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Restaurant owners are optimistic after Governor Justice raised the capacity for indoor dining. Bars and restaurants are now allowed to operate at 75-percent.

Charleston Area Medical Center’s hospitals are expanding visitation today. The hospital system will now allow one adult visitor per inpatient per day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The state’s COVID-19 alert map is turning green. It has been a week without any counties in the red. Twenty-five counties are in the green, and nine counties are in the orange. There are just over two-hundred-fifty new cases of the virus, and seven more people have died. The state’s number of active cases dropped … Read more

The state Board of Education will take up in-person instruction options at a special meeting Tuesday morning. Governor Justice signed a new executive order allowing full-time in-person learning to resume at all elementary and middle schools. Justice says all school employees fifty and older who wanted the COVID-19 vaccine have received their second dose.

WVU baseball split a weekend series with Georgia State. The Mountaineers rallied for a 3-to-2 win in Sudnay’s finale of the four-game set.

WVU spotted Texas a big lead, before coming back to win 84-to-82. The Mountaineers Texas tour continues this week with a game at TCU on Tuesday, and another stop Thursday afternoon at Baylor. The Bears are unbeaten, but have been idle for three weeks.

Appalachian Power has restored power to seventy-percent of customers. Outages peaked at 97-thousand. Crews are still working to restore power in Wayne, Cabell, Putnam, Lincoln, Mason, and Jackson counties.

The Governor’s School for the Arts and the Governor’s Honors Academy are now accepting applications from high school students. The West Virginia Department of Education will work in partnership with Marshall University to host the virtual events during summer 2021. The GSA is for current sophomores and provides instruction in the fine arts including acting, … Read more

A data breach may impact some Kroger customers. The company said its store systems were not part of the breach so no credit or debit cards were afftected. But a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach and that involved some associate HR data, pharmacy records and a some … Read more

A father and son are facing grand larceny charges after allegedly stealing more than $20,000 worth of steel parts from a Charleston construction company. Larry Mullins and Brian Mullins are accused of taking about 30 large galvanized steel anchor rods and 50 galvanized steel fasteners from McCloy Construction. The two are accused of taking the … Read more