A dozen Herbert Hoover High School basketball players will sit out the state tournament. The majority of the varsity team is in quarantine after possibly being exposed to COVID-19. The Huskies have eight players available, most of them from the JV team.
The National Weather Service is investigating evidence from a wind storm in Jefferson County, to determine if it was a tornado. One person was hurt, and several buildings were damaged.
The jury in the Joshua Drennen trial recommended no mercy for the man convicted of killing a 77-year-old woman and assaulting a Charleston police officer. Drennen will be sentenced in June.
A man who was pulled from a burning townhouse in Hurricane has died from his injuries. The fire broke out Tuesday night on Fairway Gardens Drive. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Charleston City Council approved a project to resurface almost sixty city streets and alleys. Repaving is scheduled for areas downtown on Kanawha Boulevard from Capital Street to Greenbrier Street, in addition to streets in Kanawha City to the Edgewood District. The city will spend around two-million-dollars.
Expanded HIV testing efforts are continuing in Charleston and surrounding areas. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department said this week that two new state disease intervention specialists dedicated to HIV are now working at Kanawha-Charleston Health Department. Dr. Sherri Young, health officer and executive director of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, said the two new specialists are connecting … Read more
Dozens of streets and alleys in the capital city will be getting a fresh dose of asphalt after the Charleston City Council voted to approve a contract for resurfacing city streets. A news release from Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin’s office said 58 streets and alleys will be paved using the funds. The mayor included $3 … Read more
West Virginia will have free vaccination clinics at state parks and forests through Memorial Day. Currently, clinics are open at 10 sites, and that will expand to all parks and forests on Memorial Day weekend. Vaccines are available to guests, employees and families of employees. The clinics will be held outdoors. More details are available … Read more
Wayne County moved to red on the West Virginia county alert map Tuesday, joining Wirt and Berkeley counties in that color. The moving of Wayne County into the red comes as the county’s Tolsia High School announced it will be doing remote learning through May 10 after a number of positive or probable positive COVID-19 … Read more
State revenue for April was just above estimates, even though the tax filing deadline was pushed back a month. Collections were almost 540-million-dollars, which is almost two-million-dollars higher than estimates.