Forty-one of West Virginia’s 55 counties were in the red or orange in the latest version of the county alert system map. The state Department of Health and Human Resources posted the map Wednesday based on Tuesday’s data. Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties remained in the orange. Logan and Fayette counties were among those in … Read more
A ribbon cutting is planned in South Charleston for a new business described as a board game café. The Board Game, located at 35 RHL Boulevard, will serve craft beers and coffee and will have tables set up for customers to play board games. The South Charleston Chamber of Commerce said the new place will … Read more
Secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection, Austin Caperton, is stepping down. He says he want to move on and focus on projects outside of government. Caperton’s departure is effective on January 18th at the end of Governor Justice’s first term in office.
A grizzly milestone in the pandemic…West Virginia’s COVID-19 death toll is now over one-thousand. Thirty-four more deaths were reported in the last 24-hours, setting a single-day record. For the fourth day in a row, there are more than one-thousand new cases of the virus, and the number of hospitalizations is close to eight-hundred.
Three more West Virginia hubs will receive the COVD-19 vaccine today. All five hubs will be able to distribute the vaccine to health care workers and nursing homes by the end of the day.
Charleston received one thousand doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and CAMC administered its first fifty doses to it’s hospital staff. ER Doctor Adam Crawford was the first to get it, and he says it was less painful than the flu shot.
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources will stock 30-thousand trout in streams around the state next week, so anglers and their families can enjoy a day of fishing over the holidays.
Police responded to a possible bomb at the McDonald’s in Southridge. The bomb gave the all clear. The suspicious packaged turned out to be a box of clothes in the restroom.
U.S. Marshals arrested a man for shooting and killing two people at the Copa Bar in Huntington in September. Twenty-six-year-old Devon Carey was arrested in Ohio.
A woman is recovering at CAMC General after she was hit by a train. Twenty-eight-year-old Shayla Stephenson was struck by a Kanawha River Railroad Train at the intersection of Crescent Road and Buchanan Street. Charleston Police are investigating.