WQBE News

Two people were hurt when a tow truck caught fire at Charleston Auto on Sissonville Drive. The fire started in a car that was being towed, and spread to the truck. Both victims are expected to be okay.

An inmate who escaped from the Parkersburg Correctional Center is back in custody. Curtis Hatfield walked away while on work release. He was captured in the Delbarton area and will be returned to the Mount Olive Correctional Complex.

Charleston police said they are asking the public for help in identifying a suspect in the investigation of the fraudulent use of a credit card. Police said the suspect was involved in the use of credit card Oct. 10 at the 7-Eleven in the 1600 block of Washington Street East. If you can help police … Read more

The main Kanawha County Public Library branch is temporarily closed due to COVID-19. An employee at the branch that’s inside the Charleston Town Center tested positive for COVID-19. Staff members have been encouraged to self-quarantine and the library will be closed until next week. The administrative offices of the library are expected to tentatively reopen … Read more

Clay County schools dismissed early Thursday after an additional positive COVID-19 test at the High School. Clay County High School will also be closed today (Friday, Nov. 6), to provide time for contact tracing.

Putnam County remained in orange on the latest West Virginia county alert system map, while Kanawha and Cabell counties stayed in yellow. Mingo and Mineral counties continued as the state’s only red counties in the map posted Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Resources. Counties in orange included Putnam, and Jackson. Gold counties … Read more

Charleston Police are investigating after a man was found shot to death early Thursday morning. Charles Raymond Barnes, Jr. was found laying partially in the road at the intersection of Grant and Russell Streets around midnight with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. During the investigation, police said Barnes, Jr. was walking … Read more

West Virginia’s free 2021 calendar of wildflowers growing in the state is now available to order. The calendar has 12 pictures of flowers growing along state highways or in beds created by the state. Dozens of photographers snapped pictures and submitted them this year. The annual project is sponsored by the West Virginia Department of … Read more

The West Virginia State University Board of Governors is holding a special meeting to consider a “workforce reduction” plan. The university has been hit hard by the pandemic, shifting most of its classes online this semester.

There are close to four-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and three more people have died. The state’s daily positive test rate jumped to almost five-percent.