The WVU Athletic Department is cutting staff. Coaches and staff that make more than one-hundred-thousand-dollars will take a five-percent pay cut, and staff members making less than 100-thousand-dollars will see a two-and-a-half percent reduction. Sixty-five athletic employees were furloughed.
West Virginia University will furlough about 875 employees as a cost cutting measure in response to the coronavirus. The university expects to save around four-million-dollars. The temporary furloughs will go into effect May 24th, and employees will return to work June 28th or July 26th depending on operational needs. President Gordon Gee and other senior … Read more
Beckley police are looking for a man wanted in connection to a deadly shooting earlier this week. Twenty-seven-year-old Tremaine Jackson is wanted for shooting and killing a man in the Pet Supplies Plus parking lot Wednesday night.
A man died in a house fire in White Sulphur Springs. The blaze broke out in a garage apartment and the man left to get a fire extinguisher. When he returned he was injured and couldn’t escape. The state Fire Marshal’s Office says the cause of the fire was accidental.
A Kenna man is accused of threatening to break a boy’s legs. Twenty-four-year-old Tyler Smith is charged with child abuse. He was caught on video throwing the boy onto a couch and putting him in a leg lock. The child is expected to be okay.
West Virginia’s COVID-19 death toll is up to 52. An 82-year-old man has died in Berkeley County. There are thirteen more positive cases of the virus, bringing the states total number of cases to over 13-hundred. The state’s positive test rate is just over two-point-two percent.
Kanawha County could lose as much as twenty-million-dollars this summer due to COVID-19 cancellations. The Eastern Regional soccer tournament is one of the largest in the country and that event along would have generated about 16-million-dollars. Officials say that most of the events that have been canceled are held annually, and will be back in … Read more
West Virginia University is implementing a temporary furlough program. Impacted staff members will be furloughed effective May 24th, and will reurn no later than the end of July.
Harrison County Schools are planning socially distant outdoor commencement ceremonies. The district will hold six different ceremonies on high school football fields in late June. They’re still working out how many guests will be allowed per student.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons will not transfer out-of-state COVID-19 positive inmates to federal prisons in West Virginia. Inmates will be tested before being transferred to the state and inmates that test negative will be separated from the general population.