WorkForce West Virginia is getting more than twenty people from the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to help process unemployment claims, and the state has hired sixty temporary employees. They’ve opened a second call center, and a third is expected to online soon, to process a record number of claims. Nearly forty-thousand unemployment … Read more
The Governor is promising 100-thousand-dollar block grants for each of West Virginia’s 55 counties for “hero pay” for frontline workers. Kanawha County has already allocated money for “hero pay,” but county officials applaud the Governor’s efforts.
Governor Justice is encouraging people to stay the course and continue social distancing efforts during the Easter weekend. He issued a new executive order for social distancing on golf courses, allowing one person per golf cart. Justice says he hopes the new rules will allow golf courses to stay open during the pandemic.
Update modeling shows the spread of the coronavirus peaking on Sunday with far fewer deaths than anticipated. Earlier models showed the peak in May with nearly five-hundred deaths. That number is down to 350 coronavirus related deaths. The model anticipates social distancing through May.
Clarksburg police have identified the body of a man found on the bank of the West Fork River at the end of March. Twenty-nine-year-old Anthony Holyfield had been missing since January. The Medical Examiner’s Office is waiting on test results to determine the cause of death.
A Huntington middle school teacher’s house caught fire while he was teaching a class online. Andy McKee teaches science at Our Lady of Fatima, and during a Zoom class he smelled smoke and told students he had to go. He went downstairs and saw smoke in the kitchen and flames coming from his garage. No … Read more
Medical supplies are dwindling at some West Virginia nursing homes. Facilities around the state could run out of masks and gloves in two weeks. Health officials say that in the rush to buy personal protective equipment has driven up prices and delayed shipments. Masks that used to cost less than a dollar are now selling … Read more
St. Francis will become West Virginia’s first COVID-19 surge hospital. Health officials want the facility ready, because the peak of virus is expected to hit the state next week, on the 14th through the 16th. The hospital will have nearly one-hundred beds, and medical supplies are being delivered by the truckload from another hospital that … Read more
There are 38 more positive cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the states total to over 570, and five people have died. Cabell, Wayne, Wood, and Ohio counties have been added to the list of “hot spots” in West Virginia, and Lincoln County is confirming its first case of coronavirus. Forty-four counties in the … Read more
Marshall University is refunding students over four-and-a-half-million-dollars in fees for services they aren’t utilizing while campus is closed. Students will be reimbursed over 37-percent for meal plans, housing, parking and rec fees.