There are no counties in the “red” on the latest color-coded county alert system map. Kanawha, Putnam and Mingo counties moved into “orange” status, meaning those counties have fewer than 25 COVID-19 cases per 100-thousand.
Three more people have died from COVID-19 in Kanawha County, and there are 120 new cases of the virus statewide, and almost 35-hundred active cases. The state’s daily positive test rate is over three-percent.
Governor Justice wants everyone in West Virginia to get tested for COVID-19. To prove how easy it is, he live streamed himself getting tested. The Governor announced a plan to send the National Guard into counties that are in the “red” and the “orange” to conduct more widespread testing.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey took part in a roundtable discussion with President Trump to discuss concerns about censorship on social media.
The FBI is joining the search for a woman who posed as a CPS worker and tried to abduct a child in Whitman. A forensic artist with the FBI’s child investigative unit is working with the Logan County Sheriff’s Office to get a better description of the suspect.
A Nicholas County woman is under arrest for shooting and killing her husband at their home in Swiss. She’s charged with murder.
A man was shot and wounded on Pennsylvania Avenue in Morgantown. He was shot in the chest and was rushed to Ruby Memorial Hospital. Police are looking for a silver Infiniti G35 in connection to the shooting.
Delegate Danielle Walker is asking Governor Justice to denounce, what she calls, an angry mob of white supremacists that hurled racial slurs at Black Lives Matter protesters and pushed them off a sidewalk in Kingwood earlier this month.
Hundreds of people were tested for COVID-19 this week at separate testing events in Putnam County. The Putnam County Health Department, along with the Teays Valley Fire Department, the National Guard and Lab Corp, held a free testing site at Teays Valley Baptist Church Tuesday where nearly 500 people were tested. Putnam County is currently … Read more
The Logan County school board cleared the way this week to hold in-person classes. Students wanted to go back, and had been gathering outside the Board of Education building since Friday, rallying for in-person classes and sports. Football players from Chapmanville, Logan, and Man were at Tuesday’s meeting to ask board members to open schools. … Read more