Charleston police are recruiting candidates for the force. Physical ability and written tests will be given on two Saturdays – 8 a.m. Nov. 7 and Nov. 21 at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Starting pay after graduating from the academy is $41,244 per year. Applications are posted online now, and there is more on … Read more
The T-Rex Science Center will close its doors by the end of the year. The science center says it cannot survive the extinction event of COVID-19.
the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office says over 85-thousand have already been returned. That’s over sixty-percent of the early voting ballots sent out. In-person early voting begins on Wednesday.
West Virginia is one of two states seeing a surge in flu cases, early in the season. The state jumped from minimal flu activity to moderate flu activity, joining Iowa as the only other state above minimal. Health experts recommend getting your flu shot early.
Three more people have died from COVID-19, bringing the state death toll close to four-hundred since reporting began. There are two-hundred-eighty new cases of the virus, and the daily positive test rate is over two-and-a-half percent.
Kanawha and Cabell counties moved from gold to green on the weekly school alert map. Seven counties are in the orange, and Doddridge County is the only county in the red.
Marshall University is back on the AP Top 25 list. The Thundering Herd is ranked number-22 after their win against Louisiana Tech 35-to-17 on Saturday…WVU has won three of their first four games with a 38-to-17 win over Kansas.
Police have identified the body of a woman found Saturday in Huntington. Thirty-one-year-old Lyndel Haller was found in the 400 block of 5 ½ Alley. Detectives are investigating.
The body of a missing Meigs County man has been found. Eighty-year-old Kenneth Hayes has been missing since Wednesday. His body was found near State Route 143 and Kingsbury Road in the Harrisonville area.
Police are looking for two men wanted in connection to a home invasion. Eric Appleton and Roy Welch Jr. are wanted for breaking into a home on the eastern end of South Charleston.