COVID-19 testing is being increased at the Huttonsville Correctional Center after the first inmate in West Virginia’s jail and prison system tested positive for the virus. The 62-year-old man, who was confirmed positive is in good condition in medical isolation. The case is believed unrelated to that of a temporary, part-time employee at the facility … Read more
The state’s unemployment rate jumped to over 15-percent in April. More than 200-thousand unemployment claims have been filed since the pandemic began.
SNAP benefits and West Virginia WORKS benefits can now be used to make online purchases from Walmart and Amazon. DHHR says the policy change gives cardholders another option to help maintain social distancing.
Health officials have completed statewide testing of nursing homes for COVID-19. They are encouraged by the results. More than 70-percent of nursing homes tested negative for the virus. More than nine-thousand residents, and 14-thousand staff members were tested, and just over forty new cases were identified.
Four more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the states total to over 15-hundred positive cases. The death toll remains at 68. The positive test rate is below two-percent.
Restaurants will be allowed to expand their outdoor dining areas to increase their capacity while indoor dining is limited. Mayor Amy Goodwin says the city wants to do all it can to help restaurants and other small businesses reopen.
As West Virginia’s economy reopens, the CDC is recommending that kids should wear face masks too. Health experts say that kids with COVID-19 have mild to no symptoms at all, and they could unknowingly spread the virus.
West Virginia will get almost six-and-a-half-million-dollars in a multi-state settlement with Santander Consumer USA. The company is accused of making loans they knew would never by fully repaid by low-income borrowers, affecting their credit scores.
A small plane made an emergency landing at Yeager Airport. The Cessna pilot reported a problem with the plane’s landing gear, but the tower verified the nose gear was down and the plane landed safely.
Another man is under arrest in connection to a murder and arson at an apartment in Williamson last weekend. Forty-six-year-old Charles Jarvis and 32-year-old James Church are charged in the case. Police are still looking for a third suspect.