Former Senate President Mitch Carmichael is the state’s new economic development director. He started the job this week. Carmichael, a Republican from Jackson County, was defeated in the Primary Election last spring.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in West Virginia is under 20-thousand for the first time in almost a month. Health officials are reporting over five-hundred new cases of the virus, and twenty-seven more people have died. Nine counties are in the red on the COVID-19 alert map.
West Virginia could get an additional three-thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine a week under a new plan announced by the Biden administration. The federal government will provide pharmacies across the country with a total of one-million doses.
A body found in the Ohio River has been identified as a missing South Charleston man. Seventy-one-year-old Gordon Massie never returned home from work on December 2nd, and his body was found at the Greenup Locks and Dam just over a week ago. Police do not suspect foul play.
Julie Wheeler was sentenced to over a year in prison for conspiring with her husband to fake her death to avoid sentencing for health care fraud. Her husband called 911 and claimed she’d fallen from the Grandview Overlook. She was later found hiding in a closet. Wheeler is already serving more than three years in … Read more
A Charleston firefighter is fired after being charged with two counts of second-degree assault in two separate incidents. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Osborne is also a Marmet police officer and a firefighter with the Danville Volunteer Fire Department. He’s on leave from his job as a police officer and was dismissed from the Danville Fire Department.
Mayor Amy Goodwin confirms that Charleston Town Center is for sale. Goodwin says it is an exciting day for everyone who worked behind the scenes for the past two years to prepare the mall to be put on the market.
Four West Virginia health clinics will receive federal funding aimed at helping residents diagnosed with high blood pressure. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced $630,000 in funding from the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding includes $225,180 for the Cabin Creek Health Center in Kanawha County. Valley Health Care in … Read more
The town of Madison’s police chief is hospitalized after a cardiac-related incident. Police Chief Chet Burgess is being treated at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Hospital, according to a Facebook post Wednesday from his wife, Tammy Burgess. The chief is on a ventilator and is being treated for some blockages. Community members and first responders … Read more
A former church in Kanawha County was destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning. The call came in around 2:00 am on Golden Lane near Kanawha State Forest. Firefighters said the building had been used for storage in the past, but it had been years. The cause is under investigation.