There are a record number of West Virginians in the hospital with COVID-19. Four-hundred people are hospitalized, and 116 are in ICU. There are almost 865 new cases of the virus, and thirteen more people have died.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to six-point-four-percent in October. It marks six consecutive months of improving unemployment numbers. There are about 48-thousand people out of work.
Snowshoe is delaying the start of its ski season until December 4th. An unseasonably warm November has made it difficult to make snow.
Twenty-two-year-old Courtney Wallace will spend forty-years in prison for a bizarre St. Albans murder in which the victim was stabbed and sexually assaulted. The judge said he found her actions incomprehensible, and handed down the maximum sentence.
A woman was hit and killed by a CSX train n Jefferson. She was walking on the tracks with her back to the train at Kanawha Terrace and MacCorkle Avenue.
A Kentucky fugitive is under arrest in Milton. Officers found over three-hundred grams of meth and heroine at a home on Shaw Avenue. Thirty-two-year-old Kirsten Hayes tried to get away, but officers were able to stop her at Sheetz and take her into custody.
More than one-hundred health care officials signed a letter supporting a SOAR, a group that is under investigation for distributing needles in healthcare kits without proper authorization. The support letter says SOAR’s needle exchange is an important part of the solution and be backed by city officials.
Kanawha and Cabell counties shifted from gold to orange on the latest West Virginia county alert system map, while Putnam County remained in orange. The state Department of Health and Human Resources map showed four counties in red – Jackson, Marshall and Mineral and Hardy. Seventeen counties were in orange including Kanawha, Putnam, Cabell, Mason, … Read more
The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources wants to learn more about the state’s river otter population and is asking trappers for help. The agency wants 50 to 75 otter carcasses each year during the next five trapping seasons and is offering $20 gift cards for each useable carcass. The division says it will use … Read more
A woman died after she was struck by a train. Dispatchers said it happened at Kanawha Terrace and MaCorkle Avenue in Jefferson. They said the woman’s body was found about a quarter of a mile east of the underpass.