Now is a good time to volunteer to be a hero. Volunteer fire departments across the Kanawha Valley are struggling to find recruits, and the Kermit and Clendenin volunteer fire departments are among the agenices looking for new folks to step up. WCHS TV reports some volunteer firefighters are aging out and are not being … Read more
A new WVU study finds that men are more likely to die from COVID-19 than women. Researchers found that men have a less robust immune system response to the virus, making it harder to get rid of, which results in more damage to the lungs. Women tend to clear the virus faster, causing less damage.
Five more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia, raising the death toll to 330. There are nearly 250 new cases of the virus, and 36-hundred active cases. More than 175 patients are in the hospital.
A Kanawha County judge is throwing out a lawsuit challenging the state’s color-coded map system as unconstitutional. The case claimed that COVID-19 restrictions were unevenly applied to public schools. The parent who filed the case has two children in private school, and the state Board of Education challenged his standing and the judge agreed.
The state Department of Education is now posting confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks at public school. There are outbreaks in Kanawha, Putnam, Grant, Marshall, Monongalia and Raleigh counties. The Kanawha cases listed three cases at Dunbar Primary and four at Mary Ingles Elementary. In Putnam County, West Teays Elementary had two cases and George Washington Elementary School … Read more
More tweaking on West Virginia’s color coded COVID-19 map show almost all counties in the green. The map is being update with whichever statistic is better; daily positive test, or percent positive. The map was reflecting only daily cases, and was based on a Harvard Global Health Institute map. That map shows just four counties … Read more
The Mountaineers will play their first BIG12 game of the year when they battle with the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater this after. The game kicks off at 3:30 p.m.
Two women who tried to get away from a traffic stop in Fayette County have been sentenced to prison. Police tried to pull over 32-year-old Cori Wolfe, but she refused to stop, rammed a police cruiser twice, and then tried to take off on foot. Her passenger, twenty-four-year-old Shauna Caldwell, took off, as well. She … Read more
Former Marshall University student, 23-year-old Chase Hardin, will spend at least twenty-years in prison, and will be on supervised release for thirty years. He was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman last month. Hardin’s attorneys plan to appeal.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding a more than ten-million-dollar grant to the West Virginia Economic Development Authority to help small business owners recover during the pandemic. Business can already apply for the funding, which will be dispersed as part of the Revolving Loan Fund.