With Kanawha County moving from orange to red on the state’s COVID-19 metric map, leaders in the county are urging residents to take extra precautions to avoid spreading the virus as cases continue to rise. The county made the color change on Wednesday, joining Monongalia County as the only counties in the state in red. … Read more
The Fayette County Health Department has temporarily closed after employees started showing signs of COVID-19. Calls are still being answered while the office is sanitized. The health department will remain closed at least until test results come back.
Kanawha County is reporting four more COVID-19 deaths, and twenty-four new cases of the virus, bringing the county’s total to over 21-hundred. The state’s positive test rate climbed to two-point-six-five-percent.
County Clerks across West Virginia will start sending out absentee ballots to voters on Friday. COVID-19 can be used as a reason to vote by mail. The final day to request an absentee ballot is October 28th.
West Virginia teachers unions aren’t happy about the changes. They say the continued tweaking of the re-entry guidelines does not instill confidence in the system. Putnam, Fayette, Boone, Logan and Mingo were updated to gold. Fayette County, which hasn’t been able to start classroom instruction, plans to start Thursday and Friday.
West Virginia’s COVID-19 map is getting more colorful. Governor Justice introduced a new color, gold. It will replace what was the lower end of the orange category, and schools will be allowed to hold in-person classes and after school activities, including sports.
Senator Shelley Moore Capito’s COVID-19 test came back negative after she was exposed to someone who recently tested positive. Capito says she will follow CDC guidelines and quarantine for fourteen days as a precaution.
A shooting on Ohio Avenue has turned into a homicide investigation. Two men were shot, and one of them has died from his injuries. The other victim was shot in the leg and is in stable condition. Police are looking for a suspect.
WorkForce West Virginia is mailing out 57-thousand unemployment benefit checks this week. The 24-hundred-dollar lump sum payment covers the six-week period between August 1st and September 5th. There will only be one payment. FEMA has exhausted more than 40-billion-dollars set aside for additional benefits.
West Virginia is part of a 330-million-dollar multi-state settlement reached with a student loan company accused of pressuring students to accept loans they couldn’t repay. The settlement will erase more than one million-dollars in debt for West Virginia students who attended ITT Technical Institute.