The number of active COVID-19 cases dropped to below eight-thousand in West Virginia. One more person has died, bringing the death toll to almost 23-hundred. The state’s daily positive test rate is below four-percent.
Governor Justice anticipates fifteen-thousand additional weekly doses of COVID-19 vaccine with initial federal approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s on top of what the state is already getting from Pfizer and Moderna. Total weekly doses will be almost sixty-thousand. Justice says the additional doses could start arriving next week. So far, West Virginia … Read more
A vehicle crashed into the Branchland Family Dollar store on McClellan Highway. The accident left a gaping hole in the side of the building, and knocked merchandise off the shelf inside the store. No one was hurt. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after an 85-year-old woman died in a house fire outside of St. Albans in the Amandaville area.
A Fayette county man will spend up to thirty-five-years in prison for attacking a woman in 2019. Thirty-three-year-old Justin Conner strangled the woman until she was unconscious before sexually assaulting her, and a month later he kicked in her door and attacked her multiple times.
The Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority is rejecting a proposal from SOAR, a grassroots harm reduction group, in an effort to get state certification. The Ambulance Authority says it doesn’t have enough information about SOARS program to provide any type of support. The state denied SOAR’s certification after failing to gain support from city or … Read more
More than three-thousand Appalachian Power customers are still without service. Most of the outages are in Wayne County. Line crews will work through the weekend to get power restored. There are about three-hundred locations still in need of repairs.
Appalachian Power says the power is back on for more than ninety-percent of customers affected by the storms two weeks ago. Around six-thousand customers are still without power, and most will have service restored by tonight.
The West Virginia Bureau for Public Health is suspending clinical services at the Boone County Health Department after deficiencies were found in the county’s operations. Controversy surfaced in December when more than forty people were mistakenly given an antibody shot, rather than the COVID-19 vaccine.
A U.S. Court of Appeals will re-hear former state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry’s appeal over juror misconduct in his 2018 trial. Remote oral arguments are scheduled to start in May. Loughry was convicted on fraud charges in 2017 and has already served his federal sentence.