handles, and 22-year-old Shaila Bradshaw acted as a lookout. The admitted to taking the truck and ditching it in the woods.