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Kids will not return to the classroom this year. Remote learning will continue for the rest of the school year, and the Governor believes that children will be back in school this fall.

A South Charleston man is accused of stabbing a man and a woman during a drunken argument in Jefferson. Both victims are expected to be okay. Forty-year-old Brian Bays is charged with malicious wounding.

A man is under arrest for breaking into the Man High School baseball field two different times. Billy John Williamson is accused of stealing six-thousand-dollars’ worth of prizes for a fundraiser. Williamson says he sold the items and used the money to buy drugs.

West Virginia is reporting fifteen new cases of coronavirus, bringing the state total to almost 930 positive cases. Twenty-six people have died from the virus. DHHR confirms 330 people have recovered.

The Kanawha County Commission voted to give 100-thousand-dollars to the City of Charleston and 100-thousand-dollars to the public safety grant committee for “hero pay” to first responders.

The Nitro police chief says charges are pending for two teenagers who pretended to sneeze on customers at Walmart, claiming to have COVID-19. Chief Bobby Eggleton said the incident happened Sunday at the Walmart in Nitro. Several customers had reported the teenagers were shooting video on their phones acting like they were sneezing and using … Read more

A Kanawha County woman was stopped at Yeager Airport recently after the Transportation Security Administration officers detected a loaded revolver inside her carry-on bag. The .38 revolver with four bullets was confiscated and the woman was detained at the checkpoint and cited on weapons charges. The woman told officers she forgot she had a loaded … Read more

Gov. Jim Justice is outlining what hospitals must do to restart elective medical procedures. The earliest hospitals will be able to restart elective medical procedures would be Tuesday, April 28, and that’s if hospitals have a plan in place to safely phase-in procedures based on clinical judgement, while following CDC guidelines. They must also have … Read more

A 30-year-old man and three children died in a house fire in Huntington. When firefighters arrived, ammunition in the home began exploding, hampering efforts to put out the fire. The blaze has been ruled accidental.

Governor Justice says he expects to make an announcement soon about reopening schools. He’s meeting with school official to discuss what the next steps will be. Justice would like kids to return to the classroom before the school year is over, but he says it won’t be done at the expense of safety.