WQBE News

A building at a St. Alban car dealership collapsed during a severe thunderstorm early Thursday morning. Strong winds destroyed the Moses Auto Group’s building on MacCorkle Avenue. No one was hurt.

A coronavirus hotline for West Virginia residents has been fielding thousands of calls from general questions about prevention tips to more specific ones about test availability and workplace safety guidelines. The West Virginia Poison Center operates the state Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus hotline (1-800-887-4304). The call center is on WVU’s Charleston Division … Read more

Some local business owners want to show their appreciation to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today only, organizers will be paying for and pumping nurses’ gas from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Exxon One Stop in Kanawha City for the first 200 nurses that arrive. Affiliated Financial Group and Dr. Kalou with Mountaineer Family … Read more

The West Virginia Supreme Court will proceed with its spring oral argument docket next week and hear select oral arguments using remote technology on Tuesday, April 14. The court is hearing only cases in time-sensitive abuse and neglect and criminal matters. Other cases are being rescheduled. Arguments will be webcast, as usual, on YouTube using … Read more

A group of organizers in Charleston are helping service workers who’ve been impacted by COVID-19 in the Kanawha Valley. Better Together CWV is a charitable organization designed to support service workers who are unemployed or have had hours reduced because of the pandemic. Better Together CWV has partnered with over twenty businesses to help raise … Read more

Huntington Mayor Steve Williams announced he is appointing Interim Police Chief Ray Cornwell to serve in the position permanently. Cornwell was selected as interim chief Dec. 16, 2019, when then-police chief Hank Dial was named city manager. Chief Cornwell has led the effort to adjust to new 12-hour work shifts which has increased the number … Read more

The state Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a double homicide and arson in Greenbrier County. They’re offering a five-thousand-dollar reward for leads in a fire last week at the home of Joseph and Daisy Foster that claimed both their lives.

Four people in West Virginia have died from COVID-19, and more than four-hundred people have tested positive for the virus. While the numbers are going up, the percentage of people who tested positive dropped for the second day. Less the four-percent of West Virginians tested positive for the virus.

Governor Justice says Workforce West Virginia is distributing an additional six-hundred-dollars-a-week in federal unemployment benefits. Money from the CARES act started going out this week, and will continue for sixteen weeks, or up to July 31st. The governor says the state is catching up on processing the huge backlog of unemployment claims. The state processed … Read more

A 22-year-old woman is under arrest for stabbing her boyfriend at an apartment building in Cross Lanes. The woman says it was self-defense. She had a restraining order against him, but it expired. He’s being treated at CAMC General.