The deadline is Monday to apply for federal help for damage from storms that hit in February and March. If you live in Cabell, Kanawha, Mingo, or Wayne counties you may qualify for grand and loans from FEMA. The money can be used to repair home damage, and for any disaster related needs like childcare, … Read more
COVID-19 numbers are on the uptick. The state Department of Health and Human Resources is reporting over a thousand active cases, and two more people have died. On the COVID alert map, Webster County is now in orange. Overall, fewer than half of West Virginians are fully vaccinated. Just under seventy-percent have received at least … Read more
The Basketball Tournament tips off today at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. Two local teams, Best Virginia and Herd, are co-hosts of the sixteen-team regional. The number-three-seeded Herd will play Team DRC at noon Saturday,and Best Virginia plays Woco Showtime at 2 p.m.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after someone threw a dog out of the window of a moving car on Highway-34 in Winfield. The Putnam County Animal Shelter is caring for the dog, and it does not have any broken bones. The dog cannot be adopted until the investigation is over.
A 21-year-old South Charleston man, accused of murdering a man in Meigs County on East morning, is pleading not guilty. Jaquan Hall was indicted on murder charges in connection to the death of 25-year-old Kane Roush in Pomeroy. Charleston police arrested Hall walking down Kanawha Boulevard last week. His bond is set at two-million-dollars.
An Ohio man is under arrest for leading police on chase down I-77 at speeds of more than one-hundred-miles-per-hour with a child in the car. Twenty-seven-year-old George Cherry is accused of fleeing from Ravenswood police during an attempted traffic stop. During the pursuit on the interstate, a Ravenswood officer lost control of his vehicle and … Read more
The federal eviction moratorium is set to expire at the end of this month, and the West Virginia housing development fund says the state is following federal guidelines. More than three-million people nationwide could face eviction in the next two months. There will still be assistance available for West Virginia renters in need through the … Read more
A woman is facing charges for throwing a rock and shattering a window at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in downtown Charleston. It caused about twelve-thousand-dollars’ in damages.
There are almost one-thousand active COVID cases in West Virginia. That number climbed for a second straight day with eighty new cases in the past 24-hours. Less than four-hundred people were vaccinated on Wednesday.
The West Virginia National Guard says the federal government owes them millions of dollars for deploying more than two-hundred soldiers to Washington D.C. after the January 6th riots at the Capitol. If the state isn’t reimbursed soon, it will be forced to cancel two National Guard training exercises. The Pentagon says the total cost for … Read more