Another store is leaving Charleston Town Center. Entertainment retailer F-Y-E will close its doors next Sunday, May 2nd. Town Center is currently for sale, and Charleston Mayor Amy Goodwin says talks with a buyer are in the final stages.
West Virginia will get 25-million dollars in food assistance from the American Rescue Plan, extending a fifteen-percent increase in SNAP benefits through the end of the summer.
Charleston’s FestivALL will by a hybrid experience this summer. The fifteen-day celebration will kick off June 13th and offer in-person and virtual events featuring art, music, theatre, dance and more.
Mountaineers head football coach Neal Brown is getting a two-year contract extension that will run through the 2026 season. The six-year contract is worth almost 24-million-dollars.
WVU is relaxing ACT and SAT test score requirements again for incoming freshman. Students will be admitted if they show academic ability on other areas of their application. Test scores may be required for financial aid.
A record number of West Virginians died of a drug overdose in 2020. There was a 45-percent increase in deaths over the past year. Almost 13-hundred people died of an overdose, and most were linked to fentanyl.
President Biden is proposing to cut greenhouse gases by fifty-percent by 2030. While the proposal was rolling out, Senator Manchin called for the development of carbon capture technology as a way to preserve the use of coal.
The man accused of killing Charleston police officer Cassie Johnson is pleading not guilty. A grand jury indicted thirty-eight-year-old Joshua Philips on murder and drug charges. His trial is scheduled for August.
A Harrison County jury deliberated for less than an hour before convicting 49-year-old Michelle Boggs in the death of five-year-old grandson. Her son-in-law was convicted last month in the boy’s death, and her daughter is awaiting trial.
A Clendenin man is under arrest for shooting and killing another man on Charleston’s West Side. Thirty-year-old Beau Hodge got into a fight in an alley off Stuart Street when he fired a shot and took off. He rolled his truck in Elkview and was taken into custody.