Firefighters battled a house fire on MacCorkle Avenue. A woman was at home, and made it out safely. The house is a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, and investigators are labeling it a “suspicious fire.”
West Virginia University said its Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute is partnering with Virgin Hyperloop to study how traveling at excessive speeds may impact the brain and body. The Virgin Hyperloop will build a facility in Tucker and Grant counties for a high-speed transportation system that can move people and goods in pods through a vacuum tube … Read more
Roane County Schools confirmed a positive COVID-19 test for an additional staff member associated with Roane County High School. The staff member is in the same core group as the staff member who tested positive on Friday, Oct. 30. The school system said the staff member was already in quarantine and was not at school … Read more
Marshall University has changed plans for the 50th anniversary plane crash memorial. The football memorial rededication will take place at 10 a.m. Nov. 10 online. The Marshall football memorial statue was restored and the ceremony to unveil it had a larger-than-anticipated response so they decided to live stream the event at 11 a.m. The posthumous … Read more
Firefighters in Huntington battled an apartment building fire Wednesday morning. The fire was in the 800 block of 3rd Street, on Huntington’s south side in an abandoned building. The fire marshal shut down the building about a month ago due to another fire. There were no injuries.
Mineral County joined Mingo in the red in the latest West Virginia county alert map, while Cabell County shifted to yellow a day after being in green. The map from the Department of Health and Human Resources included nine counties in orange – Putnam and Jackson were among them. Wayne, Lincoln, and Logan counties were … Read more
Charleston police are launching a campaign to reduce theft and burglaries. It’s called the “9 p.m. routine” that encourages you to remove valuables from your vehicle and lock the doors before bedtime every night. Ninety-percent of vehicle break-ins in Charleston are because people forgot to lock their doors.
The family of Boston crime Boss, James “Whitey” Bulger, Jr., is filing a lawsuit against eh Federal Bureau of Prisons for failing to protect him. Bulger was beaten to death when he was transferred to a West Virginia prison two years ago.
There is a new COVID-19 test available in Charleston. It’s called COVflu-19, and detects three viral infections from one swab, including influenza A and B, and COVID-19. The test is available at the Mako Medical lab off MacCorkle Avenue.
The West Virginia Department of health is reporting eleven more COVID-19 deaths, raising the state’s death toll to 469. There are almost 360 new cases of the virus, and the state’s positive test rate is around four-percent.