A Kenna man is accused of threatening to break a boy’s legs. Twenty-four-year-old Tyler Smith is charged with child abuse. He was caught on video throwing the boy onto a couch and putting him in a leg lock. The child is expected to be okay.
West Virginia’s COVID-19 death toll is up to 52. An 82-year-old man has died in Berkeley County. There are thirteen more positive cases of the virus, bringing the states total number of cases to over 13-hundred. The state’s positive test rate is just over two-point-two percent.
Kanawha County could lose as much as twenty-million-dollars this summer due to COVID-19 cancellations. The Eastern Regional soccer tournament is one of the largest in the country and that event along would have generated about 16-million-dollars. Officials say that most of the events that have been canceled are held annually, and will be back in … Read more
West Virginia University is implementing a temporary furlough program. Impacted staff members will be furloughed effective May 24th, and will reurn no later than the end of July.
Harrison County Schools are planning socially distant outdoor commencement ceremonies. The district will hold six different ceremonies on high school football fields in late June. They’re still working out how many guests will be allowed per student.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons will not transfer out-of-state COVID-19 positive inmates to federal prisons in West Virginia. Inmates will be tested before being transferred to the state and inmates that test negative will be separated from the general population.
The Governor says West Virginia is a trend setter for keeping coronavirus rates low, and for being the first state in the country to do statewide testing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Governor Jim Justice still has his eye on over a billion-dollars in federal funding to cover the state’s budget gap, and Senator Shelley Moore Capito is touting a bi-partisan bill that will give cities and states more flexibility to use COVID-19 relief funds. The bill is meant to be used to replace revenue shortfalls resulting … Read more
The National Day of Prayer looked a little different yesterday in Cabell County. A drive-in ceremony was held at Christ Temple Church in Huntington.
Kanawha County deputies are looking for a missing woman and her infant son. Thirty-one-year-old Britney Foster and her one-year-old son Aiden were reported missing on Tuesday. A family member says she left their home in St. Albans to visit her boyfriend in Charleston, and no one has been able to contact her.