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DHHR will issue a one-time special assistance payment to families who have temporarily lost or had their income reduced due to the pandemic. There are several requirements to receive the funding.

Two more people in West Virginia have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 31. More than 980 people have tested positive for the virus. Testing will continue today at the state’s nursing homes, so far, more than two-thousand tests have come back negative.

An employees at Charleston Area Medical Center tested positive for COVID-19. The worker was exposed to the virus in the community, and not in a patient care area. They will self-quarantine at home.

The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said a man died this week from injuries he received during a towing incident. 23-year old Joey Slater Jr. of Cross Lanes died after he was seriously injured Tuesday on Childress Road in Alum Creek. Sgt. Brian Humphreys said he was riding on top of a car that was being … Read more

The West Virginia Division of Highways is closing Route 10 at the Lincoln-Logan County line for about two weeks to repair a slide. The closure near Harts in Lincoln County will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday, April 25, according to a DOH news release. Both northbound and southbound lanes will closed. Alternate routes for all … Read more

WorkForce West Virginia says it has cleared the backlog of more than 140,000 unemployment claims. That had been a priority for Gov. Jim Justice who tripled the staff handling claims and then tripled it again. He enlisted the help of the West Virginia National Guard to help whittle down the backlog. There are still some … Read more

Yeager Airport is preparing to make way for a U.S. Customs building. The airport began the demolition of two aircraft hangars and the line technician building Thursday morning. Construction on the U.S. Customs building is set to begin this summer. Yeager Airport also is rebuilding a new line tech building.

Another wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection to suspicious deaths at the VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. A woman, whose husband died in 2018 from an insulin injection, filed the suit. Federal prosecutors are investigating the deaths of eleven patients at the hospital.

KRT’s ridership is down nearly sixty-percent. The Transportation Authority will get more than 7-point-7-million dollars in federal funds to cover operating expenses.

Passenger traffic at Yeager Airport is down 95-percent, and officials expect a revenue loss of up to 800-thousand-dollars in April, and the same in May. The airport will receive nearly five-million-dollars in CARES Act grant funding to help with payroll and operations through the summer and fall.