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There are more than one-hundred-forty new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia. Hospitalizations are down to less than one-hundred-thirty, The daily infection rate is up to over three-and-a-half percent.

Governor Justice is handing out over a million-dollars to almost four-hundred fairs and festivals around the state. The money will help make up for losses after most events were canceled over coronavirus concerns. The West Virginia State Fair will received a separate 300-thousand-dollar grant.

Almost nine-thousand West Virginia voters have requested absentee ballots for the November election. All registered voters are eligible to vote absentee this year due to COVID-19. The last day to request a ballot is October 28th.

Marshall University’s flight school is cleared for takeoff. Officials with Marshal, Yeager Airport and public leaders broke ground for the Bill Noe Flight School. More than two-hundred students are expected to enroll when it opens in August 2021.

A man and woman are under arrest in Logan County after police pulled them over for a traffic stop and found a gun, meth, and three-thousand-dollars in the car with their daughter in the backseat.

Two people are under arrest in connection to a break-in at an Elkview storage facility. Thirty-year-old Elizabeth Ball and 22-year-old Aaron Bigler are charged with breaking and entering.

A Mingo County man is under arrest for kicking his uncle in the head. Nathaniel Cassidy is accused of going into his uncle’s bedroom and kicking him while he was sleeping, and then pulling out a knife and threatened to kill him. The victim is expect to be okay.

Huntington police are investigating a fatal stabbing. A 31-year-old man was found with stab wounds on 6th Avenue. No arrests have been made.

The West Virginia Education Association wants every county in the state to start the school year with distance learning. Eighty-percent of the unions members say they would only want to reopen schools if it was cleared by health experts, and more than 90-percent anticipate trouble with social distancing and keeping face coverings on kids.

Brig. Gen. Russell Crane was appointed a deputy secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, effective Monday. Secretary Bill J. Crouch said Crane most recently served as the assistant adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard and the deputy commanding general of the Training Support Division (East) of the First … Read more