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Governor Justice is issuing a new order that will go into effect Monday. The “safer at home” order will strongly encourage West Virginians to remain at home, but no longer orders people to stay at home.

More than one-hundred West Virginia inmates tried to CARES Act stimulus checks. They are considered dependents of the state, and don’t qualify for the money.

A Charleston man wanted for a shooting that injured a woman during a drug deal is under arrest in Georgia. Forty-seven-year-old James Isabell was taken into custody in Atlanta, he’s charged with malicious wounding.

Kenova police are trying to identify a woman who was found dead in an apartment on Walnut Street. The man who discovered the body said he was a former friend, but officers found his story suspicious and arrested him on two separate warrants.

Three more people have from coronavirus in West Virginia, including two people in Kanawha County. The state death toll is up to 44, and more than 11-hundred people have tested positive for the virus. The positive test rate remains below three-percent.

Kanawha County is installing automatic fever screening devices in county buildings to screen employees and the public. Two units can screen up to five-hundred people in less than thirty-minutes.

West Virginia-based nurses, Shanna Snyder and Norissa Rupe, returned to Yeager Airport Wednesday after spending 25 days in New York City treating coronavirus patients. The pair found out about the opportunity through an advertisement online and both worked in intensive care units at different hospitals near Times Square. They were welcomed back with signs and … Read more

Marshall University has canceled various camps originally scheduled for June. The university attributes the cancellations to CDC recommendations. Camps that have been canceled so far include the Governor’s Honors Academy, originally scheduled for June 14-July 13, iCanShine Bike Camp, originally scheduled for June 1-5, and all June sports camps sponsored by Marshall Athletics. The Marshall … Read more

Gov. Jim Justice said he will lift the stay-at-home order and issue a safer-at-home order that goes into effect Monday. The new order strongly encourages residents to remain at home but no longer orders them to stay at home. West Virginians have been under a stay-at-home order since March 24. The “West Virginia Strong: The … Read more

A free SAT school day will be offered to West Virginia high school students who will be seniors this fall. The state Department of Education said the exam will provide seniors who would have taken the state-provided SAT School Day in spring 2020 as juniors with an opportunity to obtain SAT scores in time to … Read more