The state has completed its COVID-19 action as required by the Centers for Disease Control. The plan details how West Virginia will inoculate residents after a vaccine is approved. Health care workers and others on the front lines fighting the virus will get priority, and then the vaccine will be available to the general public.
Governor Justice says it is “ludicrous” to say that his office is sitting on CARES Act money. The state has received one-point-25-billion-dollars in CARES Act funding, and justice says only sixty-million-dollars of that money is un-pledged. States have to return the money to the federal government if it isn’t spent by December 30th. Justice says … Read more
Police are looking for a man who damaged several vehicles in the parking lot of CAMC Memorial earlier this week. The incident happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. Contact Charleston police if you have any information.
In September a jury found 32-year-old Cynthia Gatewood guilty of murder. She stabbed a stranger outside a Sissonville convenience store in 2018. Gatewood’s attorneys are asked the judge to set aside the verdict and give her a new trial. The judge denied the motion. Gatewood is facing life in prison. She’ll be sentenced in December.
Rural areas of West Virginia are seeing a spike in COVID-19. Rural Wirt County is in the orange on the latest county alert map. Positive cases have doubled in a county of less than six-thousand people. The state has stepped up testing and saw a single-day record of almost five-hundred positive cases on Friday.
Several employees at a Kroger store in Elkview are testing positive for COVID-19. The employees at the Crossing Shopping Center did not work in customer facing roles, and didn’t have direct contact with customers. The store has undergone multiple deep cleanings, and the workers are self-isolating.
Cabell-Huntington Health Department is issuing a stay-at-home advisory after a spike in COVID-19 cases. There are over four-hundred active cases in the county. The health department says it doesn’t have the power to enforce anything. As part of the advisory, high-risk people should stay home, and their family members restrict contact, work from home when … Read more
Final preparations are underway to welcome fans back to Mylan Puskar Stadium for the first time this season. The stadium is limited to 25-percent capacity, or about 15-thousand fans. The Mountaineers will take on Kansas Saturday. The Jayhawks plan to have Coach Les Miles there. He tested positive for COVID-19 and has been quarantined at … Read more
The Public Employees Insurance Agency will not raise rates or cut benefits in next year’s plan. The West Virginia Education Association is raising questions about the future of the plan in anticipation of a seven-and-a-half-percent increase in 2023.
The Cabell-Huntington Health Department is issuing a stay at home advisory as infection rates continue to climb. The health department says the voluntary recommendations will reduce unnecessary contacts and slow the spread of the virus.