A Kanawha County Commission employee tested positive for the coronavirus. The commission said Saturday that employees who may have had contact with the individual have been tested or are in the process of getting tested for the virus. There have been no additional cases so far. Employees who had direct contact with the individual who … Read more
West Virginia natural resource officials ask hunters and trappers to make themselves aware of new regulations that went into effect last week. West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Stephen McDaniel said the new rules started July 1 and are posted on the agency’s website. The department has changed dates for antlerless deer, fall wild … Read more
Huntington police are investigating after someone tried to blow up a mailbox on 12th Street by putting fireworks inside. The door was damaged, and some of the mail was burned. There were similar reports of mailboxes being damaged on Ferguson Road, and McCoy Road. No one was hurt. Police are investigating to see if the … Read more
At least ten students at WVU have tested positive for COVID-19. Several of the students were on the WVU Health Sciences campus in Morgantown and the Eastern Panhandle. Patients were not exposed to the students. Tracers are following up and will be in contact with anyone who may been exposed.
There are almost fifty new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total to over three-thousand, and more than 600 of those are active cases. The state’s death toll remains at 93. The positive test rate is below two-percent. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department tested more than five-hundred people for COVID-19 at the Schoenbaum Center … Read more
Charleston City Council will consider a resolution to donate a plague that was removed from Ruffner Memorial Park, to a museum. The plague lists the names of more than 90 men who were members of the Confederate-aligned Kanawha Rifleman. Mayor Goodwin had the monument removed after complaints about a Confederate monument on city property.
After hearing public comments, the Harrison County Commission will decide what to do with the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The Clarksburg History Museum has offered to take the statue and use it to tell the life story of Jackson, who was born in Clarksburg. The chairman of the West Virginia Black Heritage Festival … Read more
Huntington firefighters battled two different fires, just a block apart. The first fire broke out at a vacant home on 8th Avenue and 23rd Street. No one was, and fire crews were able to get the fire under control quickly. The second fire broke out on 9th Avenue and 17th Street at a house that … Read more
A Matewan man is charged with attempted murder. James Sincell is accused of shooting his son in the leg. The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Dunbar police are investigating a shooting that injured a man on 17th Street. He’s expected to be okay. No arrests have been made.