Governor Jim Justice says the state did everything it was supposed to do in response to a COVID-19 outbreak at Princeton nursing home. There are more than thirty-positive cases and two people died at the Princeton Health Care Center. Administrators at the nursing home say they asked for testing, but it was denied. Several Mercer … Read more
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is investigating vandalism at Sissonville Middle School and Sissonville High School. Someone went inside the high school and left beer can and cigarettes, and damaged property outside the school, and then a few days later someone drove a pickup onto the middle school football field and damaged the turf. Police … Read more
A man is under arrest after a shooting in Cabell County. Milton police responded to shots fired at an apartment on Smith Street. A person inside put down a loaded gun and walked outside, then Nathan McCaffrey picked up the gun and shot the man in the stomach. The victim is expected to recover. McCaffrey … Read more
An Ohio man is accused of embezzling more than one-hundred-thousand-dollars from the Lincoln County Primary Care Center. Brian Crist is accused of making thousands of dollars’ worth of credit card purchases for home improvement items, power tools, and golf and band equipment. He used the credit card to buy nearly one-thousand-dollars’ worth of Orioles’ baseball … Read more
An Elkview woman faces up to fifty-five-years in prison for an elaborate fraud scheme. Thirty-two-year- old Holly Urlahs is accused of altering a one-hundred-dollar cashier’s check to reflect an amount over eight-million-dollars. An indictment also accues her of providing fake documents with forged signatures and a personal check for one-million-dollars to an insurance company for … Read more
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito says legislators need to pass a targeted COVID-19 relief bill before the August recess. The latest one-trillion-dollar proposal includes another round of stimulus payments and a reduction in expanded unemployment benefits.
The president of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia says a strike is a last-resort, but educators want to go back to school safely. “Safety strikes” are a possibility if school reopening plans don’t meet standards to suppress COVID-19. West Virginia schools are set to open September 8th.
Three more people have died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 115. There are 96 new cases of the virus, and more than one-hundred people are hospitalized with the virus.
A Princeton nursing says it asked for mass COVID-19 testing of residents and staff earlier this month, but was denied. An employee tested positive in the first week of July, and now the nursing home has more than thirty active cases, and two people have died. The local health department says it followed guidelines, and … Read more
The City of Charleston will begin accepting applications for urban deer hunting season beginning Monday. The hunting season runs from September 5th through January 31st. The city will only accept applications by mail.