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Putnam County is lowering taxes to help people deal with the financial fallout of the pandemic. County Commissioners voted to cut property taxes by five-percent.

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department tested more than two dozen people for COVID-19 at a drive-thru testing site downtown. Another drive-thru site will be set up next week at Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary School. Widespread testing is a key component of easing social distancing rules.

The state Department of Health is issuing strict guidelines that will allow hospitals to begin non-emergency surgeries next week. Expanding hospital services is seen as first step in re-starting the state’s economy.

Kids will not return to the classroom this year. Remote learning will continue for the rest of the school year, and the Governor believes that children will be back in school this fall.

A South Charleston man is accused of stabbing a man and a woman during a drunken argument in Jefferson. Both victims are expected to be okay. Forty-year-old Brian Bays is charged with malicious wounding.

A man is under arrest for breaking into the Man High School baseball field two different times. Billy John Williamson is accused of stealing six-thousand-dollars’ worth of prizes for a fundraiser. Williamson says he sold the items and used the money to buy drugs.

West Virginia is reporting fifteen new cases of coronavirus, bringing the state total to almost 930 positive cases. Twenty-six people have died from the virus. DHHR confirms 330 people have recovered.

The Kanawha County Commission voted to give 100-thousand-dollars to the City of Charleston and 100-thousand-dollars to the public safety grant committee for “hero pay” to first responders.

The Nitro police chief says charges are pending for two teenagers who pretended to sneeze on customers at Walmart, claiming to have COVID-19. Chief Bobby Eggleton said the incident happened Sunday at the Walmart in Nitro. Several customers had reported the teenagers were shooting video on their phones acting like they were sneezing and using … Read more

A Kanawha County woman was stopped at Yeager Airport recently after the Transportation Security Administration officers detected a loaded revolver inside her carry-on bag. The .38 revolver with four bullets was confiscated and the woman was detained at the checkpoint and cited on weapons charges. The woman told officers she forgot she had a loaded … Read more