Four Kanawha County schools are switching to remote learning this week. George Washington High School, Capital High School, Edgewood Elementary School and Alum Creek Elementary School will go online due to possible COVID-19 cases.
More than 160 members of the West Virginia National Guard returned Saturday from a nine-month deployment. Members of the 157th Military Police Company, 771st Troop Command Battalion provided support for detainee operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Some soldiers were greeted at the airport in Charleston. The unit is headquartered in Martinsburg and Moorefield.
After being in green the previous weekend, Kanawha County shifted to gold in the map released Saturday by the West Virginia Department of Education. Now that it is in gold, Kanawha will still be permitted to have in-person classes next week, but sports teams will only be able to have competitions against other teams in … Read more
West Side Middle School emerged from the pack in July as the name for the former Stonewall Jackson Middle School. Now the school has a new mascot – the Wolfpack. The principal said students were able to vote on the new mascot and the Wolfpack was the top choice. Work is underway on a Wolfpack … Read more
A Portsmouth attorney is being indicted on human trafficking charges. Seventy-four-year-old Michael Mearan is facing up to seventy-years in prison if convicted on charges related to incidents that happened over a fifteen-year period involving six different victims.
The Charleston Fire Department is investigating a fire the destroyed two Kanawha City homes. The blaze started in a vacant house on Roosevelt Avenue, and spread to home a home next door, where a family of six lived. Everyone made it out safely, and no one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under … Read more
Governor Justice is committing funding for an access road and intersection along Corridor G. The forty-million-dollar project will improve access to the former Hobet mine site in Boone County. The National Guard will resume activities at the site, and help market it to the defense industry.
West Virginia has been awarded an over 17-million-dollar victim assistance grant. The funds will provide counseling, advocacy, and transportation to victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, and elderly abuse. The money will go to more than eighty public and private non-profit agencies around the state.
Governor Justice is warning West Virginians not to let their guard down as COVID-19 cases spike. More than 190 people are hospitalized with the virus, which is the highest number, so far. There are 335 new cases of the virus, and health experts expect the numbers to increase as we head into the holiday season.
A Kanawha County Circuit Judge is dismissing a teachers union’s challenge to the state’s color-coded COVID-19 alert map, that determines whether schools should be open or closed. The West Virginia Education Association contended that the map has been altered repeatedly to allow classrooms to reopen and football teams to play. The judge ruled that the … Read more