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Nearly eight-million-dollars was wagered during the first five-days of iGaming in West Virginia. The state collected more than 28-thousand-dollars in tax revenue from Drift Kings last week.

The FAA has approved a plan to extend the runway at Yeager Airport. The current runway would be extended 25-hundred into Coonskin Park, and is expected to cost more than 240-million-dollars.

Governor Justice says the mandatory mask mandate is working, and some coronavirus numbers are trending down. The state’s daily positive test rate was down to just over one-percent.

A 79-year-old Fayette County man has died from COVID-19, raising the state’s death toll to 102. There are more than two-hundred-sixty new cases of the virus for a total of over 54-hundred. Almost eighty people are hospitalized with the virus.

WVU’s athletic department and football coach Vic Koenning have mutually agreed to separate. Koenning came under fire for mistreating players.

A Charleston police officer is recovering after she took several blows to the head by a man who attacked her at the Greyhound Bus Station. Thirty-one-year-old Anthony Gamble was throwing rocks at a bus, and when the officer approached him he shoved her to the ground, started hitting her, and tried to grab her weapon. … Read more

A man is facing multiple charges for trespassing at a Beech Fork State Park marina, and then swimming away and eluding officer for several hours, and then threatening to kill them. Brandon Gilliam was trying to break into boats at the dock and swam under the police boat and tried to disable it. Officers eventually … Read more

The family of another veteran who died at the Clarksburg VA is filing a lawsuit. Army veteran Robert Kozul died in 2018 after a lethal insulin injection from former nursing assistant Reta Mays. She pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder last week. The lawsuit focuses on the doctors on duty at the time of … Read more

There is a bus driver shortage throughout the region, and transit directors said it could be due to COVID-19. Tri River Transit is down 10 drivers. It covers Lincoln, Boone, Mason, Logan and Wayne counties. Executive Director Paula Smith said the shortage happened when the pandemic began. WCHS TV reported social distancing on small busses … Read more

Funeral arrangements have been made for a Charleston firefighter and medic who died while on duty this week. The funeral for Jason Linwood Cuffee will be Friday, July 24, at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and the funeral will start at 11 a.m. The funeral … Read more