Health officials have completed statewide testing of nursing homes for COVID-19. They are encouraged by the results. More than 70-percent of nursing homes tested negative for the virus. More than nine-thousand residents, and 14-thousand staff members were tested, and just over forty new cases were identified.
Four more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the states total to over 15-hundred positive cases. The death toll remains at 68. The positive test rate is below two-percent.
Restaurants will be allowed to expand their outdoor dining areas to increase their capacity while indoor dining is limited. Mayor Amy Goodwin says the city wants to do all it can to help restaurants and other small businesses reopen.
As West Virginia’s economy reopens, the CDC is recommending that kids should wear face masks too. Health experts say that kids with COVID-19 have mild to no symptoms at all, and they could unknowingly spread the virus.
West Virginia will get almost six-and-a-half-million-dollars in a multi-state settlement with Santander Consumer USA. The company is accused of making loans they knew would never by fully repaid by low-income borrowers, affecting their credit scores.
A small plane made an emergency landing at Yeager Airport. The Cessna pilot reported a problem with the plane’s landing gear, but the tower verified the nose gear was down and the plane landed safely.
Another man is under arrest in connection to a murder and arson at an apartment in Williamson last weekend. Forty-six-year-old Charles Jarvis and 32-year-old James Church are charged in the case. Police are still looking for a third suspect.
The Kanawha County Courthouse is open, and evictions are once again being processed for people who can’t pay their rent. Before the pandemic there sixty-five evictions pending and fifteen more have been filed since the courthouse reopened on Monday.
Most Morgantown city employees will soon begin a four-day workweek with 10-hour days to give workers a chance to spend more time with their families and to offer extended hours to the public. The pilot program will begin July 6. Employees will work four 10-hour days each week from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday … Read more
Springtime would normally be an active recruiting season for the Charleston Police Department, but COVID-19 has had an impact. With the cancellation of recruiting events, they’ve moved to a social media campaign to recruit new officers. The Madison Police Department is looking to hire new officers too, and for now they have brought in part-timers … Read more