WVU Medicine lost 75-million-dollars during the 45-day suspension because of the coronavirus. The hospital system will make up for the loss with 45-million-dollars in CARES Act money and advances on Medicare payments. The system is slowly returning to normal and is at about 70-percent capacity.
Thousands of West Virginia families will get some help feeding their kids this summer. The state was approved for Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cards. Families with school children who already qualify for free or reduced price school meals will get over 300-dollars per child to cover the summer months.
Physical therapy centers and drive-in movie theaters will be allowed to reopen next week in phase three of Governor Justice’s reopening plan. The Governor also removed Cabell, Wayne and Wood counties from the coronavirus hotspot list. Five more counties are still on the list and are under greater restriction.
Airport Road is open, but caution tape and barrels are up around a slip on the right shoulder below Yeager Airport.
A West Virginia woman is charged with storing top-secret documents from the National Security Agency in her storage unit. Elizabeth Jo Shirley is charged with possessing documents “relating to the national defense.” She’s already facing charges for kidnapping her 6-year-old daughter last July. They were found weeks later in Mexico City.
State police are investigating after a body was discovered in a creek behind the Big Otter GoMart. The state Medical Examiner’s office is trying to identify the man and the cause of death.
There are eighteen new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the state total to over twelve-hundred. The death toll remains at 50. Positive test results remain under three-percent.
The Charleston City Council approved one-hundred-thousand-dollars for “hero pay” for frontline workers battling the coronavirus. The money matches a grant from Kanawha County.
Health officials in Kanawha County will be hosting another community drive-up testing event this week. Workers from the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority will be at Nitro High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. Day care workers are encouraged to make an appointment for testing, even if they don’t … Read more
South Charleston police said a retired lieutenant who served the community for 21 years has passed away. Robert “Jack” DeWees passed away Wednesday at his home in South Charleston at the age of 84, according to a post on the South Charleston Police Department’s Facebook page. DeWees continued to serve his community after he retired … Read more