Friends and family are mourning the loss of fallen Charleston firefighter Jason Cuffee. He was laid to rest yesterday at Tyler Memorial Gardens in Cross Lanes. Funeral services were held at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Cuffee suffered a medical emergency while on duty Monday.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a shoplifter. The suspect is accused of stealing more than two-hundred-dollars’ worth of merchandise from a Speedway on Route-817 in Winfield. Investigators are looking for a man with brown hair and tattoos on his arms and neck. Call police if you have any information.
A Crown City mother is facing murder charges after the death of her sixteen-month-old baby. Twenty-five-year-old Joyceann Ruane admitted to shooting the baby following an argument with the child’s father.
Charleston police are investigating a shooting in the 17-hundred block of Kemp Avenue. A man was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. No arrests have been made.
A former WVU professor is pleading guilty to wire and tax fraud. Dr. Qingun Sun admitted to defrauding the university and filing a false tax return.
A 55-year-old Mason County woman has died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 103. There are seventy new cases of the virus, bringing the total to over 55-hundred. Nearly ninety people are in the hospital.
Governor Justice will keep bars closed for another ten days in Monongalia County. The county remains a COVID-19 hotspot with nearly three-hundred active cases of the virus.
Kanawha County is scaling back access to courthouse facilities after employees in three different county offices tested positive for COVID-19. Public access hours will be scaled back to 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program ends tomorrow, but WorkForce West Virginia says state assistance is available. DHHR also has benefits created specifically to respond to the pandemic. Officials say that “in the absence of federal assistance, the Justice administration will do what it can to help people experiencing hard times.”
The Mountain State Forest Festival in Elkins is being cancled for this year. Organizers say it will return next Ocotober.