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Health officials in Kanawha County reported 18 new cases of the coronavirus Saturday and 14 on Sunday. There are more than 300 active cases and the number of recoveries in the county is now 359.

About two dozen West Virginia National Guard members returned home Friday evening after nearly a year overseas. Members of the 150th Calvary Regiment and 201st Field Artillery were deployed to the Middle East in August 2019 as part of Operation Spartan Shield. The homecoming is the beginning of a rotation of about 600 soldiers who … Read more

Marquee Cinemas is temporarily closing its doors again. The movie theater has locations across West Virginia, including South Charleston, Huntington, and Parkersburg and closed in March, but reopened in last month. The company says a lack of new movies hurt the cinema’s ability to stay open.

There are 145 new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total to almost 57-hundred. The death toll remains at 103. More than seventy-five people are hospitalized with the virus, with almost forty in intensive care.

Justice says he’s concerned about the spread of Covid-19 from areas surrounding the state, including Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Baltimore. Federal officials have identified about a dozen cities that need aggressive action to slow the spread of the virus.

Governor Justice will allow all public and private colleges and universities in West Virginia to open for the fall semester. He believes they have adequate precautions in place to combat the coronavirus.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she expects an agreement on the next stimulus package within the next two weeks. She hopes something will be out before August 7th. Captio is in favor of reducing the six-hundred-dollar weekly unemployment benefit. She says unemployment benefits shouldn’t be more than a workers regular paycheck.

Governor Jim Justice says more financial relief is coming for West Virginia. He says there will likely be another stimulus for people who are still unemployed, and he says there will be more money to make sure schools are safe. The state has almost 680-million-dollars in CARES Act money set aside to back-fill unemployment compensation.

A Westover woman is facing drug charges after officers found her asleep in her car with drugs inside. Twenty-seven-year-old Kelsey McClung passed out in her car while it was parked at the gas pumps at the Little General gas station on White Hall Boulevard. Officers found almost three-grams of heroin, digital scales, packaging materials, and … Read more

The City of Charleston is lowering flags to half-staff to honor former city councilman Rick Burka, who passed away Friday morning. Burka was on the city council for ten years and retired in 2018 because of health concerns.