WQBE News

An 81-year-old Kanawha County woman has died from COVID-19, and there are 160 new cases of the virus in West Virginia. The state’s positive test rate is two-point-seventy-five-percent.

One school in Kanawha County will not open it’s doors. Several staff mebers at Horace Mann Middle School are being isolated for possible exposure to COVID-19. The school will remain on remote learning for the week as a precautionary measure.

Kanawha County will begin in-person learning today, for the first time since March. Kanawha County is in the “gold” category, which means all students in grades-three and above must wear face masks at all times, and extracurricular activities are limited to schools in the same county or other “gold” counties.

The Boyd County Coroner’s Office in investigating after two people were found dead in a car outside Catlettsburg. The pair were reported missing in late August.

A Huntington man is under arrest in connection to shooting a nine-year-old boy. The man was handling the gun when it discharged and hit the boy in the head. He had surgery Sunday night, and his condition hasn’t been released.

A woman is accused of stabbing another woman in an argument outside an apartment on Hutchinson Street. The victim is in the hospital with a stab wound to the arm. Fifty-one-year-old Nicole Dowd is charged with malicious wounding.

A second suspicious fire in Point Pleasant…An abandoned home caught fire about a half-mile from the former Marietta Manufacturing Plant, which was gutted in a fire last weekend. Investigators say it was arson. No arrests have been made.

Cabell County Delegate Joh Mandt is resigning and ending his re-election bid. House Speaker roger Hanshaw accepted Mandt’s resignation after homophobic messages were posted on Facebook. Mandt says they were fabricated.

Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford said another Deputy Sheriff has tested positive for COVID-19. He is remaining home secluded while he rests and recovers. The sheriff also said there is no indication others with whom he worked or engaged recently were infected, and his contraction of the illness is not related to any arrests.

West Virginia has had 10 successful applicants, including one in Kanawha County, for medical cannabis grower permits. The permit holders will cultivate medical cannabis plants before sending them for processing into allowable forms for patient use. The allowable forms for patient use include pill, oil, topical (including gel, cream and ointments), plant form for vaporization/nebulization, … Read more